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 are implemented in free software. See also the

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 prod ...

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 a ...

Other

References

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Audio software Audio most commonly refers to sound, as it is transmitted in signal form. It may also refer to: Sound * Audio signal, an electrical representation of sound *Audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectrum *Digital audio, representation of soun ...