Sequencer

The Smurf Sound Font Editor is a sound font editor for Linux and other *nix like operating systems. Soundfont is considered a standard for creating instruments (also called patches) for use in composing MIDI music. This standard utilizes digital audio "samples" (recorded or generated sounds)... Platforms: *nix

Frinika is a free, complete music workstation program for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X Tiger, and other operating systems running Java 1.5 (J2SE5.0). Frinika features a sequencer, soft-synths, real-time effects, and audio recording.. Platforms: *nix

LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of producing music with your computer by creating/synthesizing sounds, arranging samples, playing live with keyboard and much more... LMMS... Platforms: *nix

buzztard project aims to provide a free replacement (or clone) of the currently windows only and closed source software Buzz. The buzz software is not really further developed, as the main developer has lost his source code. We want to provide a music production environment, that is based on a... Platforms: *nix

A program for converting Ascii tabulature (for guitar, bass guitar and drums) to MIDI files. I can see at least 5 different (classes of)music applications: Theres this piece of music notated in tablature that youve seen in the news and you want to see how it sounds. You usually have to modify... Platforms: *nix

gAlan is the Graphical Audio Language. A modular synthesiser - drum-machine - sequencer - effects-unit for Linux and Win32. Using gAlan is much like setting up an effects-chain for, say, a guitar. You choose the effects units you wish to use, lay them out, and then connect them to each other,... Platforms: *nix

jAER is built as a Java project that lets you to do real time, spike-based processing with address-event representation (AER) systems on PCs. jAER systems include temporal contrast silicon retinas AER monitor / sequencer boards developed in the EU CAVIAR project, silicon cochleas, servo motor... Platforms: Windows

A set of 7 plugins (plus an additional plugin to facilitate registration). They are available in VST, RTAS, and AU formats, and require a sequencer set to (or able to operate at) 44.1 kHz resolution. These modules, driven by MIDI tracks, produce the sounds of a drum kit. They allow you to set... Platforms: 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

A timeless EXS24 Sample Library including an emulation of the legendary Minimoog (Leadsynth) and Jupiter 8 (Pads & Arpeggiosounds). 'Additional you will find many other sample-based analog synthsounds. ' A main emphasis of this library are typical Minimoog synthleads. But also other spectacular... Platforms: Mac

With this software you configure a "music engine" adjust its settings and makes of your soundcard or any MIDI synth a powerfull music machine, algorithmically generate music for arpeggios, ambiental sounds etc.. it is Freeware Platforms: Windows

A suite of four high-end studio-quality reverbs modeled after popular outboard classics. - Suite of 4 separate reverb units: Plate, Room, Hall, and Inverse - State of the art DSP based reverb algorithms - 2 operational modes: Easy and Advanced - 6 easy to use controls in Easy Mode - More than 100... Platforms: Mac

A creative tool that helps you make the most of your grooves. In simple terms, ReCycle lets you do with sampled loops what you can do with beats programmed from individual drum sounds - like alter the tempo, or replace sounds and process them individually. A tool for quickly editing sampled... Platforms: Mac

Archibald is a complete and powerful tool for creating grooves. Thanks to its flexible step-sequencer, you may edit drum parts of virtually any level of complexity. Archibald is then able to add its own realistic interpretations of your patterns, putting a 'human' touch to note, velocity, and... Platforms: Mac

A software audio delay effect processor that emulates the sound and operation of vintage magnetic-tape echo units. Whilst not a direct copy of any one particular model, it takes features from several of the classic delay devices, and unites them into a convincing and pleasingly retro sounding... Platforms: Mac

A little physical modeling synthesizer based on the Karplus-Strong algorithm. Kapling uses this method to attempt the emulation of resonant bodies, like a string being plucked, or melodic percussion instrument being struck. Eight independent voices are triggered by a 32-step sequencer, with a... Platforms: Mac

Leverages the power of todays video cards to replace clunky, expensive, old-fashioned hardware streamer boxes with a far more flexible software-based solution. Streamers works by rendering streamers, punches, and an innovative free-time clock to a transparent window that sits on top of your... Platforms: Mac

Creating sounds with Curve is intuitive and immediate. The waveform editor is irresistible, and provides completely new possibilities for experimentation and detailed tweaking. Three powerful oscillators, three envelope generators, two filters and four LFOs work together in a sophisticated... Platforms: Windows, Windows Vista, XPX64, 7, 7x64

Tunefish is a very tiny virtual analog synthesizer. It is developed to fit into about 10kb of compressed machine code while still producing an audio quality that can compete with commercial synthesizers. Tunefish uses the Qt framework for C++ as its basis so as to make the GUI possible. Platforms: Windows

The Blue Cat's Parametr'EQ plugin was designed to be a 7 bands parametric equalizer combining the advantages of both the digital and analog worlds. Its special non-linear and oversampling features let you easily simulate the compression and distortion that may occur in an analog EQ or on the... Platforms: Windows, XP, Windows Vista, 7, 7x64