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 Music software
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Musician software
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  http://www.freesoundeditor.com/VSTSyntheng.htm
    VST plugin

Editor
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Audacity
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Graphical cross-platform audio editor.

See

  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

LilyPond
--------

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
------

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
--------

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
----

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/