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LMMS LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FL Studio, Cubase and Logic. It gives users the ability of producing music with your computer by creating/synthesizing sounds, arranging samples, playing live with keyboard and much more. Read more hot Aeolus Aeolus is a synthesised (i.e. not sampled) pipe organ emulator that should be good enough to make an organist enjoy playing it. It is a softsynth optimised for this job, with possibly hundreds of controls for each stop, that enable the user to "voice" his instrument. Alpha Juno Alpha Juno is a patch editor and librarian for Rolands Alpha Juno 1, Alpha Juno 2 and MKS 50 synthesisers. AlsaModularSynth AlsaModularSynth is a realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor. It features MIDI controlled modular software synthesis, realtime effect processing with capture from e.g. "Line In" or "Mic In" & full control of all synthesis and effect parameters via MIDI. amSynth amSynth is a realtime polyphonic analogue modeling synthesizer. It provides a virtual analogue synthesizer in the style of the classic Moog Minimoog/Roland Junos. AUBE AUBE is a system for sound generation and processing. You can process audio on the fly by setting up arbitrary configurations of sound generators, sequencers and effects modules, through which sound is played, filtered, and recorded. beatbox beatbox aims to provide the user with "...two turntables, a drum machine, and possibly a small mixing studio". BeatForce BeatForce is a computer dj-ing system with 2 players, song database supporting muti table playlists, mixer with manual/auto fade. Sampler and cdda support. The players can handle mp3, ogg and cdda files. The user interface is SDL based, with theme support. Beatrix Beatrix is a MIDI-controlled, software synthesizer designed to imitate the sound and properties of the electromechanical organs and sound modification devices. BpmDj BpmDj is a program for DJ's. It works under Linux and plays Mp3's/Ogg's. It has a fully automatic BPM counter. It can determine the sound color. It has a full fledged QT based interface. It helps you manage a large amount of songs. Further it helps to create playlists and has proven to be very robust. The program allows offline automatic mixing and contains a wavelet based beat graph analyzer to visualize audio tracks. bristol Bristol is a synthesiser emulation package for Moog, Sequential Circuits, Hammond and several other keyboards. The application consists of a multithreaded audio engine and a separate user interface toolkit called brighton. cl-wav-synth cl-wav-synth is a wav sample editor. It comes in two parts, the main library for manipulating wav files and a (Mc)CLIM interface with a full lisp listener, a sample pane editor, a spectrum pane editor and a song pane editor. creox Creox is a real-time sound processor. You can plug your electric guitar or any other musical instrument directly to the PC's sound card and start experimenting with various sound effects. Creox has a nice user-friendly GUI, a preset support, a low-latency DSP engine and each effect parameter can be altered "on the fly". Cumulus Cumulus is a software-synthesizer which implements the Asynchronous Grain Synthesis, internal 32 bit sampling resolution and a multiple of the external sampling rate with a convenient GUI with drawable envelopes for each parameter. DBMix DBMix is a software DJ mixing system for digital audio. DBMix allows a user to output multiple simultaneous audio streams on a single sound device, and to transform/modify each stream independently. Delfin Delfin is a realtime software sampler for Linux. Didgeridoo Didgeridoo is a voice controlled resonance instrument for the jack-audio-connection-kit. You need a microphone for playing it. DigiBand DigiBand is a full home version Drumming/Guitar simulator. It isn't just intended to be a simulator, but a uniquely refreshing new experience. It is much different than simulators already out there. dssi-vst dssi-vst is a proposed simple interim soft-synth plugin API for Linux. dvdkit dvdkit is a compilation of all the libs and patches below which allows oms, xine, mplayer and ogle to read from a DVDROM without a region set. dx7bag dx7bag is a collection of utilities for the Yamaha DX7 and compatible devices such as the DX1, DX5, DX7s, DX7II, DX7IIFD, TX7, TX802 and TX816. ecamegapedal Ecamegapedal is a real-time effect processor software with a graphical user interface for controlling the effect parameters. It is meant to be used as a virtual guitar-fx or studio effect box. In addition to real-time operation, Ecamegapedal also supports reading from and writing to audio files. All audio object and effect plugin types provided by the Ecasound libraries are supported. This includes ALSA, JACK, OSS, aRts, over 20 file formats, over 30 effect types, LADSPA plugins and multi-operator effect presets. Ecamegapedal's implementation is based on Ecasound and Qt libraries. Elara Elara is a real-time software audio synthesizer. FluidSynth FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications. FluidSynth can read MIDI events from a MIDI input device and render them to an audio device using SoundFont instruments. SoundFont files are composed of digital audio "samples" and additional instrument parameters. These files can be created or downloaded off the Internet. FluidSynth also has support for controlling effects in real time and can play MIDI files. Freebirth Freebirth consists of a 3 oscillator bass synth (sin, sqr, saw) and an integrated 16 step sequencer which controls the bass as well as the triggering of 5 other samples. Frequency Module Synthesizer Frequency Module Synthesizer tries to create synthetic sound waves similar to natural ones. The idea is easy: "recording" sounds by just saving the peak values of one single iteration and the style of the line in between, playing sounds by repeating these values as often as wanted. gAlan gAlan is an audio-processing tool (both on-line and off-line) for X windows and Win32. It allows you to build synthesisers, effects chains, mixers, sequencers, drum-machines etc. etc. in a modular fashion. gmorgan gmorgan is a rhythm station, a modern organ with full editable accompaniment for play in real time emulating the capabilities of commercial rhythm stations ?Korg?,?Roland?, ?Solton? ... also has a small pattern based sequencer like ?Band in a Box?. Uses the capabilities of ALSA sequencer to produce MIDI accompaniment. GNU Octal GNU Octal seeks to create a plugin-oriented modular tracker for gnu/linux and other unix systems. gsynth gsynth is designed to be an extensible, modular synthesizer. The interface allows the user to add several modules into a virtual analog machine which is then wired together using a simple mouse interface. Each module can be programmed in tracker fashion, and each pattern can be sequenced in the order editor. Gungirl Sequencer Gungirl Sequencer is an easy to use audiosequencer for Linux and MS Windows. It includes a simple filemanager and uses Drag & Drop to arrange Audiosamples. hexter hexter is a software synthesizer that models the sound generation of a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. It can easily load most DX7 patch bank files, accept patch editing commands via MIDI sys-ex messages, and recreate the sound of the DX7 with great accuracy. Industrializer Industrializer is a program for generating percussion sounds for musical purposes. This program is great for generating new techno and industrial sounds. It also can produce chimes, bubbles, gongs, hammer hits on different materials and so on. kluppe kluppe is a loop-player and recorder, designed for live use. Lakai deals with the development of tools that ease the transfer of data between the Akai Sxxx series of samplers (S1000, S2000 etc) and a PC running (ideally) Linux, but if people are able to port this to other Un*xish operating systems like FreeBSD, NetBSD or others LegaSynth LegaSynth is an old chip/synthethizer emulator. It currently uses the ALSA sequencer API, but could easily be expanded to use others as well. Linuxsampler LinuxSampler was designed as a sampler backend, decoupled from any user interface. It provides a network interface using an ASCII based protocol called LSCP for controlling the sampler and managing sampler sessions. LOS LOS is a music sequencer specialized in offsetting sample positions within sound files. MFFM VectorBass MFFM VectorBass is a melody line generation tool which lets you plot the pitch, volume and 'generic waveform sound'. This means you can essentially hear a piece of music, grab and plot the synth. waveform and generate your own melody lines using this synth. Minicomputer Minicomputer is a standalone Linux realtime software synthesizer for creating experimental electronic sounds as they are often used in but not limited to industrial music, IDM, EBM, Glitch, sound design, and minimal electronic. It is monophonic but can produce up to 8 different sounds at the same time, so its good e.g. for drum synthesis. It uses JACK as a real-time audio infrastructure and can be controlled via MIDI. The synthesis is advanced subtractive: two oscillators generate complex waveforms going into a morphing formant filter. An additional oscillator, 7 envelopes, a delay line, and flexible modulation routing for each sound voice gives the sound designer possibilities like a modular synthesizer without the hassle. Instant recall with 512 sound programs and 128 multi sets make it a good companion for the next laptop gig. MixMagic MixMagic is a sound mixing program for Gnome, it can handle large (larger then system memory) samples. MixMagic is able to mix as many waves as your CPU can handle. Mono Mono is a monophonic synth with real-time audio output and a GUI. It includes a square/sawtooth oscillator, a 4-pole (all-pole) low-pass filter, an ADR envelope generator, and a 16-step pattern sequencer. MP3Mixer MP3Mixer is a simple system to let you mix multiple mpeg audio streams in real time, with a view to copying the capabilities a DJ will have access to. MSS MSS is a real time synthesizer that can be played either via the builtin keyboard (a GUI widget that is played via the mouse), or via an external MIDI keyboard. The "real time" means that any adjustments you do while playing (e.g change of filter settings) are immediately audible. Mx4 Mx4 is a polyphonic multichannel midi realtime software synth. It is written in C and hand optimized for the (Intel) MMX instruction set. It runs under Linux, using a kernel modified for realtime performance (Mandrake 8.2 works just fine.) The sourcecode is licensed under GPL nekobee nekobee is a DSSI soft synth plugin that emulates the sound of the TB-303 Bassline. Octavian Octavian is a realtime software synthesizer for the GNULinux operating system. Its design is like analog modular synthesizers, so it can be used both as a synth and as an effect processor. Modular tasks separation allows to extend features in a simple way. Modules can be connected between each other via channels. Octavian provides two types of channels: audio and control (MIDI), so they can be freely converted to each other (e.g. MIDI can be converted to "voltage" in order to control modules that support voltage-controlling and vice versa). Om Om is a realtime modular synthesizer for GNU/Linux audio systems using the Jack audio server and LADSPA or DSSI plugins. Its engine runs as an independent process controlled via the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol, meaning many clients (including the graphical modular client shown here) can control the engine simultaneously - even across a network. Psychosynth The Psychosynth project aims to create an interactive, modular soft-synth inspired by the ideas of the Reactable. It provides a clean object oriented API to allow the creation of new innovative interfaces for the synthesizer and a 3D simulator of a Reactable-alike device with support for collaborative music creation over the network. qsynth QSynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynth but for the moment it wraps the excellent FluidSynth. FluidSynth is a command line software synthesiser based on the Soundfont specification. RTSynth RTSynth is a midi event triggered real time software synthesizer. RTSynth supports a polyphonic string synth, a monophonic flute synth and a set of audio effects. sloop.splitter sloop.splitter is a realtime sound effect program. It samples sounds from any source and dissects them. SMDITools SMDITools is a set of five command-line programs to exchange samples with an SMDI compatible sampler. SooperLooper SooperLooper is a live looping sampler capable of immediate loop recording, overdubbing, multiplying, reversing and more. It allows for multiple simultaneous multi-channel loops limited only by your computer's available memory. The feature-set and operation was inspired by the impressive Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro (EDP). When used with a low-latency audio configuration SooperLooper is capable of truly realtime live performance looping. Soundtank Soundtank hosts LADSPA plugins in "realtime objects" which embody the structure of the audio signal flow. RTObjects can be controlled in a completely customizeable fashion using MIDI events sent through the ALSA sequencer interface. Soundtank outputs audio through ALSA or JACK. SoundTracker SoundTracker is a music tracking tool for Unix / X11 similar in design to the DOS program FastTracker and the Amiga legend ProTracker. Samples can be lined up on tracks and patterns which are then arranged to a song. Supported module formats are XM and MOD; the player code is the one from OpenCP. Spiral Synth Spiral Synth is a physically modelled analogue synthesizer that is capable of creating the kind of sounds made by hardware analogue synths, the noises used in electronic music. SpiralLoops SpiralLoops is an experimental loop based sampler for Linux or FreeBSD. The idea of SpiralLoops is to provide a simple, visual tool for looping and layering of sounds; which can be sourced from either wav files on disk, or from sound generating plugins. SpiralSynth Modular SpiralSynth Modular is an object orientated music studio with an emphasis on live use. You can use it in a fairly straight forward way to make tracks with, or get very experimental. Audio or control data can be freely passed between the plugins. Data can also be fed back on itself for chaotic effects. SSM supports LADSPA plugins, which you can use in the same way as any of the native plugins. The JACK audio server is also supported. Syncotron Bathysphere Sound Suite Syncotron Bathysphere Sound Suite consists of: 1) the samplomatic: gathers sounds from environs; frequency spectrum analasis; write wav samples 2) the syncotron: autonomous sequencer plays audio stream; listens on network for commands 3) syncotron client: curses-based UI for talking to the syncotron. terminatorX terminatorX is a realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data (*.wav, *.au, *.mp3, etc.) just like you might have heard hiphop-DJ's scratch on vinyl records. tk3MU tk3MU is a graphical interface written in Python/Tkinter for the Roland TB303 emulator called 3MU. UltraMaster Juno-6 UltraMaster Juno-6 was a faithful virtual reproduction of a Roland Juno-6 Polyphonic Synthesizer. Vintage Synth Drums Vintage Synth Drums' emphasis is placed on more punchy, stereo sounds, with many more kits. wcnt wcnt is a not-real-time modular audio synthesis, sequencer, and sampler, written in C++. wcnt reads a plain text file written in wcnt's 'near english synth definition language' and may then produce audio as 16 bit stereo WAV files. It is designed for people who want to make sequences of complex layers of synthesis and sampling but do not have a computer powerful enough to do so in real-time. Xsynth Xsynth is a real-time software musical synthesizer. ZynAddSubFX ZynAddSubFX is an opensource software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments, from some common heared from expensive hardware to interesting sounds that you'll boost to an amazing universe of sounds.
