Composition

Easily Draw and Create Graphic Images. DrawPad is an easy-to-use image composition and manipulation program, and an essential tool for all types of graphic design projects, including: Creating banner ads or invitations, Make sketches and paintings on your computer, Draw diagrams, icons and other...

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.

Csound is a sound and music synthesis system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms. It is not restricted to any style of music, having been used for many years in the creation of classical, pop, techno, ambient, experimental, and (of course) computer...


Platforms: Linux

pMix (short for preset mixer) is a new composition and performance tool that facilitates the control of multiple plugin parameters using an intuitive graphical interface. pMix hosts four plugins and lets you interpolate between presets by navigating a 2D visual environment. Presets are...


Platforms: Mac

Imagine being able to write, design, record, mix, and play a musical composition all in the same program. With Z-Maestro, you can. The Z-Maestro application was designed to be intuitive, good-looking, and has a huge feature-set! for WindowsXP, Vista, 7


Platforms: Windows, Windows Vista, 7

An infinite realtime composition that creates an astounding sonic cosmos by manipulating instrumental sound particles in time and space. It takes advantage of composition algorithms that have been developed by Karlheinz Essl since the 1985 years. The generation process can be conducted by an...


Platforms: Mac

The Literary Machine is a revolutionary relational database and composition tool that manages any kind of information, even the random thoughts and bits of information you get, and forget, throughout the day. LM's unique system unharnesses you (and your thinking) from the rigid framework of...


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

A computer program created by composer Karlheinz Essl that automatically composes generative Carillon music based on the twelve-tone row of Anton Webern's last composition which he was unable to finish due to his sudden and unexpected death on 15 Sep 1945 when he was accidentially shot dead by an...


Platforms: Mac

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint...


Platforms: Mac

NiCE, short for NEAMS Integrated Computational Environment is a simple, Java based application intended to allow flexible development and composition of a wide range of simulations, models and analysis tools for NEAMS integrated performance and safety codes. for WindowsAll


Platforms: Windows

ClaMS is a handy application specially designed to offer you a sequence composition-based classifier for metagenomic sequences. ClaMS works by capturing signatures of each sequence based on the sequence composition. Each sequence is modeled as a walk in a de Bruijn graph with underlying Markov...


Platforms: Windows

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

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

The Literary Machine is a revolutionary relational database and composition tool that manages any kind of information, even the random thoughts and bits of information you get, and forget, throughout the day. LM's unique system unharnesses you (and your thinking) from the rigid framework of...


Platforms: Windows

Easily Draw and Create Graphic Images. DrawPad is an easy-to-use image composition and manipulation program, and an essential tool for all types of graphic design projects, including: Creating banner ads or invitations, Make sketches and paintings on your computer, Draw diagrams, icons and other...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server

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

The system can be scripted and embedded, and includes integrated instrument libraries, post-tonal and microtonal pitch modeling tools, multiple-format graphical outputs, and musical output in Csound, SuperCollider, Pure Data, MIDI, audio file, XML, and text formats. Musical parts are deployed as...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

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

ChucK is a new audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance - fully supported on MacOS X, Windows, and Linux. ChucK presents a new time-based concurrent programming model, which supports a highly precise and fundamental level of expressiveness (we call this...


Platforms: *nix