Free audio software
Encyclopedia
This list of free software for audio lists notable free and open source software
for use by sound engineers, audio producers, and those involved in sound recording and reproduction.
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Free and open source software
Free and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...
for use by sound engineers, audio producers, and those involved in sound recording and reproduction.
Audio analysis
| Name | Creator | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... ? |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... ? |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... ? |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... ? |
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| Baudline Baudline The baudline time-frequency browser is a signal analysis tool designed for scientific visualization. It runs on several Unix operating systems under the X Window System... |
A program for spectrum analysis and visualisation | custom | |||||
| Praat Praat Praat is a free scientific software program for the analysis of speech in phonetics. It has been designed and continuously developed by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. It can run on a wide range of operating systems, including various Unix versions, Mac and Microsoft... |
Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam | A program for the analysis of speech in phonetics. | GPL | ||||
| Sonogram visible Speech | German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence | Acoustic Sound analysis Software. alternatice Algorithms | GPL | ||||
| WaveSurfer WaveSurfer WaveSurfer is an audio editor widely used for studies of acoustic phonetics. It is a simple but fairly powerful program for interactive display of sound pressure waveforms, spectral sections, spectrograms, pitch tracks and transcriptions... |
Permissive free software Permissive free software licence A permissive free software licence is a class of free software licence with minimal requirements about how the software can be redistributed. This is in contrast to copyleft licences, which have reciprocity / share-alike requirements. Both sets of free software licences offer the same freedoms in... |
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| BRP-PACU BRP-PACU BRP-PACU is a dual channel FFT audio analysis tool. It is designed to be used with an omnidirectional calibrated microphone to configure any sound system with an appropriate equalization and delay. It compares the output of the system to the input of the system to obtain the transfer function of... |
Dual channel FFT tool for equalization Equalization (audio) Equalization is the process commonly used in sound recording and reproduction to alter the frequency response of an audio system using linear filters. Most hi-fi equipment uses relatively simple filters to make bass and treble adjustments. Graphic and parametric equalizers have much more... of sound systems using the transfer function. |
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| Sonic Visualiser Sonic Visualiser Sonic Visualiser is a free software system distributed under the GNU General Public License which allows you to visualise, analyse and annotate sound files. It is used in musical as well as scientific work, its most outstanding feature is the ability to use highly specialised third-party plugins ... |
Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London Queen Mary, University of London Queen Mary, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London... |
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| Tartini | University of Otago University of Otago The University of Otago in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university with over 22,000 students enrolled during 2010.The university has New Zealand's highest average research quality and in New Zealand is second only to the University of Auckland in the number of A rated academic researchers it... |
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Converters
| Name | Creator | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... ? |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... ? |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... ? |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... ? |
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| Max | Stephen Booth (site) | Not to be confused with Max/MSP | GPL | ||||
| FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... |
Fabrice Bellard Fabrice Bellard Fabrice Bellard is a computer programmer who is best known as the creator of the FFmpeg and QEMU software projects. He has also developed a number of other programs, including the Tiny C Compiler.... |
Audio & video. | GPL or LGPL | ||||
| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
Audio & video. | GPL | |||||
| WinLAME WinLAME winLAME is a Windows front-end for LAME, a program which can transcode digital audio files between several formats.- Supported file formats :*AAC, with plugin*FLAC*MP3*OGG Vorbis*WAV*WMA... |
Michael Fink | Easy interface. | GNU GNU GNU is a Unix-like computer operating system developed by the GNU project, ultimately aiming to be a "complete Unix-compatible software system"... |
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| Fre:ac (formerly BonkEnc) | Robert Kausch | GPL | |||||
Modular systems
| Name | Creator | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... ? |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... ? |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... ? |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... ? |
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| Integra Live | Integra Project | GPL | |||||
| AlsaModularSynth | Matthias Nagorni and Fons Adriaensen | Based on Voltage-Controlled Electronic Music Modules by Robert A. Moog (http://www.moogarchives.com/aes01.htm) | GPL-2 | ||||
| jMax | no longer supported | LGPL | |||||
| SynFactory SynFactory SynFactory is a free and open source software synthesizer for Windows. It is based on the same sound generating principles such as subtractive synthesis as used in vintage modular synthesizers. Patches can be built from separate components and connected together with virtual patch cables... |
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| VisualAp VisualAp VisualAp is a visual framework for building applications and emulate systems. VisualAp is cross-platform as it is a 100% Java application.This application is able to perform audio processing, image processing, text and other process-driven emulation... |
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| aRts ARts aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer.... |
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| FxEngine Framework | SMProcess (site) | LGPL | |||||
Platforms
Various projects have formed to integrate the existing free software audio packages.| Name | Creator | Description | Note | License |
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| Ubuntu Studio Ubuntu Studio Ubuntu Studio is an officially recognized derivative of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, which is explicitly geared to general multimedia production. The original version, based on Ubuntu 7.04, was released on May 10, 2007.-Real-time kernel:... |
Linux distribution Linux distribution A Linux distribution is a member of the family of Unix-like operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distributions are operating systems including a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players, and database applications... |
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| dyne:bolic Dyne:bolic dyne:bolic is a Live CD/DVD based on the Linux kernel with a focus on multimedia production, and is distributed with a large assortment of applications for audio and video manipulation... |
Linux distribution Linux distribution A Linux distribution is a member of the family of Unix-like operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distributions are operating systems including a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players, and database applications... |
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| AGNULA | Linux distribution Linux distribution A Linux distribution is a member of the family of Unix-like operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distributions are operating systems including a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players, and database applications... |
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| Musix Musix Musix GNU/Linux is a live CD and DVD Linux distribution for the IA-32 processor family based on Debian. It contains a collection of software for audio production, graphic design, video editing and general purpose applications... |
Linux distribution Linux distribution A Linux distribution is a member of the family of Unix-like operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distributions are operating systems including a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players, and database applications... |
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| 64 Studio | Linux distribution Linux distribution A Linux distribution is a member of the family of Unix-like operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distributions are operating systems including a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players, and database applications... |
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| Planet CCRMA Planet CCRMA Planet CCRMA is a collection of Red Hat packages to help set up and optimize a Red Hat-based workstation for audio work.- Overview :... |
set of packages (in RPM RPM Package Manager RPM Package Manager is a package management system. The name RPM variously refers to the .rpm file format, files in this format, software packaged in such files, and the package manager itself... format) |
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Programming languages
Many computer music programming languages are implemented in free software. See also the comparison of audio synthesis environmentsComparison of audio synthesis environments
Software audio synthesis environments typically consist of an audio programming language and a user environment to design/run the language in. Although many of these environments are comparable in their abilities to produce high-quality audio, their differences and specialties are what draw users...
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| Name | Creator | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... ? |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... ? |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... ? |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... ? |
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| Csound Csound Csound is a computer programming language for dealing with sound, also known as a sound compiler or an audio programming language, or more precisely, a C-based audio DSL. It is called Csound because it is written in C, as opposed to some of its predecessors... |
Csound community, Barry Vercoe Barry Vercoe Barry Vercoe is a New Zealand-born computer scientist and composer. He completed his undergraduate degree in New Zealand in Music and Mathematics and went on to complete a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, USA, in Music Composition. In 1968, Vercoe's research in Digital Audio Processing paved... |
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| SuperCollider Supercollider A Supercollider is a high energy particle accelerator. The term may refer to:* Superconducting Super Collider, planned 80 km project in Texas, canceled in 1993... |
SuperCollider community, James McCartney | ? | GPL | ||||
| ChucK ChucK ChucK is a concurrent, strongly timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and iPhone/iPad. It is designed to favor readability and flexibility for the programmer over other considerations such... |
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| Nyquist Nyquist (programming language) Nyquist is a programming language for sound synthesis and analysis based on the Lisp programming language. It is an extension of the XLISP dialect of Lisp.... |
Computer Music Project at Carnegie Mellon University, Roger B. Dannenberg | ||||||
| Pure Data Pure Data Pure Data is a visual programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for creating interactive computer music and multimedia works. While Puckette is the main author of the program, Pd is an open source project with a large developer base working on new extensions to it. It is... |
Pd Community, Miller Puckette Miller Puckette Miller Smith Puckette is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994.... |
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Radio broadcasting
| Name | Creator | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... ? |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... ? |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... ? |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... ? |
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| Bentokit Project | 3SYN, Bentokit Project Developers (site) | |||||
| SomaPlayer SomaPlayer SomaPlayer is part of the Soma project. It is an open source broadcast tool for DJing internet radio stations.... |
radio broadcasting scheduler automation | |||||
| Campcaster Campcaster Campcaster is a free and open source radio management application for live broadcasting, remote broadcast automation , and program exchange between radio stations... |
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| Rivendell | Fred Gleason (site) | Log editor and manager available for Windows | ||||
Recording and editing
The following packages are digital audio editorDigital audio editor
A digital audio editor is a computer application for audio editing, i.e. manipulating digital audio. Digital audio editors are the main software component of a digital audio workstation.-For use with music:...
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| Name | Creator | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... ? |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... ? |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... ? |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... ? |
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| Ardour Ardour (audio processor) Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who is also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit... |
Paul Davis Paul Davis (programmer) Paul Davis is a British software developer best known for his work on audio software for the Linux operating system, and for his role as one of the first two programmers at Amazon.com.... |
multi-track audio recorder | ||||
| Audacity Audacity Audacity is a free software, cross-platform digital audio editor and recording application. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD.Audacity was created by Dominic Mazzoni while he was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University... |
Dominic Mazzoni | multi-track audio recorder | ||||
| Ecasound Ecasound Ecasound is a hard-disk recording and audio processing tool for Unix-like computer operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD.... |
audio recorder | |||||
| harmonySEQ | Rafal Cieslak (site) | MIDI sequencer | ||||
| Jokosher Jokosher Jokosher is a free, non-linear multi-track digital audio editor, the source code of which is released under the GNU GPL. It is being developed in Python, using the GTK+ interface and GStreamer as an audio back-end, initially just for the Linux operating system but now also with support for Windows... |
Jokosher community | multi-track audio editor | ||||
| LMMS LMMS Linux MultiMedia Studio or LMMS, is a free software digital audio workstation. Music can be produced by synthesizing sounds, arranging samples, and playing on a MIDI keyboard by combining the features of trackers, sequencers and synthesizers. It supports LADSPA and VST plugins.LMMS is available for... |
Tobias Doerffel | as of 0.4.0 with Qt4 | Free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. Intended as a replacement for Cubase-like software (DAW Digital audio workstation A digital audio workstation is an electronic system designed solely or primarily for recording, editing and playing back digital audio. DAWs were originally tape-less, microprocessor-based systems such as the Synclavier and Fairlight CMI... ) |
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| MusE MusE MusE is a free software MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities. It was originally written by Werner Schweer and now is developed by the Muse development team.... |
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface MIDI is an industry-standard protocol, first defined in 1982 by Gordon Hall, that enables electronic musical instruments , computers and other electronic equipment to communicate and synchronize with each other... sequencer |
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| Qtractor Qtractor Qtractor is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application for Linux. Qtractor is written in C++ and is based around the Qt4 library. Its author is Rui Nuno Capela, who is also responsible for the very widely used Qjackctl, Qsynth and line of Linux audio software... |
A non-destructive multi-track audio and MIDI Workstation (DAW Digital audio workstation A digital audio workstation is an electronic system designed solely or primarily for recording, editing and playing back digital audio. DAWs were originally tape-less, microprocessor-based systems such as the Synclavier and Fairlight CMI... ) |
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| ReZound ReZound ReZound is a digital audio editor, primarily for, but not limited to the Linux operating system. Licensed under the GNU GPL, ReZound is free software. Presently, ReZound's focus is on editing audio files for permanent change as opposed to arranging and/or filtering existing audio files to produce a... |
Davy Durham | Graphical audio file editor | ||||
| Rosegarden Rosegarden Rosegarden is a free software digital audio workstation program developed for Linux with ALSA and QT4. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool... |
MIDI sequencer and multi-track recorder | |||||
| Sekaiju | (site) | MIDI sequencer | ||||
| SoX SoX Sound eXchange, abbreviated SoX, is a free cross-platform digital audio editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License, and distributed by Chris Bagwell through SourceForge.net... |
command-line multi-track audio editor/processor | |||||
| Sweep Sweep (software) Sweep is a digital audio editor and live playback tool for Linux, BSD and compatible systems. It is able to handle many sound formats, including MP3, WAV and Vorbis. The most notable feature of Sweep is its stylus-like cursor tool called Scrubby.... |
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| Traverso | Remon Sijrier (site) | multi-track audio recorder and editor | ||||
| WaveSurfer WaveSurfer WaveSurfer is an audio editor widely used for studies of acoustic phonetics. It is a simple but fairly powerful program for interactive display of sound pressure waveforms, spectral sections, spectrograms, pitch tracks and transcriptions... |
Centre for Speech Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology The Royal Institute of Technology is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest institutions of higher education in technology. KTH accounts for one-third of Sweden’s technical research and engineering education... |
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| Wavosaur | Wavosaur Team (site) | Audio recorder and editor. ASIO and VST Virtual Studio Technology Steinberg's Virtual Studio Technology is an interface for integrating software audio synthesizer and effect plugins with audio editors and hard-disk recording systems. VST and similar technologies use digital signal processing to simulate traditional recording studio hardware with software... support. |
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Softsynths
| Name | Creator | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... ? |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... ? |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... ? |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... ? |
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| Bristol Bristol (software) Bristol is an open source software synthesizer for Linux.Bristol consists of two components, the emulation or synthesis engine itself called bristol, and a graphical user interface called brighton. As of 2010 there are over 35 keyboards implemented, a range of organs, electric pianos and... |
Emulation of many vintage synthesizers | GPL | |||||
| FluidSynth FluidSynth FluidSynth, formerly known as iiwusynth, is a free open source software synthesizer which converts MIDI note data into an audio signal using SoundFont technology without need for a SoundFont-compatible soundcard. FluidSynth can act as a virtual MIDI device, capable of receiving MIDI data from any... |
SoundFont SoundFont SoundFont is a brand name that collectively refers to a file format and associated technology designed to bridge the gap between recorded and synthesized audio, especially for the purposes of computer music composition... player / renderer |
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| ZynAddSubFX ZynAddSubFX ZynAddSubFX is an open source software synthesizer for Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.For sound generation it has three hybrid synth engines that combine additive, subtractive, Fourier and other synthesis methods... |
Mac OS X version is limited | GPL | |||||
Streaming
These programs are for use with streaming audio.| Name | Creator | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... ? |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... ? |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... ? |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... ? |
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| Icecast Icecast Icecast is a streaming media project released as free software maintained by the Xiph.org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project. Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open source... |
a broadcast server, serves audio signals to clients over the HTTP protocol | |||||
| PeerCast PeerCast PeerCast is an open source streaming media multicast tool. PeerCast uses peer-to-peer technology to minimize the necessary upload bandwidth for the original multicaster.The website of PeerCast appears to be abandoned since December 2007... |
a peercasting Peercasting Peercasting is a method of multicasting streams, usually audio and/or video, to the Internet via peer-to-peer technology. It can be used for commercial, independent, and amateur multicasts. Unlike traditional IP Multicast, peercasting can facilitate on-demand content delivery.-Operation:It usually... tool |
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| Firefly Media Server Firefly Media Server Firefly Media Server is an open-source media server for the Roku SoundBridge and iTunes. It serves media files using Roku Server Protocol and Digital Audio Access Protocol .-Features:Its features include:... |
streams music to DAAP Digital Audio Access Protocol The Digital Audio Access Protocol is the proprietary protocol introduced by Apple in its iTunes software to share media across a local network.... clients like iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... and Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| VideoLAN VideoLAN VideoLAN is a project that develops software for playing video and other media formats across a local area network . It originally developed two programs for media streaming, VideoLAN Client and VideoLAN Server , but most of the features of VLS have been incorporated into VLC, with the result... |
media and server programs for video and audio streaming | |||||
Technologies
| Name | Creator | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... ? |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... ? |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... ? |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... ? |
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| Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) | a sound card Sound card A sound card is an internal computer expansion card that facilitates the input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under control of computer programs. The term sound card is also applied to external audio interfaces that use software to generate sound, as opposed to using hardware... management system in the Linux kernel Linux kernel The Linux kernel is an operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems. It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software.... |
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| DSSI DSSI DSSI is a virtual instrument plugin architecture for use by music sequencer applications. It was designed for applications running under Linux, although there is nothing specific to Linux in the interface itself... |
a plugin architecture for software synthesizer Software synthesizer A software synthesizer, also known as a softsynth is a computer program or plug-in for digital audio generation. Computer software which can create sounds or music is not new, but advances in processing speed are allowing softsynths to accomplish the same tasks that previously required dedicated... s |
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| GStreamer GStreamer GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing... |
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| JACK Audio Connection Kit JACK Audio Connection Kit JACK is a professional sound server daemon that provides real-time, low latency connections for both audio and MIDI data between applications that implement its API... (JACK) |
JACK Team, Paul Davis Paul Davis (programmer) Paul Davis is a British software developer best known for his work on audio software for the Linux operating system, and for his role as one of the first two programmers at Amazon.com.... |
(JACK OS X) | (jackdmp) | a sound server Sound server A sound server is software that manages the use of and access to audio devices, most notably, the soundcard. It usually runs as a background process... |
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| Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API LADSPA LADSPA is an acronym for Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API. It is a standard for handling filters and effects, licensed under the GNU LGPL. It was originally designed for Linux through consensus on the Linux Audio Developers Mailing List, but works on a variety of other platforms... (LADSPA) |
a plugin architecture for digital signal processing Digital signal processor A digital signal processor is a specialized microprocessor with an architecture optimized for the fast operational needs of digital signal processing.-Typical characteristics:... |
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| Open Sound System Open Sound System The Open Sound System is an interface for making and capturing sound in Unix or Unix-like operating systems. It is based on standard Unix devices... |
a standard interface for making and capturing sound in Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... operating systems |
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| PulseAudio PulseAudio PulseAudio is a cross-platform, networked sound server commonly used on the Linux-based and FreeBSD operating systems.PulseAudio runs under Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and POSIX-compliant platforms, such as Linux and FreeBSD... |
(Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD) | a sound server | ||||
Trackers
These music sequencer programs allow users to arrange notes (pitch-shifted sound samples) on a timeline: see tracker (music software).| Name | Creator | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... ? |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... ? |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... ? |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... ? |
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| Buzztard Buzztard Buzztard is a free software project to create a clone of the Buzz music composer. The driving motivation is to preserve the playability of the compositions made with Buzz. Songs are made by adding virtual sound generators and effects, connecting them, recording short musical phrases and arranging... |
Buzz clone | |||||
| CheeseTracker | (site) | Impulse Tracker Impulse Tracker Impulse Tracker is a multi-track digital sound tracker . It was one of the last tracker programs for the DOS platform. It was authored by Jeffrey "Pulse" Lim, and example music was provided by Jeffrey Lim and Chris Jarvis... clone |
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| MilkyTracker | (site) | Also runs on various other platforms including but not limited to Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is "Windows Mobile 6.5.5"; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.Windows Mobile is... , PlayStation PlayStation The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000... and AmigaOS 4 AmigaOS 4 AmigaOS 4, , is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. It is mainly based on AmigaOS 3.1 source code, and partially on version 3.9 developed by Haage & Partner... . |
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| OpenMPT | released as free software in 2004 | |||||
| Psycle Psycle Psycle is a modular music production application to make music on Windows. Based on the tracker interface but featuring up-to-date features like VST compatibility and 96 kHz / 32bit wav rendering.... |
a tracker combined with modular capabilities | |||||
| SoundTracker SoundTracker SoundTracker is a free tracker for Unix-like operating systems running X Window System for composing music to be saved in module files.- Description :... |
Fast Tracker Fast Tracker FastTracker 2 is a tracker created by Fredrik "Mr. H" Huss and Magnus "Vogue" Högdahl, two members of the demogroup Triton which set about releasing their own tracker after breaking into the scene in 1992 and winning several demo competitions. The source code of FastTracker 2 is written in Pascal... clone |
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Other
| Name | Creator | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... ? |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... ? |
Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... ? |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... ? |
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| Giada | (site) | Compact loop machine software | ||||
| Gnaural Gnaural Gnaural is brainwave entrainment software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux licensed under the GNU General Public License. Gnaural is free software for creating binaural beats intended to be used as personal brainwave synchronization software, for scientific research, or by professionals... |
Binaural beat Binaural beats Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain for specific physical stimuli... and pink noise generator |
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| Hydrogen Hydrogen (software) Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine created by Alessandro Cominu, an Italian programmer who goes by the pseudonym Comix. Its main goal is to provide professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.... |
an advanced drum machine | |||||
| orDrumbox OrDrumbox The orDrumbox is a Java-based drum machine.... |
a Java based drum machine | |||||
| libsndfile Libsndfile libsndfile is a widely-used C library written by Erik de Castro Lopo for reading and writing audio files. It supports a wide variety of audio encodings and sound file formats and will convert automatically from one to another... |
library for reading and writing many sound formats | |||||