This comparison of free software for audio lists notable

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for use by sound engineers, audio producers, and those involved in sound recording and reproduction.

Players

Audio analysis

Converters

DJ software

Distributions and other platforms

Various projects have formed to integrate the existing free software audio packages.

Modular systems

Notation

Programming languages

Many

computer music programming languages This is a list of notable programming languages optimized for sound production, algorithmic composition, and sound synthesis. * ABC notation, a language for notating music using the ASCII character set * ChucK, strongly timed, concurrent, and ...

are implemented in free software. See also the comparison of audio synthesis environments.

Radio broadcasting

Recording and editing

The following packages are digital audio editors.

Softsynths

Streaming

These programs are for use with

streaming audio Streaming media is multimedia that is delivered and consumed in a continuous manner from a source, with little or no intermediate storage in network elements. ''Streaming'' refers to the delivery method of content, rather than the content it ...

Technologies

Trackers

These music sequencer programs allow users to arrange notes (pitch-shifted sound samples) on a timeline: see

tracker (music software) A music tracker (sometimes referred to as just tracker for short) is a type of music sequencer software for creating music. The music is represented as discrete musical notes positioned in several channels at discrete chronological positions on ...

Other

References

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