Free audio software

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This article is about "free software" as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware.

Free audio software is free and open source software that can be used to listen to, modify, and/or create audio signals and music.

Contents 1 Technologies 2 Platforms 3 Recording and editing 4 Trackers 5 Programming languages 6 Modular systems 7 Streaming 8 Radio broadcasting 9 Softsynths 10 Audio analysis 11 Others 12 External links

[edit] Technologies

• Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA), a sound card management system in the Linux kernel
• Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API (LADSPA), a plugin architecture for digital sound processing
• DSSI, a plugin architecture for software synthesizers
• JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK), a sound server
• PulseAudio, a sound server

[edit] Platforms

• dyne:bolic, AGNULA and Musix are Linux distributions designed for musicians and/or audio engineers.
• Planet CCRMA, a set of RPM files for audio production work.

[edit] Recording and editing

• Ardour, a multi-track audio recorder (Linux, Mac)
• Ecasound, audio recorder (Linux, Mac)
• MusE, MIDI sequencer (not to be confused with MuSE; see below) (Linux, Mac)
• Rosegarden, MIDI sequencer and multi-track recorder (Linux, Mac)
• Wired, all-in one music studio (Linux, Mac)
• Audacity, multi-track audio recorder/editor (Linux, Mac, Windows)
• Sweep, audio editor (Linux)
• Snd (software), audio editor (Linux, Mac)
• Mp3splt, splits MP3 and Vorbis files without decoding (see mp3splt-gtk and libmp3splt) (Linux, Mac, Windows)
• Freecycle, beat slicer (Linux)
• Audiobook Cutter, MP3 audiobook splitter (Windows)
• LMMS, a powerful musical studio intended as a replacement for Cubase-like software (Linux)
• BestPractice, a playback tool which allows the user to slow down or speed up an audio file without altering the pitch.
• VioLet Composer
• Jokosher, a multi-track audio editor (Linux)

[edit] Trackers

• CheeseTracker, an Impulse Tracker clone (Linux, Mac)
• Schism Tracker, another Impulse Tracker clone (Windows, Linux, Mac)
• ModPlug Tracker. released as free software in 2004 (Windows)

[edit] Programming languages

• Csound
• SuperCollider
• ChucK is a concurrent, on-the-fly audio programming language
• Nyquist
• Pure Data

See computer music programming languages

[edit] Modular systems

• Pure data
• jMax
• SynFactory
• aRts
• buzztard
• Om

[edit] Streaming

• MuSE is for mixing, encoding, and streaming of encoded audio. Not to be confused with MusE; see above. (Linux)
• Icecast is a broadcast server to serve audio signals to clients over the HTTP protocol. (Linux, Windows)
• PeerCast, a peercasting tool (Linux, Mac, Windows)
• Firefly Media Server streams music to DAAP clients like iTunes and Rhythmbox (Linux, Mac, Windows)

[edit] Radio broadcasting

• SomaPlayer, radio broadcasting scheduler automation
• Campcaster (Linux)
• Rivendell - radio broadcast automation suite

[edit] Softsynths

• ZynAddSubFX (Linux, Windows)

[edit] Audio analysis

See spectrum analyzer

• Praat (Linux, Mac, Windows)
• RMAA sound card and audio analyzer

[edit] Others

• abc notation
• Gnu Solfege ear training software
• Hydrogen, an advanced drum machine (Cross platform)
• SoX, converts among file and data formats, sampling rates, etc. and can also add effects. (Cross-platform)
• libsndfile, library for reading and writing many sound formats

[edit] External links

• Consortium of free audio software makers
• List of freeware audio software for Windows
• Dave Phillips' Sound & MIDI Software For Linux
• An extensive listing of freeware 'VST plugins' (Virtual Studio Technology)