Open Source Mac Music Composition Software
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Music Composition Software for Mac
View 65 business solutionsBrowse free open source Music Composition software and projects for Mac below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Music Composition software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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FL Studio
The best music production software
FL Studio by Image-Line is a complete digital audio workstation (DAW) designed to turn your musical ideas into professional-quality tracks with ease. Trusted by world-renowned artists like Martin Garrix, Mustard, and Boi-1da, it’s built for producers of every genre — from EDM and hip-hop to pop and cinematic music. With an intuitive interface and powerful workflow, you can start creating in minutes while exploring endless possibilities as your skills grow. FL Studio comes packed with over 100 instruments and effects, a massive sound library, and world-class tools for composition, recording, and mastering. Its lifetime free updates ensure you’ll always have the latest features without extra cost. Whether on desktop or mobile, FL Studio delivers a fast, fun, and flexible production experience for beginners and pros alike. -
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Impro-Visor
Leadsheet notation with auto-generated playback, improvisation advice
Impro-Visor® is a music notation tool for producing monophonic lead sheets, specifically intended to help the improviser. Chord symbols are used to generate backing tracks automatically. Improvisation advice exists in the form of note coloration, database of licks, and automatic lick generation from grammars. Grammars can be learned automatically from transcriptions. Styles can be edited and created by the user. Other features include generation of roadmaps for understanding keys and idiomatic chord progressions, chord voicing keyboard, MIDI and MusicXML export. See http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor for general information, including tutorials. Support and additional resources are through the user group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/impro-visor/info. The most recent source code, since summer of 2015, is housed here: https://github.com/Impro-Visor/Impro-Visor This started when SourceForge was down for over one week during an active development period. -
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Frescobaldi
LilyPond sheet music text editor
Frescobaldi is a free and open source LilyPond sheet music text editor. Designed to be powerful yet lightweight and easy-to-use, Frescobaldi offers great functionality and a host of useful features such as music view with advanced two-way Point & Click, Midi capturing to enter music, a Snippet Manager and many more. Frescobaldi is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period. -
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MuseScore
Free music notation & composition software
MuseScore is a free and open-source music notation software designed for composers, arrangers, educators, and musicians of all levels. It allows users to write, edit, and print professional-quality sheet music with no limitations or subscription fees. MuseScore Studio supports a wide range of instruments and ensembles, from solo piano and guitar to full orchestras and choirs. The software is easy to learn while still offering powerful tools for advanced notation and score layout. With support for MIDI input and formats like MusicXML and MIDI, MuseScore integrates smoothly with other music software and workflows. Built by a global open-source community, MuseScore continues to evolve through active development and community contributions. Support MuseScore at http://musescore.org/en/donate -
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Psycle is a Music tracker (like FastTracker 2 or Impulse Tracker) combined with plugin modularity. It supports its own plugin API, the VST2 plugin standard, and a tracker style sampler playback.
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SoundHelix
Versatile algorithmic random music generation software written in Java
SoundHelix is a free versatile Java framework for algorithmic random music composition. SoundHelix can generate random songs, play them (for example, on any number of MIDI devices or MIDI-capable software synthesizers) and is highly customizable using XML configuration. SoundHelix also allows writing the generated music as MIDI files. SoundHelix produces music that is actually enjoyable to listen to. -
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SID-Wizard
Featureful native Commodore 64 music tracker with MIDI/XM converter
A featureful SID-music creation tool (tracker) for the Commodore 64. It includes many advanced effects and tools like keyboard-tracking, tempo-programs/funktempo, gateoff-table-pointers, filter-shift, SID-export, executable-export, MIDI/XM conversion and MIDI-input hardware, etc., etc. NOTE: I left SourceForge for reasons not ethical to mention here. You can find me and my further work at these locations: http://hermit.sidrip.com http://csdb.dk/scener/?id=18806 https://github.com/hermitsoft/ -
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A unique desktop music composing application for PC/Mac/Linux/Android with a tracker style interface and a simple modular Java plugin based design allowing rapid improvement and endless expansion.
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Scribbletune
Create music with JavaScript
Scribbletune is a JavaScript library for creating music and sequences using a simple and intuitive syntax, allowing developers to generate MIDI files and integrate music composition into their applications. -
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gm
R Package for Music Score and Audio Generation
Create music easily, and show musical scores and audio files in R Markdown documents, R Jupyter Notebooks and RStudio. -
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LNX_Studio
Networked music collaboration
LNX_Studio is a way of bring people together to make music with new and innovative tools. It's all about creating and sharing ideas. There are many features in LNX_Studio and it's strength lies in putting the creative process at the forefront of a networked collaboration. Making music with your friends is now wonderfully simple. -
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JChordBox
Give the chord progression and a style and jchordbox generates a song.
Give the chord progression and a style and JChordBox generates a song. JChordBox is a library tool that can generate backing tracks from a chord progression and a music style. A music Style is describe using an XML and a MIDI file. You can generate an XML Style file from a MIDI file by adding markers to delimit grooves. An XML Song file describes a chord progression and sets the music style to use. JChordBox comes with several command line tools (GenerateSong, CreateStyleFromMidiFile, SongPlayer …). NEW:The application center is called SongPlayer and is a text based user interface that can play JChordBox song. SongPlayer is a MIDI Player that can loop a song, mute or soloing tracks and displays transport informations. SongPlayer is now the default jar application. NEW:Examples have been added to the distribution package. -
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Common Music
An algorithmic music composition system
Common Music (CM) is a real-time music composition system implemented in JUCE/C++ and Scheme. It generates musical output via MIDI, OSC, CLM, FOMUS and CSOUND. Its user application is called GRACE (Graphical Real-time Algorithmic Composition Environment) -
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JNIZ music notation audio to midi
music composition and notation software, audio to midi converter
The Jniz project is stopped. The new Web version is now JnizWeb hosted on Gitlab (under construction): https://gitlab.com/jniz70/jnizweb/ Demo: https://jniz70.gitlab.io/jnizweb/ Jniz is a piece of software designed for musicians as a support tool to the musical composition. It allows you to build and to harmonize several voices according to the rules of classical harmony. Sound/audio-to-Midi converter: real-time conversion of any monophonic sound (voice, instrument etc.) into notes / tones. Jniz is a free proprietary piece of software. You do not have the right to sell, distribute Jniz or use its sources under penalty of law. You will infringes on the Jniz staff property rights. Please review the use license here: http://www.jniz.org/index.php/en/license -
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Piano and Drum kit
An Internet Browser Based Piano and Drum kit Software
Just download the above zip file, extract it and then open the respective index.html file on your favourite internet browser and follow the instructions shown. -
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Kangas Sound Editor
Synthesizer, mixing, sound effects, music composition and production.
This kangaroo-themed program allows the user to create their own music and sound effects, effectively from scratch. There are two variants of the program: Kangas Sound Editor which requires MySQL for its database, and Kangas Sound Editor QI which does not (it uses an internal database - HSQLDB - instead). Kangas Sound Editor (QI) uses a system of boxes or cells, which are placed by the user onto a timeline using drag-and-drop, and which represent entities such as chords, repetition, and individual sounds or notes. The program's database allows the user to create and store harmonics, used for constructing melodic instruments, and anti-harmonics, which are used for constructing percussion instruments. Users can collaborate with and build on the work of others via an XML import/export facility. -
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LilyPondBeans is a GUI front-end for the LilyPond (www.lilypond.org) music notation software.
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The MidiRandomizer is a Java Swing application that generates MIDI files (SMF) according to a set of randomization parameters. This allows some measure of control over the random patterns produced.
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Presto is a music notation program aimed at making it easy for a composer to rapidly convert a musical sketch (melody, counterpoint, harmonic support and bass) into a complete musical arrangement.
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jfMusic
Tracked Music Editor
Tracked Music Editor Supports WAV, DLS files. Supports recording from MIDI devices. -
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BeepComp
Text-based chiptune creator
Compose chiptunes with text files! And make mp3 and wav files of your songs to share with the world :) The audio synthesizer engine comes with 10 channels (9 music + 1 drum). The retro "beep" sounds reminiscent of old video game consoles and vintage PCs will take you back to the 8-bit era. You can shape your sound with waveforms - square, sawtooth etc. - and add LFO, delay and volume envelopes. Enjoy the 80's-ish synth drums, also! Demo songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB6FUTQ5Oz4&list=PLXBNhaAeM7Lxf7ysrFzYFwPYRZM1JCrZr SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/beepcomp Orfium: https://www.orfium.com/profile/beepcomp/ What your music composition will look like: https://sourceforge.net/p/beepcomp/code/ci/master/tree/userdata/ (Similar to MML) Your First Tutorial: http://hiromorozumi.com/beepcomp/learn.html User's Guide: http://hiromorozumi.com/beepcomp/documentation/beepcomp_users_guide.html -
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The MIDI Agent System (MAS) uses the interaction between different agents to generate MIDI notes. This software is designed for live use and it enables the performer to have real time control over very complex music.
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superboucle
Loop based software with jack transport, record and midi controllable
SuperBoucle is a loop based software fully controllable with any midi device. SuperBoucle is also synced with jack transport. You can use it on live performance or for composition. SuperBoucle is composed of a matrix of sample controllable with external midi device like pad. SuperBoucle will send back information to midi device (light up led). Sample will always start and stop on a beat or group of beats. You can adjust duration of sample (loop period) in beat and offset in beat. But you can also adjust sample offset in raw frame count negative or positive. Which mean sample can start before next beat (useful for reversed sample). You can record loop of any size, adjust BPM, reverse, normalize samples, ... Typical usage : * You need to control jack transport with external midi device and want a button to jump to a specified location in song. * You have some instruments patterns but you have no idea of song structure. * You make live performance with pre-recorded instruments. -
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Open Musicwriter
A music score editor
Open Musicwriter is a multi-platform open-source music score editor. It handles MIDI files and MusicXML files.
