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Composing Music

EasyABC – graphical editor for ABC music notation

October 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

EasyABC is a graphical ABC music notation editor with live score previews, MIDI playback, MusicXML imports and PDF and SVG exports.

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Sound Systems

Helvum – graphical patchbay for PipeWire

September 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Helvum is a graphical PipeWire patchbay for creating and removing connections between audio, video and MIDI applications and devices.

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Guitar

ruxguitar – Guitar Pro tablature player

September 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

ruxguitar is a free and open source Guitar Pro tablature player with MIDI playback, tempo control, track selection and SoundFont support.

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Polyphone – powerful SoundFont editor

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Polyphone is a graphical SoundFont editor for creating and editing sampled instruments with SF2, SF3, SFZ and sfArk support on Linux.

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DJ

line – command-line MIDI sequencer for live coding

June 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

line is a command-line MIDI sequencer for live coding music, with editable phrases, notes, chords, tempo controls and phrase manipulation.

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Sound Systems

Carla – Modular Audio Plugin Host

April 30, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Carla is a modular audio plugin host for Linux supporting multiple plugin formats, rack processing, patchbays, MIDI, JACK and ALSA.

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Configuring music

Elektroid – sample and MIDI device manager

July 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

Elektroid is a sample and MIDI device manager. It includes the elektroid GUI application and the elektroid-cli CLI application.

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DJ

Vahatraker – tracker-style live MIDI sequencer

May 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Vahatraker is a tracker-style live MIDI sequencer for Linux, with JACK synchronisation, scene control and unusual time signatures.

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Music

Linux Show Player – audio cue playback for stage productions

April 24, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia

Linux Show Player manages audio cues for theatre and stage productions with cart and list views, effects, MIDI, OSC and timed playback.

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Synthesizer

padthv1 – PADsynth additive synthesizer

April 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

padthv1 creates rich polyphonic textures using the PADsynth additive synthesis algorithm, stereo effects and Linux audio integration.

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Synthesizer

Dexed – Yamaha DX7-inspired FM synthesizer

April 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Dexed recreates six-operator Yamaha DX7-style FM synthesis, supports classic SysEx sounds and helps manage hardware DX7 sound banks.

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Synthesizer

synthv1 – four-oscillator subtractive synthesizer

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

synthv1 is a polyphonic Linux synthesizer with four oscillators, subtractive sound shaping, stereo effects and JACK or LV2 workflows.

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Synthesizer

Qsynth – graphical frontend for FluidSynth

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Qsynth provides a Qt interface for FluidSynth, making it easier to load SoundFonts, choose MIDI instruments and adjust effects and audio.

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TiMidity++ – MIDI to WAVE converter and player

February 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

TiMidity++ is a software synthesizer. It can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data.

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Chordcat – chord naming program

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Chordcat is a desktop app that helps you identify and name chords based on inputted notes.

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Configuring music

MidiEditor – graphical interface to edit, play, and record Midi data

October 9, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia

MidiEditor is software which provides an interface to edit, record, and play Midi data.

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Digital Audio Workstations

Seq66 – MIDI sequencer and live-looper

April 6, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

Seq66 is a MIDI sequencer and live-looper with a hardware-sampler-like grid-pattern interface.

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Configuring music

qpwgraph – Graph Manager for PipeWire

February 10, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

qpwgraph is a graphical PipeWire graph manager for viewing nodes, creating connections, arranging routes, and handling ALSA MIDI.

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Configuring music

QMidiRoute – MIDI router and filter utility

February 10, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

QMidiRoute is a versatile MIDI event processor and router for the ALSA sequencer. This is free and open source software.

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Configuring music

mididings – MIDI router/processor based on Python

February 10, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

mididings is MIDI router/processor based on Python, supporting ALSA and JACK MIDI. It’s written in Python and open source.

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