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Music production

Abletone Learning Synth is nice intro. Never Before Heard Sounds is working on some neat tech.

Tools

  • Ableton Live - Digital audio workstation. (GitHub)
  • GLICOL - Graph-oriented live coding language written in Rust. Make music with code. (Web) (HN) (HN)
  • Klangmeister
  • Helio Workstation - One music sequencer for all major platforms, both desktop and mobile. (Web) (HN)
  • Sonic Pi - Code-based music creation and performance tool. (Code) (Sonic Pi Tool) (Sonic Pi Challenge) (Sonic Pi Tool (Python)) (HN)
  • FlowKey - Learn Piano with songs you love.
  • Orca - Live Programming Environment. Each letter of the alphabet is an operation. (C rewrite) (Web) (HN) (Interview with creator) (Forum discussion) (Intro) (Videos) (HN)
  • Glitch - Minimal algorithmic music composer and synthesizer. (Code)
  • IO-808 - Attempt at a fully recreated web-based TR-808 drum machine. (Code)
  • Thrum - Experiment in making a livecoding music sequencer using functional reducers.
  • BeepBox - Online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental melodies. (Code)
  • BlokDust - Web-based music making app. (Code)
  • Eternal - Create music using nodes. (Code)
  • norns - Many sound instruments. It connects to grids, MIDI and other objects
  • Tone Piano - Web Audio instrument which uses high-quality multi-sampled piano sounds provided by Salamander Grand Piano.
  • Tone.js - Web Audio framework for making interactive music in the browser.
  • tonal - Functional music theory library for JavaScript.
  • Renoise - Digital Audio Workstation with a unique top-down approach.
  • Overtone - Open source audio environment designed to explore new musical ideas from synthesis and sampling to instrument building, live-coding and collaborative jamming. (HN) (Basic Setup) (Starting your Computer Music Journey with Clojure and Overtone in Emacs)
  • Tidal Cycles - Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns. (Code)
  • Music Grid - Simple music grid web app in which you can tap on cells to create music. (HN) (Code)
  • mosh - Small command-line application written in Nim for 'moshing' data into audio.
  • OCellator - Lispy synth language with structural editor. (Lobsters)
  • BespokeSynth - Software modular synth.
  • Vivid - High quality audio with Haskell and SuperCollider. (Code)
  • Teensy Audio Library - 16 bit, 44.1 kHz streaming audio library for Teensy 3.
  • Faust - Functional programming language for signal processing and sound synthesis. (Web) (Docs)
  • FaustLive - Swiss knife for Faust development.
  • AudioKit Pro - Leading free & open-source audio framework for iOS, macOS, and Apple Watch.
  • noise.sh - Digital signal processing spreadsheet for sound design.
  • Noisefunge - Music livecoding environment based on the befunge programming language. (HN)
  • Roland 808303.studio
  • Wafxr - Sound effect generator. (Code)
  • wasgen - Web Audio sound generator.
  • Audiobench - Open source modular synthesizer.
  • Edyson - Tool for exploring audio quickly.
  • AudioMass - Audio Editor.
  • Geonkick - Free software percussion synthesizer for GNU/Linux.
  • kord - Music theory development framework in python.
  • DaisySP - Open source DSP library written in C++ and specifically tailored to embedded audio applications.
  • Daisy Seed - Embedded platform for music. It features everything you need for creating high fidelity audio hardware devices. Just plug in a USB cable and start making sound.
  • Daisy Synthesizers Shop
  • Ofelia - Cross-platform real-time visual programming environment for creating audiovisual artwork or multimedia applications.
  • dasp - Digital Audio Signal Processing in Rust.
  • Orac - Virtual modular synth.
  • aiotone - Audio synthesis and MIDI processing tools in AsyncIO.
  • Linnstrument - Expressive MIDI controller for musical performance. (Firmware of LinnStrument)
  • MusE - Digital audio workstation with support for both Audio and MIDI. (Web)
  • Handel - Procedural programming language for writing songs in browser. (HN) (Code)
  • Crypt - Software synthesiser plugin designed for creating spacious cold hyper-unisoned synth sounds.
  • Fourhands - P2P MIDI jam room for pianists. (Code) (HN)
  • FoxDot - Python driven environment for Live Coding. (Web)
  • RaveForce - Environment that allows you to define your musical task in SuperCollider, and train an agent to do the task in Python with APIs similar to the OpenAI Gym.
  • libsamplerate - Library for performing sample rate conversion of audio data. (Web)
  • Music Pattern Generator - JavaScript MIDI Music Pattern Generator.
  • Zrythm - Highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation. (Code) (HN)
  • Wavepot - Code Music In-Browser.
  • LiveCore - Hardcore livecoding system for realtime audio synth.
  • tuna - Audio effects library for the Web Audio API.
  • LMMS - Cross-platform music production software. (Web)
  • Ardour - Digital audio workstation. (Manual) (Manual Code) (Code)
  • orenolisp - Structural clojure editor for producing sound using Overtone.
  • WadJS - Web Audio DAW. Use the Web Audio API for dynamic sound synthesis. It's like jQuery for your ears.
  • JamRTC - WebRTC for Live Musicians. (HN)
  • The Infinite Drum Machine (HN)
  • Alda - Text-based programming language for music composition. (Why I'm rewriting Alda in Go and Kotlin) (Code) (Tutorial) (HN)
  • IBNIZ - Virtual machine designed for extremely compact low-level audiovisual programs. (Code)
  • HMSL - Hierarchical Music Specification Language.
  • Pure Data - Free real-time computer music system.
  • Vult - Transcompiler well suited to write high-performance DSP code. (Web)
  • OP-1 - Synthesizer, sampler and sequencer. (Anniversary) (HN) (Article)
  • Sorceress - Rust environment for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.
  • Mido - MIDI Objects for Python.
  • basedrop - Set of memory-management tools for real-time audio. (Web)
  • FunDSP - Audio DSP library featuring an inline graph notation for audio processing.
  • PunKt - Live coding music library/environment for Kotlin.
  • OpenMusic - Visual programming language based on Lisp.
  • Scribbletune - Create music with JavaScript. (Code)
  • auditok - Audio/acoustic activity detection and audio segmentation tool.
  • Flip Sampler
  • Fragment - Real-time audiovisual live coding environment.
  • SOUL - Language and infrastructure for writing and deploying audio code. (Code)
  • libpd - Pure Data embeddable audio synthesis library.
  • libpd-rs - Safe rust abstractions over libpd-sys.
  • Music Suite - Language for describing music, based on Haskell.
  • Oscen - Rust Sound Synthesis Library.
  • Dorico for iPad - Music Notation App.
  • Augmented Audio Libraries in Rust
  • Signal - Online MIDI Editor. (Code)
  • Meyda - Audio feature extraction for JavaScript. (Web)
  • Meyda Rust - Audio feature extraction library for Rust.
  • aeon - Live-coding system for musical pattern manipulation.
  • Open Stage Control - Libre and modular OSC / MIDI controller. (Code)
  • ChucK - Strongly-Timed Music Programming Language. (HN)
  • Mosquito - Audio library for live coding, composition, sound design, DSP prototyping and any kind of audio applications.
  • Composing Studio - Collaborative music composition for everyone. (Code)
  • Aubio - Tool designed for the extraction of annotations from audio signals. (Web) (HN)
  • Maximilian - C++ Audio and Music DSP Library.
  • Melrōse - Interactive programming of melodies, producing MIDI. (Intro) (HN)
  • Jfxr - Browser-based tool to create sound effects for games. (Code)
  • Mutagen - Python module for handling audio metadata.
  • Sonic Visualiser - Visualization, analysis, and annotation of music audio recordings. (Code)
  • Sound GLSL
  • SongKit - AI-powered songbook app for your iPhone and iPad, letting you organize, view, and edit your songs sheets on any of your devices.
  • wavesurfer.js - Customizable audio waveform visualization, built on top of Web Audio API and HTML5 Canvas. (Code) (Use with React)
  • Sorrygle - Text-based MIDI writing language and its compiler.
  • Twang - Library for pure Rust advanced audio synthesis.
  • Leipzig - Music composition library for Clojure and ClojureScript.
  • DawDreamer - Audio-processing Python framework supporting core DAW features.
  • soundbytes - DSL for composing and playing music.
  • MIDISequencer - MIDI Sequencer that sends MIDI events to other apps.
  • Meadowlark - Fully-featured DAW written in Rust. (HN)
  • Harmonicon - Experimental DAW for music as code. (Code)
  • GridSound - Open source online digital audio workstation following the new WebAudio API. (Code)
  • MidiTok - A convenient MIDI tokenizer for Deep Learning networks, with multiple encoding strategies.
  • ngrid - Revolutionary way to compose music.
  • Phrasa - Language for Making Music.
  • meSing.js - JavaScript singing synthesis library.
  • NoiseCraft - Browser-based visual programming language and platform for sound synthesis. (Web) (Article) (HN)
  • Spaghettis - Environment for audio analysis, synthesis, and processing, with a rich set of multimedia capabilities. (Docs)
  • Hero Studio - Music studio similar to Ableton Live or Bitwig Studio.
  • Muse - Simple language for Jamming embedded in a JavaScript environment. (Code)
  • Music Theory Go Lib
  • WEBMIDI.js - Makes it easy to interact with MIDI instruments directly from a web browser or from Node.js.
  • mu - Declarative music for OCaml.
  • MusicManipulations.jl - Manipulate music data, humanize, quantize and analyze music performances with Julia.
  • Loopers - Graphical live looper, written in Rust, designed for ease of use and rock-solid stability.
  • spafe - Simplified Python Audio-Features Extraction.
  • WagsI - 100% browser-based interactive live audio coding environment.
  • web-audio-api - Node.js implementation of Web audio API.
  • Melo - Music notation language and compiler to MIDI.
  • strudel - Port of tidalcycles to JavaScript.
  • rhythmical - Language to parse and manipulate musical rhythms with JS.
  • jazzband - Virtual Jazz Band that can play chord symbols via Web Audio API. (Code)
  • Strudel REPL - Live coding environment that brings the ideas of Tidal Cycles to the browser. (Intro)
  • Csound-expression - Haskell Framework for Electronic Music.
  • Gwion - Strongly-timed musical programming language. (Docs)
  • mep - Scriptable MIDI event processor.
  • music-fns - JavaScript music utility library that contains small music notation related functions.
  • CoSo by Splice - Music creation app that listens to your Stack of sounds and shows you loops that belong together.
  • isobar - Python library for creating and manipulating musical patterns, designed for use in algorithmic composition, generative music and sonification.

Inspiration