awesome-music
Music toolkit
A curated collection of music libraries, tools, and software for creating and manipulating audio/music.
Awesome Music Projects
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Awesome Music / Audio Editing | |||
| Audacity | 12,739 | almost 2 years ago | 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 | 2,168 | almost 2 years ago | A free, cross-platform singing voice synthesis framework |
| snd | Snd is a sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs | ||
| Stargate DAW | 687 | over 2 years ago | 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 | ||
Awesome Music / Audio Libraries | |||
| audio.js | 2,105 | almost 8 years ago | audio.js is a drop-in javascript library that allows HTML5's <audio> tag to be used anywhere |
| audioFlux | 2,940 | over 2 years ago | A library for audio and music analysis, feature extraction |
| chord-mark | 65 | about 2 years ago | reference implementation of ChordMark, a text notation format for lyrics, chords and rhythm |
| howler.js | 24,113 | about 2 years ago | a Javascript audio library for the modern web |
| JSyn | an audio synthesis software API for Java | ||
| Librosa | 7,237 | almost 2 years ago | a python package for music and audio analysis, providing the building blocks necessary to create music information retrieval systems |
| midi.js | 3,824 | over 2 years ago | a framework for creating web-based MIDI apps |
| mxml | 20 | almost 8 years ago | 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 | ||
Awesome Music / Audio Tools | |||
| Beets | a powerful command-line music organizer and manipulator | ||
| Cecilia | 228 | over 3 years ago | 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 | 1,439 | almost 2 years ago | free audio converter. It supports audio CD ripping and tag editing |
| Jack | 14 | almost 2 years ago | command-line CD ripper |
| K3b | 151 | almost 2 years ago | is a full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning and ripping application |
| Koel | 16,112 | almost 2 years ago | an open-source personal audio streaming server |
| Lame | a high quality, free and open-source MP3 encoder | ||
| lltag | 31 | over 4 years ago | automatic command-line mp3/ogg/flac file tagger and renamer |
| matchering | 1,842 | almost 2 years ago | 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 | 126 | almost 3 years ago | 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 | 254 | over 6 years ago | split flac/ape/wv/wav + cue sheet into separate tracks |
| Whipper | 1,165 | almost 2 years ago | Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed |
| X Audio Copy | 4 | over 8 years ago | GTK and GNOME application for ripping CD-Audio and encoding in lossy and lossless audio formats |
Awesome Music / Free Music Scores | |||
| bayanguru | engraving and publishing system that produces high quality sheet music for bayan in PDF | ||
| cellist/Lilypond-Sheet-Music | 135 | almost 2 years ago | a collection of music typeset with lilypond (mostly chamber music and music for cello) |
| ciconia/music | 23 | almost 6 years ago | 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 | 46 | over 4 years ago | 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 | 15 | almost 2 years ago | open scores for piano encoded using lilypond |
| Mutopia | 260 | almost 2 years ago | sheet music based on editions in the public domain |
| wbsoft/lilymusic | 56 | over 4 years ago | beautiful LilyPond scores under free licenses |
Awesome Music / MIDI Tools & Libraries | |||
| JJazzLab-X | 0 | almost 3 years ago | a complete Midi-based framework for automatic backing tracks generation |
| Midifile | C++ library for parsing Standard MIDI Files | ||
| mido | 1,439 | almost 2 years ago | 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 | ||
Awesome Music / 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 | 33 | over 3 years ago | a free web app for displaying sheet music |
| Jan Angermüller's music fonts page | A listing and visual comparison of different music fonts | ||
| Frescobaldi | 752 | almost 2 years ago | 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 | 153 | about 10 years ago | free, open source, browser based music notation and composition software |
| LibMEI | 63 | almost 5 years ago | 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 | 3 | over 10 years ago | tips & tricks for getting the most out of lilypond |
| Lilypond Snippet Repository | an online database of Lilypond snippets ideas, features and hacks | ||
| Lilyvm | 6 | over 3 years ago | Lilypond version manager |
| Lyp | 73 | over 7 years ago | 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 | 12,444 | almost 2 years ago | free open-source music notation and composition software |
| MusicKit | 111 | over 7 years ago | 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 | 120 | over 3 years ago | LilyPond tools - snippets, templates, and extensions |
| OpenSheetMusicDisplay | 1,488 | almost 2 years ago | Typescript library for rendering MusicXML in the browser |
| Python-ly | a tool and library for manipulating LilyPond files | ||
| Ripple | 27 | over 3 years ago | DRY for Lilypond - generate scores and parts with minimal fuss |
| Scorelib | a C++ library for parsing SCORE data files | ||
| Tbon | 14 | over 8 years ago | Typographic Beat-Oriented Notation for music |
| Unison | Proprietary software for creating music score with words | ||
| Verovio | 689 | almost 2 years ago | a library and a toolkit for engraving MEI music notation into SVG |
| Vexflow | 3,937 | about 2 years ago | a JavaScript library for rendering music notation and guitar tablature |
Awesome Music / Music Programming | |||
| Alda | 5,643 | almost 2 years ago | 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 | 89 | over 2 years ago | A small MIDI sequencer DSL designed around vectors and euclidean rhythms |
| Chuck | 833 | almost 2 years ago | strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly music programming language |
| CoffeeCollider | 220 | almost 11 years ago | 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 | 542 | almost 2 years ago | A strongly-timed programming language aimed at music creation. Heavily inspired by ChucK |
| IanniX | 354 | about 2 years ago | 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 | 458 | over 2 years ago | a composition library for Overtone |
| Midica | 115 | over 2 years ago | 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 | 4,598 | about 2 years ago | live programming environment for music |
| Overtone | 5,941 | almost 2 years ago | 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 | 205 | almost 2 years ago | a music live coding library for Python 3.10+ (MIDI/OSC/SuperCollider) |
| slippery chicken | 72 | almost 2 years ago | 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 | 993 | over 3 years ago | 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 | ||
Awesome Music / Music Theory Teaching | |||
| Artusi | Interactive music theory exercises | ||
| Four Score and More | Tailored music theory exercises based on scores | ||
| musictheory.net | Lessons and exercises | ||
| OpenMusicTheory | a growing, online "textbook" for music theory and aural skills | ||
| Theorytab | a database of songs with their chord functions | ||
Awesome Music / Standards | |||
| MEI (Music Encoding Initiative) | an open-source effort to define a system for encoding musical documents in a machine-readable structure | ||
| MusicXML | the standard open format for exchanging digital sheet music | ||
| SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout) | a specification for mapping music symbols to Unicode for use in music fonts | ||
Other Awesomeness / Related lists | |||
| Awesome Audio DSP | 917 | almost 2 years ago | A curated list of audio DSP and plugin development resources |
| Awesome Audio Visualization | 4,659 | over 3 years ago | A curated list about Audio Visualization |
| Awesome Music Listening | 121 | about 4 years ago | Awesome list of websites dedicated to listening to music |
| Awesome Music Production | 1,059 | almost 2 years ago | A curated list of software and resources to create music |
| Awesome Python for Scientific Audio | 1,584 | about 3 years ago | A curated list of python software and packages related to scientific research in audio |
| Awesome sheet music | 815 | almost 2 years ago | A curated list of awesome sheet music software, libraries and resources |
| Awesome WebAudio | 1,155 | about 2 years ago | A curated list of awesome WebAudio packages and resources |
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