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| Free Music Notation Software | |||||||||||||||||||
| Anvil Studio | Freeware music notation, sequencer and harddisk recording program for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brahms | Freeware, open source music notation program for Linux. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bucket o' Tab | Free guitar tablature editor for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| CMN | CMN (Common Music Notation) is a free western music notation package written in Common Lisp. Freeware, multi-platform. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Denemo | Denemo is a graphical musical score editor, and serves as a frontend to Lilypond. Runs on Windows and Linux. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Easy Music Composer Free | Freeware automatic composition program for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Finale NotePad | Free score/notation program for MAC and Windows. Finale NotePad is a lite version of the highly esteemed commercial programs Allegro and Finale. | ||||||||||||||||||
| GNU LilyPond | LilyPond is a freeware and open-source music notation program for Windows and Linux.
It produces music notation from a description file. LilyPond input is plain text. So, you can use your
favorite text editor to enter it, for example: \key c \minor r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| iabc | A free music notation program based on the ABC programming language for WIndows, Unix and Linux. | ||||||||||||||||||
| JAM | Easy and fast music editor + sequencer for entering chords and notes. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Musette | Free Music/Song Editor for Windows. Musette simplifies creation and distribution of public domain songs as lyrics and music are included together in one file. Special features help create, edit, play and print scores and songs, even if you're not familiar with music notation. | ||||||||||||||||||
| NoteEdit | A free music score editor for Linux with an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, MIDI playback, creating chords, lyrics, and many import/export formats. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Philip's Music Writer | A music typesetting program for Unix; it operates by reading an input file containing an encoded description of the music; such a file can be constructed using any text editor. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rosegarden | Freeware, open-source audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition system for Linux. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Blank music paper | |||||||||||||||||||
| Blank staff paper | 10 types of printable blank staff paper, including clefs - free to print. | ||||||||||||||||||
| BlankSheetMusic.net | Print blank sheet music for free using your Web browser, supports clefs, guitar and bass tabs too. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Music paper | A selection of blank music papers in PostScript and PDF formats. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Non-free Music Notation Software | |||||||||||||||||||
| Allegro | Music notation program for Windows and MAC: $ 199 USD. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Capella | Intuitive music-notation program for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Finale | Powerful music notation program for Windows and MAC: $ 600 USD. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Igor Engraver | Quality music Notation program for MAC and Windows. Standard version for Windows and MAC costs $ 295. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mozart | Convenient music Notation program for $ 120 USD. Runs on Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| NoteWorthy Composer | Program to compose, edit and playback musical scores. Runs on Windows. $ 39 USD. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sibelius | Musical score editing program for $ 600 USD. Suitable for Mac and Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| SmartScore | Gets printed music into your computer through scanning. Converts a sheet of music into midi, music notation + playback. From $ 99. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Turandot | Notation program for Windows, $ 165, which includes professional score printing quality and free access to score library. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free online Music Lessons | |||||||||||||||||||
| 101 Free Piano lessons online | Two years of weekly piano lessons online absolutely free. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1234Drums | Free downloadable video drum lessons. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8notes.com | Free classical & traditional sheet music, free popular and jazz riffs, free music lessons, free music resources. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Berklee Shares | Freely downloadable music lessons in PDF format, by faculty members of the Berklee College of Music for various instruments. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bruce Arnold’s Music Workshop | Educational site for instrumentalists interested in building their overall musicianship, technique and improving their understanding of improvisational concepts. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Piano Lessons with Master Teachers | "Piano Lessons from Master Teachers". Rare historical book of music lessons from 30 legendary concert pianists. Freely available online. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cyberfret.com | Free online guitar lessons. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Drum Lessons Database | Database of over 400 drum lessons available online for free. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Electric Blues Club | Free music lessons and tutorials for beginners to advanced musicians, links to online lessons and NEW music software viewlet tutorials for anyone venturing into streaming media and recording. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FourthFret Guitar Community | A place for guitar players and enthusiasts to gather, make connections, share their talents and learn more about their chosen instrument. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Music Education Center | Complete lessons on piano, guitar, songwriting and composing plus special section on vocals, musical instruments explained, chord dictionary, music dictionary, transposition guide, midi archive, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free online keyboard lessons | Free online keyboard lessons: fingers, chords, keys, rests, clefs, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free online piano lessons | Piano Lessons - for the beginner's level are hands-on, self-paced, interactive, and totally Free. Piano lessons are for both the beginning piano student and the student who wants to review their skills. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Get Piano Lessons.com | Get Piano Lessons.com is a fun, easy and free online piano lesson course that focuses on the mechanics of good keyboard playing without all the complicated musical terms. No note reading required. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Guitar Depot | Free guitar lessons, online guitar tuners, guitar history, and more. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Guitar Noise | Free online guitar lessons. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Guitar Tony's free guitar lessons | Free acoustic rock blues guitar lessons for beginners with downloadable lessons and MP3 accompaniments to make your learning more rewarding. | ||||||||||||||||||
| GuitarNationLive.com | Free online guitar lessons covering basic music theory and technique for beginner and intermediate guitarists. | ||||||||||||||||||
| morphis.com | Free step by step beginner guitar lessons that feature downloadable audio and video files. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Musictheory.net | Free online music theory lessions. | ||||||||||||||||||
| PianoNanny.com | Free online piano lessons including Jazz. | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Piano Education Page | One-stop resource for teachers, students, parents of students, and fans of the piano with over
600 pages of free information, upgraded monthly. Get tips on learning to play the piano, including getting the right kind of piano lessons and piano teacher for you read unbiased reviews of music software and other learning materials, check out over 600 links to other piano or music-related areas of the net, find out about upcoming competitions, read interviews with noteworthy artists and educators, listen to over 600 pieces of solo piano music, read a special page for teachers of piano filled with tips and ideas, quickly search the whole site for answers to specific questions, participate in online discussions with other teachers parents and students, etc. etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Music Games | |||||||||||||||||||
| Layton Music: Free Games and Resources | Free music games and resources for teachers and students to download, print, and use. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free educational Music software | |||||||||||||||||||
| NoteCard | Freeware for Windows. Educational software that will give you drill at recognizing music notes. It can significantly shorten the time it takes to learn to recognize the notes instantly, an absolutely necessary ability for fluent reading. As notes are displayed on a musical staff, you enter the note name, or click in the appropriate place on a piano keyboard or guitar neck graphic. Provides practice with both treble and bass staves. Work through twelve levels as your skill builds. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Homestudy Institute Of Drums | Free downloadable mini-homestudy course for beginning drummers. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Impro-Visor | A free music notation program for MAC, Linux and Windows, designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised. The objective is to improve understanding of solo construction and tune chord changes. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Software Synthesizers | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ambient Automat | Free online experimental Java synthesizer+drum machine. Runs in your browser so does not need to be installed. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Analog Box | Analog Box is powerful sound design program invented to create 'jambots', which are robots that jam. It has a flow chart style interface and high performance DSP engine allow rapid creation of circuits that can be used for a variety applications. Freeware for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| AnalogX SayIt | Free speech synthesizer by AnalogX for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Buzz | Free modular software based synthesizer for Windows. It is based on a system of objects, which may be routed in a modular fashion, giving you the freedom to be as creative as you want. For example, if you wish to run 3 Physical Modelling synths and a Drum Machine through 2 seperate Stereo Delays, into a Mixer, through a Compressor and Parameteric EQ, and finally out to your speakers - no problem. Lay down your synths, connect the wires and you're done. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coagula | Coagula is an image synth. This means that it is both a program for creating and manipulating images, and a program for generating sound from those images. Runs on Windows. Freeware for non-commercial use. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FriedSpace.com Software Synthesizer | A musical instrument synthesizer for creating digital samples in .wav format. Includes distortion, compression, white noise, overtone, envelope and filter features. | ||||||||||||||||||
| MyOrgan | Freeware program to load and play virtual pipe organs. It can combine the individual pipe sounds and organ behaviors to simulate a variety of pipe organs. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stomper Hyperion | Freeware drum-sound synthesizer for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| SubSynth | SubSynth is a freeware synthesiser program for Windows. It uses subtractive synthesis - the method used by analogue synthesisers like Moogs and Roland TB303s. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Syd | Freeware, open-source modular software synthesizer for Windows and MAC. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Synth1 | Freeware software synthesizer for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Timidity | Freeware 32-voice software sound-generator (midi expander) for SUN-os , HPUX and LINUX. | ||||||||||||||||||
| WaveCraft | Freeware modular analogue synthesiser emulator for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Zrs.Synth | Java synthesizer which runs as an applet inside your Webbrowser. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Non-free Software Synthesizers | |||||||||||||||||||
| AudioMulch | Interactive Music Studio. AudioMulch is a program for real-time sound synthesis, music composition and audio processing. Runs on Windows. Price: $ 50 USD. | ||||||||||||||||||
| CellSynth | This program consists of a matrix. Each square in the Matrix is called a Cell and contains a sound processor. Connect and configure the cells to create your sounds. Runs on MAC. Price: $ 95. | ||||||||||||||||||
| DreamStation | Synthesizer: subtractive synthesis combined with FM synthesis, 96 Oscillators organized into 32 separate voices VCA, LFO, User EG for each voice, distortion, ring modulation, etc. Sequencer: 32 tracks step time sequencer, 100 Patterns with 32 tracks and a maximum of 128 steps each, midi syncrhonization, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hauptwerk | Hauptwerk is a generic computer simulation of a pipe organ. It is a computer program into which you can load different pipe organs and play them using a MIDI keyboard or sequencer. $ 90. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Native Instruments | Company specialized in high-quality software synthesizers, and emulators, such as Reactor and Absynth. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Reason | Powerful software synthesizer, audio workstation, sampler, sequencer, etc.for Windows and MAC: $ 500. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Synthfont | A tool for playing MIDI files making use of SoundFonts. It also enables you to render audio files (".WAV" files) from Midi files without needing a sound card. | ||||||||||||||||||
| WinGroove | Wavetable synthesizer for Windows: $ 20 USD. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Sequencers | |||||||||||||||||||
| MusE | Easy and fast MIDI/Audio sequencer for Linux, with recording and editing capabilities. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Music Studio Producer | Free sequencer for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Jazz++ | A full featured, audio capable midi sequencer for Linux and Windows. Freeware, open-source. | ||||||||||||||||||
| MidiMountain | Freeware midi sequencer for Linux and Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Modern Midi Sequencing | In-depth article on midi-sequencing by Scott R. Garrigus. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Multi-media authoring | |||||||||||||||||||
| trakAxPC | Free multi-media software for creating music and video mixes on your PC. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Sound Recorders and Editors | |||||||||||||||||||
| Anvil Studio | Freeware music notation, sequencer and harddisk recording program for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ardour | A multi-track digital audio workstation for Linux and MAC. Freeware, open-source. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Audacity | Freeware, open source program for recording and editing sound on Mac, Windows, Linux, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fast Recorder | Fast-starting freeware wave sound recorder - it puts an icon on Windows' icontray, when you click on it will immediately start recording, for example if you hear a song you like on the Internet radio, you can instantly start recording it. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fat Rock Studio | Free 16-channel multitrack digital audio recorder for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kristal | Freeware 16-track recorder + sound editor for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| MultitrackStudio | MultitrackStudio is audio/MIDI multitrack recording software for Windows. It combines a multitrack recorder, a mixer, lots of effects and a MIDI sequencer in one package. The Lite version is freeware. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Quarz Audio Master | Freeware sound editor, recorder and mixer for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Vocal remover | Removes vocals from audio tracks. | ||||||||||||||||||
| WavePad | Free Windows program for recording and editing sound data. It supports cut, copy and paste, effects (like echo, amplification and noise reduction), the file formats wav, mp3, vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Rippers | |||||||||||||||||||
| BonkEnc | Makes a backup of your CD's to MP3, Ogg, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Non-free Music and Sound editors | |||||||||||||||||||
| Audiotools | Sound recorder and MP3 Converter for Windows. An evaluation version is available. Price: $ 25. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FlexiMusic Composer | A multi-track program for composing, editing and mixing of music using sampled instrument sounds. An evaluation version for Windows is available, the registration price is $20. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FlexiMusic Wave Editor | Powerful audio editor with support for huge-file editing, effects, cut/copy/paste/delete, undo, mix, MP3, WAV, WMA, AU, RAW, SND, etc. An evaluation version for Windows is available, the registration price is $20. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Music Players | |||||||||||||||||||
| UltraPlayer | Freeware for Windows. Plays MP3, WMA, RealAudio, WAV, MIDI, CD Audio, Internet radio, and video files (Windows Media, AVI, MPEG, Real). | ||||||||||||||||||
| MIDInight Express | Free programmable, software wavetable MIDI player and MIDI to WAV renderer for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| XMPlay | A free audio player for Windows, which supports many file formats, such as: OGG, MP3, MP2, MP1, WMA, WAV, CDA, MO3, IT, XM, S3M, MTM, MOD, UMX audio formats, and PLS/M3U/ASX/WAX playlists. | ||||||||||||||||||
| XMMS | Freeware for Linux, plays MP3, MOD, MID and WAV. | ||||||||||||||||||
| iTunes | MP3 and internet radio player for MAC and Windows. Freeware, rather memory hungry. | ||||||||||||||||||
| MP3Strip | Freeware, small, simple but effective MP3 player for MAC. | ||||||||||||||||||
| YAMP | Freeware audio player for Windows, plays mp3, mod, wav, mid, rmi, CD, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Winamp | Freeware skinnable MP3 and CD player for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Soritong | Skinnable MP3 player. Also plays other formats, such as WMA. | ||||||||||||||||||
| SAP | Free streaming audio player for Windows. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Karaoke Players | |||||||||||||||||||
| vanBasco's Karaoke Player | Free Karaoke MIDI player for Windows - many options: change tempo, volume, key of song, font, colors, number of lines (up to four), background image, shows notes, volumes, and instruments, mute or play solo individual instruments, display notes on a big piano keyboard, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Music-related utilities | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fast File Renamer | 
A free program which can help you with the tedious task of renaming large numbers of files. It can be used by anyone who needs
to keep large collections of files organized (such as mp3 files, image and graphics files, web-site-related files, system files). Created by Freebyte.com | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duplicate Music Files Finder | Free program to track duplicate music files and delete them. It uses advanced search techniques to detect duplicates and detects duplicates even if the file names are not the same. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Media Convert | Free online media-file converter. Converts sound, video and text files to other formats. | ||||||||||||||||||
| MP3 Files online | |||||||||||||||||||
| Better Propaganda | Free and legal MP3's. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Crossby, Stills, Nash and Young | Rare Crossby Stills, Nash and Young MP3 tracks for download. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Download.com Music | The MP3 section of download.com | ||||||||||||||||||
| eClassical.com | Good classical MP3's for very reasonable prices. | ||||||||||||||||||
| eMusic.com | Download a fixed number of MP3's at a monthly subscription fee. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Magnatune | 373 complete MP3 albums (not 30 second snippets) following the "try before you buy" (shareware) model. Many styles, including: jazz, classical, rock, world, electronic, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| mfiles classical mp3 files | Classical MP3 files: Bach, Beethoven, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| MP3 4U | Free and legal MP3 downloads. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Public Domain 4U | Legally free (public-domain) MP3 files for download. | ||||||||||||||||||
| REM | REM remixes. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weedshare | Songs can be distributed on peer-to-peer networks but must be paid for after 3 plays. | ||||||||||||||||||
| WIPROZ | 100% free MP3 music server with downloads and hosting, 24/7 radio streams, daily music history, techno trance music radio, chat, news. | ||||||||||||||||||
| ZQWAX.COM | Legal and free mp3 music for download. Listen to music and download songs in different music genres as pop, rock, hard rock, rnb, soul, hardcore, techno, goa, trance hard trance, progressive trance, euro trance, euro dance, house, jungle, breakbeat, hip hop and rap + dj sets and more. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Sounds & Effects | |||||||||||||||||||
| FindSounds | Search the Web for free sound effects and free musical instrument samples. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Soundsnap.com | Free sound effects and loops. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Freesound | A huge collaborative database of free audio snippets, sound effects, loops, samples and recordings (not songs). | ||||||||||||||||||
| Loopsound.com | Free music loops and sound effects for webmasters, game developers and film makers. Download Royalty free music instantly via e-mail. Also, Sound and html tutorials for web page background music. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Free Midi files | |||||||||||||||||||
| FindMidis | Midi files organized alphabetically by artist. | ||||||||||||||||||
| James Pitt-Payne's Midi Website | Thousands of Midi files (Ragtime, Jazz, etc.) free to download. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kunst der Fuge | Extremely large collection of free midi files. | ||||||||||||||||||
| mfiles Classical midis | Classical midi files. | ||||||||||||||||||
| mfiles Original midis | Midi files created by the original composers. | ||||||||||||||||||
| MIDI Database | Very large database of midi files. | ||||||||||||||||||
| MIDI Explorer | Search engine for midi files. | ||||||||||||||||||
| MidiCenter.com | Midi files organized alphabetically. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Midipedia | More than 1600 songs and musics in midi format to download in more than 13 differents styles. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Music for Pianos | Free classical and jazz piano midi files as well as over 200 personally edited piano roll midi files. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ragtime press | Free ragtime midi files. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Roll Scanning | Listing of scanned piano rolls (converted to midi files). | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Classical Midi Connection | Thousands of classical MIDI Files (and some MP3 files) organized by music period and composer. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Warren Trachtman's Ragtime MIDI Website | Ragtime piano pieces by Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, Jelly-Roll Morton, Eubie Blake, and others. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Sheet Music | |||||||||||||||||||
| SheetMusicFox.com | Excellent site with lots of free public domain sheet music. Recommended! | ||||||||||||||||||
| Choral Public Domain Library | Free choral sheet music, also texts, translations, and information on composers. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Find Free Sheet Music | Links to free and non-free sheet music; also: links to lessons, tips, and articles. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Folk songs | Free sheet music for two recorders (or other melody-instruments) and classical guitar. Folk Songs, National Anthems, Classical, Birthday Songs and more. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Piano Sheet Music: Popular | Free piano sheet music from popular music. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Sheet Music | Collection of free sheet music for download. Links to other sheet music databases. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Free Sheet Music Guide | Free and non-free sheet music. | ||||||||||||||||||
| International Music Score Library Project | A virtual library containing many public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. | ||||||||||||||||||
| mfiles - free sheet music | Free classical sheet music in GIF or PDF format. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mutopia Project | A place where music is free for everyone! Download it, print it out, and share it. Mutopia is similar in spirit to Project Gutenberg, but consists of free sheet music. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Piano Society | Free classical sheet-music for piano and piano mp3's. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Violin Sheet Music | Free downloads of violin music in PDF format, both original music and transcriptions of classical music. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Quatre-Mains.net | Free sheet music for piano four hands. Classical and folk music. | ||||||||||||||||||
| RowyNet | A large selection of free classical sheet music for solo musical instruments. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Starmole | Free classical sheet music. | ||||||||||||||||||
| University of Rochestor | University of Rochestor sheet music library | ||||||||||||||||||
| Music systems, languages, formats | |||||||||||||||||||
| ChucK | An audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance for MacOS X, Windows, and Linux. ChucK presents a new time-based concurrent programming model, which supports a more precise and fundamental level of expressiveness, as well as multiple, simultaneous, dynamic control rates, a precise and straightforward concurrent programming model, and the ability to add, remove, and modify code, on-the-fly, while the program is running, without stopping or restarting. It offers composers, researchers, and performers a powerful and flexible programming tool for building and experimenting with complex audio synthesis programs, and real-time interactive control. | ||||||||||||||||||
| cSound | Csound is a programming language designed and optimized for sound rendering and signal processing. To produce or process a soundfile with Csound, or to play a Csound instrument in real-time, one typically selects the orchestra and score through a simple "launcher" and then clicks on the "render" button to start the program compiling. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Salieri | The SALIERI System is an interactive software environment for structure oriented composition, manipulation and analysis of music. It is based on the SALIERI Language, a newly developed programming language which has been designed to facilitate specification and manipulation of musical material on the score level. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Guido | The GUIDO Music Notation Format is a formal language for score level music representation. It is a plain-text, i.e. readable and platform independent format capable of representing all information contained in conventional musical scores. The GUIDO design is strongly influenced by the objective to facilitate an adequate representation of musical material, from tiny motives up to complex symphonic scores. | ||||||||||||||||||
| SAOL/MPEG-4 | SAOL is a music-synthesis language. SAOL stands for "Structured Audio Orchestra Language". It is a powerful, flexible language for describing music synthesis, and integrating synthetic sound with "natural" (recorded) sound in an MPEG-4 bitstream. SAOL lives within the MPEG-4 paradigm of streaming data and decoding processes. Thus, the Structured Audio toolset is not only a method of synthesis, but a streaming format appropriate for WWW-based (or any other channel) transmission of audio data. The 'saolc' package contains a program for encoding score and orchestras into the streaming format, and facility for decoding this format. | ||||||||||||||||||
| SuperCollider | Environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis. You can write
programs to generate or process sound in real time or non real time. SuperCollider can be controlled by MIDI,
the mouse, Wacom graphics tablet, and over a network via Open Sound Control. SuperCollider can read and
write sound files in AIFF, WAV, Sound Designer 2, and NeXT/Sun formats. Freeware, open-source. For MAC. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Virtual Sampler SDK | Non-free. $ 99 USD. Virtual sampler SDK enables you to embed a Wavetable synthesizer into your programs. This software development kit is suitable for usage in combination with Watcom C/C++, Visual C/C++, C++ Builder, Delphi and Visual Basic. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Symbolic Composer | Non-free music composition and generation system for Windows and MAC ($ 395). Symbolic Composer includes many features, such as: context-free scoring language, 1000 music algorithms, Lisp interpreter, 300 microtonal scales, programmable neurons, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Music notation formats | Music notation codes, MusiXML, Optical music recognition, musical fonts, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| NIFF | NIFF (Notation Interchange File Format) is a new open music-file standard designed to replace midi files as
exchange medium of musical notation data between computer programs. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Silence | Advanced music composition and programming system written purely in Java. Interfaces with CSound, Midi, etc. Contains a software-synthesizer for non-real-time sound generation. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Music and Audio Search Engines | |||||||||||||||||||
| Altavista Audio Search | Search engine for MP3, WAV, WMA, Real, AIFF and other types of audio files. | ||||||||||||||||||
| midomi | Search for music by singing or humming. All you need is a microphone. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FindSounds | Search the Web for free sound effects and free musical instrument samples. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Other Music-related Sites | |||||||||||||||||||
| The Violin Site | Very useful violin resources for students, teachers and performers, such as: midi files to improve practicing time, violin teacher directory, violin pedagogy resources, free violin sheet music, violin making and much more. Recommended! | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bob Keller's Jazz Page | Lots of links related to listening, learning and playing Jazz. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Classical Net | Lots of information related to classical music: composer index, links to other classical music sites, CD reviews, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Computers & Music | Online store, specialized in music software and music hardware for home and professional use. It is also a good place to look for information. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Downhill Battle | Non-profit organization working to support participatory culture and build a fairer music industry. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Music Notation Software | Encyclopedic listing of free and commercial notation programs running on various platforms. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Notes and Symbols | Lots of images related to music. The navigation links to other sections are on the bottom of the page. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Piano World | 1000 pages of facts, figures, fun, forums, games, pictures, reviews, and reference material related to pianos. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Songstuff.com | A free songwriting and music resource for both fans and musicians | ||||||||||||||||||
| The complete alphabetic listing of music software | Very large list of free, demo and non-free music programs. Short descriptions, alphabetically ordered. | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Woodwind Fingering Guide | Fingering charts for various woodwind instruments, including: Clarinet, Recorder, Flute, Piccolo, Saxophone, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
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