Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. Record, edit, and mix on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
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- Open Source
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Adobe Audition AlternativesOnly Open Source apps categorised as Music Production Apps
The best open source Music Production alternative to Adobe Audition is Ardour. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Bespoke Synth or Qtractor. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Adobe Audition and 11 are open source Music Production Apps so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Music Production App alternatives to Adobe Audition are Wavacity, AudioMass, Radium and Bosca Ceoil.
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93 Ardour alternatives
82 Bespoke Synth alternativesBespoke is a software modular synthesizer. It contains a bunch of modules, which you can connect together to create sounds.
77 Qtractor alternativesQtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is GNU/Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures for...
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53 Wavacity alternativesWavacity is derived from the open source Audacity and modified to run in the web browser.
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- Free
- Open Source
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Alerts
- Discontinued
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- Online
115 AudioMass alternativesAudioMass lets you record, or use your existing audio tracks, and modify them by trimming, cutting, pasting or applying a plethora of effects, from compression and paragraphic equalizers to reverb, delay and distortion fx.
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65 Bosca Ceoil alternativesBosca Ceoil is all about looping, and designed that way at its heart. Songs are built up from lots of tiny 16 note patterns – the intended workflow is that you loop over these single patterns until you have something you like, then you start making variations.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Adobe AIR
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Efflux is a Progressive Web Application allowing you to create music within your browser, either on- or offline on anything from a phone to desktop machine.
WaveShop is a free, open-source audio editor for Windows XP/Vista/7. WaveShop is fast, lightweight, and bit-perfect, meaning samples aren't altered unless they need to be. Editing a portion of an audio file only affects that portion; the rest of the file is untouched.
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- Free
- Open Source
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Alerts
- Discontinued
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- Windows
- PortableApps.com
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Open Octave Midi is a Linux based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) designed to give musicians the tools needed to make composing on a computer possible, and even fun! The project is focused on orchestral and film writing and recording.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Linux
Frinika is a free (licensed under GNU GPL) complete music workstation software containing sequencer, midi support, soft synthesizers, audio recorder, piano roll/tracker/notation editing and more. The goal of Frinika is to be a complete platform for making music with your...
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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