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This is a list of notable software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music. This article only includes software, not services. For services and listening / streaming programs like Spotify, Pandora, Prime Music, iHeartRadio, etc. 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. Some music software is embedded in circuitry or musical instruments or devices; for those topics see Category:Music hardware and Category:Musical instruments. For embedded software in hardware such as (non-virtual / physical machine) sound mixers, amplifiers, filters, etc. see Category:Audio electronics. For music and VJ software in which visual animation takes priority, see Category:Animation software. Although this field is only 46 years old, 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]

Music notation software

Main article: Scorewriter

Music composing software

See also: Algorithmic composition

Music mining software

Main article: Data mining
See also: Music information retrieval and Audio mining

Music mining is a relatively new field of research and application under Music informatics, Data mining and, more generally, Signal processing. Commercially, music mining software is used to select and predict patterns that then enhance suggestions based on previous choices. In research, music mining is similar to data mining as a pattern recognition and sorting / classifying discipline, however, music mining also includes automated music analysis based on underlying mathematical and statistical patterns, extending and augmenting the traditional analysis of harmony, melody, tone, rhythm, etc. (For example, signal processing of radio waves has no subjective emotional component or preference, whereas music mining and processing do, since radio waves cannot be heard by humans, and music frequencies and amplitudes can. This is a controversial and unsettled component of music mining research). Since this field is so new, many of the academic software programs (a majority GNU / freeware)[5] do not yet have wiki articles; see the references and links for examples.[6] [7] [8]

  • Mining Music (MuSort - MuMiner - MathaMusic)[11]
  • IMARS (IBM Developer projects)[12]
  • jMIR (For Java Music Information Retrieval, Freeware)[13]
  • The open source, free statistical software programming language R, from Revolution Analytics, has numerous developmental plugins for both data and music mining[14]

Music mathematics software

Main article: Music and mathematics
  • Musimat (by Gareth Loy)[15]
  • Music math (v. 4.0 current, Macintosh)
  • Mind research software (US inner city project teaching mathematics via Pro Tools music software)[16]

Computer music software

Electronic music
Experimental forms
Popular styles
Other topics

Template:Wikipedia books

Main article: Computer music
See also: List of audio programming languages

Music education software

Main article: Comparison of music education software
  • EarMaster
  • InstrumentChamp (Video game for also acoustic guitar, and piano, drum, sax and trumpet. Multiplayer)
  • MuseScore
  • Synthesia (Video game with guitar instruction aspects)
  • Rocksmith (Video game with emphasis on instructional aspects; unique in that controller can be any electric guitar w/ 1/4" jack)
  • WaveSurfer (Studies of acoustic phonetics)
  • Reaktor (Software creation of nearly every instrument; reverse engineering encouraged)
  • Practica Musica (Part of a family of music education software from Ars Nova)[18]

Internet, RSS, Broadcast Music Software

Main article: Netlabel
See also: Content delivery network

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.

Orchestration software

Note that "Orchestration software" also is a technical IT term for implementing large scale and complex computing systems.[20][21]

  • Pizzicato (Brand name, not the style of plucking double bass)
  • Secret Composer
  • Garritan Personal Orchestra (MIDI sampling-sequencing codebase in Aria virtual player)
  • Vienna Symphonic Orchestra Library Software
  • IK Multimedia Miroslav Philharmonik Classik Edition (Virtual orchestra)
  • IRCAM
  • Orchidée
  • OpenMusic
  • Antescofo
  • Reaktor (Software creation of nearly every instrument)

Analog to digital / music conversion software

Main article: Audio restoration
See also: Record restoration

Digital audio workstation (DAW) software

Main article: Digital audio workstation

Instrument simulation software

See also: Software instrument

Piano

Guitar

Full orchestra

Drums and Percussion

Music circuit software

Main article: Music electronics
See also: Audio electronics

Music analysis software

Main article: Musical analysis
See also: Spectrum analyzer

Music performance/ DJ / VJ software

Main article: Disc jockey
See also: DJ digital controller and VJing
Wikimedia Commons has media related to VJ (video performance art).

Music technology, synthesis and o/s software

See also: Software synthesizer

Virtual Synthesizer and Studio Software

See also: Virtual Studio Technology

Virtual Studio Technology Hosting Software

Music player software

Main article: Media player (software)

Samplers, Spiders and Sequencers

See also: Comparison of MIDI editors and sequencers
  • Electribe
  • Rax'N'Trax
  • The Core Kit (vi-elements)
  • HALion 3 (Steinberg)
  • Morgana (112db)
  • Propellerhead (Now included in the DAW Reason (software))
  • Structure (Avid)
  • Independence Pro (Yellow Tools)
  • Emulator X3 (E-MU)
  • Kontakt 4 (Native Instruments)
  • Mach Five 2 (MOTU)
  • SiteSpider (Software that can search websites for user defined music categories)[19]
  • Music sequencer (Article includes extensive list)
  • Comprehensive List of Spiders[31]

Lyrics and Vocals

See also: List of vocoders § Software vocoder models

Music gaming software

Main article: List of music video games
See also: Video game music

Trackers

Main article: Music tracker
Name Latest
update 		License OS versions File format support VST
support 		ASIO
output
Windows OS X Linux MID MOD XM IT S3M
Renoise 2014-04 Commercial Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Load No Yes Yes
OpenMPT 2015-04 BSD Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SoundTracker (beta) 2006-02 GPL No No Yes No Yes Yes No No No No
MilkyTracker  2013-11 GPL Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Load Load No Yes
Buzztrax 2013-03 LGPL Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Load No Yes Yes
ChibiTracker 2008-03 GPL Yes Yes Yes No Load Yes Yes Load No No
SunVox 2014-02 Freeware Yes Yes Yes Yes Load Load No No No Yes
Psycle 2009-11 GPL Yes No No No Load Yes Load Load Yes Yes
Schism Tracker 2014-12 GPL Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Yes Yes No No
MadTracker 2006-02 Commercial Yes No No Load Load Yes Load Load Yes Yes
Buze (beta) 2014-02 GPL / BSD Yes No No Load Load Load Load Yes Yes Yes
Radium 2015-05 GPL Yes Yes Yes Load No Load XI No No Yes Yes

MIDI Plug-ins

Main article: Audio plug-in
See also: Category:Music software plugin architectures

Music Visualization Software

Main article: Music visualization
OpenCubic Player, PC/DOS Module file player with realtime STFT based music visualization from 1994.

Soundtrack creation software

Main article: Soundtrack
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Soundtrack creation software.

Historically, a Soundtrack referred more generally to divisions of physical magnetic audio and visual media. In recent times, soundtrack has come to mean the audio (music, voice-over, sfx, etc.) component of a visual production, especially films, but now also video games, television, and almost every other combined audio/visual media involving audio post production. Soundtrack creation software is a subcategory set of tools for this field involving automating the production (or post production process) using computers, mixers and other devices, including even cellphone apps. See Jeff Fisher's Soundtrack book for a list of DVDs that include music and audio technology extras.[34]

See also

Main articles: Outline of music and Index of music articles

Template:Wikipedia books

References

  1. ^ UCSC. "Short History of Computer Music". UCSC.edu. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  2. ^ Fact Magazine. "The 14 pieces of software 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
  4. ^ From the article, this also is a DAW.
  5. ^ "A Survey of Music Data Mining". FIU.edu. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  6. ^ Alexander Lerch, An Introduction to Audio content analysis; applications in signal processing and Music Informatics, Wiley, 2012, ISBN 978-1118266823; Software lists are on pp. 201-206, including SDKs, although not indexed
  7. ^ Meinard Müller, Information Retrieval for Music and Motion, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-3540740476
  8. ^ Tao Li, Music Data Mining, CRC Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1439835524; p.68, a list of music mining software /references, is available on Google books at List of music mining academic software
  9. ^ "Image Analysis Software for RapidMiner - BurgSys". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  10. ^ PDF on music informatics aspects of Greenstone software library
  11. ^ "Welcome to Shader Joe's Studios™". Retrieved 9 June 2015. {{cite web}}: C1 control character in |title= at position 32 (help)
  12. ^ "IBM Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (IMARS) - IBM". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  13. ^ "Overview". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  14. ^ "RDataMining.com: R and Data Mining". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  15. ^ Musimathics website, freeware download
  16. ^ Mind research YouTube collection of secondary news report citations
  17. ^ "Welcome to Shader Joe's Studios™". Retrieved 9 June 2015. {{cite web}}: C1 control character in |title= at position 32 (help)
  18. ^ Ars Nova company link
  19. ^ a b Trellian. "Trellian Software - Site Spider Web Crawling and Search Software". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  20. ^ For the alternative use of Orchestration software in IT, see Orchestration (computing)
  21. ^ Over 150 commercial orchestration software packages also are listed under the keywords orchestration software at sweetwater.com, and many hundreds more free with those keywords on web searches. This high number also relates to the thousands of packages that are MIDI samplings/sequences of software-generated, orchestrated virtual instruments.
  22. ^ There are numerous MATLAB plugins for music. For example, although linear-phase bidirectional digital a/d filters are impossible (due to non symmetric impulse responses by recursive filters), MATLAB plugins can create very good digital approximations of analog output, even forward-backward, with a zero phase filter used twice. See Smith, p. 228, Introduction to Digital Filters, ISBN 978-0-9745607-1-7, 2012. Many of these plugins also run on GNU Octave if you don't have access to MATLAB.
  23. ^ For a more general list of conversion software, see List of audio conversion software. Vinyl restoration (as well as audio cassette conversion software) is a specific type of conversion that involves analog to digital as well as file formatting software (converting old vinyl records to digital file formats), which includes multiple steps, including both DAWs and A/D filters. A good tutorial can be found on CNET.
  24. ^ FL Studio 12 Accessed October 27, 2011.
  25. ^ "Welcome to Shader Joe's Studios™". Retrieved 9 June 2015. {{cite web}}: C1 control character in |title= at position 32 (help)
  26. ^ "Pioneer to spin off DJ Audio unit to KKR™". Reuters. Retrieved 15 June 2015. {{cite web}}: C1 control character in |title= at position 41 (help)
  27. ^ Paul Spinrad, The VJ Book, 2005, feralhouse, ISBN 1-932595-09-0
  28. ^ VJ performance software is highly diverse, many applications are developed by VJs themselves specifically to suit their own performance style. Graphical programming environments such as Max/MSP/Jitter, vvvv, Isadora, Pure Data and Touch Designer have developed to facilitate rapid development of such custom software without needing years of coding experience.
  29. ^ "Welcome to Shader Joe's Studios™". Retrieved 9 June 2015. {{cite web}}: C1 control character in |title= at position 32 (help)
  30. ^ VST plug-ins
  31. ^ "List of User-Agents (Spiders, Robots, Browser)". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  32. ^ Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (1992). Computing in musicology, Volume 8. ISBN 978-0-936943-06-0.
  33. ^ SIGART (2000). "Intelligence, new visions of artificial intelligence in practice". 11. Association for Computing Machinery. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  34. ^ Jeffrey P. Fisher, Soundtrack Success: A Digital Storyteller's Guide to Audio Post-Production, 2011, Alfred Music p. 4, ISBN 978-1598632545
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