List of music software

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. 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.[1][2] 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.[3] If a program fits several categories, such as a comprehensive digital audio workstation or a foundation
programming language (e.g. Pure Data), listing is limited to its top three categories.

Contents
Types of music software
CD ripping software
Choir and learn-to-sing software
DJ software
Digital audio workstation (DAW) software
Computer music software
Internet, RSS, broadcast music software
Lyrics and vocals
MIDI plug-ins
Music analysis software
Music circuit software
Music composing software
Music education software
Music gaming software
Music mathematics software
Music notation software
Music player software
Music research software
Music technology, synthesis and o/s software
Music visualization software
Orchestration software
Drums and percussion
Guitar
Piano
Pipe organ
Automatic composition software
Samplers and sequencers
Soundtrack creation software
Trackers
Virtual Studio Technology hosting software
Virtual synthesizer and studio software
See also
References

Types of music software

CD ripping software
Brasero
CDex
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 Mixxx
Deckadance Serato
djay Traktor
Final Scratch

Digital audio workstation (DAW) software

Ableton Live Mixcraft
ACID Pro Nuendo
Ardour Mixbus
Audacity MuLab
Audiotool Pro Tools
Bitwig Studio Qtractor
Cakewalk REAPER
Cubase Renoise
Digital Performer Reason
FL Studio Rosegarden
Fairlight Samplitude
GarageBand Sonic Pi
LMMS Studio One
Logic Pro Waveform
Maschine Zynewave Podium

Computer music software

ChucK Kyma (sound design language)
Csound Keykit
Director Musices Max/MSP
List of Generative music software Pure Data
JFugue SuperCollider

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 and Comparison of online music lockers.

Airtime Moodagent (AI based emotion keyed playlist

Audicom (First radio automation software—see generator and app)
Radio software) OpenBroadcaster
Campcaster Panopto
Clickradio SAM Broadcaster
Juice (aggregator) RapidFeeds

Lyrics and vocals

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

MIDI plug-ins
Bitcrusher Native Instruments's B4, Electrik Piano, Guitar Rig 2
Chorus effect OrangeVocoder (Prosoniq)
Delay (audio effect) Producer Factory Pro Bundle (DigiDesign via Avid
Dither Audio)
Jamstix SoundFont (Integrates synthesized/sampled MIDI
Liquid Rhythm files with recorded music)
MachFive (MOTU Mark of the Unicorn) Symphonic Instrument (MOTU Mark of the Unicorn)
TL Space Native Edition (Trillium Labs dist. by
MCDSP (Metropolis Group)
DigiDesign via Avid Audio)
Midijet pro

Music analysis software

BeatRoot Platinum Blue Music Intelligence (from Music Xray
BRP-PACU company)
ChucK Praat
Kyma (sound design language) Sonic Visualiser
Pure Data (This software also is used in embedded WaveSurfer
form for real time algorithmic music generation in
Spore (2008 video game))

Music circuit software

Arduinome (software circuit platform) Micro-Cap
CPU Sim MIDIbox (software circuit platform)
Electric VLSI Design System Monome (software circuit platform)
gLogic Ngspice
GNU Circuit Analysis Package Oregano (software)
KTechLab Quite Universal Circuit Simulator
Linear Technology (a/d, circuit software, and others.) SapWin
List of free electronics circuit simulators SPICE
LTspice Tenori-on (software circuit platform)

Music composing software

Antescofo JFugue
Director Musices Keykit
Hyperscore Kyma (sound design language)
 Max PetSynth
Music Maker Progression
Music Mouse (Algorithmic synth and composer) Reaktor (Software creation of nearly every
Nodal instrument; reverse engineering encouraged)
Ocarina Rubato Composer (First composition software
based on Category theory)
OpenMusic

Music education software

EarMaster Rocksmith (video game with emphasis on
InstrumentChamp (video game for also acoustic instructional aspects; unique in that controller can
guitar, and piano, drum, sax and trumpet; be any electric guitar w/ 1/4" jack)
multiplayer) Synthesia (video game with piano instruction
Reaktor (software creation of nearly every aspects)
instrument; reverse engineering encouraged) WaveSurfer (studies of acoustic phonetics)
Yousician (educational game to learn to play guitar
and piano)

Music gaming software

GarageBand Music Tech
Beat Saber Rocksmith (Video game with some instructional
InstrumentChamp aspects; unique in that controller can be almost any
Crypt of the Necrodancer 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, 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.[4]

Music notation software

Canorus MuseScore
Capella Music Write
Denemo MusiCAD
Dorico MusicEase
Encore Musink
Finale MusiXTeX
Forte NoteEdit
Frescobaldi Notation Composer
Gregorio (for Neumes) NoteWorthy Composer
Guitar Pro NOTION
Igor Engraver Overture (Includes VST hosting as well as being a
Impro-Visor scorewriter)
jEdit plugin Philip's Music Writer (PMW)
LilyPond Power Tab Editor
MagicScore Progression
Mozart Rosegarden
Mus2 SCORE
MusEdit ScoreCloud
 Sibelius (Division of Avid Technology since 8/2006. SmartScore (Focus on Music OCR)
Avid also sells the Pro Tools DAW) TuxGuitar

Music player software

Music research software

ScoreCloud (Notation research)

Music technology, synthesis and o/s software

Category:Music software plugin architectures Sound Recorder (Windows)
Comparison of audio synthesis environments Impromptu (programming environment)
DirectMusic Keykit
Moodagent (AI based emotion keyed playlist Max (software)[5]
generator and app) SynthFont (a MIDI to WAV converter-- Virtual Studio
Music information retrieval Technology instruments can be used instead of
Software effect processor source files)

Music visualization software

Advanced Visualization Studio (Justin Frankel) Psychedelia, (1984, Jeff Minter), an early "light
(platform: Windows) synthesizer", did not use audio input but was
Cthugha (1993, Kevin "Zaph" Burfitt) (platform: designed to create visualizations in accompaniment
DOS) to music.
Magic Music Visuals (2012-2020, Color & Music, Pure Data (e.g. visualization of incoming music
LLC) (platforms: Windows, OS X) signals)
MilkDrop (2001-2012, Ryan Geiss) reimplemented Virtual Light Machine (1990, Jeff Minter) (platform:
as projectM (platforms: Windows, Linux, Android) Atari Jaguar)
Neon (2004, Jeff Minter and Ivan Zorzin) (platform: Visual Music Tone Painter (1992–2004)[6]
Xbox 360)

Orchestration software
Antescofo
IRCAM
OpenMusic
Orchidée

Drums and percussion

Liquid Rhythm
Radiodrum

Guitar
Guitar Rig
Progression (software)

Piano
Kurzweil Digital Piano Synthesia
Pianoteq (Modartt) Virtual piano
SGX-1 Premium Piano
Pipe organ

Hauptwerk produces audio in response to MIDI signal from attached keyboard or from a MIDI sequencer[7]

Automatic composition software

Experiments in Musical Intelligence

Samplers and sequencers

Electribe
Music sequencer (Article includes extensive list)
Propellerhead
SoundFont (Integrates synthesized/sampled MIDI files with recorded music)

Soundtrack creation software

Anvil studio Pro Tools
Ensoniq PARIS Sound Forge
FL Studio SpectraLayers
FL Studio Mobile WaveLab
Mixcraft

Trackers

Latest OS versions File format support VST ASIO

Name License
update Windows OS X Linux MID MOD XM IT S3M support output

2020-
Renoise Commercial Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Load No Yes Yes
07-20
2020-
OpenMPT BSD Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
05-24
2006-
SoundTracker (beta) GPL No No Yes No Yes Yes No No No No
02
2018-
MilkyTracker GPL Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Load Load No Yes
02
2015-
Buzztrax LGPL Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Load No Yes Yes
09-03
2017-
Psycle GPL Yes No No No Load Yes Load Load Yes Yes
03

Virtual Studio Technology hosting software

Ableton Live Bidule
ACID Pro Cakewalk Sonar
Adobe Audition Deckadance
Adobe Premiere Elements Digital Performer (version 8 or higher)
Adobe Premiere Pro FL Studio
Acoustica Mixcraft GoldWave
Ardour (open source) Jeskola Buzz
Audacity (open source, Windows, Linux and Mac LMMS (open source)
platforms only[8]) Logic Pro
AudioMulch Max MSP
Band-in-a-Box ModPlug Tracker
 MultitrackStudio Sony Sound Forge
n-Track Studio Sony Vegas
NOTION Steinberg Cubase
Psycle (open source) Steinberg Nuendo
REAPER Studio One
Reason Steinberg Wavelab
Renoise Traktor
Samplitude Vocaloid
Sony Acid Pro Podium

Virtual synthesizer and studio software

Amsynth Reason (Both a DAW and virtual Recording studio)
Minimoog (This software is now integrated with Record)
Reaktor (Software creation of nearly every ZynAddSubFX
instrument; reverse engineering encouraged)

See also
Audio editing software
Comparison of audio synthesis environments
Comparison of digital audio editors
Comparison of free software for audio
Comparison of scorewriters
List of audio conversion software
List of audio programming languages
List of guitar tablature software
List of Linux audio software
List of MIDI editors and sequencers
List of scorewriters
Music technology

References
1. "Short History of Computer Music" (http://artsites.ucsc.edu/ems/music/equipment/computers/history/history.htm
l). UCSC.edu. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
2. "The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music" (http://www.factmag.com/2014/04/21/the-14-pieces-of-s
oftware-that-shaped-modern-music/). FactMag.com. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
3. Walter B. Hewlett, Computing in Musicology, 1990, p. 112, Stanford Music Lab, Menlo Park, CA. Ars Nova
(educational music software company, not music style) is at Ars Nova Software (http://www.ars-nova.com/hom
e6.html)
4. "Sound and Sonification—Wolfram Language Documentation" (http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/S
oundAndSonification.html). Retrieved 5 January 2017.
5. "Music & Math" (http://www.musicwords.net/musictech/numbers.htm). Retrieved 5 January 2017.
6. Intelligence, new visions of artificial intelligence in practice (https://books.google.com/?id=-WZVAAAAMAAJ&
q=%22Visual+Music+Tone+Painter%22&dq=%22Visual+Music+Tone+Painter%22). 11. Association for
Computing Machinery. 2000.
7. Thomas Wichmann, The Hauptwerk Computer Program, Review in The American Organist, July 2004
8. VST plug-ins (http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/VST_Plug-ins)

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