Software:List of music software

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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.

Types of music software

CD ripping software


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.

DJ software


Digital audio workstation (DAW) software

Main page: Digital audio workstation


Computer music software

Main page: Software:Computer music


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.


Lyrics and vocals

Audio plug-ins

Main page: Software:Audio plug-in



Music analysis software


Music circuit software


Music composing software


Music conversion software


Music education software

Main page: Software:Comparison of music education software


  • Soundtrap
  • 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


Music mathematics software

Music notation software

Main page: Software:Scorewriter



Music player software

Main page: Software:Comparison of audio player software

Music research software

Main page: Sound and music computing
  • ScoreCloud (Notation research)

Music technology, synthesis and o/s software


Music visualization software

Main page: Software:Music visualization
  • 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 (2004, Jeff Minter and Ivan Zorzin) (platform: Xbox 360)
  • Psychedelia, (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, Jeff Minter) (platform: Atari Jaguar)
  • Visual Music Tone Painter (1992–2004)[8]


Orchestration software

Drums and percussion

Guitar

  • Guitar Rig
  • Progression (software)

Piano


Pipe organ

  • Hauptwerk produces audio in response to MIDI signal from attached keyboard or from a MIDI sequencer[9]

Automatic composition software

Main page: Music and artificial intelligence
  • Experiments in Musical Intelligence

Samplers and sequencers

Soundtrack creation software

Main page: Engineering:Soundtrack



Trackers

Main page: Software:Music tracker

Historical tracker software:

Name Latest update License OS versions File format support VST
support 		ASIO
output
Windows OS X Linux MID MOD XM IT S3M
Renoise 3 January 2021 (2021-01-03) Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Load No Yes Yes
OpenMPT BSD Yes Yes-Wine Yes-Wine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SoundTracker 29 July 2020 (2020-07-29) GPL No No Yes No Yes Yes No No No No
MilkyTracker 12 December 2020 (2020-12-12) GPL Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Load Load No Yes
Buzztrax 3 September 2015 (2015-09-03) LGPL Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Load No Yes Yes
Psycle March 2017 (2017-03) GPL Yes No No No Load Yes Load Load Yes Yes

Virtual Studio Technology hosting software

Virtual synthesizer and studio software

Wave editors


See also


References

  1. ↑ "Short History of Computer Music". http://artsites.ucsc.edu/ems/music/equipment/computers/history/history.html. 
  2. ↑ Twells, John. "The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music". https://www.factmag.com/2016/10/01/the-14-pieces-of-software-that-shaped-modern-music/. 
  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
  4. ↑ Amped Studio
  5. ↑ "Zrythm". https://libreav.org/software/zrythm. "Zrythm". 6 June 2023. https://github.com/zrythm/zrythm. 
  6. ↑ "Sound and Sonification—Wolfram Language Documentation". http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/SoundAndSonification.html. 
  7. ↑ "Music & Math". http://www.musicwords.net/musictech/numbers.htm. 
  8. ↑ Intelligence, new visions of artificial intelligence in practice. 11. Association for Computing Machinery. 2000. https://books.google.com/books?id=-WZVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Visual+Music+Tone+Painter%22. 
  9. ↑ Thomas Wichmann, The Hauptwerk Computer Program, Review in The American Organist, July 2004
  10. ↑ "VST plug-ins". Audacity Wiki. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/VST_Plug-ins. 



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