Algorithmic Music Composition

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.

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..

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

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

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

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...


Platforms: Windows

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

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

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