Impro-Visor (“Improvisation Advisor”) aims at supporting jazz composers in writing down music that is similar to what they make by improvising. The program’s purpose is to let musicians develop a sense of the structure of their improvisations. The program features composition through point-and-click or with a plain text editor, showing dissonants, a ‘roadmap’ editor, chord […]
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PixiTracker is free and convenient and it will let you create simple music, without the need of knowing theory or playing some instrument. PixiTracker is so easy to use, if you play around for just a few minutes you will know how to “design” your music. The program provides a lot of interesting sounds to […]
LilyPond is an Open Source engraving system that formats music beautifully and automatically, using a friendly syntax for its input files. It will make your computer printout look just as good as traditionally engraved music. Features: Allows MusicXML import; church modes support; support for harp pedal diagrams; 64 bit integers for rational numbers, which allows […]
HammerHead is a free drum computer program aiming at the dance-scene. You can use it to create Techno loops, Jungle patterns or House beats, but it’s also suitable for Hip Hop, Triphop, Rap, Industrial and the like. HammerHead features six separate channels, 29 built-in drum sounds, six complete breakbeats and the possibility to import six […]
FractMus is a free algorithmic-music generator, that is, it creates melodies using mathematical formulas. FractMus will create no masterpiece for you, nor it was designed for that. Think of it as a tool which gives you raw material that you can develop further. Writing a midi file and later importing it with music-editing programs gives […]
Viena SoundFont Editor is a free and convenient program that helps you to make instruments and create your orchestra. The interface is not anything exciting but its easy to use. The program is able to customize SoundFont files or create them from samples. As is usual with sound editors, Viena uses a waveform to visualize […]