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Awesome Music Projects

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This page lists names, links and short descriptions. The original list on GitHub is the source and belongs to its authors.

Audio Editing

Audacity

a free, cross-platform digital audio editor.

In 3 lists

Ardour

a cross-platform digital audio workstation emphasizing audio recording.

LMMS

another cross-platform digital audio workstation, more oriented towards making beats.

In 9 listsDetails

OpenUtau

A free, cross-platform singing voice synthesis framework.

snd

Snd is a sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs.

Stargate DAW

A cross-platform, all-in-one digital audio workstation and plugin suite, optimized for EDM production.

In 4 listsDetails

TuneFlow

a next-gen DAW that helps you generate melody, beats, or a whole song, while still being able to edit them.

Audio Libraries

audio.js

audio.js is a drop-in javascript library that allows HTML5's <audio> tag to be used anywhere.

audioFlux

A library for audio and music analysis, feature extraction.

In 6 listsDetails

chord-mark

reference implementation of ChordMark, a text notation format for lyrics, chords and rhythm.

howler.js

a Javascript audio library for the modern web.

In 4 lists

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.

In 5 listsDetails

midi.js

a framework for creating web-based MIDI apps.

In 2 lists

mxml

MusicXML parsing and layout library.

PortAudio

a free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library.

In 2 lists

RustAudio

an aggregate of free and useful Audio, DSP and music libraries written in Rust.

In 3 lists

Soundpipe

a lightweight DSP library written in C.

Audio Tools

Auralytics

an open-source personal Spotify analytics tool.

Beets

a powerful command-line music organizer and manipulator.

In 3 lists

Cecilia

a Pyo-based graphical environment for music and signal processing.

cyanrip

rips and encodes standard audio CDs with the least effort required from user. Cross platform.

fre:ac

free audio converter. It supports audio CD ripping and tag editing.

In 2 lists

Jack

command-line CD ripper.

K3b

is a full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning and ripping application.

Kima

a self-hosted music streaming server with ML-powered audio analysis, vibe-based discovery, and Subsonic API support.

Koel

an open-source personal audio streaming server.

In 4 listsDetails

Lame

a high quality, free and open-source MP3 encoder.

lltag

automatic command-line mp3/ogg/flac file tagger and renamer.

matchering

сontainerized web application and library for automated reference audio mastering.

In 4 listsDetails

MusicBrainz

Open Encyclopedia for Music information and Metadata, providing a unique ID for everything

In 2 lists

Rubyripper

is a secure digital audio extraction application ("cd ripper") for Unix-like operating systems.

SoX

a free open-source command line utility for playing, converting and manipulating audio files.

split2flac

split flac/ape/wv/wav + cue sheet into separate tracks

Whipper

Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed.

X Audio Copy

GTK and GNOME application for ripping CD-Audio and encoding in lossy and lossless audio formats.

Free Music Scores

bayanguru

engraving and publishing system that produces high quality sheet music for bayan in PDF.

cellist/Lilypond-Sheet-Music

a collection of music typeset with lilypond (mostly chamber music and music for cello).

ciconia/music

a collection of mostly baroque music, lots of sacred works by J. S. Bach, coded in lilypond/ripple.

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.

IMSLP

the International Music Score Library Project is the largest collection of public domain scores and parts on the web.

Lavender Blue Open-Scores

open scores for piano encoded using lilypond.

Mutopia

sheet music based on editions in the public domain.

wbsoft/lilymusic

beautiful LilyPond scores under free licenses.

MIDI Tools & Libraries

Gingoduino

music theory engine for embedded systems with MIDI 1.0/2.0 UMP support.

JJazzLab

a complete Midi-based framework for automatic backing tracks generation.

Midifile

C++ library for parsing Standard MIDI Files.

Midimonster

universal control and translation tool for most show control protocols.

In 3 lists

mido

Python library for working with MIDI messages and ports.

mididings

A Python-based MIDI router and processor for Linux and macOS

Polyrhythmix

MIDI drums generator, designed for polyrhythmic parts

stagedings

An UI and API for mididings

Timidity

an open-source command line synthesizer that plays MIDI files.

Music Notation

Abjad

a Python API for Formalized Score Control, based on Lilypond.

ChordMark

a text-based notation format for lyrics, chords and rhythm.

Denemo

a free music notation editor based on Lilypond.

Digital Music Stand

a free web app for displaying sheet music.

Jan Angermüller's music fonts page

A listing and visual comparison of different music fonts.

Frescobaldi

a free Lilypond sheet music editor.

Guido

a generic, portable library and API for the graphical rendering of musical scores.

Hacklily

online LilyPond-based sheet music editor (with optional GitHub integration).

Inknote

free, open source, browser based music notation and composition software.

JotChord

an online, text-based editor for making PDF-formatted Nashville Number System song charts.

LibMEI

a C++ library for reading and writing MEI files.

Lilybin

an open source 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.

Lyp

the Lilypond swiss army knife - easily install packages, manage multiple versions of Lilypond, and other tools for power users.

mei-friend

a friendly, browser-based editor for music encodings.

MuseScore

free open-source music notation and composition software.

In 3 lists

MusicKit

Music sheet rendering for iOS and OSX.

neoscore

python library for notating music in a graphics-first paradigm.

NOTATIO

a forum devoted to the practice of music notation.

OpenLilyLib

LilyPond tools - snippets, templates, and extensions.

OpenSheetMusicDisplay

Typescript library for rendering MusicXML in the browser.

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.

Tbon

Typographic Beat-Oriented Notation for music.

Unison

Proprietary software for creating music score with words.

VectorScore

Lightweight, SVG-based music notation library for TypeScript under MIT license.

Verovio

a library and a toolkit for engraving MEI music notation into SVG.

In 3 lists

Vexflow

a JavaScript library for rendering music notation and guitar tablature.

In 2 lists

Music Programming

Alda

a music programming language for musicians.

In 4 lists

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.

Cane

A small MIDI sequencer DSL designed around vectors and euclidean rhythms.

Chuck

strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly music programming language.

CoffeeCollider

a language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition in HTML5. "Write CoffeeScript, and be processed as SuperCollider."

Common Music

an open source music composition system.

Csound

a user-programmable and user-extensible sound processing language and software synthesizer.

DrumBeatRepo

A rhythm library for playing drum beats of differents music genres in the browser.

Faust

a functional programming language specifically designed for real-time signal processing and synthesis.

Gwion

A strongly-timed programming language aimed at music creation. Heavily inspired by ChucK.

IanniX

a graphical open-source sequencer, based on Iannis Xenakis works, for digital art.

Inscore

an environmnent for the design of interactive, augmented music scores.

Leipzig

a composition library for Overtone.

Leiter

TypeScript-based library designed to generate musical scales.

Midica

MIDI programming language with decompiler and player, supports karaoke.

music21

A Toolkit for Computational Musicology.

In 2 lists

Music Suite

a language for generalized music notation and theory, based on Haskell.

mutwo

a Python library for composition that outputs notation, MIDI or audio files and that provides a generalized model to describe time-based structures.

Nyquist

a sound synthesis and composition language.

OpenMusic

a visual programming language based on Lisp.

Orca

live programming environment for music.

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.

pyo

a Python module to help digital signal processing script creation.

py-modular

a modular and experimental programming environment with basic DSP routines in python.

Sardine

a music live coding library for Python 3.10+ (MIDI/OSC/SuperCollider).

slippery chicken

a Common Lisp environment for composition building on CLM, CMN, CM, MusicXML and Lilypond for score, sound file, and/or MIDI file outputs.

In 2 lists

Sonic Pi

a live coding synth with an emphasis on educational use.

In 2 lists

Sporth

a small stack based audio language.

Strudel

an experiment in making a language built on javascript for live coding patterns using web technologies.

SuperCollider

a programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.

Tidal

a language built on Haskell for live coding patterns.

In 3 lists

Topos

a web based live coding environment (WebAudio / MIDI)

tuneflow-py

python plugin SDK for the next-gen DAW, that allows you to program your music algorithms & AI models into all stages of music production

Unison

Proprietary software for creating music score with words.

Music Theory Teaching

Artusi

Interactive music theory exercises.

Four Score and More

Tailored music theory exercises based on scores.

musictheory.net

Lessons and exercises

OpenMusicTheory

a growing, online "textbook" for music theory and aural skills.

Theorytab

a database of songs with their chord functions.

Standards

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.

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