This is a list of software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music. This article only includes software, not services. For

streaming services A streaming media service (also simply called a streaming service) is an online platform that allows users to watch or listen to content, such as film, movies, Television show, TV shows, music, or podcasts, over the internet. Instead of downloadi ...

such as

iHeartRadio iHeartRadio (often shortened to just "iHeart") is an American freemium broadcast, podcast, radio streaming and Music Streaming platform owned by iHeartMedia. Founded in August 2008, iHeartRadio serves as the national umbrella brand for iHeart ...

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, Prime Music, and Spotify, see Comparison of on-demand streaming music services. For storage, uploading, downloading and streaming of music via the

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, see

Comparison of online music lockers This is a comparison of online music storage services (Cloud Music Services), Internet services that allow uploads of personally owned or licensed music to the Cloud storage, cloud for listening on multiple devices. Previously, there were three l ...

. This list does not include discontinued historic or legacy software, with the exception of trackers that are still supported. If a program fits several categories, such as a comprehensive

digital audio workstation A digital audio workstation (DAW ) is an electronic device or application software used for Sound recording and reproduction, recording, editing and producing audio files. DAWs come in a wide variety of configurations from a single software pr ...

or a foundation programming language (e.g.

Pure Data Pure Data (Pd) is a visual programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for creating interactive computer music and multimedia works. While Puckette is the main author of the program, Pd is an open-source software, open-source ...

), listing is limited to its top three categories.

Types

CD ripping software

* Brasero *

CDex CDex is a freeware software package for Digital Audio Extraction from Compact Disc, Audio CD (a so-called CD ripper) and audio format conversion for Microsoft Windows. It converts Compact Disc Digital Audio, CDDA tracks from a CD to standard com ...

Exact Audio Copy Exact Audio Copy (EAC) is a CD ripping program for Microsoft Windows. The program has been developed by Andre Wiethoff since 1998. Wiethoff's motivation for creating the program was that other such software only performed jitter correction whil ...

* fre:ac * k3b

Choir and learn-to-sing software

: ''This section includes both choir software and learn-to-sing software. For music learning software, see music education software.'' *

Cantor (music software) Cantor was a vocal singing synthesizer software released four months after the original release of Vocaloid by the company VirSyn, and was based on the same idea of synthesizing the human voice. VirSyn released English and German versions of this ...

* SingingCoach

DJ software

* Cross/CrossDJ * Deckadance * djay *

Final Scratch Final Scratch is a DJ tool created by the Dutch company N2IT with input from Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman) and John Acquaviva that allows manipulation and playback of digital audio sources using traditional vinyl and turntables ( Vinyl emulati ...

Mixxx Mixxx is free and open-source software for DJing.James, Daniel. "Drafting Digital Media". Apress, 2009, p. 213. It is cross-platform and supports most common music file formats. Mixxx can be controlled with MIDI and HID controllers and timecod ...

* Serato *

Traktor Traktor is DJ software developed by Native Instruments. It is also used as a sub-brand for Native Instruments' associated DJ hardware products. History Traktor was first released in 2000. The initial versions available were ''Traktor DJ'' ...

Rekordbox Cross/CrossDJ is a digital vinyl and DJ mixing software developed by the French company Mixvibes. This software provides DJs with a digital platform with which they can mix and perform their music. Since its release in 2008, it has become Mixvi ...

VirtualDJ VirtualDJ (VDJ) is audio and video mixing software for DJs for Microsoft Windows and macOS, developed by Atomix Productions. History The first version of VirtualDJ appeared on 1 July 2003. VirtualDJ is the successor to AtomixMP3, the first v ...

Digital audio workstation (DAW) software

Ableton Live Ableton Live is a digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows developed by the German company Ableton. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for compos ...

* ACID Pro * Ardour * Audacity *

Audiotool Audiotool is a free, browser-based music production software and distribution platform developed in Germany. It allows users to remix and collaborate on tracks in real-time. Users can create and publish their music tracks onto the site using Cre ...

BandLab BandLab is a freemium online digital audio workstation (DAW) tool by BandLab Technologies with social media functions, and distribution functions for Musical composition, creating music collaboratively, sharing it, and selling it. It can also be ...

BespokeSynth BespokeSynth is a free and open-source software modular synthesizer and digital audio workstation. History Development of the BespokeSynth software was started in 2011, when Ryan Challinor wanted to learn more about creating music, but did ...

Bitwig Studio Bitwig Studio is a proprietary digital audio workstation developed by Bitwig GmbH. Bitwig is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Bitwig is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing, recording, arr ...

* Cakewalk by BandLab *

Cubase Cubase is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by Steinberg for music and MIDI recording, arranging and editing. The first version, which was originally only a MIDI sequencer and ran on the Atari ST computer, was released in 1989. Cut-do ...

Digital Performer Digital Performer is a digital audio workstation and music sequencer software package published by Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) of Cambridge, Massachusetts for the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms. Ancestry In 1984, Mark of the U ...

FL Studio FL Studio (known as FruityLoops before 2003) is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by the Belgian company Image-Line. It features a graphical user interface with a pattern-based music sequencer. It is available in four different ...

GarageBand GarageBand is a software application by Apple Inc., Apple for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS devices that allows users to create music or Podcast, podcasts. It is a lighter, amateur-oriented offshoot of Logic Pro. GarageBand was originally released for ...

* HighC * LMMS *

Logic Pro Logic Pro is a proprietary digital audio workstation (DAW) and MIDI sequencer software application for the macOS platform developed by Apple Inc. It was originally created in the early 1990s as Notator Logic, or Logic, by German software devel ...

Magix Music Maker Magix Music Maker is a commercial digital audio workstation (DAW) designed by the company Magix for the consumer sector. The program is branched from Samplitude, Magix's professional digital audio workstation. Music Maker was first published in ...

* Maschine * MetaSynth * Mixcraft * MultitrackStudio *

Nuendo Nuendo is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by Steinberg for music recording, arranging, editing, and post-production. The package is aimed at audio and video post-production market segments (marketed as a 'Premium Media Production Sys ...

* Mixbus * MuLab * Orion Studio *

Pro Tools Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed and released by Avid Technology (formerly Digidesign) for Microsoft Windows and macOS. It is used for music creation and production, sound for picture (sound design, audio post-productio ...

* Pyramix * Qtractor *

REAPER A reaper is a farm implement that reaps (cuts and often also gathers) crops at harvest when they are ripe. Usually the crop involved is a cereal grass, especially wheat. The first documented reaping machines were Gallic reapers that were used ...

Reason Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing valid conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth. It is associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, religion, scien ...

* Renoise * Rosegarden * Samplitude * SADiE * Sonic Pi * Sonoma * Soundtrap * Studio One *

Waveform In electronics, acoustics, and related fields, the waveform of a signal is the shape of its Graph of a function, graph as a function of time, independent of its time and Magnitude (mathematics), magnitude Scale (ratio), scales and of any dis ...

* Ultradaw * Zynewave Podium

Computer music software

ChucK Chuck () is a masculine given name or a nickname for Charles or Charlie. It may refer to: People Arts and entertainment * Chuck Alaimo, American saxophonist, leader of the Chuck Alaimo Quartet * Chuck Barris (1929–2017), American TV produce ...

Csound Csound is a domain-specific computer programming language for audio programming. It is named Csound because it is written in the language C, in contrast to some of its predecessors. It is free and open-source software, released under the GNU Les ...

* Director Musices * List of Generative music software * JFugue * Kyma (sound design language) * Keykit *

Max/MSP Max, also known as Max/MSP/Jitter, is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74. Over its more than thirty-year history, it has been used by composers, pe ...

* Real-time Cmix * Suno AI *

SuperCollider SuperCollider is an environment and audio programming language released originally in 1996 by James McCartney for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.J. McCartneySuperCollider: A new real time synthesis language in Proc. Int ...

* Udio * Opusmodus

Internet, RSS, broadcast music software

''This section only includes software, not services. For services programs like Spotify, Pandora, Prime Music, etc. see Comparison of on-demand streaming music services. Likewise, list includes music RSS apps, widgets and software, but for a list of actual feeds, see

Comparison of feed aggregators The following is a comparison of RSS feed aggregators. E-mail programs and web browsers that have the ability to display RSS feeds are listed, as well as some cloud-based services that offer feed aggregation. Many BitTorrent clients support ...

. For music broadcast software lists in the cloud, see

Content delivery network A content delivery network (CDN) or content distribution network is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance ("speed") by distributing the service spat ...

and

.'' * Airtime *

Audicom Audicom was the first system to record and play broadcast-quality audio from an IBM-compatible personal computer, beginning in 1988 the era of digital recording that would eventually eliminate magnetic tape recording used previously for half a ce ...

(First radio automation software—see

Radio software Almost all radio stations today use some form of broadcast automation. Although some only use small scripts in audio players, a more robust solution is using a full radio automation suite. There are many commercial and free radio automation packages ...

) *

Campcaster Airtime is a radio management application for remote broadcast automation (via web-based scheduler), and program exchange between radio stations. Airtime was developed and released as free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of ...

* Clickradio * Juice (aggregator) *

Jamulus Jamulus is open source ( GPL) networked music performance software that enables live rehearsing, jamming and performing with musicians located anywhere on the internet. Jamulus is written by Volker Fischer and contributors using C++. The Softwar ...

(Internet jamming software) * Moodagent (AI based emotion keyed playlist generator and app) *

Ninjam NINJAM stands for ''Novel Intervallic Network Jamming Architecture for Music''. The software and systems comprising NINJAM provide a non-realtime mechanism for exchanging audio data across the internet, with a synchronisation mechanism based on mu ...

(Internet jamming software) * OpenBroadcaster * Panopto

Lyrics and vocals

Rhyme Genie Rhyme Genie is a rhyming dictionary software developed by Idolumic for the Mac OS X, iOS and Microsoft Windows platforms. Initially released in 2009 it was introduced as the world's first dynamic rhyming dictionary with 30 different rhyme types, 3 ...

(Algorithms and software for rhyming lyrics) * SingingCoach
Fast Rhymes
(All-in-one tool for lyrics, rhyme search, syllable counter, etc.)

Audio plug-ins

* Blackhole, H3000 Factory, SplitEQ ( Eventide, Inc.) *

Stutter Edit The stutter edit, or stutter effect, is the rhythmic repetition of small fragments of audio, occurring as the common 16th note repetition, but also as 64th notes and beyond, with layers of digital signal processing operations in a rhythmic fashion ...

, Ozone, RX Audio Editor (

iZotope iZotope, Inc. is an audio technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. iZotope develops professional audio software for audio recording, mixing, broadcast, sound design, and mastering which can ...

) * Jamstix (Rayzoon Technologies) * Liquid Rhythm (WaveDNA) * PCM Native, MPX Native ( Lexicon (company)) *

NI Massive Massive is a commercial wavetable software synthesizer plugin manufactured by Native Instruments for use in professional audio production. It utilizes several wavetables and oscillators in the creation of synthetic timbres. The software can be u ...

Kontakt (software) Kontakt is a software sampler developed by Native Instruments. It is one of the leading applications of its type in the market. Since it allows multiple samples to be combined into a single virtual instrument, it is also an example of a multisampl ...

, B4, Electrik Piano, Guitar Rig 2 (

Native Instruments Native Instruments is a German company that develops, manufactures, and supplies music software and hardware for music production, sound design, performance, and DJing. The company's corporate headquarters and main development facilities are lo ...

) * OrangeVocoder ( Prosoniq) *

SoundFont SoundFont is a brand name that collectively refers to a file format and associated technology that uses sample-based synthesis to play MIDI files. It was first used on the Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card for its General MIDI support. SoundFon ...

(Integrates synthesized/sampled MIDI files with recorded music) * MachFive, Symphonic Instrument (

Mark of the Unicorn Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) is a music-related computer software and hardware supplier developed by Jason Linhart, Craig Finseth, Scott Layson Burson, Brian Hess. It is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has created music software since 1984. ...

)

Music analysis software

* BeatRoot * BRP-PACU *

* Kyma (sound design language) *

* Platinum Blue Music Intelligence (from Music Xray company) * Sonic Visualiser * WaveSurfer

Music circuit software

* Arduinome (software circuit platform) *

CPU Sim CPU Sim is a software development environment for the simulation of simple computers. It was developed by Dale Skrien to help students understand computer architectures. With this application the user is able to simulate new or existing simple C ...

* Electric VLSI Design System * gLogic * GNU Circuit Analysis Package * KTechLab *

Linear Technology Linear Technology Corporation was an American semiconductor company that designed, manufactured and marketed high performance analog integrated circuits. Applications for the company's products included telecommunications, cellular telephones, ne ...

(a/d, circuit software, and others.) * List of free electronics circuit simulators * LTspice * Micro-Cap * MIDIbox (software circuit platform) *

Monome Monome is an Upstate New York-based company, founded by Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain, that produces sound modules and MIDI controllers. Monome is also the name of their initial product, a grid-based controller that is now sometimes simply referre ...

(software circuit platform) *

Ngspice ''Ngspice'' is an open-source mixed-level/ mixed-signal electronic circuit simulator. It is a successor of the latest stable release of Berkeley SPICE, version 3f.5, which was released in 1993. A small group of maintainers and the user community ...

* Oregano (software) * Quite Universal Circuit Simulator * SapWin *

SPICE In the culinary arts, a spice is any seed, fruit, root, Bark (botany), bark, or other plant substance in a form primarily used for flavoring or coloring food. Spices are distinguished from herbs, which are the leaves, flowers, or stems of pl ...

Tenori-on The Yamaha Tenori-on is an electronic musical instrument designed and created by the Japanese artist Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori of the Music and Human Interface Group at the Yamaha (manufacturer), Yamaha Center for Advanced Sound Technology. ...

(software circuit platform)

Music composing software

* Antescofo * Director Musices * Hyperscore * JFugue * Keykit * Kyma (sound design language) *

Max Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (American dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (British dog), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of the OBE) * Max (gorilla) ...

* Music Mouse (Algorithmic synth and composer) * Nodal *

Ocarina The ocarina (otherwise known as a potato flute) is a wind musical instrument; it is a type of vessel flute. Variations exist, but a typical ocarina is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the bo ...

* OpenMusic * PetSynth * Progression *

Reaktor Reaktor is a graphical modular software music studio developed by Stephan Schmidt and Volker Hinz as founders of Native Instruments (NI). It allows musicians and sound specialists to design and build their own instruments, samplers, effects a ...

* Rubato Composer

Music conversion software

AIMP AIMP is a freeware audio player for Windows and Android, originally developed by Russian developer Artem Izmaylov (). It supports a variety of audio codecs, and includes tools to convert audio files and edit their metadata. It also has the c ...

* Audacity * Brasero *

FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. At its core is the command-line ffmpeg tool itself, designed for processing vide ...

foobar2000 foobar2000 (often abbreviated as fb2k or f2k) is a freeware audio player for Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android, macOS, and formerly Windows Phone, developed by Peter Pawłowski. It has a modular design, which provides user flexibility in c ...

* FormatFactory * Freemake Audio Converter * Free Studio * fre:ac *

iTunes iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management (MDM) utility developed by Apple. It is used to purchase, play, download and organize digital multimedia on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating s ...

* k3b * MediaCoder * MediaHuman Audio Converter *

MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows and Android operating systems. MediaMonkey for Windows (sometimes noted as MMW) includes ...

* SoX *

VLC Media Player VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client) is a free and open-source software, free and open-source, software portability, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media Server (computing), server developed by the Vide ...

Winamp Winamp is a media player (software), media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. It was then acquired by Rad ...

* WMA Convert

Music education software

* Soundtrap * Meludia * EarMaster * GNU Solfege * Hyperscore *

Rocksmith ''Rocksmith'' is a music video game produced by Ubisoft, released in October 2011 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms in North America. ''Rocksmith'' was released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 during September 2012 in Australian and Europ ...

Synthesia Synthesia may refer to: * Synthesia (company) Synthesia is a synthetic media generation company that develops software used to create AI generated video content. Its customer base, as of January 2025, includes over sixty percent of Fortune 10 ...

* WaveSurfer * Yousician * MidiStickers * Chordify

Music gaming software

* Beat Saber * Crypt of the NecroDancer *

osu! ''Osu!'' (stylized as ''osu!'') is a freeware rhythm game originally created and self-published by Australian developer Dean Herbert. It was released for Microsoft Windows on 16 September 2007, with later ports to macOS, Linux, Android (oper ...

* Music Tech * Rhythm Core Alpha 2 *

Music mathematics software

* JFugue *

Julia (programming language) Julia is a high-level programming language, high-level, general-purpose programming language, general-purpose dynamic programming language, dynamic programming language, designed to be fast and productive, for e.g. data science, artificial intel ...

* Scala *

Wolfram Language The Wolfram Language ( ) is a proprietary, very high-level multi-paradigm programming language developed by Wolfram Research. It emphasizes symbolic computation, functional programming, and rule-based programming and can employ arbitrary stru ...

Music notation software

* Aegis Sonix * Canorus *

Capella Capella is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Auriga. It has the Bayer designation α Aurigae, which is Latinisation of names, Latinised to Alpha Aurigae and abbreviated Alpha Aur or α Aur. Capella is the lis ...

* Deluxe Music Construction Set * Denemo * Dorico * Encore * ENT (for typeset

mensural notation Mensural notation is the musical notation system used for polyphony, polyphonic European vocal music from the late 13th century until the early 17th century. The term "mensural" refers to the ability of this system to describe precisely measur ...

) * Finale * Flat *

Forte Forte or Forté may refer to: Music *Forte (music), a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong" * Forte number, an ordering given to every pitch class set * Forte (notation program), a suite of musical score notation programs * Forte (vocal ...

* Frescobaldi * Gregorio (for

Neume A neume (; sometimes spelled neum) is the basic element of Western and some Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff (music), staff notation. The earliest neumes were inflective marks that indicated the gener ...

s) * Guitar Pro *

Igor Engraver Igor Engraver is a scorewriter for the Macintosh and Windows operating systems, created by Swedish composer Peter Bengtson and published by the Swedish company NoteHeads. Bengtson stated on the Igor-Talk mailing list that he named Igor after the s ...

* Impro-Visor * jEdit plugin *

LilyPond LilyPond is a computer program and file format for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand. LilyPond is cross-pla ...

* MagicScore *

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...

* Mus2 * MusEdit *

MuseScore MuseScore Studio (branded as MuseScore before 2024) is a Free and open-source software, free and open-source music notation program for Microsoft Windows, Windows, macOS, and Linux under the Muse Group, which owns the associated online score-s ...

* Music Write * MusiCAD * MusicEase *

MusiXTeX MusiXTeX is a suite of Open-source model, open source music engraving macros and fonts that allow music typesetting in TeX, released under the GNU General Public License, GPL-2.0-or-later license. History Macros for typesetting music in TeX firs ...

* NoteEdit * Noteflight * Notation Composer * NoteWorthy Composer *

NOTION Notion or Notions may refer to: Software * Notion (music software), a music composition and performance program * Notion (productivity software), a note-taking and project-management program from Notion Labs, Inc. * Notion (window manager), the ...

Overture Overture (from French ''ouverture'', "opening") is a music instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overtures which ...

* Philip's Music Writer (PMW) * Power Tab Editor * Progression * Rosegarden *

SCORE SCORE may refer to: *SCORE (software), a music scorewriter program * SCORE (television), a weekend sports service of the defunct Financial News Network *SCORE! Educational Centers *SCORE International, an offroad racing organization *Sarawak Corrido ...

* ScoreCloud *

Sibelius Jean Sibelius (; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often ...

(Division of

Avid Technology Avid Technology, Inc. is a global technology company headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, and was founded in August 1987 by Bill Warner. It develops software, SaaS, and hardware products used in media and entertainment. History Avid wa ...

since 8/2006. Avid also sells the

DAW) *

SmartScore SmartScore 64 NE is a music OCR and scorewriter program, developed, published and distributed by Musitek Corporation based in Ojai, California. History SmartScore was originally released in 1991 as MIDISCAN for Windows. The product line was la ...

(Focus on

Music OCR Optical music recognition (OMR) is a field of research that investigates how to computationally read musical notation in documents. The goal of OMR is to teach the computer to read and interpret sheet music and produce a machine-readable version ...

) * TuxGuitar

Music player software

Music research software

* ScoreCloud (Notation research)

Music technology, synthesis and o/s software

* :Music software plugin architectures *

Comparison of audio synthesis environments Software audio synthesis environments typically consist of an audio programming language (which may be graphical) and a user environment to design/run the language in. Although many of these environments are comparable in their abilities to pro ...

* DirectMusic * Moodagent (AI based emotion keyed playlist generator and app) *

Music information retrieval Music information retrieval (MIR) is the interdisciplinary science of retrieving information from music. Those involved in MIR may have a background in academic musicology, psychoacoustics, psychology, signal processing, informatics, machine lear ...

* Software effect processor * Sound Recorder (Windows) *

Impromptu (programming environment) Impromptu is a Mac OS X computer program, programming environment for live coding. Impromptu is built around the Scheme (programming language), Scheme language, which is a member of the Lisp (programming language), Lisp family of languages. The s ...

* Keykit *

Max (software) Max, also known as Max/MSP/Jitter, is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74. Over its more than thirty-year history, it has been used by composers, per ...

* SynthFont (a MIDI to WAV converter--

Virtual Studio Technology Virtual Studio Technology (VST) is an audio plug-in software interface that integrates software synthesizers and effects units into digital audio workstations. VST and similar technologies use digital signal processing to simulate traditional rec ...

instruments can be used instead of source files)

Music visualization software

Advanced Visualization Studio Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), is a music visualization plugin for Winamp. It was designed by Winamp creator, Justin Frankel and was first shipped in version 2.0a4 with Winamp 2.61. ''AVS'' has a customizable design which allows users to ...

(

Justin Frankel Justin Frankel (born 1978) is an American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application and for inventing the Gnutella peer-to-peer network. Frankel is also the founder of Cockos Incorporated, which create ...

) (platform: Windows) * Cthugha (1993, Kevin "Zaph" Burfitt) (platform: DOS) * Magic Music Visuals (since 2012, Color & Music, LLC) (platforms: Windows, OS X) * MilkDrop (2001-2012, Ryan Geiss) reimplemented as projectM (platforms: Windows, Linux, Android) *

Neon Neon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ne and atomic number 10. It is the second noble gas in the periodic table. Neon is a colorless, odorless, inert monatomic gas under standard conditions, with approximately two-thirds the density of ...

(2004, Jeff Minter and Ivan Zorzin) (platform: Xbox 360) *

Psychedelia Psychedelia usually refers to a Aesthetics, style or aesthetic that is resembled in the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s and the psychedelic experience produced by certain psychoactive substances. This includes psychedelic art, psychedelic ...

* Virtual Light Machine (1990, Jeff Minter) (platform:

Atari Jaguar The Atari Jaguar is a home video game console developed by Atari Corporation and released in North America in November 1993. It is in the fifth generation of video game consoles, and it competed with Fourth generation of video game consoles, fo ...

) * Visual Music Tone Painter (1992–2004)

Orchestration Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orch ...
software

* Antescofo *

IRCAM IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of Avant-garde music, avant garde and Electroacoustic ...

* OpenMusic * Orchidée

Pipe organ

* Hauptwerk produces audio in response to MIDI signal from attached keyboard or from a MIDI sequencer

Automatic composition software

* Experiments in Musical Intelligence

Samplers and sequencers

* Electribe *

Music sequencer A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling Musical note, note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open ...

* Propellerhead *

Soundtrack creation software

* Anvil Studio * Ensoniq PARIS *

* FL Studio Mobile * Mixcraft *

* Sound Forge * Soundtrap * SpectraLayers *

WaveLab WaveLab is a digital audio editor and recording computer software application for Windows and macOS, created by Steinberg. WaveLab was started in 1995 and it is mainly the work of one programmer, Philippe Goutier. Audio can be edited as a singl ...

Trackers

Historical tracker software: * SoundMonitor (C64, 1986) *

Ultimate Soundtracker The Ultimate Soundtracker, or Soundtracker for short, is a music tracker program for the Amiga. It is the creation of Karsten Obarski, a German software developer and composer at EAS, a video game development company. The Ultimate Soundtracker ...

(Amiga, 1987) *

NoiseTracker NoiseTracker is a freeware tracker created in 1989 for the Amiga platform. It was based on the Ultimate Soundtracker and developed by Pex "Mahoney" Tufvesson and Anders “Kaktus” Berkeman. Nowadays this project is kept at It was used by Amig ...

(Amiga, 1989) * OctaMED (Amiga, 1989) * Protracker (Amiga, 1990) * ScreamTracker (PC, 1994) *

FastTracker 2 FastTracker 2 (also referred to as FastTracker II) is a music tracker created by Fredrik "Mr. H" Huss and Magnus "Vogue" Högdahl, two members of the demogroup Triton (who later founded Starbreeze Studios) who set about releasing their own tra ...

(PC, 1994) *

Impulse Tracker Impulse Tracker is a multi-track music tracker (music sequencer). Originally released in 1995 by Jeffrey Lim as freeware with commercial extensions, it was one of the last tracker programs for the DOS platform. In 2014, on its 20th anniversary, ...

(PC, 1995)

Virtual Studio Technology Virtual Studio Technology (VST) is an audio plug-in software interface that integrates software synthesizers and effects units into digital audio workstations. VST and similar technologies use digital signal processing to simulate traditional rec ...
hosting software

* ACID Pro *

Adobe Audition Adobe Audition is a digital audio workstation developed by Adobe Inc. featuring both a multitrack, non-destructive mix/edit environment and a destructive-approach waveform editing view. Origins Syntrillium Software was founded in the early 1 ...

Adobe Premiere Elements Adobe Premiere Pro is a video editing application developed by Adobe Inc. and is distributed as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. It is primarily used for producing high-quality videos across various industries. History Original A ...

Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Premiere Pro is a video editing application developed by Adobe Inc. and is distributed as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. It is primarily used for producing high-quality videos across various industries. History Original A ...

* Acoustica Mixcraft * Ardour (open source) * Audacity (open source, Windows, Linux and Mac platforms only) * AudioMulch * Band-in-a-Box * Cakewalk by BandLab * Deckadance *

(version 8 or higher) *

* GoldWave *

Jeskola Buzz Jeskola Buzz is a freeware modular software music studio environment designed to run on Microsoft Windows using MFC. It is centered on a modular plugin-based machine view and a multiple pattern sequencer tracker. Buzz consists of a plugin a ...

* LMMS (open source) *

Max MSP Max, also known as Max/MSP/Jitter, is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74. Over its more than thirty-year history, it has been used by composers, pe ...

ModPlug Tracker OpenMPT is an open-source audio module tracker for Windows (with an intended Wine-functionality for UNIX and Linux x86-systems). It was previously called ModPlug Tracker, and was first released by Olivier Lapicque in September 1997. ''Comp ...

* MultitrackStudio * n-Track Studio *

* Renoise * Samplitude * Sony Acid Pro * Sony Sound Forge *

Sony Vegas Vegas Pro (stylized as VEGAS Pro, formerly known as Sony Vegas) is a professional video editing software package for non-linear editing system, non-linear editing (NLE), designed to run on the Microsoft Windows operating system. The first rel ...

* Soundtrap *

Steinberg Cubase Cubase is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by Steinberg for music and MIDI recording, arranging and editing. The first version, which was originally only a MIDI sequencer and ran on the Atari ST computer, was released in 1989. Cut-do ...

Steinberg Nuendo Nuendo is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by Steinberg for music recording, arranging, editing, and post-production. The package is aimed at audio and video post-production market segments (marketed as a 'Premium Media Production Syst ...

* Studio One * Steinberg Wavelab *

* Ultradaw *

Vocaloid is a singing Speech synthesis, voice synthesizer software product. Its signal processing part was developed through a joint research project between Yamaha Corporation and the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. The s ...

* WavePad Audio Editor *

Podium A podium (: podiums or podia) is a platform used to raise something to a short distance above its surroundings. In architecture a building can rest on a large podium. Podiums can also be used to raise people, for instance the conductor of a ...

Virtual synthesizer and studio software

Amsynth amsynth is an Open-source software, open source realtime software synthesizer for Linux. Its operation is similar to analog Moog Minimoog and Roland Juno-60, which are considered classic synthesizers from the 1970s. The two main oscillators su ...

Minimoog The Minimoog is an analog synthesizer first manufactured by Moog Music between 1970 and 1981. Designed as a more affordable, portable version of the modular Moog synthesizer, it was the first synthesizer sold in retail stores. It was first popul ...

(software creation of instrument) *

(DAW and virtual

recording studio A recording studio is a specialized facility for Sound recording and reproduction, recording and Audio mixing, mixing of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds. They range in size from a small in-home proje ...

, integrated with Record) *

Spire A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape. Spire ...

VCV Rack VCV Rack is a free and open-source cross-platform software modular synthesizer. Overview VCV Rack is a free open-source virtual modular synthesizer: multiple modules can be connected to synthesize a sound. By default, the software contains se ...

* ZynAddSubFX

Wave editors

Audition An audition is a sample performance by an actor, singer, musician, dancer or other performer. It typically involves the performer displaying their talent through a previously memorized and rehearsed solo piece or by performing a work or piece gi ...

* Audacity * Goldwave * Sound Forge * WavePad Audio Editor

References

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Software Software consists of computer programs that instruct the Execution (computing), execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...