Applications
Note: for music languages, APIs and libraries (CSound, Nyquist, KeyKit), please see the Programming Languages section.
Java - see also Tom Erbe's Java Music Links
- AudioCentric - Streaming Audio using Java
- Fantasia - a real-time MIDI and audio processing application
- Silence - Composition and Synthesis by Michael Gogins
- jMax - by IRCAM
- Syntona - modular patch editor for JSyn
Multi-Platform
- Arturia Storm - rack of soft synths, integrated music system
- Audacity - open source sample editor
- AudioMulch - live performance, audio processing, sound design and music composition
- ARGO - >100 real-time sound synthesis “modules” for Max/MSP. Granular, FFT, Reverb, Scope, etc.
- Caotica 2 - "noise design application", featuring audio synthesis and effects (Win/Linux)
- Melody Assistant - staff notation editor by Myriad
- MuseScore - staff notation editor [github] (NEW)
- Muzys - pattern composer, virtual music studio (Mac/Win)
- PD - free Max like Software by Miller Puckette
- SciLab - free mathematical modelling tool similar to MatLab
- Robust Audio Tool - multicast network audio conferencing
Macintosh
- AC Toolbox - textual score generator for Mac
- Amazing Maze - MAX patch for grain based composition
- Lemur - MQ Spectral Analysis and Resynthesis
- MetaSynth - sound design and synthesis environment
- PolyPhontics - SF2 and DLS sound editor by Sonic Amigos
- SoundApp - plays almost all sound file formats
- SoundHack - Tom Erbe's excellent sound processing app for the Mac. Does time stretching, pitch shifting!!! GREAT!
Unix
- aRts - analog realtime synthesizer (Linux)
- BEAST (the Bedevilled Audio System) is a GTK+/GNOME based front-end to BSE.
- Linux-Sound.org links for sound and MIDI software
- PD - free Max like Software by Miller Puckette
- Quasimodo (Posix,Linux)- modular synth w/ source
- SoX - Sound eXchange, format conversion and processing
- Spiral Synth Modular - patcher for Linux
- Swami Project - SoundFont editor for Linux
- Wired - compose, record, edit and mix sounds. Rack architectures. Supports plugins.
Windows
- Algorithmic Arts Software for Generative Music (SoftStep MIDI Sequencer)
- Algorithmic Composer - patcher for MIDI based composition
- AnalogBox - realtime software synthesis
- AnalogX - DX plugins and other free goodies
- AudioMulch - Patch together techno oriented "contraptions" like Bass lines, Drum boxes, Flangers
- AudioSim - techno oriented synth app. Fun.
- AudioTools - direct to disk recorder
- Buzz - popular modular softsynth patcher with plugins
- CDP - Composition, Development, Performance
- CPS - graphical patcher in Java, SAOL units
- Crusher-X Live - real-time multichannel morphing force feedback vapor soft synthesizer!
- Cylonix - 18 channel vocoder
- Density, Csound Editor, sOnar, Time Converter by Flavio Tordini
- Digitronix Element - software based drum machine
- FASoft n-Track Studio Multitrack Recording Software Homepage
- FruityLoops
- GoldWave - shareware sample editor
- Ludwig - auto-accompaniment and composition
- MASS (Modular Analogue Software Synthesiser)
- Maxim - WaveTools, audio analysis, VST plugins, etc.
- Melody Assistant, excellent score editor by Myriad
- MultiTrack Studio - multi-track hard disk recording
- Orion - a 'virtual' music studio suite
- PaceMaker - plugin for WinAmp that changes tempo and pitch independantly
- Reaktor - modular synth, integrates with sequencers.
- SALIERI - interactive software environment for structure oriented composition, manipulation and analysis of music
- Silence - Java based composition system using JCSound by Michael Gogins
- SMS - Spectral Modelling Synthesis
- Tassman - modular synth by Applied Acoustics Systems
- Tapestry Wizard, a software model that emulates human improvisational techniques
- TotalRecorder - captures and records sound from any application!
- Timidity - MIDI to WAV
- TonioWare - Beats-Per-Minute detector and Scratch-Me
- Tune Smithy - fractal song generator with various tunings by Robert Walker
- Wave Warp - modular sound processing plugin by Sounds Logical
- WAV v2.65 - Play audio files from the command line (search for "WAV.ZIP")