Open Source BSD Music Composition Software

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.

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.

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: http://facebook.com/musescore

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.

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)

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

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/

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.

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.

Tracked Music Editor Supports WAV, DLS files. Supports recording from MIDI devices.

Calliope is a NeXTStep music score notation editor being ported to MacOS X and GnuStep. It uses Cocoa and the open source MusicKit APIs. Calliope offers good support for typesetting modern and early musical scores, including lyrics and lute tablature.

A music notation program to aid musicians in composing and understanding solos. Enable musicians to improve their understanding of chord changes and solos.

JJazz generates musical MIDI accompaniment based on a chord leadsheet ("Cm7 / F7") and rhythm style information, like e.g. Band-in-a-Box or Jammer. It can be expanded thanks to a plugin system, for unlimited rhythm generation capabilities.

A simple application that allows users to customize characteristics it uses to improvise jazz solos. A user can create new solos, save those solos, and reopen them for playback.

Music editor intended for Linux, but written using C and SDL and hence portable to other platforms.

Very Powerfull Crossplatform [Advanced] Music Note Editor [STILL PLANING,DONT DOWNLOAD IT] Qt based project Strong plugin system that can dynamicly connect to all types of application using specified drivers,even JS plugins. Strong editor host provided and shared with all plugins. Allow to import or export files and sounds to all type of music files using dynamic plugins,basically added GuitarPro,... Allow users to use multiple output and input devices such as Internal MIDI System,ISDB Instrument Sound Database,DirectX MIDI IO,... Provides a powerfull API for plugins and other devices to use. Includes over 50 usefull internal plugin. Internal amplifier known as RoNOTE/Amplifier project that can import to other applications. RoNOTE has its special proccess models that speedup the application very much. Thanks...

Strasheela is a constraint-based music composition system. The user defines music theories by sets of compositional rules and the system creates music which complies with these theories. User-interface is the programming language Oz.