Algorithmic Music Composition

ArtSong™ is a versatile MIDI-based algorithmic music composition system for Windows® computers. ArtSong™ provides a variety of algorithms to Compose and harmonize melodies, Compose countermelodies and 'counterpoint', Generate chord progressions, Generate bass parts, Compose chord pads and... Platforms: Windows

SoundHelix is a free versatile Java framework for algorithmic music composition. SoundHelix can generate random songs, play them (for example, on MIDI devices or MIDI-capable software synthesizers) and is highly customizable using XML configuration. Platforms: Mac

Common Music (CM) is an object-oriented music composition environment. Common Music produces sound by transforming a high-level representation of musical structure into a variety of control protocols for sound synthesis and display.. Platforms: *nix

Beast project is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application. Beast is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application released as free software under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix. It supports a wide range of standards in the field, such as... Platforms: *nix

Swami - Sampled Waveforms And Musical Instruments - is an advanced instrument editor for MIDI music composition and a sampler frontend. Currently SoundFont® files can be browsed, edited and saved and new instrument formats are being added (DLS and GigaSampler) in the Swami development version.... Platforms: *nix

Musink is a free music-composition software package that lets you write music at unprecedented speeds. With Musink, you can create anything from orchestral scores, to short-musical-snippets, to exercise books. Musink is particularly useful if you are a publisher, drummer, or writing music... Platforms: Windows

Maestro Composer is powerful music composition software, presenting you with a powerful range of tools which help you to write and publish your musical scores in minimal time. Maestro Composer provides no less than twelve methods of inputting musical notes including its exclusive Quick Input... Platforms: Windows

Nyquist is an easy to use language specially designed for sound synthesis and music composition. It is implemented in C and C++ and it combines a powerful functional programming style with efficient signal-processing primitives. Platforms: Windows

Make your own music with our award-winning voice-to-note music composition software. With Music Masterworks you can compose by just singing into your microphone and/or recording from your MIDI compatible digital piano/keyboard. Edit the song using piano roll or staff notation with the simple... Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server

WikiComposer Desktop Version is an easy-to-use music composition application that seeks to minimize the amount of friction that exists between the user's musical ideas and capturing those ideas. It supports external MIDI devices, and takes a strictly what-you-see-is-what-you-hear approach to... Platforms: Windows

Comprehensive, integrated music composition and notation software, incorporating music scoring, arranging, MIDI sequencing and recording.Electronic Musician 1995 Editors' Choice"...one of the best MIDI software values on the market. MIDI novices and serious musicians on a budget will be equally... Platforms: Windows

QuickScore Elite Level II is Sion Software's premier music composition and notation software - incorporating scoring, arranging, MIDI and audio sequencing and recording. Use it to create publication-quality scores, musical content for the desktop and world wide web, audio CDs, MP3s and... Platforms: Windows

The VBRhapsody application (or VBR for short) was developed to be a powerful music composition and editing tool. Using VBR you can enter, edit and print musical scores usung standard musical notation. You can also play your scores on a MIDI instrument and additionally, you can use a MIDI... Platforms: Windows

AudioCarver is a music composition application featuring a user interface based on 3d modeling. Examples of its audio and visual output can be found at audiosculptures.com. Platforms: *nix

An algorithmic music Midi generator! The musical composition is a mental creation, the instrument is an intermediary... and the solfege a representation method among other. AutoGam allows you to compose music without knowledge of the solfege and without the practice of an instrument.NB:... Platforms: Windows

Strasheela is a highly expressive constraint-based music composition system.2 The Strasheela user declaratively states a music theory and the computer generates music which complies with this theory. A theory is formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) by a set of rules (constraints)... Platforms: Mac

FretPet is a unique and powerful guitar-oriented music composition tool with an amazing variety of applications. FretPet plays through the built-in Quicktime synthesizer and provides a MIDI source for programs like GarageBand, Absynth, FM7, Reason, MIDIPipe, etc. FretPet has been completely... Platforms: Mac

HighC is a graphical music creation tool. It is a synthesizer, a sequencer and a mixer. Its goal is to make music composition as simple and direct as sketching. An entertaining and educational tool... No music experience needed: create stunning soundscapes and crazy ringtones in a matter of... Platforms: Linux

HighC is a graphical music creation tool. It is a synthesizer, a sequencer and a mixer. Its goal is to make music composition as simple and direct as sketching. An entertaining and educational tool... No music experience needed: create stunning soundscapes and crazy ringtones in a matter of... Platforms: Mac

RapidComposer is a unique, non-destructive, parametric phrase-based music composition software. Please see the detailed feature list below. The master track contains the chords and scales for the composition. Clicking on a chord will open a chord palette, where you can choose from all the chords... Platforms: Windows