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, Pandora, Prime Music, and Spotify, see Comparison of on-demand streaming music services. For storage, uploading, downloading and streaming of music via the cloud, see Comparison of online music lockers. 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), 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 * 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 * Traktor * Rekordbox * VirtualDJ

Digital audio workstation (DAW) software

* Ableton Live * 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 * BespokeSynth * Bitwig Studio * Cakewalk by BandLab * Cubase * Digital Performer *

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 * Magix Music Maker * Maschine * MetaSynth * Mixcraft * MultitrackStudio * Nuendo * Mixbus * MuLab * Orion Studio * Pro Tools * Pyramix * Qtractor * REAPER *

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 * Csound * Director Musices * List of Generative music software * JFugue * Kyma (sound design language) * Keykit * Max/MSP * Pure Data * Real-time Cmix * Suno AI * SuperCollider * 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. 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 Comparison of online music lockers.'' * Airtime * Audicom (First radio automation software—see Radio software) * Campcaster * Clickradio * Juice (aggregator) * Jamulus (Internet jamming software) * Moodagent (AI based emotion keyed playlist generator and app) * Ninjam (Internet jamming software) * OpenBroadcaster * Panopto

Lyrics and vocals

* Cantor (music software) * Rhyme Genie (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, Ozone, RX Audio Editor ( iZotope) * Jamstix (Rayzoon Technologies) * Liquid Rhythm (WaveDNA) * PCM Native, MPX Native ( Lexicon (company)) * NI Massive, Kontakt (software), B4, Electrik Piano, Guitar Rig 2 ( Native Instruments) * OrangeVocoder ( Prosoniq) * SoundFont (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 * ChucK * Kyma (sound design language) * Pure Data * Platinum Blue Music Intelligence (from Music Xray company) * Sonic Visualiser * WaveSurfer

Music circuit software

* Arduinome (software circuit platform) * CPU Sim * Electric VLSI Design System * gLogic * GNU Circuit Analysis Package * KTechLab * Linear Technology (a/d, circuit software, and others.) * List of free electronics circuit simulators * LTspice * Micro-Cap * MIDIbox (software circuit platform) * Monome (software circuit platform) * Ngspice * 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 * Music Mouse (Algorithmic synth and composer) * Nodal * Ocarina * OpenMusic * PetSynth * Progression * Reaktor * Rubato Composer

Music conversion software

* AIMP * Audacity * Brasero *

* Exact Audio Copy * FFmpeg *

* foobar2000 * 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 * 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 * WMA Convert

Music education software

* Soundtrap * Meludia * EarMaster * GNU Solfege * Hyperscore * Reaktor * Rocksmith * Synthesia * WaveSurfer * Yousician * MidiStickers * Chordify

Music gaming software

* Beat Saber * Crypt of the NecroDancer * osu! * Music Tech * Rhythm Core Alpha 2 * Rocksmith

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

Music notation software

* Aegis Sonix * Canorus * Capella * 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 * 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 * Impro-Visor * jEdit plugin * LilyPond * 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 * Music Write * MusiCAD * MusicEase * MusiXTeX * NoteEdit * Noteflight * Notation Composer * NoteWorthy Composer * NOTION *

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 * ScoreCloud * Sibelius (Division of Avid Technology since 8/2006. Avid also sells the Pro Tools DAW) * SmartScore (Focus on Music OCR) * 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 * 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 (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 ...

* Pure Data * Virtual Light Machine (1990, Jeff Minter) (platform: Atari Jaguar) * 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 * SoundFont

Soundtrack creation software

* Anvil Studio * Ensoniq PARIS *

* FL Studio Mobile * Mixcraft * Pro Tools * Sound Forge * Soundtrap * SpectraLayers * WaveLab

Trackers

Historical tracker software: * SoundMonitor (C64, 1986) * Ultimate Soundtracker (Amiga, 1987) * NoiseTracker (Amiga, 1989) * OctaMED (Amiga, 1989) * Protracker (Amiga, 1990) * ScreamTracker (PC, 1994) * FastTracker 2 (PC, 1994) * Impulse Tracker (PC, 1995)

Virtual Studio Technology hosting software

* Ableton Live * ACID Pro * Adobe Audition * Adobe Premiere Elements *

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 * Digital Performer (version 8 or higher) *

* GoldWave * Jeskola Buzz * LMMS (open source) * Logic Pro * Magix Music Maker * Max MSP * ModPlug Tracker * MultitrackStudio * n-Track Studio * NOTION * REAPER *

* Renoise * Samplitude * Sony Acid Pro * Sony Sound Forge * Sony Vegas * Soundtrap * Steinberg Cubase * Steinberg Nuendo * Studio One * Steinberg Wavelab * Traktor * 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

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 ...

* Reaktor (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 * VCV Rack * ZynAddSubFX

Wave editors

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

References

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