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. 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 integrat ...

or a foundation programming language (e.g. Pure Data), listing is limited to its top three categories.

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) Cantor was a vocal singing synthesizer software released four months after the original release of Vocaloid by the company VirSyn, and was based on the same idea of synthesizing the human voice. VirSyn released English and German versions of thi ...

* SingingCoach

DJ software

Cross/CrossDJ Cross/CrossDJ is a digital vinyl and DJ mixing software developed by the French company Mixvibes. This software provides DJs with a digital platform with which they can mix and perform their music. Since its release in 2008, it has become Mixvi ...

* Deckadance * djay *

Final Scratch Final Scratch is a DJ tool created by the Dutch company N2IT with input from Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman) and John Acquaviva that allows manipulation and playback of digital audio sources using traditional vinyl and turntables. It seeks to cros ...

Mixxx Mixxx is free and open-source software for DJing.James, Daniel. "Drafting Digital Media". Apress, 2009, p. 213. It is cross-platform and supports most common music file formats. Mixxx can be controlled with MIDI and HID controllers and timecode ...

* Serato * Traktor

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 Pro Acid Pro (often stylized ACID) is a professional digital audio workstation (DAW) software program currently developed by Magix Software. It was originally called Acid pH1 and published by Sonic Foundry, later by Sony Creative Software as Acid P ...

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* Ardour * Audacity * Audiotool * Bitwig Studio *

Cakewalk by BandLab Cakewalk by BandLab is a full-featured Digital Audio Workstation software package for audio and MIDI composing, recording, arranging, editing, mixing and mastering. It is developed and published under a free subscription licensing model by ...

Cubase Cubase is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by Steinberg for music and MIDI recording, arranging and editing. The first version, which was originally only a MIDI sequencer and ran on the Atari ST computer, was released in 1989. Cut-dow ...

* Digital Performer * FL Studio * GarageBand *

LMMS LMMS (formerly Linux MultiMedia Studio) is a digital audio workstation application program. It allows music to be produced by arranging samples, synthesizing sounds, playing on a MIDI keyboard, and combining the features of trackers and sequen ...

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 * Nuendo * 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 Qtractor is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application for Linux. Qtractor is written in C++ and is based on the Qt framework. Its author is Rui Nuno Capela, who is also responsible for the Qjackctl, Qsynth and Qsampler line ...

REAPER A reaper is a farm implement or person that reaps (cuts and often also gathers) crops at harvest when they are ripe. Usually the crop involved is a cereal grass. The first documented reaping machines were Gallic reapers that were used in Roma ...

Renoise Renoise is a digital audio workstation (DAW) based upon the heritage and development of tracker software. Its primary use is the composition of music using sound samples, soft synths, and effects plug-ins. It is also able to interface with MID ...

Rosegarden Rosegarden is a free software digital audio workstation program developed for Linux with ALSA and Qt4. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool. It is intended to be a free alternative to su ...

* Samplitude *

Sonic Pi Sonic or Sonics may refer to: Companies *Sonic Drive-In, an American drive-in fast-food restaurant chain *Sonic (ISP), an Internet provider and CLEC, serving more than 100 California communities *Sonic Foundry, a computer software company whic ...

* Soundtrap * 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

Computer music software

ChucK Chuck is a masculine given name or a nickname for Charles or Charlie. It may refer to: People Arts and entertainment * Chuck Alaimo, American saxophonist, leader of the Chuck Alaimo Quartet * Chuck Barris (1929–2017), American TV producer * C ...

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 ...

* Director Musices * List of Generative music software * JFugue *

Kyma (sound design language) Kyma is a visual programming language for sound design used by musicians, researchers, and sound designers. In Kyma, a user programs a multiprocessor DSP by graphically connecting modules on the screen of a Macintosh or Windows computer. Backgroun ...

Keykit {{Infobox Software , name = KeyKit , caption = , logo = , developer = AT&T / Tim Thompson , operating system = Windows, Linux , genre = Programming language, Music/MIDI , license = Free for non-commercial use , website = http://nosuch.com/ ...

Max/MSP Max, also known as Max/MSP/Jitter, is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74. Over its more than thirty-year history, it has been used by composers, per ...

* Pure Data * Real-time_Cmix * 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 The following is a comparison of RSS feed aggregators. Often e-mail programs and web browsers have the ability to display RSS feeds. They are listed here, too. Many BitTorrent clients support RSS feeds for broadcasting (see Comparison of BitT ...

. For music broadcast software lists in the cloud, see

Content delivery network A content delivery network, or content distribution network (CDN), is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance by distributing the service spatially rel ...

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 OpenBroadcaster is a web-based, open-source system to run community radio and television broadcast transmitters with a simple web interface. History The initial concept was to develop a web based radio system to run emergency messages and p ...

* Panopto * RapidFeeds

Lyrics and vocals

* 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 *

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) Delay is an audio signal processing technique that records an input signal to a storage medium and then plays it back after a period of time. When the delayed playback is mixed with the live audio, it creates an echo-like effect, whereby the or ...

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 * MachFive (MOTU Mark of the Unicorn) * MCDSP ( Metropolis Group) * Midijet pro *

Native Instruments Native Instruments is a German company that develops, manufactures, and supplies music software and hardware for music production, sound design, performance, and DJing. The company's corporate headquarters and main development facilities are lo ...

's B4, Electrik Piano, Guitar Rig 2 * OrangeVocoder ( Prosoniq) * Producer Factory Pro Bundle (DigiDesign via Avid Audio) * SoundFont (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 *

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

Spore (2008 video game) ''Spore'' is a 2008 life simulation real-time strategy God game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Designed by Will Wright, it covers many genres including action, real-time strategy, and ro ...

) *

Platinum Blue Music Intelligence Music Xray is a music tech company based in New York City. The company's official name is Platinum Blue Music Intelligence Inc but it began operating under the name "Music Xray" in July 2009. The company is billed as "an online platform where art ...

(from Music Xray company) *

Praat Praat (; , '' "talk"'') is a free computer software package for speech analysis in phonetics. It was designed, and continues to be developed, by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. It can run on a wide range of opera ...

* Sonic Visualiser * WaveSurfer

Music circuit software

Arduinome An Arduinome is a MIDI controller device that mimics the Monome using the Arduino physical computing platform. The plans for the Arduinome are released under an open source, non-commercial use only license. The Arduinome platform is noted for p ...

(software circuit platform) *

CPU Sim CPU Sim is a software development environment for the simulation of simple computers. It was developed by Dale Skrien to help students understand computer architectures. With this application the user is able to simulate new or existing simple CPUs ...

* Electric VLSI Design System * gLogic * GNU Circuit Analysis Package * KTechLab *

Linear Technology Linear Technology Corporation was an American semiconductor company that designed, manufactured and marketed high performance analog integrated circuits. Applications for the company's products included telecommunications, cellular telephones, ne ...

(a/d, circuit software, and others.) *

List of free electronics circuit simulators List of free analog and digital electronic circuit simulators, available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and comparing against UC Berkeley SPICE. Some of the following simulators don't include a graphical visual interface, so a separate program must be ...

LTspice LTspice is a SPICE-based analog electronic circuit simulator computer software, produced by semiconductor manufacturer Analog Devices (originally by Linear Technology). It is the most widely distributed and used SPICE software in the industr ...

* Micro-Cap * MIDIbox (software circuit platform) *

Monome Monome is an Upstate New York-based company, founded by Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain, that produces sound modules and MIDI controllers. Monome is also the name of their initial product, a grid-based controller that is now sometimes simply refer ...

(software circuit platform) * Ngspice * Oregano (software) * Quite Universal Circuit Simulator * SapWin *

SPICE A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring or coloring food. Spices are distinguished from herbs, which are the leaves, flowers, or stems of plants used for flavoring or as a garnish. Spice ...

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 Center for Advanced Sound Technology. Description The Tenor ...

(software circuit platform)

Music composing software

* Antescofo * Director Musices * Hyperscore * JFugue *

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 (Algorithmic synth and composer) *

Nodal Nodal homolog is a secretory protein that in humans is encoded by the ''NODAL'' gene which is located on chromosome 10q22.1. It belongs to the transforming growth factor beta superfamily (TGF-β superfamily). Like many other members of this superf ...

* Ocarina *

OpenMusic OpenMusic (OM) is an object-oriented visual programming environment for musical composition based on Common Lisp. It may also be used as an all-purpose visual interface to Lisp programming. At a more specialized level, a set of provided classes ...

* PetSynth * Progression *

Reaktor Reaktor is a graphical modular software music studio developed by Native Instruments (NI). It allows musicians and sound specialists to design and build their own instruments, samplers, effects and sound design tools. It is supplied with many r ...

(Software creation of nearly every instrument; reverse engineering encouraged) * Rubato Composer (First composition software based on Category theory)

Music conversion software

AIMP AIMP (Artem Izmaylov Media Player) is a freeware Audio player (software), audio player for Windows and Android (operating system), Android, originally developed by Russian developer Artem Izmaylov ( rus, Артём Измайлов, Artyom Izmajlo ...

* Audacity * Brasero * CDex * Exact Audio Copy *

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 ...

* FL Studio * foobar2000 * FormatFactory * Freemake Audio Converter * Free Studio * fre:ac * iTunes * k3b * MediaCoder * MediaHuman Audio Converter *

MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows and Android operating systems. MediaMonkey for Windows (sometimes noted as MMW) include ...

* SoX *

VLC Media Player VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desk ...

Winamp Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. It was then acquired by Radionomy in 2014. Sinc ...

* WMA Convert *

XMedia Recode XMedia Recode is a freeware video and audio transcoding program for Microsoft Windows developed by Sebastian Dörfler. It can import and export many types of files such as WMV, MP4, MP3, 3GP, Matroska and more. XMedia Recode can convert unprotect ...

Music education software

* Soundtrap * Meludia (ear-training practice exercises) *

EarMaster EarMaster is a music application for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android launched in 1996 by Danish editor Miditec, who changed its name to EarMaster ApS in 2005. The first prototype version of the software was DOS-based, but since 1996, it has been por ...

* GNU Solfege (ear-training practice exercises) *

(software creation of nearly every instrument; reverse engineering encouraged) *

Rocksmith ''Rocksmith'' is a music video game produced by Ubisoft, released in October 2011 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms in North America. ''Rocksmith'' was released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 during September 2012 in Australian and Europ ...

(video game with emphasis on instructional aspects; unique in that controller can be any electric guitar w/ 1/4" jack) *

Synthesia ''Synthesia'' is a piano keyboard trainer for Microsoft Windows, IOS, macOS, and Android which allows users to play a MIDI keyboard or use a computer keyboard in time to a MIDI file by following on-screen directions, much in the style of '' ...

(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 ''Beat Saber'' is a virtual reality rhythm game developed and published by Czech game developer Beat Games. It takes place in a surrealistic neon environment and features the player slicing blocks representing musical beats with a pair of cont ...

* Crypt of the NecroDancer *

osu! ''Osu!'' (stylized as ''osu!'') is a free-to-play rhythm game primarily developed, published, and created by Dean "peppy" Herbert. Inspired by iNiS' rhythm game ''Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan'', it was written in C Sharp (programming language), C# ...

* Music Tech *

(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) R is a programming language for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Core Team and the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Created by statisticians Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, R is used among data miners, bioinfor ...

MATLAB MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementa ...

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 Audio signal processing is a subfield of signal processing that is concerned with the electronic manipulation of audio signals. Audio signals are electronic representations of sound waves— longitudinal waves which travel through air, consist ...

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 Capella is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Auriga. It has the Bayer designation α Aurigae, which is Latinised to Alpha Aurigae and abbreviated Alpha Aur or α Aur. Capella is the sixth-brightest star in ...

* Deluxe Music Construction Set * Denemo *

Dorico Dorico () is a scorewriter software; along with Finale and Sibelius, it is one of the three leading professional-level music notation programs. Dorico's development team consists of most of the former core developers of a rival software, Sibe ...

* Encore * ENT (for typeset

mensural notation Mensural notation is the musical notation system used for European vocal polyphonic music from the later part of the 13th century until about 1600. The term "mensural" refers to the ability of this system to describe precisely measured rhythmi ...

) * Finale *

Forte Forte or Forté may refer to: Music *Forte (music), a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong" * Forte number, an ordering given to every pitch class set * Forte (notation program), a suite of musical score notation programs * Forte (vocal ...

Frescobaldi The Frescobaldi are a prominent Florentine noble family that have been involved in the political, social, and economic history of Tuscany since the Middle Ages. Originating in the Val di Pesa in the Chianti, they appear holding important post ...

* Gregorio (for

Neume A neume (; sometimes spelled neum) is the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation. The earliest neumes were inflective marks that indicated the general shape but not nec ...

s) *

Guitar Pro Guitar Pro is a multitrack editor of guitar and bass tablature and musical scores, possessing a built-in MIDI-editor, a plotter of chords, a player, a metronome and other tools for musicians. It has versions for Windows and Mac OS X (Intel proce ...

* Igor Engraver * Impro-Visor * jEdit plugin *

LilyPond LilyPond is a computer program and file format for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand. LilyPond is cross-pl ...

* MagicScore * Mozart * Mus2 * MusEdit * MuseScore * Music Write * MusiCAD * MusicEase * Musink *

MusiXTeX MusiXTeX is a suite of open source music engraving macros and fonts that allow music typesetting in TeX, released under the GPL-2.0-or-later license. History Macros for typesetting music in TeX first appeared in 1987 (MuTeX) and were limited t ...

* NoteEdit * Noteflight * Notation Composer * NoteWorthy Composer *

NOTION Notion or Notions may refer to: Software * Notion (music software), a music composition and performance program * Notion (productivity software), a note-taking and project-management program from Notion Labs Inc. * Notion (window manager), the s ...

* Overture (Includes VST hosting as well as being a scorewriter) * Philip's Music Writer (PMW) *

Power Tab Editor Power Tab Editor is a free tablature authoring tool created by Brad Larsen for Windows. It is used to create guitar, bass and ukulele tablature scores, among many others. The current version uses the *.ptb file format. The Power Tab Editor is a ...

* Progression *

* SCORE * ScoreCloud *

Sibelius Jean Sibelius ( ; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often ...

(Division of

Avid Technology Avid Technology is an American technology and multimedia company based in Burlington, Massachusetts, and founded in August 1987 by Bill Warner. It specialises in audio and video; specifically, digital non-linear editing (NLE) systems, video edi ...

since 8/2006. Avid also sells the

DAW) *

SmartScore SmartScore 64 is a music OCR and scorewriter program, developed, published and distributed by Musitek Corporation based in Ojai, California. History SmartScore was originally released in 1991 as MIDISCAN for Windows. The product line was later ...

(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 Music information retrieval (MIR) is the interdisciplinary science of retrieving information from music. MIR is a small but growing field of research with many real-world applications. Those involved in MIR may have a background in academic musicol ...

* Software effect processor * Sound Recorder (Windows) * Impromptu (programming environment) *

Max (software) Max, also known as Max/MSP/Jitter, is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74. Over its more than thirty-year history, it has been used by composers, per ...

* 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 Justin Frankel (born 1978) is an American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application and for inventing the Gnutella peer-to-peer network. Frankel is also the founder of Cockos Incorporated, which creates ...

) (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 (2004,

Jeff Minter Jeff Minter (born 22 April 1962) is an independent English video game designer and programmer who often goes by the name Yak. He is the founder of software house Llamasoft and has created dozens of games during his career, which began in 19 ...

and Ivan Zorzin) (platform: Xbox 360) *

Psychedelia Psychedelia refers to the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s and the psychedelic experience. This includes psychedelic art, psychedelic music and style of dress during that era. This was primarily generated by people who used psychedelic ...

, (1984, Jeff Minter), an early "light synthesizer", did not use audio input but was designed to create visualizations in accompaniment to music. * Pure Data (e.g. visualization of incoming music signals) * Virtual Light Machine (1990,

) (platform: Atari Jaguar) * Visual Music Tone Painter (1992–2004)

Orchestration 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 and electro-acoustical art music. It is ...

* Orchidée

Drums and percussion

* Liquid Rhythm *

Radiodrum The Radiodrum or radio-baton is a musical instrument played in three-dimensional space using two mallets (snare drum sticks with wires). It was developed at Bell Labs in the 1980s (and patented), originally to be a three-dimensional computer mou ...

Guitar

* Guitar Rig *

Progression (software) Progression, previously stylized as PROGRESSION, is a music creation and performance computer program created by NOTION Music (now owned by PreSonus). Created for use on Microsoft Windows and macOS laptops or desktops, Progression focuses on com ...

Piano

* Kurzweil Digital Piano *

Pianoteq ''Pianoteq'' is a software synthesizer that features real-time MIDI-control of digital physically modeled pianos and related instruments, including electric piano, harp, harpsichord, fortepiano, and various metallophones. It is usable as a stan ...

(Modartt) * SGX-1 Premium Piano *

Virtual piano A virtual piano is an application (software) designed to simulate playing a piano on a computer. The virtual piano is played using a keyboard and/or mouse and typically comes with many features found on a digital piano. Virtual player piano softwa ...

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) * Propellerhead * SoundFont (Integrates synthesized/sampled MIDI files with recorded music)

Soundtrack creation software

* Anvil Studio * Ensoniq PARIS * FL Studio *

FL Studio Mobile FL Studio Mobile is a digital audio workstation available for Android, iOS and Windows UWP. The program allows for the creation of complete multi-track music projects, which can then be exported in WAV, MP3 and MIDI formats, to work with oth ...

* Mixcraft *

Sound Forge Sound Forge (formerly known as Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, and later as Sony Sound Forge) is a digital audio editing suite by Magix Software GmbH, which is aimed at the professional and semi-professional markets. There are two versions of Sound F ...

* Soundtrap * SpectraLayers * WaveLab

Trackers

Historical tracker software: * Ultimate Soundtracker (Amiga, 1987) * NoiseTracker (Amiga, 1989) *

OctaMED OctaMED is a popular music tracker for the Commodore Amiga, written by Teijo Kinnunen. The first version, 1.12, was released in 1989 under the name MED, which stands for Music EDitor. In April 1990, version 2.00 was released with MIDI support as ...

(Amiga, 1989) *

ScreamTracker ''Scream Tracker'' is a tracker (an integrated multi-track step sequencer and sampler as a software application). It was created by Psi (Sami Tammilehto), one of the founders of the Finnish demogroup Future Crew. It was written in C and assemb ...

(PC, 1994) *

FastTracker 2 FastTracker 2 (also referred to as FastTracker II) is a music tracker 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 note ...

(PC, 1994) * Impulse Tracker (PC, 1995)

Virtual Studio Technology hosting software

Adobe Audition Adobe Audition is a digital audio workstation developed by Adobe Inc. featuring both a multitrack, non-destructive mix/edit environment and a destructive-approach waveform editing view. Origins Syntrillium Software was founded in the early 19 ...

Adobe Premiere Elements Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based and non-linear video editing software application (NLE) developed by Adobe Inc. and published as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud licensing program. First launched in 2003, Adobe Premiere Pro is a success ...

* Adobe Premiere Pro * Acoustica Mixcraft * Ardour (open source) * Audacity (open source, Windows, Linux and Mac platforms only) * AudioMulch * Band-in-a-Box * Bidule *

* Deckadance * Digital Performer (version 8 or higher) * FL Studio * GoldWave *

Jeskola Buzz Jeskola Buzz is a freeware modular software music studio environment designed to run on Microsoft Windows using MFC. It is centered on a modular plugin-based machine view and a multiple pattern sequencer tracker. Buzz consists of a plugin arch ...

(open source) *

* Max MSP * ModPlug Tracker * MultitrackStudio * n-Track Studio *

Reason Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth. It is closely associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, science, ...

* Samplitude * Sony Acid Pro *

Sony Sound Forge Sound Forge (formerly known as Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, and later as Sony Sound Forge) is a digital audio editing software, audio editing suite by Magix Software GmbH, which is aimed at the professional and semi-professional markets. There are t ...

Sony Vegas Vegas Pro (stylized as VEGAS Pro, colloquially called ''Sony Vegas'') is a video editing software package for non-linear editing (NLE). The first release of Vegas Beta was on June 11, 1999. The software runs on Windows operating systems. Origin ...

* Soundtrap * Steinberg Cubase * Steinberg Nuendo * Studio One * Steinberg Wavelab * Traktor * Vocaloid * WavePad Audio Editor * Podium

Virtual synthesizer and studio software

* Amsynth * Minimoog *

(software creation of instrument) *

(DAW and virtual recording studio, integrated with Record) *

ZynAddSubFX ZynAddSubFX (also now called Zyn-Fusion) is a free and open-source software synthesizer for Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. As of version 3, the completely new user interface is being released under proprietary terms with an open-source-ev ...

Wave editors

Audition An audition is a sample performance by an actor, singer, musician, dancer or other performer. It typically involves the performer displaying their talent through a previously memorized and rehearsed solo piece or by performing a work or piece giv ...

* Audacity * Goldwave *

* WavePad Audio Editor

References

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Software Software is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. ...