Open Source Mac Music Composition Software
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View 65 business solutionsBrowse free open source Music Composition software and projects for Mac below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Music Composition software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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FL Studio
The best music production software
FL Studio by Image-Line is a complete digital audio workstation (DAW) designed to turn your musical ideas into professional-quality tracks with ease. Trusted by world-renowned artists like Martin Garrix, Mustard, and Boi-1da, it’s built for producers of every genre — from EDM and hip-hop to pop and cinematic music. With an intuitive interface and powerful workflow, you can start creating in minutes while exploring endless possibilities as your skills grow. FL Studio comes packed with over 100 instruments and effects, a massive sound library, and world-class tools for composition, recording, and mastering. Its lifetime free updates ensure you’ll always have the latest features without extra cost. Whether on desktop or mobile, FL Studio delivers a fast, fun, and flexible production experience for beginners and pros alike. -
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Frescobaldi
LilyPond sheet music text editor
Frescobaldi is a free and open source LilyPond sheet music text editor. Designed to be powerful yet lightweight and easy-to-use, Frescobaldi offers great functionality and a host of useful features such as music view with advanced two-way Point & Click, Midi capturing to enter music, a Snippet Manager and many more. Frescobaldi is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period. -
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Impro-Visor
Leadsheet notation with auto-generated playback, improvisation advice
Impro-Visor® is a music notation tool for producing monophonic lead sheets, specifically intended to help the improviser. Chord symbols are used to generate backing tracks automatically. Improvisation advice exists in the form of note coloration, database of licks, and automatic lick generation from grammars. Grammars can be learned automatically from transcriptions. Styles can be edited and created by the user. Other features include generation of roadmaps for understanding keys and idiomatic chord progressions, chord voicing keyboard, MIDI and MusicXML export. See http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor for general information, including tutorials. Support and additional resources are through the user group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/impro-visor/info. The most recent source code, since summer of 2015, is housed here: https://github.com/Impro-Visor/Impro-Visor This started when SourceForge was down for over one week during an active development period. -
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Psycle is a Music tracker (like FastTracker 2 or Impulse Tracker) combined with plugin modularity. It supports its own plugin API, the VST2 plugin standard, and a tracker style sampler playback.
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MuseScore
Free music notation & composition software
MuseScore is a free and open-source music notation software designed for composers, arrangers, educators, and musicians of all levels. It allows users to write, edit, and print professional-quality sheet music with no limitations or subscription fees. MuseScore Studio supports a wide range of instruments and ensembles, from solo piano and guitar to full orchestras and choirs. The software is easy to learn while still offering powerful tools for advanced notation and score layout. With support for MIDI input and formats like MusicXML and MIDI, MuseScore integrates smoothly with other music software and workflows. Built by a global open-source community, MuseScore continues to evolve through active development and community contributions. Support MuseScore at http://musescore.org/en/donate -
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Scribbletune
Create music with JavaScript
Scribbletune is a JavaScript library for creating music and sequences using a simple and intuitive syntax, allowing developers to generate MIDI files and integrate music composition into their applications. -
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SoundHelix
Versatile algorithmic random music generation software written in Java
SoundHelix is a free versatile Java framework for algorithmic random music composition. SoundHelix can generate random songs, play them (for example, on any number of MIDI devices or MIDI-capable software synthesizers) and is highly customizable using XML configuration. SoundHelix also allows writing the generated music as MIDI files. SoundHelix produces music that is actually enjoyable to listen to. -
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SID-Wizard
Featureful native Commodore 64 music tracker with MIDI/XM converter
A featureful SID-music creation tool (tracker) for the Commodore 64. It includes many advanced effects and tools like keyboard-tracking, tempo-programs/funktempo, gateoff-table-pointers, filter-shift, SID-export, executable-export, MIDI/XM conversion and MIDI-input hardware, etc., etc. NOTE: I left SourceForge for reasons not ethical to mention here. You can find me and my further work at these locations: http://hermit.sidrip.com http://csdb.dk/scener/?id=18806 https://github.com/hermitsoft/ -
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Common Music
An algorithmic music composition system
Common Music (CM) is a real-time music composition system implemented in JUCE/C++ and Scheme. It generates musical output via MIDI, OSC, CLM, FOMUS and CSOUND. Its user application is called GRACE (Graphical Real-time Algorithmic Composition Environment) -
Accounting practice management softwareCanopy is a cloud-based practice management software for accounting and tax firms, offering tools for client engagement, document management, workflow automation, and time & billing. Its Client Engagement platform centralizes interactions with a secure portal, customizable branding, and email integration, while the Document Management system enables organized, paperless file storage. The Workflow module enhances visibility into tasks and projects through templates, task assignments, and automation, reducing human error. Additionally, the Time & Billing feature tracks billable hours, generates invoices, and processes payments, ensuring accurate financial management. With its comprehensive features, Canopy streamlines operations, reduces stress, and enhances client experiences.
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jfMusic
Tracked Music Editor
Tracked Music Editor Supports WAV, DLS files. Supports recording from MIDI devices. -
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ScoreDate
ScoreDate is a software to learn music reading and ear training
ScoreDate is your date with the music ! It is an open source software written in Java that helps musicians to learn music reading. It also helps you with ear training. It is suitable for any skill, from beginners to professional users. From slow training to first sight reading. -
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BeepComp
Text-based chiptune creator
Compose chiptunes with text files! And make mp3 and wav files of your songs to share with the world :) The audio synthesizer engine comes with 10 channels (9 music + 1 drum). The retro "beep" sounds reminiscent of old video game consoles and vintage PCs will take you back to the 8-bit era. You can shape your sound with waveforms - square, sawtooth etc. - and add LFO, delay and volume envelopes. Enjoy the 80's-ish synth drums, also! Demo songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB6FUTQ5Oz4&list=PLXBNhaAeM7Lxf7ysrFzYFwPYRZM1JCrZr SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/beepcomp Orfium: https://www.orfium.com/profile/beepcomp/ What your music composition will look like: https://sourceforge.net/p/beepcomp/code/ci/master/tree/userdata/ (Similar to MML) Your First Tutorial: http://hiromorozumi.com/beepcomp/learn.html User's Guide: http://hiromorozumi.com/beepcomp/documentation/beepcomp_users_guide.html -
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Piano and Drum kit
An Internet Browser Based Piano and Drum kit Software
Just download the above zip file, extract it and then open the respective index.html file on your favourite internet browser and follow the instructions shown. -
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Bol Processor
A unique music composition and improvisation program using grammars
Bol Processor is a program for music composition and improvisation with real-time MIDI, MIDI file, and Csound output. It produces music from a set of rules (a compositional grammar) or from text scores which may be typed or captured from a MIDI instrument. -
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Takt
Text-based Music Programming Tools
Takt is a text-based language for describing note and chord sequences as well as algorithmic compositon rules with C-like syntax. This software package contains a REPL (read-eval-play loop) interpreter for Takt, a MIDI-file-to-Takt translator, and an Emacs interface program which enables note entry from a MIDI keyboard. -
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JChordBox
Give the chord progression and a style and jchordbox generates a song.
Give the chord progression and a style and JChordBox generates a song. JChordBox is a library tool that can generate backing tracks from a chord progression and a music style. A music Style is describe using an XML and a MIDI file. You can generate an XML Style file from a MIDI file by adding markers to delimit grooves. An XML Song file describes a chord progression and sets the music style to use. JChordBox comes with several command line tools (GenerateSong, CreateStyleFromMidiFile, SongPlayer …). NEW:The application center is called SongPlayer and is a text based user interface that can play JChordBox song. SongPlayer is a MIDI Player that can loop a song, mute or soloing tracks and displays transport informations. SongPlayer is now the default jar application. NEW:Examples have been added to the distribution package. -
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The MidiRandomizer is a Java Swing application that generates MIDI files (SMF) according to a set of randomization parameters. This allows some measure of control over the random patterns produced.
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An opensource typesetting environment for editing and publishing Carnatic music books in Indian languages. Supports Phonetic Translation of notation & lyrics and uses CFugue Runtime to automatically generate MIDI song files from the music notation.
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LNX_Studio
Networked music collaboration
LNX_Studio is a way of bring people together to make music with new and innovative tools. It's all about creating and sharing ideas. There are many features in LNX_Studio and it's strength lies in putting the creative process at the forefront of a networked collaboration. Making music with your friends is now wonderfully simple. -
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Mutabor
Perform dynamic tunings for realtime music.
Mutabor is a Program that allows performing and composing microtonal music using a normal MIDI keybord. But it's powerful description language is intended to allow permanent retunings and tuning logics in to describ, what's actually goes on. -
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OctoGRIS3
OctoGRIS3 is a multichannel sound spatialization plugin
OctoGRIS3 is a multichannel sound spatialization plug-in (up to 8 sources / 16 speakers) available in Audio Unit and VST formats for Mac and PC. The free and open-source plug-in allows movement of multichannel sound sources on a variable set of speakers. Modes of grouped movement and a trajectory system are provided for spatialization of stereo and multichannel sources. The development of OctoGRIS3 has ended on November 2016. It has been replaced by SpatGRIS which is a fusion of OctoGRIS and ZirkOSC: https://sourceforge.net/projects/spatgris/ -
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The SpatGRIS is a plugin (Mac AU/VST and VST Windows format) designed to compose multichannel space. It allows the user to spatialize the sound in 2D (up to 16 speakers) or in 3D (up to 128 speakers) under a dome of speakers (with the ServerGRIS, available here on SourceForge). SpatGRIS is a fusion of two former plugins by the GRIS: OctoGRIS and ZirkOSC with a lot of new features. SpatGRIS has been developed by the Groupe de Recherche en Immersion Spatiale (GRIS) directed by Robert Normandeau and based at the Faculty of Music at Université de Montréal. SpatGRIS and ServerGRIS are still available here but they are not supported anymore. They have been replaced by the duo ControlGRIS/SpatGRIS3 also available at SourceFORGE (August 2021) Have a look at the them: https://sourceforge.net/projects/spatgris3/
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The MIDI Agent System (MAS) uses the interaction between different agents to generate MIDI notes. This software is designed for live use and it enables the performer to have real time control over very complex music.
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Microtones Library
Microtonal Music Notation and Playback for Sibelius, Kontakt, UVI, Max
This open-source plugin suite aims at extending Sibelius to allow it to handle microtonal music (up to the eighth-tone) and play it back with various synthesizers (currently Kontakt 5, UVI station and Max/MSP). This library offers among others the following features: − insertion of microtones in the music − transposition using microtonal intervals − precise polyphonic playback of microtonal music with Kontakt and Max/MSP, without the requirement for pitch bends (the standard playback system of Sibelius is limited to monodies, and its use of pitch bends entails undesired pitch glitches in the rendering) − handling of microtonal scales, build scales, check if the music material belongs to a given scale, warping from one scale to another one, transpose notes to the closest member of a microtonal scale, etc. − handling of microtonal artificial harmonics and microtonal glissandi The development of this library has been commissioned by the CIRM studios, Nice, France -
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Rubato Composer is a music software based on the concepts and models of mathematical music theory and equally suited for music composition, analysis, performance, and logical or geometric operations.
