A categorized collection of awesome music libraries, tools, frameworks and software.
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- Audacity - a free, cross-platform digital audio editor. ★ 349, pushed 126 days ago
- Ardour - a cross-platform digital audio workstation emphasizing audio recording.
- LMMS - another cross-platform digital audio workstation, more oriented towards making beats.
- audio.js - audio.js is a drop-in javascript library that allows HTML5's tag to be used anywhere. ★ 1486, pushed 167 days ago
- howler.js - a Javascript audio library for the modern web. ★ 4284, pushed 130 days ago
- JSyn - an audio synthesis software API for Java.
- Librosa - a python package for music and audio analysis, providing the building blocks necessary to create music information retrieval systems.
- midi.js - a framework for creating web-based MIDI apps. ★ 1774, pushed 137 days ago
- mxml - MusicXML parsing and layout library.
- PortAudio - a free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library.
- RustAudio - an aggregate of free and useful Audio, DSP and music libraries written in Rust.
- Soundpipe - a lightweight DSP library written in C. ★ 320, pushed 129 days ago
- Beets - a powerful command-line music organizer and manipulator.
- Koel - an open-source personal audio streaming server. ★ 6014, pushed 126 days ago
- Lame - a high quality, free and open-source MP3 encoder.
- lltag - automatic command-line mp3/ogg/flac file tagger and renamer.
- Musikernel - a futuristic audio production platform (hardware support, APIs, hosts, plugins and more) ★ 40, pushed 134 days ago
- SoX - a free open-source command line utility for playing, converting and manipulating audio files.
- cellist/Lilypond-Sheet-Music - a collection of music typeset with lilypond (mostly chamber music and music for cello). ★ 40, pushed 131 days ago
- ciconia/music - a collection of mostly baroque music, lots of sacred works by J. S. Bach, coded in lilypond/ripple. ★ 4, pushed 159 days ago
- CPDL - the choral public domain library contains more than 20K free scores of vocal music.
- Éditions Nicolas Sceaux - baroque music scores (mainly French music), typeset using lilypond. ★ 16, pushed 251 days ago
- IMSLP - the International Music Score Library Project is the largest collection of public domain scores and parts on the web.
- Mutopia - sheet music based on editions in the public domain. ★ 76, pushed 133 days ago
- wbsoft/lilymusic - beautiful LilyPond scores under free licenses. ★ 16, pushed 157 days ago
- Midifile - C++ library for parsing Standard MIDI Files.
- Timidity - an open-source command line synthesizer that plays MIDI files.
- Abjad - a Python API for Formalized Score Control, based on Lilypond.
- Denemo - a free music notation editor based on Lilypond.
- Jan Angermüller's music fonts page - A listing and visual comparison of different music fonts.
- Frescobaldi - a free Lilypond sheet music editor. ★ 184, pushed 126 days ago
- Guido - a generic, portable library and API for the graphical rendering of musical scores.
- Inknote - free, open source, browser based music notation and composition software. ★ 75, pushed 213 days ago
- LibMEI - a C++ library for reading and writing MEI files. ★ 27, pushed 211 days ago
- Lilybin - an open sourcle web-based lilypond editor.
- Lilypond - free, open-source music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible.
- Lilypond cook book - tips & tricks for getting the most out of lilypond.
- Lilypond Snippet Repository - an online database of Lilypond snippets ideas, features and hacks.
- Lilyvm - Lilypond version manager. ★ 2, pushed 245 days ago
- Lydown - a modern language for music notation, based on Lilypond. ★ 3, pushed 175 days ago
- Lyp - the lilypond package manager - install packages and manage multiple versions of lilypond. ★ 15, pushed 151 days ago
- MuseScore - free open-source music notation and composition software. ★ 1026, pushed 126 days ago
- MusicKit - Music sheet rendering for iOS and OSX.
- NOTATIO - a forum devoted to the practice of music notation.
- OpenLilyLib - LilyPond tools - snippets, templates, and extensions.
- Python-ly - a tool and library for manipulating LilyPond files.
- Ripple - DRY for Lilypond - generate scores and parts with minimal fuss.
- Scorelib - a C++ library for parsing SCORE data files.
- Tunefl - LilyPond mini-score engraving and sharing service for musicians. ★ 18, pushed 230 days ago
- Verovio - a library and a toolkit for engraving MEI music notation into SVG. ★ 44, pushed 126 days ago
- Vexflow - a JavaScript library for rendering music notation and guitar tablature. ★ 1441, pushed 130 days ago
- Alda - a music programming language for musicians. ★ 2347, pushed 126 days ago
- Bach: Automated Composer's Helper - a cross-platform set of patches and externals for Max, aimed to bring the richness of computer-aided composition into the real-time world.
- Chuck - strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly music programming language. ★ 132, pushed 128 days ago
- CoffeeCollider - a language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition in HTML5. "Write CoffeeScript, and be processed as SuperCollider." ★ 166, pushed 332 days ago
- Common Music - an open source music composition system.
- Csound - a user-programmable and user-extensible sound processing language and software synthesizer.
- Faust - a functional programming language specifically designed for real-time signal processing and synthesis.
- IanniX - a graphical open-source sequencer, based on Iannis Xenakis works, for digital art. ★ 113, pushed 146 days ago
- Inscore - an environmnent for the design of interactive, augmented music scores.
- Leipzig - a composition library for Overtone. ★ 239, pushed 142 days ago
- music21 - A Toolkit for Computational Musicology.
- Music Suite - a language for generalized music notation and theory, based on Haskell.
- Nyquist - a sound synthesis and composition language.
- OpenMusic - a visual programming language based on Lisp.
- Overtone - an Open Source toolkit for designing synthesizers and collaborating with music.
- Platonic Music Engine - an open-source music generation framework written in Lua.
- Pure Data - a visual programming language for audio and other multimedia.
- Sonic Pi - a live coding synth with an emphasis on educational use.
- Sporth - a small stack based audio language. ★ 42, pushed 130 days ago
- SuperCollider - a programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.
- Tidal - a language built on Haskell for live coding patterns.
- OpenMusicTheory - a growing, online "textbook" for music theory and aural skills.
- MEI (Music Encoding Initiative) - an open-source effort to define a system for encoding musical documents in a machine-readable structure.
- MusicXML - the standard open format for exchanging digital sheet music.
- SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout) - a specification for mapping music symbols to Unicode for use in music fonts.
- Awesome Music Production - A curated list of software and resources to create music. ★ 2, pushed 175 days ago
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