Alternatives to MusE for all platforms with any license

FL Studio

Professional DAW and beat making software covering all aspects of digital audio composition, mastering and editing.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet
Support for VST plugins Audio Recording Context-aware help FFMPEG support ... Live performance MultiTouch Noise Reduction Piano Roll Scalable UI Visualize Music Beat slicer DAW Drum matrix editing Live recording Mix Music Music Composer Non linear editor Works Offline Track everything Voice Recording Add a feature

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Ardour

Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. Record, edit, and mix on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Mix Music Audio Editing Audio Recording DAW ... Multitrack editing Non destructive editing Support for VST plugins Add a feature

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Reaper

REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for Windows, Mac and Linux, offering a full multi-track audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Customizable Scripting support Support for VST plugins DAW ... Multi Channel Pitch shift engine Portable Spectral editing Audio Editing Audio Recording Built-in routing DAW Extensive customisability Supports for MIDI MultiTrack Mix Music Music Composer Patch Management Piano Roll Video editing Add a feature

160 Like
Cubase

Definitive desktop DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for professional mixing, mastering, music production and sound design.

Commercial Mac Windows
Audio Editing DAW Mix Music Music Composer ... Piano Roll Voice Recording Support for VST plugins Add a feature

73 Like
Qtractor

Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK)...

Free Open Source Linux
Audio Editing DAW Midi Multitrack editing ... Support for VST plugins Add a feature

36 Like
Traverso DAW

Traverso DAW is an audio recording and editing program which is very well suited to record a single voice, a band, an ensemble, a whole orchestra or any other source of...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Audio Editing Audio Recording DAW MultiTrack Add a feature

15 Like
Frinika

Frinika is a free (licensed under GNU GPL) complete music workstation software containing sequencer, midi support, soft synthesizers, audio recorder, piano...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
DAW Support for VST plugins Add a feature

14 Like
Non DAW Studio

A complete free-software Digital Audio Workstation on GNU/Linux that really works - on accessible hardware.

Free Open Source Linux
Audio Editing DAW Add a feature

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Open Octave

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...
- Discontinued
  The official website is no longer available. Last version, oomidi-2012, can be still downloaded from Launchpad
Free Open Source Linux
DAW Supports for MIDI Music Composer Add a feature

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MOTU Digital Performer

Digital Performer lets you record, edit, arrange, mix, process and master audio and MIDI tracks side by side for songwriting, studio production, live performance, film...

Commercial Mac Windows
Support for 64 bit DAW Live performance Mix Music ... Music Composer Piano Roll Support for VST plugins Add a feature

8 Like