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Rosegarden
Open Source by Chris Cannam, Richard Bown, Guillaume La... |
- Linux
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Rosegarden is a well-rounded 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,...

editing, sequencer, composing, daw, notation +2 more, scorewriter, workstation
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LilyPond
Open Source by GNU Project |
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GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving. One of LilyPonds major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand....

notation, scorewriter, score-editor, midi-composer +1 more, lilypond
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Impro-Visor
Open Source by Harvey Mudd College - Computer Science D... |
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Impro-Visor (short for “Improvisation Advisor”) is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised. The objective is to improve...

Audio & Music music-composer, music-notation, jazz
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Sibelius
Commercial by Sibelius Software |
- Mac
- Windows
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Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and RISC OS. It is used by composers, arrangers, performers, music publishers, teachers and students, particularly...

notation, scorewriter
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Denemo
Open Source |
- Windows
- Linux
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GNU Denemo is a music notation editor that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. You can compose, transcribe, arrange, listen to the music and much more.

Audio & Music midi, notation
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Finale
Commercial by MakeMusic, Inc. |
- Mac
- Windows
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Finale is proprietary scorewriting software developed by MakeMusic, Inc. It displays music primarily in music notation and allows for multiple tracks and very specific tweaking of instrument sounds for each...

Audio & Music music-notation, scorewriter, scorewriting
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Aria Maestosa
Open Source |
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Aria Maestosa is an open-source (GPL) midi tracker/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.

Audio & Music midi, music-composer, composer, midi-composer +1 more, music-editor
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Harmony Assistant
Commercial by Myriad Software |
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Harmony Assistant is an unbeatable software for computer-assisted music composition and editing. Its harmonizing capabilities enable the composer to build quickly and efficiently tunes that include...

Audio & Music music-composition, score, scorewriter, score-editor
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GVOX Encore
Commercial |
- Mac
- Windows
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Encore is the standard in professional music notation. Its powerful transcribing and editing capabilities help musicians of all levels get their ideas into print. Fast, accurate, and easy to use, Encore allows...

Audio & Music midi, music-composer, notation
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Anvil Studio
Free by Willow Software |
- Windows
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Anvil Studio is a free Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/98 program designed for people who want to: -- record music with MIDI and Audio equipment, -- compose music for MIDI and Audio equipment, -- sequence music...

Audio & Music midi, wav, windows-xp, professional, studio, compose +4 more, sound-card, midi-composer, sequence, anvil
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Melody Assistant
Commercial by Myriad Software |
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Melody Assistant is dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering. Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities. Now used by a very active community of...

Audio & Music music-composition, scorewriter, score-editor
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NtEd
Open Source |
- Linux
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NtEd is a GTK+ score editor. It intends to be really WYSIWYG: what you see on the screen is exactly what you get on printer output. It supports up to 4 voices per staff, drum notes, 5 lyrics lines, N-Tuplets,...

wysiwyg, score-editor, scorewriting, scoring +1 more, musical-score
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NoteWorthy Composer
Commercial by NoteWorthy Software, Inc. |
- Windows
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NoteWorthy Composer is a graphical score editor intended for the creation of sheet music, but it can also import and export MIDI and Karaoke files and can export graphical WMFs. The user interface works either...

Audio & Music midi, music-composer, notation, composer +1 more, midi-composer
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Vortex Tracker
Free |
- Windows
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Vortex Tracker II is a Win32 PT3-editor. For the moment you can download Vortex Tracker II 1.0 beta 19 (archive size is 511 983 bytes). In this version you can load, play, edit PT1, PT2, PT3, STC, STP, SQT,...

tracker
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musagi
Open Source by DrPetter |
- Windows
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Musagi is a complex music authoring and synthesizer similar to trackers.

Audio & Music synthesizer, music-composer, music-synthesis
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TablEdit
Commercial by Matthieu Leschemelle |
- Mac
- Windows
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TablEdit is a program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments, including mandolin and bass. ...

Audio & Music midi, guitar, music-composition, tabs, ascii +3 more, tablature, bass, tablature-editor
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TabToolkit
Commercial by Agile Partners |
- iPhone, iPad
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TabToolkit for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is an incredibly powerful music notation viewer with multi-track audio playback. The app includes an audio synthesis engine that enables you to listen to and control...

Audio & Music iphone retina, guitar, notation, tablature, guitar-pro
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Musink Lite
Free by Musink Limited |
- Windows
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Musink is a free music-composition software package that will change the way you write music. Create snippets, scores, books, and MIDI files; export your sheet-music for the Web; never worry about page layouts...

Audio & Music midi, wysiwyg, music-composer, music-notation +7 more, sheet-music, scorewriter, score-editor, compose, midi-composer, scorewriting, music-engraver
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ABCexplorer
Free by Billig |
- Windows
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ABC, a text based music score manager-editor for free. You can copy, transpose or play these songs, import midi-music files, export to midi, to pdf, to web page or to any other printable format. In comparison...

score, abc
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Jazz++
Open Source |
- Windows
- Linux
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Jazz++ is a MIDI sequencer/composer. Create your own music.

Audio & Music midi, music-composer, midi-composer, midi-sequencing +2 more, midi-sequencer, sound-composer

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