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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 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. 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] If a program fits dozens of categories, such as a comprehensive DAW 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.
Main articles: Choir and Vocal coach

Chord Progression software

Main article: Chord progression
See also: List of chord progressions
  • MagicScore Chords!]
  • ChordPulse
  • Cognitone
  • Harmony Builder
  • Hookpad
  • Liquid Notes
  • SongFrame

DJ software

Main article: DJ § Software

Digital audio workstation (DAW) software

Main article: Digital audio workstation

Computer music software

Electronic music
Experimental forms
Popular styles
Other topics
Main article: Computer music
See also: List of audio programming languages

Instrument simulation software

See also: Software instrument and Timbre

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.

Lyrics and Vocals

See also: List of vocoders § Software vocoder models

MIDI plug-ins

Main article: Audio plug-in

Music analysis software

Main article: Musical analysis
See also: Spectrum analyzer

Music circuit software

See also: Audio electronics

Music composing software

See also: Algorithmic composition

Music education software

This section is about music learning software. For choir and learn-to-sing software, see § Choir and Learn to Sing Software.
Main article: Comparison of music education software
  • EarMaster
  • InstrumentChamp (video game for also acoustic guitar, and piano, drum, sax and trumpet; multiplayer)
  • MuseScore
  • Practica Musica (Part of a family of music education software from Ars Nova)[24]
  • 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)
  • Smartmusic (interactive music learning software)
  • Synthesia (video game with piano instruction aspects)
  • WaveSurfer (studies of acoustic phonetics)
  • Wolfram Alpha (information database includes many music educational topics)[25][26][27]
  • Yousician (educational game to learn to play guitar and piano)

Music gaming software

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

Music mathematics software

Main article: Music and mathematics
See also: Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music and Mathematical software
  • Julia (programming language) (MIT freeware, new, high-level dynamic programming language competing with R (programming language), MATLAB and GNU Octave. All three of these are general dynamic programming platforms, so the many music applications are plugins. In particular, some new Julia plugins are statistical AI platforms ideal for music, for example, ApproxFun, the Julia ChebFun clone).
  • Math to music conversion algorithms[21]
  • Max (Musimathics software, Pure Data predecessor)[22]
  • Mind research software (US inner city project teaching mathematics via Pro Tools music software)[28]
  • Music math (v. 4.0 current, Macintosh)[29]
  • Musimat (by Gareth Loy)[30]
  • Scala, a program for creating and analysing musical scales
  • Timbre analysis using Math software. Unlike other more relatively "settled" topics in music, timbre (especially Harmonics), relating to characteristics of different instruments and the human voice, was a more subjective and controversial area of music analysis until recent advances in Fourier analysis (mathematics) allowed objective analysis and descriptions of overtones, envelope, etc. These advances utilize a wide variety of software programs, found in the list of lists at Mathematical software)
  • Wolfram Language provides built-in functionality for audio generation, as well signal processing, audio signal processing and MIDI.[31]

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, timbre, rhythm, etc. found in Music Analysis (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)[32] do not yet have wiki articles; see the references and links for examples.[33][34][35]

  • Automatic content recognitionTV or Music Sound identification with SDK for iOS, Android, Java,.Net and end solutions for broadcast ad monitoring and Passive Media Monitoring for Mobile Survey apps), ACRCloud (Supports iOS, Android, Java, Python Sdks for music identification and channel monitoring),
  • ThemeFinder.org[19] is web-based software for music mining based on Parsons code
  • BurgSys (Third party developer for RapidMiner)[36] Although RapidMiner is commercial, previous releases are available open source as Affero General Public Licenses.
  • Greenstone[37]
  • Mining Music (MuSort - MuMiner - MathaMusic)[14]
  • IMARS (IBM Developer projects)[38]
  • jMIR (For Java Music Information Retrieval, Freeware)[39]
  • The open source, free statistical software programming language R, from Revolution Analytics, has numerous developmental plugins for both data and music mining[40]
  • Julia (programming language) also is now competing with R, as well as able to call it, and most of its plugins.

Music notation software

Main article: Scorewriter

Music player software

Main article: Media player (software)

Music research software

Main article: Sound and music computing
  • CCRMA Software (Stanford)[44]
  • CSSE Research (University of Canterbury)[45]
  • Humdrum (Ohio State)[46]
  • Interrogation software for qualitative research in music education (Oxford)[47]
  • List of music research software tools (MIR project, France, in English)[48]
  • ScoreCloud (Notation research)[49]
  • Semantic Web (University of London)[50]
  • Sketcher (Ubuntu Linux, University of Sheffield freeware)[51]
  • SoundSmith (Microsoft, education and research)[52]
  • SoundSoftware (University of London)[53]
  • TapeUtape (Percussion research)[54]
  • Xtrends - Cornerstone (Mining and research, focused on radio hooks)[55]

Music technology, synthesis and o/s software

See also: Software synthesizer

Music visualization software

Main article: Music visualization

Orchestration software

This section is about music orchestration software. For orchestration software as used in information technology, see Orchestration (computing).
  • Antescofo
  • Garritan Personal Orchestra (MIDI sampling-sequencing codebase in Aria virtual player)
  • IK Multimedia Miroslav Philharmonik Classik Edition (Virtual orchestra)[59]
  • IRCAM
  • OpenMusic
  • Orchidée
  • Pizzicato (brand name, not the style of plucking certain string instruments)[60]
  • Reaktor (software creation of nearly every instrument)
  • Secret Composer[61]
  • Vienna Symphonic Orchestra Library Software[62]

Drums and Percussion

Full orchestra

  • Reaktor (Software creation of nearly every instrument)
  • Reason (software) (also a DAW; instruments are called ReFills)(This software is often paired and integrated with Record)

Guitar

Piano

Pipe organ

  • Aeolus (organ simulator) open source pipe organ emulator that uses synthesis rather than sampling.
  • Hauptwerk produces audio in response to MIDI signal from attached keyboard or from a MIDI sequencer. Most software organs have only a few organ sounds, such as "Church Organ", "Jazz Organ", etc. A Hauptwerk virtual pipe organ has samples of every note of every included rank (or set) of pipes, and each stop can be programmed individually, allowing the player to use sampled organ stops separately or combine them into an ensemble.[63]

Robotic music software

Main article: Music and artificial intelligence
See also: Robotic art
  • Emi (David Cope's Emily Howell predecessor, stands for Experiments in Musical Intelligence, pronounced Emmy)
  • Ludwig (AI song arrangement software)[64]
  • Melomics (Robotic musicians driven by learning algorithm software. Includes numerous public domain pieces[65]
  • OrchExtra (automated production of musicals by adding "robotic" instruments (or software "players") to augment ensembles that have too few orchestra members)[66]
  • Z-Machines[67]

Samplers and Sequencers

See also: Comparison of MIDI editors and sequencers
  • Comprehensive List of Spiders (Music software agents, RSS, search and monitoring can be selected in many)[16]
  • Electribe
  • Emulator X3 (E-MU)
  • FeedWind (RSS aggregator app/widget and custom spiders)[17]
  • HALion 3 (Steinberg)
  • Independence Pro (Yellow Tools)
  • Kontakt - all versions (Native Instruments)
  • Mach Five 2 (MOTU)
  • Melodo
  • Morgana (112db)
  • Music sequencer (Article includes extensive list)
  • Propellerhead (Now included in the DAW Reason (software))
  • Rax'N'Trax
  • SiteSpider (Software that can search websites for user defined music categories)[18]
  • SoundFont (Integrates synthesized/sampled MIDI files with recorded music)
  • Structure (Avid)
  • The Core Kit (vi-elements)

Soundtrack creation software

Main article: Soundtrack
See also: Multitrack recording and Sound recording and reproduction
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Soundtrack creation software.

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 2016-01 Commercial Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Load No Yes Yes
OpenMPT 2016-11 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 2016-09 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) 2016-01 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
SVArTracker 2015-06 Commercial Yes No No Load Load Load Load Load Yes Yes

Virtual Studio Technology Hosting Software

Virtual Synthesizer and Studio Software

See also: Virtual Studio Technology

See also

Template:Wikipedia books

Main articles: Outline of music and Index of music articles

Template:Wikipedia books

Notes

References

  1. ^ "Short History of Computer Music". UCSC.edu. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  2. ^ "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. ^ Free Sourceforge Canta download
  5. ^ ChoralNet music software list for Choir directors
  6. ^ Choir Pro website and Virtual Ensemble
  7. ^ eMedia learn to sing software website
  8. ^ Singing Coach website
  9. ^ Syphonic Choirs website
  10. ^ Choir and learn to sing website
  11. ^ Voices Complete website
  12. ^ Voxos specifications at Sweetwater
  13. ^ FL Studio 12 Accessed October 27, 2011.
  14. ^ a b c d "Welcome to Shader Joe's Studios™". Retrieved 9 June 2015. {{cite web}}: C1 control character in |title= at position 32 (help)
  15. ^ Rosegarden free Linux DAW website
  16. ^ a b "List of User-Agents (Spiders, Robots, Browser)". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  17. ^ a b FeedWind download/html code site
  18. ^ a b Trellian. "Trellian Software - Site Spider Web Crawling and Search Software". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  19. ^ a b ThemeFinder.org site
  20. ^ BTVSolo Software website
  21. ^ a b Math to music algorithms
  22. ^ a b c Online history of Max
  23. ^ Temper website at ARP
  24. ^ Ars Nova company link
  25. ^ [1]
  26. ^ [2]
  27. ^ [3]
  28. ^ Mind research YouTube collection of secondary news report citations
  29. ^ Music Math 4.0 Specifications at Hitsquad
  30. ^ Musimathics website, freeware download
  31. ^ [4]
  32. ^ "A Survey of Music Data Mining". FIU.edu. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  33. ^ 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
  34. ^ Meinard Müller, Information Retrieval for Music and Motion, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-3540740476
  35. ^ 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
  36. ^ "Image Analysis Software for RapidMiner - BurgSys". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  37. ^ PDF on music informatics aspects of Greenstone software library
  38. ^ "IBM Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (IMARS) - IBM". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  39. ^ "Overview". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  40. ^ "RDataMining.com: R and Data Mining". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  41. ^ Myriad website
  42. ^ From the article, this also is a DAW.
  43. ^ a b TablEdit download site
  44. ^ CCRMA Software download site
  45. ^ CSSE Website
  46. ^ Humdrum website
  47. ^ Qualitative Research Software Article and Site-- Music Education Research
  48. ^ Music research software list
  49. ^ ScoreCloud website
  50. ^ Music Software and Semantic web article
  51. ^ Sketcher Download site
  52. ^ SoundSmith website at Microsoft Research
  53. ^ Soundsoftware website and downloads
  54. ^ Percussion software tutorial
  55. ^ Cornerstone website
  56. ^ OrchestrAI
  57. ^ Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (1992). Computing in musicology, Volume 8. ISBN 978-0-936943-06-0.
  58. ^ "Intelligence, new visions of artificial intelligence in practice". 11. Association for Computing Machinery. 2000. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  59. ^ IK Multimedia Orchestration website
  60. ^ Pizzicato software review
  61. ^ Secret Composer Website
  62. ^ Vienna Software Website
  63. ^ Thomas Wichmann, The Hauptwerk Computer Program, Review in "The American Organist" 2004 July
  64. ^ Ludwig description and download site
  65. ^ Melomics downloads and examples
  66. ^ Online video demo of OrchExtra
  67. ^ Z machines CNN News Article
  68. ^ VST plug-ins
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