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Free/open source software for creating and/or editing sounds and music.
General Sound Editing
Sound editors
| Application name/link
| Active1
| Stable2
| Details
| License
|
| Audacity
| Yes
| Yes
| Feature-rich recorder/editor
| GPL
|
Music applications
Music applications
| Application name/link
| Active1
| Stable2
| Multi-Track Recording
| MIDI
| LADSPA plugins
| LV2 plugins
| VST plugins
| Jack support
| Details
| License
| Operating Systems
|
| Ardour
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Digital audio workstation
| GPL
| Linux, OS X
|
| Hydrogen
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| Yes
| Drum computer
| GPL
| Linux, OS X, Windows3
|
| Rosegarden
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| Yes
| Yes
| Digital audio workstation
| GPL
| Linux, OS X
|
| Wired
| Yes
| No
| Yes
| Yes
|
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|
|
| Digital audio workstation
| GPL/LGPL
| Linux
|
| Traverso DAW
| Yes
| No
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| Yes
| Digital audio workstation
| GPL
| Linux, OS X, Windows
|
| LMMS
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| Yes
| No
| Multimedia Studio
| GPL
| Linux, Windows
|
| Jokosher
| No
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| No
| Multi-track recording software
| GPL
| Linux, OS X, Windows
|
| ZynAddSubFX
| Yes
| Yes
| N/A
| Yes
| N/A
| N/A
| N/A
| Yes
| Advanced synthesizer
| GPLv2
| Linux, OS X, Windows
|
1Development activity (releases, activity in repository) must not be older than one year 2'Stable' releases exist 3Experimental
Trackers
Scorewriters
Scorewriters
| Application name/link
| Active1
| Stable2
| GUI
| Details
| License
|
| LilyPond
| Yes
| Yes
| No
| Can process text files
| GPL
|
| Denemo
| Yes
| Yes
| Yes
| GUI-frontend for Lilypond, multi-platform
| GPL
|
| NoteEdito
| No
| Yes
| Yes
| KDE scorewriter, old though
| GPL
|
Sound effect generators
Sound editors
| Application name/link
| Active1
| Stable2
| Details
| License
|
| sfxr
| No
| Yes
| 8-bit sfx (flash version available)
| MIT
|
| Explodomatica
| Yes
| Yes
| Explosion sound generator
| GPL
|
Audio software lists
