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     5  Music software
       
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     8 
       
     9 Musician software
       
    10 =================
       
    11 
       
    12   http://www.freesoundeditor.com/VSTSyntheng.htm
       
    13     VST plugin
       
    14 
       
    15 Editor
       
    16 ======
       
    17 
       
    18 Audacity
       
    19 --------
       
    20 
       
    21 Graphical cross-platform audio editor.
       
    22 
       
    23 See
       
    24 
       
    25   http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
       
    26 
       
    27 LilyPond
       
    28 --------
       
    29 
       
    30 GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving. One of LilyPond's
       
    31 major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout
       
    32 rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand.
       
    33 
       
    34 See:
       
    35 
       
    36   http://lilypond.org/
       
    37 
       
    38 Denemo
       
    39 ------
       
    40 
       
    41 Denemo is a music notation program for Linux that helps you quickly prepare
       
    42 notation for publishing with LilyPond. Denemo does NOT strive to display all
       
    43 notation graphically or be the most complete graphic environment. Denemo is a
       
    44 front-end to LilyPond. If you are looking for a WYSIWYG editor Denemo may not
       
    45 be for you. If you are looking for a way to quickly prepare scores for final
       
    46 editing in LilyPond give Denemo a whirl.
       
    47 
       
    48 See
       
    49 
       
    50   http://denemo.sourceforge.net/
       
    51 
       
    52 NoteEdit
       
    53 --------
       
    54 
       
    55 NoteEdit is a music scorewriter for Linux and other Unix-like computer
       
    56 operating systems.
       
    57 
       
    58 It can function as a notation-based GUI for MIDI composers and as a score
       
    59 preparation utility for a variety of output targets.
       
    60 
       
    61 CMN (Common Music Notation)
       
    62 ---------------------------
       
    63 
       
    64 CMN (Common Music Notation) is a free western music notation package written
       
    65 in Common Lisp.
       
    66 
       
    67 See
       
    68 
       
    69   http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/cmn/
       
    70 
       
    71 MuseScore
       
    72 ---------
       
    73 
       
    74 MuseScore is a music scorewriter for Linux and Microsoft Windows. MuseScore is
       
    75 a WYSIWYG editor, complete with support for score playback and import/export
       
    76 of MusicXML and standard MIDI files. Percussion notation is supported, as is
       
    77 direct printing from the program.
       
    78 
       
    79 See
       
    80 
       
    81   http://www.musescore.org/en
       
    82   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuseScore
       
    83 
       
    84 Rosegarden
       
    85 ----------
       
    86 
       
    87 Rosegarden is an integrated audio/MIDI sequencer with a variety of user
       
    88 interfaces, including an excellent notation-based GUI. Rosegarden's support
       
    89 for standard notation was an essential aspect of the program's original
       
    90 design. LilyPond export capability appeared with Rosegarden.
       
    91 
       
    92 Rosegarden is a free software digital audio workstation program developed for
       
    93 Linux with ALSA and KDE. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter
       
    94 and musical composition and editing tool. It is intended to be a free
       
    95 replacement for such applications as Cubase.
       
    96 
       
    97 Rosegarden does not provide a built-in software synthesizer, so it requires a
       
    98 hardware MIDI synthesizer, a soft synthesizer such as FluidSynth or
       
    99 TiMidity++, or a synthesizer plugin in order to make any sound from MIDI
       
   100 compositions. Recent versions of Rosegarden support the DSSI software
       
   101 synthesizer plugin interface, and can use some Windows VST plugins through an
       
   102 adapter.
       
   103 
       
   104 See
       
   105 
       
   106   http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
       
   107   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosegarden
       
   108 
       
   109 TuxGuitar
       
   110 ---------
       
   111 
       
   112 TuxGuitar is a free score writer and midi sequencer written in Java and
       
   113 released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License similar to
       
   114 the commercial Guitar Pro. It is intented to help guitarists
       
   115 write\edit\play\manage songs transcription in the form of tablatures or
       
   116 scores. It has its own file format but, in addition, can also import\export
       
   117 from\to Guitar Pro proprietary file format, import Power Tab and TablEdit
       
   118 tabulatures, and export tabulatures as LilyPond scores.
       
   119 
       
   120 It also supports exporting as ASCII tabulatures, MusicXML and Adobe PDFs, and
       
   121 loading and exporting MIDI files.
       
   122 
       
   123 See
       
   124 
       
   125   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TuxGuitar
       
   126   http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/
       
   127 
       
   128 Sequencer
       
   129 =========
       
   130 
       
   131 MusE
       
   132 ----
       
   133 
       
   134 MusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities written
       
   135 by Werner Schweer. MusE aims to be a complete multitrack virtual studio for
       
   136 Linux: it currently has no support under other platforms as it relies on
       
   137 Linux-only technologies, including JACK and ALSA.
       
   138 
       
   139 See
       
   140 
       
   141   http://muse-sequencer.org/
       
   142   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusE
       
   143 
       
   144 FluidSynth
       
   145 ----------
       
   146 
       
   147 FluidSynth, formerly known as iiwusynth, is a free open source program which
       
   148 synthesizes using SoundFont technology without need for a SoundFont-compatible
       
   149 soundcard, and the size of loaded SoundFont banks is limited by the amount of
       
   150 RAM available. There is a GUI for FluidSynth called Qsynth which is also open
       
   151 source. Both are available in most Linux distributions; compiling them for
       
   152 Windows is also possible.
       
   153 
       
   154 See
       
   155 
       
   156   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FluidSynth
       
   157   http://www.nongnu.org/fluid/
       
   158 
       
   159 Seq24
       
   160 -----
       
   161 
       
   162 Seq24 is a software MIDI music sequencer that runs under Linux and Microsoft
       
   163 Windows. It is designed to be simple to use and appropriate for live
       
   164 performance.
       
   165 
       
   166 See
       
   167 
       
   168   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seq24
       
   169   http://filter24.org/seq24/about.html
       
   170 
       
   171 TiMidity++
       
   172 ----------
       
   173 
       
   174 TiMidity++, originally and still frequently informally called TiMidity, is a
       
   175 software synthesizer that can play MIDI files without a hardware synthesizer.
       
   176 
       
   177 See
       
   178 
       
   179   http://timidity.sourceforge.net/
       
   180