-*- mode: outline; coding: utf-8; -*-* Musician soft. http://freemusicsoftware.org http://www.freesoundeditor.com/VSTSyntheng.htm VST plugin* Editor.Mainly those soft are cross-platform.** LilyPond.GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving. One of LilyPond'smajor goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layoutrules, 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 preparenotation for publishing with LilyPond. Denemo does NOT strive to display allnotation graphically or be the most complete graphic environment. Denemo is afront-end to LilyPond. If you are looking for a WYSIWYG editor Denemo may notbe for you. If you are looking for a way to quickly prepare scores for finalediting in LilyPond give Denemo a whirl.See http://denemo.sourceforge.net/** NoteEdit.NoteEdit is a music scorewriter for Linux and other Unix-like computeroperating systems.It can function as a notation-based GUI for MIDI composers and as a scorepreparation utility for a variety of output targets.** CMN (Common Music Notation).CMN (Common Music Notation) is a free western music notation package writtenin Common Lisp.See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/cmn/** MuseScore.MuseScore is a music scorewriter for Linux and Microsoft Windows. MuseScore isa WYSIWYG editor, complete with support for score playback and import/exportof MusicXML and standard MIDI files. Percussion notation is supported, as isdirect printing from the program.See http://www.musescore.org/en http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuseScore** Rosegarden.Rosegarden is an integrated audio/MIDI sequencer with a variety of userinterfaces, including an excellent notation-based GUI. Rosegarden's supportfor standard notation was an essential aspect of the program's originaldesign. LilyPond export capability appeared with Rosegarden.Rosegarden is a free software digital audio workstation program developed forLinux with ALSA and KDE. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriterand musical composition and editing tool. It is intended to be a freereplacement for such applications as Cubase.Rosegarden does not provide a built-in software synthesizer, so it requires ahardware MIDI synthesizer, a soft synthesizer such as FluidSynth orTiMidity++, or a synthesizer plugin in order to make any sound from MIDIcompositions. Recent versions of Rosegarden support the DSSI softwaresynthesizer plugin interface, and can use some Windows VST plugins through anadapter.See http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosegarden** TuxGuitar.TuxGuitar is a free score writer and midi sequencer written in Java andreleased under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License similar tothe commercial Guitar Pro. It is intented to help guitaristswrite\edit\play\manage songs transcription in the form of tablatures orscores. It has its own file format but, in addition, can also import\exportfrom\to Guitar Pro proprietary file format, import Power Tab and TablEdittabulatures, and export tabulatures as LilyPond scores.It also supports exporting as ASCII tabulatures, MusicXML and Adobe PDFs, andloading and exporting MIDI files.See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TuxGuitar http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/* Sequencer.** MusE.MusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities writtenby Werner Schweer. MusE aims to be a complete multitrack virtual studio forLinux: it currently has no support under other platforms as it relies onLinux-only technologies, including JACK and ALSA.See http://muse-sequencer.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusE** FluidSynth.FluidSynth, formerly known as iiwusynth, is a free open source program whichsynthesizes using SoundFont technology without need for a SoundFont-compatiblesoundcard, and the size of loaded SoundFont banks is limited by the amount ofRAM available. There is a GUI for FluidSynth called Qsynth which is also opensource. Both are available in most Linux distributions; compiling them forWindows is also possible.See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FluidSynth http://www.nongnu.org/fluid/** Seq24.Seq24 is a software MIDI music sequencer that runs under Linux and MicrosoftWindows. It is designed to be simple to use and appropriate for liveperformance.See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seq24 http://filter24.org/seq24/about.html** TiMidity++.TiMidity++, originally and still frequently informally called TiMidity, is asoftware synthesizer that can play MIDI files without a hardware synthesizer.See http://timidity.sourceforge.net/* Notes.See http://mutopiaproject.org/index.html** Audacity.Graphical cross-platform audio editor.See http://audacity.sourceforge.net/