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=== Pipe organ ===
=== Pipe organ ===
* [[Hauptwerk]] produces audio in response to MIDI signal from attached keyboard or from a MIDI sequencer. Most software organs have only a few organ sounds, such as "Church Organ", "Jazz Organ", etc. A Hauptwerk virtual pipe organ has samples of every note of every included rank (or set) of pipes, and each stop can be programmed individually, allowing the player to use sampled organ stops separately or combine them into an ensemble.<ref>Thomas Wichmann, The Hauptwerk Computer Program, Review in "The American Organist" 2004 July</ref>
* [[Hauptwerk]] produces audio in response to MIDI signal from attached keyboard or from a MIDI sequencer. Most software organs have only a few organ sounds, such as "Church Organ", "Jazz Organ", etc. A Hauptwerk virtual pipe organ has samples of every note of every included rank (or set) of pipes, and each stop can be programmed individually, allowing the player to use sampled organ stops separately or combine them into an ensemble.<ref>Thomas Wichmann, The Hauptwerk Computer Program, Review in "The American Organist" 2004 July</ref>
* [[Aeolus (organ simulator)]] open source pipe organ emulator that uses synthesis rather than sampling.


=== Guitar ===
=== Guitar ===

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This is a list of notable software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music. This article only includes software, not services. For streaming services such as iHeartRadio, Pandora, Prime Music, and Spotify, see Comparison of on-demand streaming music services. For storage, uploading, downloading and streaming of music via the cloud, see Comparison of online music lockers. Although this field is only 46 years old, this list does not include discontinued historic or legacy software, with the exception of trackers that are still supported.[1][2] For example, the company Ars Nova produces music education software, and its software program Practica Musica has remnants of the historic Palestrina software. Practica will be listed here, but not Palestrina.[3] If a program fits dozens of categories, such as a comprehensive DAW or a foundation programming language (e.g. Pure Data), listing is limited to its top three categories.

Music notation software

Main article: Scorewriter

Music composing software

See also: Algorithmic composition

Music mining software

Main article: Data mining
See also: Music information retrieval and Audio mining

Music mining is a relatively new field of research and application under Music informatics, Data mining and, more generally, Signal processing. Commercially, music mining software is used to select and predict patterns that then enhance suggestions based on previous choices. In research, music mining is similar to data mining as a pattern recognition and sorting / classifying discipline, however, music mining also includes automated music analysis based on underlying mathematical and statistical patterns, extending and augmenting the traditional analysis of harmony, melody, timbre, rhythm, etc. found in Music Analysis (For example, signal processing of radio waves has no subjective emotional component or preference, whereas music mining and processing do, since radio waves cannot be heard by humans, and music frequencies and amplitudes can. This is a controversial and unsettled component of music mining research). Since this field is so new, many of the academic software programs (a majority GNU / freeware)[12] do not yet have wiki articles; see the references and links for examples.[13][14][15]

  • Automatic content recognition E.g.:Beatgrid Media (TV an Music Sound identification with SDK for iOS, Android, Java,.Net and end solutions for broadcast ad monitoring and Passive Media Monitoring for Mobile Survey apps), ACRCloud (Supports iOS, Android, Java, Python Sdks for music identification and channel monitoring),
  • ThemeFinder.org[16] is web-based software for music mining based on Parsons code
  • Mining Music (MuSort - MuMiner - MathaMusic)[19]
  • IMARS (IBM Developer projects)[20]
  • jMIR (For Java Music Information Retrieval, Freeware)[21]
  • The open source, free statistical software programming language R, from Revolution Analytics, has numerous developmental plugins for both data and music mining[22]

Music mathematics software

Main article: Music and mathematics
See also: Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music and Mathematical software
  • Musimat (by Gareth Loy)[23]
  • Music math (v. 4.0 current, Macintosh)[24]
  • Julia (programming language) (MIT freeware, new, high level dynamic programming language competing with R (programming language), MATLAB and GNU Octave. All three of these are general dynamic programming platforms, so the many music applications are plugins. In particular, some new Julia plugins are statistical AI platforms ideal for music, for example, ApproxFun, the Julia ChebFun clone).
  • Mind research software (US inner city project teaching mathematics via Pro Tools music software)[25]
  • Math to music conversion algorithms[9]
  • Timbre analysis using Math software. Unlike other more relatively "settled" topics in music, timbre (especially Harmonics), relating to characteristics of different instruments and the human voice, was a more subjective and controversial area of music analysis until recent advances in Fourier analysis (mathematics) allowed objective analysis and descriptions of overtones, envelope, etc. These advances utilize a wide variety of software programs, found in the list of lists at Mathematical software)
  • Max (Musimathics software, Pure Data predecessor)[11]
  • Scala, a program for creating and analysing musical scales

Music research software

Main article: Sound and music computing
  • Humdrum (Ohio State)[26]
  • SoundSoftware (University of London)[27]
  • SoundSmith (Microsoft, education and research)[28]
  • Semantic Web (University of London)[29]
  • Sketcher (Ubuntu Linux, University of Sheffield freeware)[30]
  • Interrogation software for qualitative research in music education (Oxford)[31]
  • Xtrends - Cornerstone (Mining and research, focused on radio hooks)[32]
  • CCRMA Software (Stanford)[33]
  • ScoreCloud (Notation research)[34]
  • CSSE Research (University of Canterbury)[35]
  • TapeUtape (Percussion research)[36]
  • List of music research software tools (MIR project, France, in English)[37]

Computer music software

Electronic music
Experimental forms
Popular styles
Other topics
Main article: Computer music
See also: List of audio programming languages

Robotic music software

Main article: Music and artificial intelligence
See also: Robotic art
  • Emily Howell
  • Melomics (Robotic musicians driven by learning algorithm software. Includes numerous public domain pieces[38]
  • Emi (David Cope's Emily Howell predecessor, stands for Experiments in Musical Intelligence, pronounced Emmy)
  • OrchExtra (automated production of musicals by adding "robotic" instruments (or software "players") to augment ensembles that have too few orchestra members)[39]
  • Ludwig (AI song arrangement software)[40]
  • Z-Machines[41]

Music education software

This section is about music learning software. For choir and learn-to-sing software, see § Choir and Learn to Sing Software.
Main article: Comparison of music education software
  • EarMaster
  • InstrumentChamp (video game for also acoustic guitar, and piano, drum, sax and trumpet; multiplayer)
  • MuseScore
  • Yousician (educational game to learn to play guitar and piano)
  • Synthesia (video game with piano instruction aspects)
  • Rocksmith (video game with emphasis on instructional aspects; unique in that controller can be any electric guitar w/ 1/4" jack)
  • WaveSurfer (studies of acoustic phonetics)
  • Reaktor (software creation of nearly every instrument; reverse engineering encouraged)
  • Practica Musica (Part of a family of music education software from Ars Nova)[42]

Internet, RSS, Broadcast Music Software

Main article: Netlabel
See also: Content delivery network

This section only includes software, not services. For services programs like Spotify, Pandora, Prime Music, etc. see Comparison of on-demand streaming music services. Likewise, list includes music RSS apps, widgets and software, but for a list of actual feeds, see Comparison of feed aggregators. For music broadcast software lists in the cloud, see Content delivery network and Comparison of online music lockers.

Orchestration software

This section is about music orchestration software. For orchestration software as used in information technology, see Orchestration (computing).
  • Pizzicato (brand name, not the style of plucking certain string instruments)[46]
  • Secret Composer[47]
  • Garritan Personal Orchestra (MIDI sampling-sequencing codebase in Aria virtual player)
  • Vienna Symphonic Orchestra Library Software[48]
  • IK Multimedia Miroslav Philharmonik Classik Edition (Virtual orchestra)[49]
  • IRCAM
  • Orchidée
  • OpenMusic
  • Antescofo
  • Reaktor (software creation of nearly every instrument)

Chord Progression software

Main article: Chord progression
See also: List of chord progressions
  • Hookpad
  • Harmony Builder
  • SongFrame
  • Liquid Notes
  • Cognitone
  • ChordPulse

Analog-to-digital conversion software

Main article: Audio restoration
See also: Record restoration

Digital audio workstation (DAW) software

Main article: Digital audio workstation

Instrument simulation software

See also: Software instrument and Timbre

Piano

Pipe organ

  • Hauptwerk produces audio in response to MIDI signal from attached keyboard or from a MIDI sequencer. Most software organs have only a few organ sounds, such as "Church Organ", "Jazz Organ", etc. A Hauptwerk virtual pipe organ has samples of every note of every included rank (or set) of pipes, and each stop can be programmed individually, allowing the player to use sampled organ stops separately or combine them into an ensemble.[52]
  • Aeolus (organ simulator) open source pipe organ emulator that uses synthesis rather than sampling.

Guitar

Full orchestra

  • Reason (software) (also a DAW; instruments are called ReFills)(This software is often paired and integrated with Record)
  • Reaktor (Software creation of nearly every instrument)

Drums and Percussion

Music circuit software

Main article: Music electronics
See also: Audio electronics

Music analysis software

Main article: Musical analysis
See also: Spectrum analyzer

Music performance/ DJ / VJ software

Main article: Disc jockey
See also: DJ digital controller and VJing
Wikimedia Commons has media related to VJ (video performance art).

Music technology, synthesis and o/s software

See also: Software synthesizer

Virtual Synthesizer and Studio Software

See also: Virtual Studio Technology

Virtual Studio Technology Hosting Software

Music player software

Main article: Media player (software)

Samplers, Spiders and Sequencers

See also: Comparison of MIDI editors and sequencers
  • Electribe
  • Rax'N'Trax
  • The Core Kit (vi-elements)
  • HALion 3 (Steinberg)
  • Morgana (112db)
  • Propellerhead (Now included in the DAW Reason (software))
  • Structure (Avid)
  • Independence Pro (Yellow Tools)
  • Emulator X3 (E-MU)
  • Kontakt - all versions (Native Instruments)
  • Mach Five 2 (MOTU)
  • SiteSpider (Software that can search websites for user defined music categories)[44]
  • Music sequencer (Article includes extensive list)
  • Comprehensive List of Spiders (Music software agents, RSS, search and monitoring can be selected in many)[45]
  • SoundFont (Integrates synthesized/sampled MIDI files with recorded music)
  • FeedWind (RSS aggregator app/widget and custom spiders)[43]
  • Melodo

Lyrics and Vocals

See also: List of vocoders § Software vocoder models

Choir and learn-to-sing software

This section includes both choir software and learn-to-sing software. For music learning software, see music education software.
Main articles: Choir and Vocal coach

Music gaming software

Main article: List of music video games
See also: Video game music and Dynamic music

Trackers

Main article: Music tracker
Name Latest
update 		License OS versions File format support VST
support 		ASIO
output
Windows OS X Linux MID MOD XM IT S3M
Renoise 2014-04 Commercial Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Load No Yes Yes
OpenMPT 2015-04 BSD Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SoundTracker (beta) 2006-02 GPL No No Yes No Yes Yes No No No No
MilkyTracker  2013-11 GPL Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Load Load No Yes
Buzztrax 2013-03 LGPL Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Load No Yes Yes
ChibiTracker 2008-03 GPL Yes Yes Yes No Load Yes Yes Load No No
SunVox 2014-02 Freeware Yes Yes Yes Yes Load Load No No No Yes
Psycle 2009-11 GPL Yes No No No Load Yes Load Load Yes Yes
Schism Tracker 2014-12 GPL Yes Yes Yes Load Load Load Yes Yes No No
MadTracker 2006-02 Commercial Yes No No Load Load Yes Load Load Yes Yes
Buze (beta) 2014-02 GPL / BSD Yes No No Load Load Load Load Yes Yes Yes
Radium 2015-05 GPL Yes Yes Yes Load No Load XI No No Yes Yes
SVArTracker 2015-06 Commercial Yes No No Load Load Load Load Load Yes Yes

MIDI plug-ins

Main article: Audio plug-in

Music visualization software

Main article: Music visualization

Soundtrack creation software

Main article: Soundtrack
See also: Multitrack recording and Sound recording and reproduction
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Soundtrack creation software.

See also

Template:Wikipedia books

Main articles: Outline of music and Index of music articles

Template:Wikipedia books

Notes

  1. ^ There are numerous MATLAB plugins for music. For example, although linear-phase bidirectional digital a/d filters are impossible (due to non symmetric impulse responses by recursive filters), MATLAB plugins can create very good digital approximations of analog output, even forward-backward, with a zero phase filter used twice. See Smith, p. 228, Introduction to Digital Filters, ISBN 978-0-9745607-1-7, 2012. Many of these plugins also run on GNU Octave if you don't have access to MATLAB.
  2. ^ For a more general list of conversion software, see List of audio conversion software. Vinyl restoration (as well as audio cassette conversion software) is a specific type of conversion that involves analog to digital as well as file formatting software (converting old vinyl records to digital file formats), which includes multiple steps, including both DAWs and A/D filters. A tutorial can be found on CNET.
  3. ^ VJ performance software is highly diverse, many applications are developed by VJs themselves specifically to suit their own performance style. Graphical programming environments such as Max/MSP/Jitter, vvvv, Isadora, Pure Data and Touch Designer have developed to facilitate rapid development of such custom software without needing years of coding experience.

References

  1. ^ "Short History of Computer Music". UCSC.edu. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  2. ^ "The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music". FactMag.com. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  3. ^ Walter B. Hewlett, Computing in Musicology, 1990, p. 112, Stanford Music Lab, Menlo Park, CA. Ars Nova (educational music software company, not music style) is at Ars Nova Software
  4. ^ Myriad website
  5. ^ Musettemusic website
  6. ^ From the article, this also is a DAW.
  7. ^ a b TablEdit download site
  8. ^ Temper website at ARP
  9. ^ a b Math to music algorithms
  10. ^ a b BTVSolo Software website
  11. ^ a b c Online history of Max
  12. ^ "A Survey of Music Data Mining". FIU.edu. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  13. ^ Alexander Lerch, An Introduction to Audio content analysis; applications in signal processing and Music Informatics, Wiley, 2012, ISBN 978-1118266823; Software lists are on pp. 201-206, including SDKs, although not indexed
  14. ^ Meinard Müller, Information Retrieval for Music and Motion, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-3540740476
  15. ^ Tao Li, Music Data Mining, CRC Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1439835524; p.68, a list of music mining software /references, is available on Google books at List of music mining academic software
  16. ^ a b ThemeFinder.org site
  17. ^ "Image Analysis Software for RapidMiner - BurgSys". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  18. ^ PDF on music informatics aspects of Greenstone software library
  19. ^ a b c d "Welcome to Shader Joe's Studios™". Retrieved 9 June 2015. {{cite web}}: C1 control character in |title= at position 32 (help)
  20. ^ "IBM Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (IMARS) - IBM". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  21. ^ "Overview". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  22. ^ "RDataMining.com: R and Data Mining". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  23. ^ Musimathics website, freeware download
  24. ^ Music Math 4.0 Specifications at Hitsquad
  25. ^ Mind research YouTube collection of secondary news report citations
  26. ^ Humdrum website
  27. ^ Soundsoftware website and downloads
  28. ^ SoundSmith website at Microsoft Research
  29. ^ Music Software and Semantic web article
  30. ^ Sketcher Download site
  31. ^ Qualitative Research Software Article and Site-- Music Education Research
  32. ^ Cornerstone website
  33. ^ CCRMA Software download site
  34. ^ ScoreCloud website
  35. ^ CSSE Website
  36. ^ Percussion software tutorial
  37. ^ Music research software list
  38. ^ Melomics downloads and examples
  39. ^ Online video demo of OrchExtra
  40. ^ Ludwig description and download site
  41. ^ Z machines CNN News Article
  42. ^ Ars Nova company link
  43. ^ a b FeedWind download/html code site
  44. ^ a b Trellian. "Trellian Software - Site Spider Web Crawling and Search Software". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  45. ^ a b "List of User-Agents (Spiders, Robots, Browser)". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  46. ^ Pizzicato software review
  47. ^ Secret Composer Website
  48. ^ Vienna Software Website
  49. ^ IK Multimedia Orchestration website
  50. ^ FL Studio 12 Accessed October 27, 2011.
  51. ^ Rosegarden free Linux DAW website
  52. ^ Thomas Wichmann, The Hauptwerk Computer Program, Review in "The American Organist" 2004 July
  53. ^ "Pioneer to Spin Off DJ Audio Unit to KKR". Reuters. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  54. ^ Paul Spinrad, The VJ Book, 2005, feralhouse, ISBN 1-932595-09-0
  55. ^ VST plug-ins
  56. ^ Syphonic Choirs website
  57. ^ Voxos specifications at Sweetwater
  58. ^ Free Sourceforge Canta download
  59. ^ ChoralNet music software list for Choir directors
  60. ^ Choir Pro website and Virtual Ensemble
  61. ^ Singing Coach website
  62. ^ eMedia learn to sing software website
  63. ^ Voices Complete website
  64. ^ Choir and learn to sing website
  65. ^ Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (1992). Computing in musicology, Volume 8. ISBN 978-0-936943-06-0.
  66. ^ "Intelligence, new visions of artificial intelligence in practice". 11. Association for Computing Machinery. 2000. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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