Top Most Downloaded Composition Software

A free and powerful music production toolLMMS is a free digital audio workstation (DAW) that lets you create music from your Windows computer. It gives you an array of features to create melodies, beats, and sounds. With the help of this open-source application, you can synthesize and mix sounds, use musical instrument...

Create diagrams of arguments and reasoningRationale is a nice, trial version software only available for Windows, that is part of the category Science & education software.More about RationaleSince the software joined our selection of programs and apps in 2007, it has obtained 4,339 downloads, and last week it achi...

All you need to create and mix musicMacaw is an amazing, free (gpl) Windows software, that belongs to the category Audio software with subcategory Music and has been created by Robin Holmes.More about MacawSince we added this program to our catalog in 2011, it has managed to achieve 81,668 downloads, and last week it a...

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...

The MIDI sequencer that features a rich understanding of music notation along with basic support for digital audio MIDI and audio sequencer with unlimited tracksRich music notation editing capabilitiesLarge built-in database of real-world instruments to aid composersSupport for 100+ MIDI playback devicesSupport for DS...

MuseScore is the leading free & open source music notation software for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is easy to use and makes beautiful sheet music. MuseScore is often praised as a cost effective alternative for Sibelius and Finale. Support MuseScore at http://musescore.org/en/donate Like MuseScore on Facebook: htt...

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. VSTMIDI ...

Rakarrack is a stereo digital effects processor for Linux with jack support. Standard line-up of nearly 40 effects modules include Equalizers, Reverbs, Echo, Flange, Chorus, Distortions, WahWah, Vocoder, and other filters and processing modules. TunerMidi ConverterPresetsEqualizerFlangerEchoChorusReverbPhaserWah-WahHa...

Netabc.tcl is a user interface for creating web pages that display the contents of abc music notation files using Jef Moine's Abc2svg JavaScript library. Every browser whether it is on a desktop, cellphone or tablet has a JavaScript engine that can render this music. renders abc notation inside browserinterface for en...

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 rea...

BackupBand is a music auto-arranger. It has a virtual drummer, bassist, and rhythm guitarist. These 3 "musicians" follow your chord changes live (as you play some MIDI instrument, such as a keyboard) and they play along with you in perfect time. It's like having a live rhythm section backing you up. The rhythm section...

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...

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. Jn...

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 wi...

A free, cross-platform, multilingual, cutting-edge music notation editor....

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 musi...

Bol Processor is a program for music composition and improvisation with real-time MIDI, MIDI file, and Csound output. It produces music from a set of rules (a compositional grammar) or from text scores which may be typed or captured from a MIDI instrument. Enter music as text or record MIDIProduce new music from a se...

MusE is a Qt based audio/midi sequencer with editing and recording capabilities for linux. Multitrack virtual studio ...

ScoreDate is your date with the music ! It is an open source software written in Java that helps musicians to learn music reading. It also helps you with ear training. It is suitable for any skill, from beginners to professional users. From slow training to first sight reading. Notes in line exerciseRhythms exerciseSc...

The SpatGRIS is a plugin (Mac AU/VST and VST Windows format) designed to compose multichannel space. It allows the user to spatialize the sound in 2D (up to 16 speakers) or in 3D (up to 128 speakers) under a dome of speakers (with the ServerGRIS, available here on SourceForge). SpatGRIS is a fusion of two former plugi...