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A curated collection of music libraries, tools, and software for creating and manipulating audio/music.

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Audio Editing

  • Audacity

    a free, cross-platform digital audio editor

  • Ardour

    a cross-platform digital audio workstation emphasizing audio recording

  • LMMS

    another cross-platform digital audio workstation, more oriented towards making beats

  • OpenUtau

    A free, cross-platform singing voice synthesis framework

  • snd

    Snd is a sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs

  • Stargate DAW

    A cross-platform, all-in-one digital audio workstation and plugin suite, optimized for EDM production

  • TuneFlow

    a next-gen DAW that helps you generate melody, beats, or a whole song, while still being able to edit them

Audio Libraries

  • audio.js

    audio.js is a drop-in javascript library that allows HTML5's <audio> tag to be used anywhere

  • audioFlux

    A library for audio and music analysis, feature extraction

  • chord-mark

    reference implementation of ChordMark, a text notation format for lyrics, chords and rhythm

  • howler.js

    a Javascript audio library for the modern web

  • JSyn

    an audio synthesis software API for Java

  • Librosa

    a python package for music and audio analysis, providing the building blocks necessary to create music information retrieval systems

  • midi.js

    a framework for creating web-based MIDI apps

  • mxml

    MusicXML parsing and layout library

  • PortAudio

    a free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library

  • RustAudio

    an aggregate of free and useful Audio, DSP and music libraries written in Rust

  • Soundpipe

    a lightweight DSP library written in C

Audio Tools

  • Beets

    a powerful command-line music organizer and manipulator

  • Cecilia

    a Pyo-based graphical environment for music and signal processing

  • cyanrip

    rips and encodes standard audio CDs with the least effort required from user. Cross platform

  • fre:ac

    free audio converter. It supports audio CD ripping and tag editing

  • Jack

    command-line CD ripper

  • K3b

    is a full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning and ripping application

  • Koel

    an open-source personal audio streaming server

  • Lame

    a high quality, free and open-source MP3 encoder

  • lltag

    automatic command-line mp3/ogg/flac file tagger and renamer

  • matchering

    сontainerized web application and library for automated reference audio mastering

  • MusicBrainz

    Open Encyclopedia for Music information and Metadata, providing a unique ID for everything

  • Musikernel

    a futuristic audio production platform (hardware support, APIs, hosts, plugins and more)

  • Rubyripper

    is a secure digital audio extraction application ("cd ripper") for Unix-like operating systems

  • SoX

    a free open-source command line utility for playing, converting and manipulating audio files

  • split2flac

    split flac/ape/wv/wav + cue sheet into separate tracks

  • Whipper

    Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed

  • X Audio Copy

    GTK and GNOME application for ripping CD-Audio and encoding in lossy and lossless audio formats

Free Music Scores

  • bayanguru

    engraving and publishing system that produces high quality sheet music for bayan in PDF

  • cellist/Lilypond-Sheet-Music

    a collection of music typeset with lilypond (mostly chamber music and music for cello)

  • ciconia/music

    a collection of mostly baroque music, lots of sacred works by J. S. Bach, coded in lilypond/ripple

  • CPDL

    the choral public domain library contains more than 20K free scores of vocal music

  • Éditions Nicolas Sceaux

    baroque music scores (mainly French music), typeset using lilypond

  • IMSLP

    the International Music Score Library Project is the largest collection of public domain scores and parts on the web

  • Lavender Blue Open-Scores

    open scores for piano encoded using lilypond

  • Mutopia

    sheet music based on editions in the public domain

  • wbsoft/lilymusic

    beautiful LilyPond scores under free licenses

MIDI Tools & Libraries

  • JJazzLab-X

    a complete Midi-based framework for automatic backing tracks generation

  • Midifile

    C++ library for parsing Standard MIDI Files

  • mido

    Python library for working with MIDI messages and ports

  • Polyrhythmix

    MIDI drums generator, designed for polyrhythmic parts

  • Timidity

    an open-source command line synthesizer that plays MIDI files

Music Notation

  • Abjad

    a Python API for Formalized Score Control, based on Lilypond

  • ChordMark

    a text-based notation format for lyrics, chords and rhythm

  • Denemo

    a free music notation editor based on Lilypond

  • Digital Music Stand

    a free web app for displaying sheet music

  • Jan Angermüller's music fonts page

    A listing and visual comparison of different music fonts

  • Frescobaldi

    a free Lilypond sheet music editor

  • Guido

    a generic, portable library and API for the graphical rendering of musical scores

  • Hacklily

    online LilyPond-based sheet music editor (with optional GitHub integration)

  • Inknote

    free, open source, browser based music notation and composition software

  • LibMEI

    a C++ library for reading and writing MEI files

  • Lilybin

    an open source web-based LilyPond editor

  • Lilypond

    free, open-source music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible

  • Lilypond cook book

    tips & tricks for getting the most out of lilypond

  • Lilypond Snippet Repository

    an online database of Lilypond snippets ideas, features and hacks

  • Lilyvm

    Lilypond version manager

  • Lyp

    the Lilypond swiss army knife - easily install packages, manage multiple versions of Lilypond, and other tools for power users

  • mei-friend

    a friendly, browser-based editor for music encodings

  • MuseScore

    free open-source music notation and composition software

  • MusicKit

    Music sheet rendering for iOS and OSX

  • neoscore

    python library for notating music in a graphics-first paradigm

  • NOTATIO

    a forum devoted to the practice of music notation

  • OpenLilyLib

    LilyPond tools - snippets, templates, and extensions

  • OpenSheetMusicDisplay

    Typescript library for rendering MusicXML in the browser

  • Python-ly

    a tool and library for manipulating LilyPond files

  • Ripple

    DRY for Lilypond - generate scores and parts with minimal fuss

  • Scorelib

    a C++ library for parsing SCORE data files

  • Tbon

    Typographic Beat-Oriented Notation for music

  • Unison

    Proprietary software for creating music score with words

  • Verovio

    a library and a toolkit for engraving MEI music notation into SVG

  • Vexflow

    a JavaScript library for rendering music notation and guitar tablature

Music Programming

  • Alda

    a music programming language for musicians

  • Bach: Automated Composer's Helper

    a cross-platform set of patches and externals for Max, aimed to bring the richness of computer-aided composition into the real-time world

  • Cane

    A small MIDI sequencer DSL designed around vectors and euclidean rhythms

  • Chuck

    strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly music programming language

  • CoffeeCollider

    a language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition in HTML5. "Write CoffeeScript, and be processed as SuperCollider."

  • Common Music

    an open source music composition system

  • Csound

    a user-programmable and user-extensible sound processing language and software synthesizer

  • Faust

    a functional programming language specifically designed for real-time signal processing and synthesis

  • Gwion

    A strongly-timed programming language aimed at music creation. Heavily inspired by ChucK

  • IanniX

    a graphical open-source sequencer, based on Iannis Xenakis works, for digital art

  • Inscore

    an environmnent for the design of interactive, augmented music scores

  • Leipzig

    a composition library for Overtone

  • Midica

    MIDI programming language with decompiler and player, supports karaoke

  • music21

    A Toolkit for Computational Musicology

  • Music Suite

    a language for generalized music notation and theory, based on Haskell

  • mutwo

    a Python library for composition that outputs notation, MIDI or audio files and that provides a generalized model to describe time-based structures

  • Nyquist

    a sound synthesis and composition language

  • OpenMusic

    a visual programming language based on Lisp

  • Orca

    live programming environment for music

  • Overtone

    an Open Source toolkit for designing synthesizers and collaborating with music

  • Platonic Music Engine

    an open-source music generation framework written in Lua

  • Pure Data

    a visual programming language for audio and other multimedia

  • pyo

    a Python module to help digital signal processing script creation

  • py-modular

    a modular and experimental programming environment with basic DSP routines in python

  • Sardine

    a music live coding library for Python 3.10+ (MIDI/OSC/SuperCollider)

  • slippery chicken

    a Common Lisp environment for composition building on CLM, CMN, CM, MusicXML and Lilypond for score, sound file, and/or MIDI file outputs

  • Sonic Pi

    a live coding synth with an emphasis on educational use

  • Sporth

    a small stack based audio language

  • Strudel

    an experiment in making a language built on javascript for live coding patterns using web technologies

  • SuperCollider

    a programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition

  • Tidal

    a language built on Haskell for live coding patterns

  • Topos

    a web based live coding environment (WebAudio / MIDI)

  • tuneflow-py

    python plugin SDK for the next-gen DAW, that allows you to program your music algorithms & AI models into all stages of music production

  • Unilang

    Domain specific language used in Unison

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