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 Music software

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Musician software

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    VST plugin

Editor

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Audacity

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Graphical cross-platform audio editor.

See

  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

LilyPond

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GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving. One of LilyPond's

major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout

rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand.

See:

  http://lilypond.org/

Denemo

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Denemo is a music notation program for Linux that helps you quickly prepare

notation for publishing with LilyPond. Denemo does NOT strive to display all

notation graphically or be the most complete graphic environment. Denemo is a

front-end to LilyPond. If you are looking for a WYSIWYG editor Denemo may not

be for you. If you are looking for a way to quickly prepare scores for final

editing in LilyPond give Denemo a whirl.

See

  http://denemo.sourceforge.net/

NoteEdit

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NoteEdit is a music scorewriter for Linux and other Unix-like computer

operating systems.

It can function as a notation-based GUI for MIDI composers and as a score

preparation utility for a variety of output targets.

CMN (Common Music Notation)

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CMN (Common Music Notation) is a free western music notation package written

in Common Lisp.

See

  http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/cmn/

MuseScore

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MuseScore is a music scorewriter for Linux and Microsoft Windows. MuseScore is

a WYSIWYG editor, complete with support for score playback and import/export

of MusicXML and standard MIDI files. Percussion notation is supported, as is

direct printing from the program.

See

  http://www.musescore.org/en

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuseScore

Rosegarden

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Rosegarden is an integrated audio/MIDI sequencer with a variety of user

interfaces, including an excellent notation-based GUI. Rosegarden's support

for standard notation was an essential aspect of the program's original

design. LilyPond export capability appeared with Rosegarden.

Rosegarden is a free software digital audio workstation program developed for

Linux with ALSA and KDE. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter

and musical composition and editing tool. It is intended to be a free

replacement for such applications as Cubase.

Rosegarden does not provide a built-in software synthesizer, so it requires a

hardware MIDI synthesizer, a soft synthesizer such as FluidSynth or

TiMidity++, or a synthesizer plugin in order to make any sound from MIDI

compositions. Recent versions of Rosegarden support the DSSI software

synthesizer plugin interface, and can use some Windows VST plugins through an

adapter.

See

  http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosegarden

TuxGuitar

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TuxGuitar is a free score writer and midi sequencer written in Java and

released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License similar to

the commercial Guitar Pro. It is intented to help guitarists

write\edit\play\manage songs transcription in the form of tablatures or

scores. It has its own file format but, in addition, can also import\export

from\to Guitar Pro proprietary file format, import Power Tab and TablEdit

tabulatures, and export tabulatures as LilyPond scores.

It also supports exporting as ASCII tabulatures, MusicXML and Adobe PDFs, and

loading and exporting MIDI files.

See

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TuxGuitar

  http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/

Sequencer

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MusE

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MusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities written

by Werner Schweer. MusE aims to be a complete multitrack virtual studio for

Linux: it currently has no support under other platforms as it relies on

Linux-only technologies, including JACK and ALSA.

See

  http://muse-sequencer.org/

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusE

FluidSynth

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FluidSynth, formerly known as iiwusynth, is a free open source program which

synthesizes using SoundFont technology without need for a SoundFont-compatible

soundcard, and the size of loaded SoundFont banks is limited by the amount of

RAM available. There is a GUI for FluidSynth called Qsynth which is also open

source. Both are available in most Linux distributions; compiling them for

Windows is also possible.

See

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FluidSynth

  http://www.nongnu.org/fluid/

Seq24

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Seq24 is a software MIDI music sequencer that runs under Linux and Microsoft

Windows. It is designed to be simple to use and appropriate for live

performance.

See

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seq24

  http://filter24.org/seq24/about.html

TiMidity++

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TiMidity++, originally and still frequently informally called TiMidity, is a

software synthesizer that can play MIDI files without a hardware synthesizer.

See

  http://timidity.sourceforge.net/