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List of free software for audio

This list of free software for audio lists notable free and open source software for use by sound engineers, audio producers, and those involved in sound recording and reproduction.

1 Audio analysis
2 Converters
3 Modular systems
4 Platforms
5 Programming languages
6 Radio broadcasting
7 Recording and editing
8 Softsynths
9 Streaming
10 Technologies
11 Trackers
12 Other
13 See also
14 References
15 External links

Audio analysis

Converters

Name	Creator	Linux?	Mac OS X?	Unix?	Windows?	Note	License
Max	Stephen Booth (site)	No	Yes	No	No	Not to be confused with Max/MSP	GPL
FFmpeg	Fabrice Bellard	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Audio & video.	GPL or LGPL
MPlayer		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Audio & video.	GPL
Fre:ac (formerly BonkEnc)	Robert Kausch	No	No	No	Yes		GPL

Modular systems

Name	Linux?	Mac OS X?	Unix?	Windows?	Note	License
jMax	Yes			Yes	no longer supported	LGPL
SynFactory	No	No	No	Yes		GPL
VisualAp	Yes	Yes		Yes		GPL
aRts	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		GPL

Platforms

Various projects have formed to integrate the existing free software audio packages.

Name	Description	License
Ubuntu Studio	Linux distribution	various
dyne:bolic	Linux distribution	various
AGNULA	Linux distribution
Musix	Linux distribution	various
64 Studio	Linux distribution
Planet CCRMA	set of packages (in RPM format)

Programming languages

Many computer music programming languages are implemented in free software. See also the comparison of audio synthesis environments.

Name	Creator	Linux?	Mac OS X?	Unix?	Windows?	License
Csound	Csound community, Barry Vercoe	Yes	Yes	No?	Yes	LGPL
SuperCollider	SuperCollider community, James McCartney	Yes	Yes	Yes?	Yes	GPL
ChucK		Yes	Yes	No?	Yes	GPL
Nyquist	Computer Music Project at Carnegie Mellon University, Roger B. Dannenberg	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pure Data	Pd Community, Miller Puckette	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	BSD-like

Radio broadcasting

Recording and editing

The following packages are digital audio editors.

Name	Creator	Linux?	Mac OS X?	Unix?	Windows?	Note
Ardour	Paul Davis	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	multi-track audio recorder
Audacity	Dominic Mazzoni	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	multi-track audio recorder
AudioChain	Florian Paul	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	multi-track audio recorder
Ecasound		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes limited support through Cygwin	audio recorder
Eisenkraut	Hanns Holger Rutz (site)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	connects to SuperCollider
harmonySEQ	Rafal Cieslak (site)	Yes	No		No	MIDI sequencer
Jokosher	Jokosher community	Yes	No		Yes	multi-track audio editor
LMMS	Tobias Doerffel	Yes	Yes as of 0.4.0 with Qt4		Yes	Free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. Intended as a replacement for Cubase-like software (DAW)
MusE		Yes	No		No	MIDI sequencer
Qtractor		Yes	No		No	A non-destructive multi-track audio and MIDI Workstation (DAW)
ReZound	Davy Durham	Yes	No	No	No	Graphical audio file editor
Rosegarden		Yes	No		No	MIDI sequencer and multi-track recorder
SoX		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	command-line multi-track audio editor/processor
Sweep	Conrad Parker	Yes	No	Yes	No
Traverso DAW	Remon Sijrier (site)	Yes	Yes		Yes	multi-track audio recorder and editor
WaveSurfer	Centre for Speech Technology at KTH	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Softsynths

Streaming

These programs are for use with streaming audio.

Name	Linux?	Mac OS X?	Unix?	Windows?	Note
Icecast	Yes		Yes	Yes	a broadcast server, serves audio signals to clients over the HTTP protocol
PeerCast	Yes	Yes		Yes	a peercasting tool
Firefly Media Server	Yes	Yes		Yes	streams music to DAAP clients like iTunes and Rhythmbox
VideoLAN	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	media and server programs for video and audio streaming

Technologies

Name	Creator	Linux?	Mac OS X?	Unix?	Windows?	Note
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)		Yes				a sound card management system in the Linux kernel
DSSI		Yes				a plugin architecture for software synthesizers
GStreamer		Yes	No	Yes	Yes	a graph-based multimedia framework
JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK)	JACK Team, Paul Davis	Yes	Yes (JACK OS X)		Yes (jackdmp)	a sound server
Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API (LADSPA)		Yes				a plugin architecture for digital signal processing
Open Sound System		Yes		Yes		a standard interface for making and capturing sound in Unix operating systems
PulseAudio		Yes	Yes	Yes(Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD)	Yes	a sound server

Trackers

These music sequencer programs allow users to arrange notes (pitch-shifted sound samples) on a timeline: see tracker (music software).

Name	Creator	Linux?	Mac OS X?	Unix?	Windows?	Note
Buzztard		Yes	Unknown	Yes	Unknown	Buzz clone
CheeseTracker	Juan Linietsky (site)	Yes	Yes		No	Impulse Tracker clone
MilkyTracker	(site)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also runs on various other platforms including but not limited to Windows Mobile, PlayStation and AmigaOS 4.
OpenMPT	Olivier Lapicque	No	No	No	Yes	released as free software in 2004
Psycle		No	No	No	Yes	a tracker combined with modular capabilities
SoundTracker		Yes	No	Yes	No	Fast Tracker clone

Other

Name	Creator	Linux?	Mac OS X?	Unix?	Windows?	Note
Aria Maestosa	Auria	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	a multi-track MIDI sequencer
Gnaural		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Binaural beat and pink noise generator
GNU LilyPond	Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	a music engraving program
Hydrogen		Yes	Yes	Partial	Partial	an advanced drum machine
Impro-Visor	Bob Keller	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	lead sheet notation, jazz improvisation, auto-accompaniment
orDrumbox		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	a Java based drum machine
libsndfile		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	library for reading and writing many sound formats