List of music software

This is a list of software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music. This article only includes software, not services. For streaming services such as iHeartRadio, Pandora, Prime Music, and Spotify, see Comparison of on-demand streaming music services. For storage, uploading, downloading and streaming of music via the cloud, see Comparison of online music lockers. This list does not include discontinued historic or legacy software, with the exception of trackers that are still supported.[1][2] For example, the company Ars Nova produces music education software, and its software program Practica Musica has remnants of the historic Palestrina software. Practica will be listed here, but not Palestrina.[3] If a program fits several categories, such as a comprehensive digital audio workstation or a foundation programming language (e.g. Pure Data), listing is limited to its top three categories.

Types of music software

CD ripping software

Choir and learn-to-sing software
This section includes both choir software and learn-to-sing software. For music learning software, see music education software.
Main articles: Choir and Vocal coach

DJ software
Main article: DJ § Software

Digital audio workstation (DAW) software
Main article: Digital audio workstation

Computer music software
Electronic music
Experimental forms
Popular styles
Other topics
Main article: Computer music
See also: List of audio programming languages

Internet, RSS, broadcast music software
Main article: Netlabel
See also: Content delivery network

This section only includes software, not services. For services programs like Spotify, Pandora, Prime Music, etc. see Comparison of on-demand streaming music services. Likewise, list includes music RSS apps, widgets and software, but for a list of actual feeds, see Comparison of feed aggregators. For music broadcast software lists in the cloud, see Content delivery network and Comparison of online music lockers.

Lyrics and vocals
See also: List of vocoders § Software vocoder models

MIDI plug-ins
Main article: Audio plug-in

Music analysis software
Main article: Musical analysis
See also: Spectrum analyzer

Music circuit software
See also: Audio electronics and circuit bending

Music composing software
See also: Algorithmic composition

Music conversion software
See also: List of audio conversion software

Music education software
This section is about music learning software. For choir and learn-to-sing software, see § Choir and Learn to Sing Software.
Main article: Comparison of music education software
  • EarMaster
  • InstrumentChamp (video game for also acoustic guitar, and piano, drum, sax and trumpet; multiplayer)
  • Reaktor (software creation of nearly every instrument; reverse engineering encouraged)
  • Rocksmith (video game with emphasis on instructional aspects; unique in that controller can be any electric guitar w/ 1/4" jack)
  • Synthesia (video game with piano instruction aspects)
  • WaveSurfer (studies of acoustic phonetics)
  • Yousician (educational game to learn to play guitar and piano)
  • GNU Solfege (ear-training practice exercises)

Music gaming software
See also: Video game music and Dynamic music

Music mathematics software
Main article: Music and mathematics
See also: Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music and Mathematical software

Music notation software
Main article: Scorewriter

Music player software
Main article: Comparison of audio player software

Music research software
Main article: Sound and music computing

Music technology, synthesis and o/s software
See also: Software synthesizer

Music visualization software
Main article: Music visualization

Orchestration software
This section is about music orchestration software. For orchestration software as used in information technology, see Orchestration (computing).

Drums and percussion

Guitar

Piano

Pipe organ
  • Hauptwerk produces audio in response to MIDI signal from attached keyboard or from a MIDI sequencer[7]

Automatic composition software
Main article: Music and artificial intelligence
See also: Robotic art

Samplers and sequencers
See also: Comparison of MIDI editors and sequencers

Soundtrack creation software
Main article: Soundtrack
See also: Multitrack recording and Sound recording and reproduction

Trackers
Main article: Music tracker
Name Latest
update		 License OS versions File format support VST
support		 ASIO
output
Windows OS X Linux MID MOD XM IT S3M
Renoise 2020-07-20 Commercial Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Load No Yes Yes
OpenMPT 2021-01-31 BSD Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SoundTracker (beta) 2006-02 GPL No No Yes No Yes Yes No No No No
MilkyTracker  2020-12-12 GPL Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Load Load No Yes
Buzztrax 2015-09-03 LGPL Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Load No Yes Yes
Psycle 2017-03 GPL Yes No No No Load Yes Load Load Yes Yes

Virtual Studio Technology hosting software

Virtual synthesizer and studio software
See also: Virtual Studio Technology

See also
Main articles: Outline of music and Index of music articles

References
  1. "Short History of Computer Music". UCSC.edu. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  2. "The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music". FactMag.com. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  3. Walter B. Hewlett, Computing in Musicology, 1990, p. 112, Stanford Music Lab, Menlo Park, CA. Ars Nova (educational music software company, not music style) is at Ars Nova Software
  4. "Sound and Sonification—Wolfram Language Documentation". Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  5. "Music & Math". Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  6. Intelligence, new visions of artificial intelligence in practice. 11. Association for Computing Machinery. 2000.
  7. Thomas Wichmann, The Hauptwerk Computer Program, Review in The American Organist, July 2004
  8. "VST plug-ins". Audacity Wiki.
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