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 such as iHeartRadio, Pandora, Prime Music, and Spotify, see

Comparison of on-demand streaming music services The following is a list of on-demand music streaming services. These services offer streaming of full-length content via the Internet as a part of their service, without the listener necessarily having to purchase a file for download. This type o ...

. For storage, uploading, downloading and streaming of music via the cloud, 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 for listening on multiple devices. Previously, there were three large services� ...

. This list does not include discontinued historic or legacy software, with the exception of trackers that are still supported. For example, the company Ars Nova produces music education software, and its software program Practica Musica has remnants of the historic Palestrina software. Practica will be listed here, but not Palestrina. 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 recording, editing and producing audio files. DAWs come in a wide variety of configurations from a single software program on a laptop, to an integr ...

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 project with a large d ...

), listing is limited to its top three categories.

Types of music software

CD ripping software

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CDex CDex is a free software package for Digital Audio Extraction from Audio CD (a so-called CD ripper) and audio format conversion for Microsoft Windows. It converts CDDA tracks from a CD to standard computer sound files, such as WAV, MP3, or Ogg ...

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) * SingingCoach

DJ software

* Cross/CrossDJ * Deckadance * djay * Final Scratch * Mixxx *

Serato Serato (stylized in all lowercase; ) is a music software company. History Serato was founded in Auckland, New Zealand by Steve West and AJ Berstenshaw, who created software that changes the tempo of a recorded track without changing the pitch. S ...

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'' ...

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, Ableton Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool ...

* ACID Probr>Ampedstudio
* 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 Cr ...

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, arra ...

* Cakewalk by BandLab * Cubase * Digital Performer *

FL Studio FL Studio (previously known as FruityLoops before 2003) is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by the Belgian company Image-Line. FL Studio features a graphical user interface with a pattern-based music sequencer. The program is avail ...

GarageBand GarageBand is a line of digital audio workstations developed by Apple Inc. for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS devices that allows users to create music or podcasts. GarageBand is developed by Apple for macOS, and was once part of the iLife softwar ...

* LMMS *

Logic Pro Logic Pro is a digital audio workstation (DAW) and MIDI sequencer software application for the macOS platform. It was originally created in the early 1990s as Notator Logic, or Logic, by German software developer C-Lab which later went by E ...

* Maschine * MetaSynth *

Mixcraft Mixcraft has been developed bAcoustica Mixcraft is a multitrack recording application for Windows. This music recording software functions as a digital audio workstation, MIDI sequencer, virtual instrument host, non-linear video arranger, and mu ...

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 an 'Advanced Audio Post-Productio ...

* 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-produ ...

* Qtractor *

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* Renoise * Rosegarden * Samplitude * Sonic Pi *

Soundtrap Soundtrap is a freemium online cross-platform digital audio workstation (DAW) for browsers that allows users to create music or podcasts. The DAW is operated by Soundtrap AB, which was bought by Spotify in November 2017. Soundtrap is offered in ...

* Studio One *

Waveform In electronics, acoustics, and related fields, the waveform of a signal is the shape of its graph as a function of time, independent of its time and magnitude scales and of any displacement in time.David Crecraft, David Gorham, ''Electro ...

Zynewave Podium Podium is a digital audio workstation software program that integrates audio recording, VST plugins and external MIDI and audio gear. An object based project structure allows for advanced media and device management. Feature highlights includ ...

Computer music software

* ChucK *

Csound Csound is a domain-specific computer programming language for audio programming. It is called Csound because it is written in C, as opposed to some of its predecessors. It is free software, available under the LGPL-2.1-or-later. Csound was o ...

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* List of Generative music software * JFugue * Kyma (sound design language) * Keykit * Max/MSP *

* Real-time_Cmix *

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Internet, RSS, broadcast music software

''This section only includes software, not services. For services programs like Spotify, Pandora, Prime Music, etc. see

. Likewise, list includes music RSS apps, widgets and software, but for a list of actual feeds, see Comparison of feed aggregators. For music broadcast software lists in the cloud, see Content delivery network and

.'' *

Airtime Air time or airtime may refer to: *Air time (broadcasting), also spelled "airtime", available hours for broadcast or time purchased for broadcast * Air time (mobile phone), also spelled "airtime", top-up for mobile roaming services *Air time, also ...

Audicom Audicom was the first system in the world to record and play audio from a PC computer, beginning in 1988 the era of digital recording that would eliminate recorders from magnetic and cassette tape used for half a century. Invention This technolo ...

(First radio automation software—see Radio software) * Campcaster * 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 (Internet jamming software) * OpenBroadcaster * Panopto * RapidFeeds

Lyrics and vocals

* Cantor (music software) * Rhyme Genie (Algorithms and software for rhyming lyrics) * SingingCoach

MIDI MIDI (; Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and ...
plug-ins

Bitcrusher A Bitcrusher is an audio effect that produces distortion by reducing of the resolution or bandwidth of digital audio data. The resulting quantization noise may produce a "warmer" sound impression, or a harsh one, depending on the amount of redu ...

Chorus effect Chorus (or chorusing, choruser or chorused effect) is an audio effect that occurs when individual sounds with approximately the same time, and very similar pitches, converge. While similar sounds coming from multiple sources can occur naturally, ...

* Delay (audio effect) *

Dither Dither is an intentionally applied form of noise used to randomize quantization error, preventing large-scale patterns such as color banding in images. Dither is routinely used in processing of both digital audio and video data, and is often ...

* Jamstix *

Liquid Rhythm Liquid Rhythm is a beat sequencing and rhythm generation software developed by WaveDNA and initially released in 2010. The software’s core technology, the Music Molecule, visualizes patterns and relationships between MIDI notes and allows users ...

* MachFive (MOTU Mark of the Unicorn) * MCDSP ( Metropolis Group) * Midijet pro * Native Instruments's B4, Electrik Piano, Guitar Rig 2 * OrangeVocoder ( Prosoniq) * Producer Factory Pro Bundle (DigiDesign via Avid Audio) *

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. Sound ...

(Integrates synthesized/sampled MIDI files with recorded music) * Symphonic Instrument (MOTU Mark of the Unicorn) * TL Space Native Edition (Trillium Labs dist. by DigiDesign via Avid Audio)

Music analysis software

* BeatRoot * BRP-PACU * ChucK * Kyma (sound design language) *

(This software also is used in embedded form for real time algorithmic music generation in

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

Music circuit software

* Arduinome (software circuit platform) * CPU Sim * Electric VLSI Design System * gLogic *

GNU Circuit Analysis Package GNU Circuit Analysis Package (Gnucap) is a general purpose circuit simulator started by Albert Davis in 1993. It is part of the GNU Project. The latest stable version is 0.35 from 2006. The latest development snapshot (as of November 2017) is fro ...

KTechLab KTechLab is an IDE for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation; it is a circuit designer with auto-routing and a simulator of common electronic components and logic elements. KTechLab is free and open-source software l ...

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

MIDIbox MIDIbox is a non-commercial open source project with a series of guides on how to build musical instrument device interfaces (MIDI). Through a series of do it yourself tutorials, users are guided in the process of building a basic microcontroller t ...

(software circuit platform) * Monome (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) Oregano is a graphical software application for schematic capture and simulation of electrical circuits. The actual simulation is performed by the SPICE, Ngspice or Gnucap engines. It is similar to gEDA and KTechlab. It makes use of GNOME tec ...

* Quite Universal Circuit Simulator *

SapWin Symbolic Analysis Program for Windows (SAPWIN) is a proprietary symbolic circuit simulator written in C++ for the Microsoft Windows operating systems Vista, 7.0 and 8.1. Unlike more common numerical circuit simulators (such as Simulation Program w ...

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* Tenori-on (software circuit platform)

Music composing software

* Antescofo *

Hyperscore Hyperscore is a computer-assisted music composition program intended to make the creation of music readily accessible to experienced musicians as well as those without any musical training. To accomplish this, the software maps complex musical con ...

* JFugue * Keykit * Kyma (sound design language) *

Magix Music Maker Magix Music Maker is a commercial digital audio workstation (DAW) designed by the company Magix for the consumer sector. The program's attributes originate from Samplitude, Magix's professional digital audio workstation. The first version of Mu ...

* Max *

Music Mouse ''Music Mouse'' is an algorithmic musical composition software developed by Laurie Spiegel. Spiegel's best known and most widely used software, "Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument" (1986) is for Macintosh, Amiga and Atari computers. The " in ...

(Algorithmic synth and composer) * Nodal *

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* OpenMusic * PetSynth * Progression * Reaktor (Software creation of nearly every instrument; reverse engineering encouraged) * Rubato Composer (First composition software based on

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)

Music conversion software

* AIMP * Audacity *

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 of vid ...

* foobar2000 * FormatFactory * Freemake Audio Converter * Free Studio * fre:ac * iTunes * k3b * MediaCoder * MediaHuman Audio Converter * MediaMonkey * SoX * VLC Media Player * Winamp * WMA Convert * XMedia Recode

Music education software

* Meludia (ear-training practice exercises) * EarMaster * GNU Solfege (ear-training practice exercises) * Reaktor (software creation of nearly every instrument; reverse engineering encouraged) * Rocksmith (video game with emphasis on instructional aspects; unique in that controller can be any electric guitar w/ 1/4" jack) * Synthesia (video game with piano instruction aspects) * WaveSurfer (studies of acoustic phonetics) * Yousician (educational game to learn to play guitar and piano)

Music gaming software

* Beat Saber * Crypt of the NecroDancer * osu! * Pixelh8, Music Tech * Rocksmith (Video game with some instructional aspects; unique in that controller can be almost any electric guitar)

Music mathematics software

* JFugue, an API for music programming that is designed to support generative and algorithmic music * Julia (programming language) (MIT freeware, new, high-level dynamic programming language competing with R (programming language), MATLAB and GNU Octave.) * Scala (software), Scala, a program for creating and analysing musical scales * Wolfram Language provides built-in functionality for audio generation, as well signal processing, audio signal processing and

MIDI MIDI (; Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and ...

Music notation software

* Aegis Sonix * Canorus * Capella (notation program), Capella * Deluxe Music Construction Set * Denemo * Dorico * Encore (software), Encore * Early notation typesetter, ENT (for typeset mensural notation) * Finale (software), Finale * Forte (notation program), Forte * Frescobaldi (software), Frescobaldi * Gregorio (software), Gregorio (for Neumes) * Guitar Pro * Igor Engraver * Impro-Visor * JEdit#Plug-ins, jEdit plugin * LilyPond * MagicScore * Mozart the music processor, Mozart * Mus2 * MusEdit * MuseScore * Music Write * MusiCAD * MusicEase * Musink * MusiXTeX * NoteEdit * Noteflight * Notation Composer * NoteWorthy Composer * Notion (music software), NOTION * Overture (software), Overture (Includes VST hosting as well as being a scorewriter) * Philip's Music Writer (PMW) * Power Tab Editor * Progression * Rosegarden * SCORE (software), SCORE * ScoreCloud * Sibelius (scorewriter), Sibelius (Division of Avid Technology since 8/2006. Avid also sells the

DAW) * SmartScore (Focus on Optical music recognition, Music OCR) * TuxGuitar

Music player software

Music research software

* Scorecloud, ScoreCloud (Notation research)

Music technology, synthesis and o/s software

* :Music software plugin architectures * Comparison of audio synthesis environments * DirectMusic * Moodagent (AI based emotion keyed playlist generator and app) * Music information retrieval * Software effect processor * Sound Recorder (Windows) * Impromptu (programming environment) * Keykit * Max (software) * SynthFont (a MIDI to WAV converter-- Virtual Studio Technology instruments can be used instead of source files)

Music visualization software

* Advanced Visualization Studio (Justin Frankel) (platform: Windows) * Cthugha (software), 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 (light synthesizer), Neon (2004, Jeff Minter and Ivan Zorzin) (platform: Xbox 360) * Psychedelia (light synthesizer), Psychedelia, (1984, Jeff Minter), an early "light synthesizer", did not use audio input but was designed to create visualizations in accompaniment to music. *

(e.g. visualization of incoming music signals) * Virtual Light Machine (1990, Jeff Minter) (platform: Atari Jaguar) * Stephen Nachmanovitch, Visual Music Tone Painter (1992–2004)

Orchestration software

* Antescofo * IRCAM#Software developed at IRCAM, IRCAM * OpenMusic * Orchidée

Drums and percussion

* Radiodrum

Guitar

* Guitar Rig * Progression (software)

Piano

* Daynes Music, Kurzweil Digital Piano * Pianoteq (Modartt) * Korg Kronos, SGX-1 Premium Piano * Synthesia * Virtual piano

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 (Article includes extensive list) * Reason (software), Propellerhead *

(Integrates synthesized/sampled MIDI files with recorded music)

Soundtrack creation software

* Anvil Studio * Ensoniq PARIS *

* FL Studio Mobile *

* Sound Forge *

* SpectraLayers * WaveLab

Trackers

Historical tracker software: *Ultimate Soundtracker (Amiga, 1987) *NoiseTracker (Amiga, 1989) *OctaMED (Amiga, 1989) *ScreamTracker (PC, 1994) *FastTracker 2 (PC, 1994) *Impulse Tracker (PC, 1995)

Virtual Studio Technology hosting software

* ACID Pro * Adobe Audition * Adobe Premiere Elements * Adobe Premiere Pro * Acoustica

* Ardour (audio processor), Ardour (open source) * Audacity (open source, Windows, Linux and Mac platforms only) * AudioMulch * Band-in-a-Box * Bidule * Cakewalk by BandLab * Deckadance * Digital Performer (version 8 or higher) *

* GoldWave * Jeskola Buzz * LMMS (open source) *

* Max MSP * ModPlug Tracker * MultitrackStudio * n-Track Studio * Notion (music software), NOTION *

* Reason (software), Reason * Renoise * Samplitude * Acid Pro, Sony Acid Pro * Sony Sound Forge * Sony Vegas *

* Steinberg Cubase * Steinberg Nuendo * Studio One * Wavelab, Steinberg Wavelab *

* Vocaloid * WavePad Audio Editor * Zynewave Podium, Podium

Virtual synthesizer and studio software

* Amsynth * Minimoog * Reaktor (software creation of instrument) * Reason (software), Reason (DAW and virtual recording studio, integrated with Record (software), Record) * ZynAddSubFX

Wave editors

* Adobe Audition, Audition * Audacity * Goldwave * Sound Forge * WavePad Audio Editor

References

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