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]

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
  • Cantor (music software)
  • SingingCoach

DJ software
Main article: DJ § Software
  • Cross/CrossDJ
  • Deckadance
  • djay
  • Final Scratch
  • Mixxx
  • Serato
  • Traktor
  • Rekordbox
  • VirtualDJ

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

Internet, RSS, broadcast music software
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.

  • Airtime
  • Audicom (First radio automation software—see Radio software)
  • Campcaster
  • Clickradio
  • Juice (aggregator)
  • Jamulus (Internet jamming software)
  • Moodagent (AI based emotion keyed playlist generator and app)
  • Ninjam (Internet jamming software)
  • OpenBroadcaster
  • Panopto

Lyrics and vocals
  • Cantor (music software)
  • Rhyme Genie (Algorithms and software for rhyming lyrics)
  • SingingCoach

Audio plug-ins
Main article: Audio plug-in
  • Blackhole, H3000 Factory, SplitEQ (Eventide, Inc.)
  • Stutter Edit, Ozone, RX Audio Editor (iZotope)
  • Jamstix (Rayzoon Technologies)
  • Liquid Rhythm (WaveDNA)
  • PCM Native, MPX Native (Lexicon (company))
  • NI Massive, Kontakt (software), B4, Electrik Piano, Guitar Rig 2 (Native Instruments)
  • OrangeVocoder (Prosoniq)
  • SoundFont (Integrates synthesized/sampled MIDI files with recorded music)
  • MachFive, Symphonic Instrument (Mark of the Unicorn)

Music analysis software
Main article: Musical analysis
See also: Spectrum analyzer
  • BeatRoot
  • BRP-PACU
  • ChucK
  • Kyma (sound design language)
  • Pure Data
  • Platinum Blue Music Intelligence (from Music Xray company)
  • Sonic Visualiser
  • WaveSurfer

Music circuit software
See also: Audio electronics and circuit bending

Music composing software
See also: Algorithmic composition
  • Antescofo
  • Director Musices
  • Hyperscore
  • JFugue
  • Keykit
  • Kyma (sound design language)
  • Max
  • Music Mouse (Algorithmic synth and composer)
  • Nodal
  • Ocarina
  • OpenMusic
  • PetSynth
  • Progression
  • Reaktor
  • Rubato Composer

Music 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.

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
  • ScoreCloud (Notation research)

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

Music visualization software
Main article: Music visualization
  • Advanced Visualization Studio (Justin Frankel) (platform: Windows)
  • Cthugha (1993, Kevin "Zaph" Burfitt) (platform: DOS)
  • Magic Music Visuals (since 2012, Color & Music, LLC) (platforms: Windows, OS X)
  • MilkDrop (2001-2012, Ryan Geiss) reimplemented as projectM (platforms: Windows, Linux, Android)
  • Neon (2004, Jeff Minter and Ivan Zorzin) (platform: Xbox 360)
  • Psychedelia
  • Pure Data
  • Virtual Light Machine (1990, Jeff Minter) (platform: Atari Jaguar)
  • Visual Music Tone Painter (1992–2004)[4]

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

Drums and percussion
  • Liquid Rhythm
  • Radiodrum

Guitar
  • Guitar Rig
  • Progression (software)

Piano

Pipe organ
  • Hauptwerk produces audio in response to MIDI signal from attached keyboard or from a MIDI sequencer[5]

Automatic composition software
Main article: Music and artificial intelligence
  • Experiments in Musical Intelligence

Samplers and sequencers

Soundtrack creation software
Main article: Soundtrack
See also: Multitrack recording and Sound recording and reproduction
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Soundtrack creation software.

Trackers
Main article: Music tracker

Historical tracker software:

Name Latest update License OS versions File format support VST
support		 ASIO
output
Windows OS X Linux MID MOD XM IT S3M
Renoise 31 July 2023 (2023-07-31) Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Load No Yes Yes
OpenMPT 21 May 2017 BSD Yes Yes-Wine Yes-Wine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SoundTracker 1 October 2023 (2023-10-01) GPL No No Yes No Yes Yes No No No No
MilkyTracker 5 July 2023 (2023-07-05) GPL Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Load Load No Yes
Buzztrax 3 September 2015 (2015-09-03) LGPL Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Load No Yes Yes

Virtual Studio Technology hosting software

Virtual synthesizer and studio software
See also: Virtual Studio Technology

Wave editors

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. Twells, John. "The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music". Fact Mag. Archived from the original on Apr 23, 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  3. "Music & Math". Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  4. Intelligence, new visions of artificial intelligence in practice. Vol. 11. Association for Computing Machinery. 2000.
  5. Thomas Wichmann, The Hauptwerk Computer Program, Review in The American Organist, July 2004
  6. "VST plug-ins". Audacity Wiki.
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