MuseScore MuseScore is a free music notation and composition software available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It allows for fast and easy note entry on a virtual note sheet. It... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com Easy importation Supports for MIDI Portable Export to PDF ... WYSIWYG Support Add a feature 138 Like
TuxGuitar With TuxGuitar, you will be able to compose music using the following features Tablature editor Score Viewer Multitrack display Autoscroll while... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Supports for MIDI Multitrack editing Portable Add a feature 96 Like Discontinued Seems to no longer work with newer versions of Mac OS
Guitar Pro The software to compose music, transcribe your favorite songs, or simply read the thousands of tabs available on the Internet. Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad No features added Add a feature 50 Like
OpenMPT OpenMPT (short hand for Open ModPlug Tracker) is a popular tracker software for Windows. OpenMPT is completely free and allows you to create and play back some great... Free Open Source Windows Modules Portable Support for VST plugins Add a feature 32 Like
Rosegarden 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... Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature 43 Like
Sibelius Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid Technology) for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and historically RISC OS. Commercial Mac OS X Windows WYSIWYG Support Music XML Support Add a feature 26 Like
LilyPond 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... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Audio editing Add a feature 35 Like
Frescobaldi Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 11 Like
Finale Finale is proprietary scorewriting software developed by MakeMusic, Inc. It displays music primarily in music notation and allows for multiple tracks and very specific... Commercial Mac OS X Windows WYSIWYG Support Music XML Support Add a feature 14 Like
Denemo 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 18 Like
Impro-Visor 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... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 19 Like
ABCJ ABCJ is a pure-Java editor, player and librarian for music files stored using Chris Walshaw's ABC notation. Features :-. • ABCJ maintains a library of ABC... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web No features added Add a feature 4 Like
Aria Maestosa 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... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 8 Like
EasyABC EasyABC allows you to edit and play abc files. It supports conversion from MusicXML and MIDI to ABC. The latter uses a custom implementation (midi2abc is not used) in... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows No features added Add a feature 5 Like
NtEd 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... Free Open Source Linux WYSIWYG Support Add a feature 7 Like