Algorithmic Music Composition

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...

Violet Composer is a tool to compose music using only your basic PC and a sound card. On top of giving you a complete music composition packet in only one application, Violet Composer also has a series of advantages. For example, Violet Composer is written in C language, which is open code; also...

Rosegarden project is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home...


Platforms: *nix

Symbolic Composer is the largest music composition language available.Symbolic Composer is one of the most advanced and largest music composition language available with over 1000 music algorithms, suitable for modern, dance, classic, electronic, ambient and experimental styles.


Platforms: Mac

Selor Staff is an open-source music composition app for Mac OS X. It features a staff-based interface (rather than a tracker interface) for natural entry and readability, and supports playback to any MIDI device. Emphasis is placed on user efficiency and automated enforcement of musical constraints.


Platforms: Mac

BlueJam is a Java-based algorithmic music composer that uses evolutionary techniques and heuristics. Originally intended to evolve solos on the blues scale. BlueJam interfaces with Pure-Data to give real-time output.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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 typed or captured from a MIDI instrument.


Platforms: Mac

JComposer aim to be a complete Java based music composition tool, using XML as its main file format, featuring an intuitive WYSIWYG notation editor, fast keyboard editing, automatic notation layout, high quality rendering, MIDI playback and open APIs.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Java-based (multiplatform) tool for algorithmic musical composition. Saiph generates sequences made of tracks made of segments with musical events, currently notes and MIDI controllers. It supports MIDI and MusicXML file output.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Sound Grid is a graphical music composition, editing, and notation tool in the cartesian coordinate system. Visit http://sites.google.com/site/soundgrid/Home for tutorial. Contact jonnyq@scn.org for questions. Keywords: midi java sound


Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

A SoundFont editor and other software for editing, managing and sharing sample based MIDI instrument files for computer music composition. Support for other formats is planned.


Platforms: Mac, BSD, Linux

JMSL is a Java API for music composition, interactive performance, and intelligent instrument design. With JMSL, the composer/programmer can create stand-alone musical applications or deploy applets on the web. JMSL supports JSyn, MidiShare, MidiPort, and JavaSound.


Platforms: Mac

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 MIDI, WAV/AIFF/MP3/OggVorbis/etc audio files and LADSPA modules. It has excellent...


Platforms: *nix

DISSCO is an integrated environment for music composition (CMOD) and additive sound sythesis (LASS). LASS is a C++ library. It includes a Java GUI (LASSIE) which allows users to enter the specifications needed to build sounds. CMOD will be part of a


Platforms: *nix

BlueJam is a Java-based algorithmic music composer that uses evolutionary techniques and heuristics. Originally intended to evolve solos on the blues scale. BlueJam interfaces with Pure-Data to give real-time output.


Platforms: *nix

SwarMala is a complete software package for composition and accompaniment using Indian musical instruments, and consists of two main components: SwarMala composer is the software application which you can use for composing music using the instruments in SwarMala. It consists of a multi-track...


Platforms: Windows

Program description: Pizzicato is a music notation and composition software based on the score and MIDI. Are you a beginner ? Pizzicato includes a free music course. Are you a professional ? Pizzicato offers you a lot of tools and lets you to create yours. Just as you use a word...


Platforms: Windows, Mac

Tools to help you compose and write your own music intuitively, for the solo instrument as well as for the full orchestra. These tools help you to find, structure, develop, organize and harmonize your own musical ideas with an intuitive approach. The music libraries contain thousands of simple...


Platforms: Windows, Mac

Draw sounds on a continuous time-frequency diagram that looks like a musical score. They use purely graphical operations (such as move-resize, copy-paste, group...) to produce rapidly complex audio effects or full compositions. HighC draws on 20 years of a world class user interface design...


Platforms: Mac

Jm-Etude is a jMusic wrapper for the processing environment. It provides a high level API to communicate with jMusic therefore it makes it more easy to programm music composition with processing. jMusic itself is a solid framework for computer-assisted composition in Java, it is also used for...


Platforms: Mac