{{Short description|None}} This is a list of 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.

This list does not include discontinued historic or legacy software, with the exception of trackers that are still supported.<ref name="Historic music software">{{cite web|url=http://artsites.ucsc.edu/ems/music/equipment/computers/history/history.html|title=Short History of Computer Music|website=UCSC.edu|access-date=11 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Legacy music software">{{cite web |url= https://www.factmag.com/2016/10/01/the-14-pieces-of-software-that-shaped-modern-music/ |title= The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music |website= Fact Mag |access-date= 11 June 2015 |first= John |last= Twells |url-status= live |archive-date= Apr 23, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140423083654/https://www.factmag.com/2014/04/21/the-14-pieces-of-software-that-shaped-modern-music/}}</ref>

If a program fits several categories, such as a comprehensive digital audio workstation or a foundation programming language (e.g. Pure Data), listing is limited to its top three categories.

==Types==

=== CD ripping software === {{Div col|colwidth=1000em}} * Brasero * CDex * Exact Audio Copy * fre:ac * k3b {{div col end}}

=== 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|Choir|Vocal coach}} * Cantor (music software) * SingingCoach

=== DJ software === {{Main|DJ#Software}} {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * Cross/CrossDJ * Deckadance * djay * Final Scratch * Mixxx * Serato * Traktor * Rekordbox * VirtualDJ {{div col end}}

=== Digital audio workstation (DAW) software === {{Main|Digital audio workstation}} {{div col|colwidth=20em}} *Ableton Live *ACID Pro *Ardour *Audacity *Audiotool *BandLab *BespokeSynth *Bitwig Studio *Cakewalk Sonar *Cubase *Digital Performer *FL Studio *GarageBand *HighC *LMMS *Logic Pro *Magix Music Maker *Maschine *MetaSynth *Mixcraft *MultitrackStudio *Nuendo *Mixbus *MuLab *Orion Studio *Pro Tools *Pyramix *Qtractor *REAPER *Reason *Renoise *Rosegarden *Samplitude *Sonic Pi *Soundtrap *Studio One *Waveform *Zynewave Podium {{div col end}}

=== Computer music software === {{Electronic music top}} {{Main|Computer music}} {{See also|List of audio programming languages}} {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * ChucK * Csound * Director Musices * List of Generative music software * JFugue * Kyma (sound design language) * Keykit * Max/MSP * Opusmodus * Pure Data * Suno AI * SuperCollider * Udio {{div col end}}

=== Internet, RSS, broadcast music software === {{Main|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.'' {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * Airtime * Audicom (First radio automation software—see Radio software) * Campcaster * Clickradio * Juice (aggregator) * Jamulus (Internet jamming software) * Moodagent (AI based emotion keyed playlist generator and app) * Ninjam (Internet jamming software) * OpenBroadcaster * Panopto {{div col end}}

=== Lyrics and vocals === {{See also|List of vocoders#Software vocoder models}} * Cantor (music software) * Rhyme Genie (Algorithms and software for rhyming lyrics) * SingingCoach

=== Audio plug-ins === {{Main|Audio plug-in}}

{{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * Blackhole, H3000 Factory, SplitEQ (Eventide, Inc.) * Stutter Edit, Ozone, RX Audio Editor (iZotope) * Jamstix (Rayzoon Technologies) * Liquid Rhythm (WaveDNA) * PCM Native, MPX Native (Lexicon (company)) * NI Massive, Kontakt (software), B4, Electrik Piano, Guitar Rig 2 (Native Instruments) * OrangeVocoder (Prosoniq) * SoundFont (Integrates synthesized/sampled MIDI files with recorded music) * MachFive, Symphonic Instrument (Mark of the Unicorn) {{div col end}}

=== Music analysis software === {{Main|Musical analysis}} {{See also|Spectrum analyzer}} {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * BeatRoot * ChucK * Kyma (sound design language) * Opusmodus * Pure Data * Platinum Blue Music Intelligence (from Music Xray company) * Sonic Visualiser * WaveSurfer {{div col end}}

=== Music circuit software === {{See also|Audio electronics|circuit bending}} {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * Arduinome (software circuit platform) * CPU Sim * Electric VLSI Design System * gLogic * GNU Circuit Analysis Package * KTechLab * Linear Technology (a/d, circuit software, and others.) * List of free electronics circuit simulators * LTspice * Micro-Cap * MIDIbox (software circuit platform) * Monome (software circuit platform) * Ngspice * Oregano (software) * Quite Universal Circuit Simulator * SapWin * SPICE * Tenori-on (software circuit platform) {{div col end}}

=== Music composing software === {{See also|Algorithmic composition}} {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * Antescofo * Director Musices * Hyperscore * JFugue * Keykit * Kyma (sound design language) * Max * Music Mouse (Algorithmic synth and composer) * Nodal * Ocarina * OpenMusic * Opusmodus * PetSynth * Reaktor * Rubato Composer {{div col end}}

=== Music conversion software === {{See also|List of audio conversion software}} {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * AIMP * Audacity * Brasero * CDex * Exact Audio Copy * FFmpeg * FL Studio * foobar2000 * Freemake Audio Converter * Free Studio * fre:ac * iTunes * k3b * MediaCoder * MediaHuman Audio Converter * MediaMonkey * SoX * VLC Media Player * Winamp * WMA Convert {{div col end}}

=== Music education software === {{About|music learning software|choir and learn-to-sing software|#Choir and Learn to Sing Software|section=yes}} {{Main|Comparison of music education software}}

{{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * Soundtrap * Meludia * EarMaster * EarSketch * GNU Solfege * Hyperscore * Reaktor * Rocksmith * Synthesia * WaveSurfer * Yousician * GibsonApp * Chordify {{div col end}}

=== Music gaming software === {{See also|Video game music|Dynamic music|Rhythm game}} {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * Beat Saber * Crypt of the NecroDancer * osu! * Music Tech * Rocksmith {{div col end}}

=== Music mathematics software === {{Main|Music and mathematics}} {{See also|Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music|Mathematical software}} * JFugue * Julia (programming language) * Scala * Wolfram Language

=== Music notation software === {{Main|Scorewriter}}

{{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * Aegis Sonix * Canorus * Capella * Deluxe Music Construction Set * Denemo * Dorico * Encore * ENT (for typeset mensural notation) * Finale * Flat * Forte * Frescobaldi * Gregorio (for Neumes) * Guitar Pro * Igor Engraver * Impro-Visor * jEdit plugin * LilyPond * MagicScore * Mozart * Mus2 * MusEdit * MuseScore * Music Write * MusiCAD * MusicEase * MusiXTeX * NoteEdit * Noteflight * Notation Composer * NoteWorthy Composer * NOTION * Overture * Philip's Music Writer (PMW) * Power Tab Editor * Rosegarden * SCORE * ScoreCloud * Sibelius (Division of Avid Technology since 8/2006. Avid also sells the Pro Tools DAW) * SmartScore (Focus on Music OCR) * TuxGuitar {{div col end}}

=== Music player software === {{Main|Comparison of audio player software}}

=== Music research software === {{Main|Sound and music computing}} * ScoreCloud (Notation research)

=== Music technology, synthesis and o/s software === {{See also|Software synthesizer}} {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * :Category:Music software plugin architectures * Comparison of audio synthesis environments * DirectMusic * Moodagent (AI based emotion keyed playlist generator and app) * Music information retrieval * Software effect processor * Sound Recorder (Windows) * Impromptu (programming environment) * Keykit * Max (software)<ref name="Online history of Max">{{cite web|url=http://www.musicwords.net/musictech/numbers.htm|title=Music & Math|access-date=5 January 2017}}</ref> * SynthFont (a MIDI to WAV converter-- Virtual Studio Technology instruments can be used instead of source files) {{div col end}}

=== Music visualization software === {{Main|Music visualization}} {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * Advanced Visualization Studio (Justin Frankel) (platform: Windows) * Cthugha (1993, Kevin "Zaph" Burfitt) (platform: DOS) * Magic Music Visuals (since 2012, Color & Music, LLC) (platforms: Windows, OS X) * MilkDrop (2001-2012, Ryan Geiss) reimplemented as projectM (platforms: Windows, Linux, Android) * Neon (2004, Jeff Minter and Ivan Zorzin) (platform: Xbox 360) * Psychedelia * Pure Data * Virtual Light Machine (1990, Jeff Minter) (platform: Atari Jaguar) * Visual Music Tone Painter (1992–2004)<ref>{{cite book|title=Intelligence, new visions of artificial intelligence in practice|volume=11|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|year=2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-WZVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Visual+Music+Tone+Painter%22}}</ref> {{div col end}}

=== Orchestration software === {{About|music orchestration software|orchestration software as used in information technology|Orchestration (computing)|section=yes}} * Antescofo * IRCAM * OpenMusic * Orchidée * NotePerformer

==== Drums and percussion ==== * Liquid Rhythm * Radiodrum

==== Guitar ==== {{See also|List of guitar tablature software}} * Guitar Rig * Line 6 * Rocksmith * Guitar Pro * TuxGuitar * GarageBand * Logic Pro * Ableton Live * Audacity

==== Piano ==== {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * Kurzweil Digital Piano * Pianoteq (Modartt) * SGX-1 Premium Piano * Synthesia * Virtual piano {{div col end}}

==== Pipe organ ==== * Hauptwerk produces audio in response to MIDI signal from attached keyboard or from a MIDI sequencer<ref>Thomas Wichmann, The Hauptwerk Computer Program, Review in ''The American Organist'', July 2004</ref>

=== Automatic composition software === {{Main|Music and artificial intelligence}} {{See also|Robotic art}} *Experiments in Musical Intelligence

=== Samplers and sequencers === {{See also|Comparison of MIDI editors and sequencers}} * Electribe * Music sequencer * Propellerhead * SoundFont

=== Soundtrack creation software === {{Main|Soundtrack}} {{See also|Multitrack recording|Sound recording and reproduction}} {{Commons category|Soundtrack creation software}}

{{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * Anvil Studio * Ensoniq PARIS * FL Studio * FL Studio Mobile * Mixcraft * Pro Tools * Sound Forge * Soundtrap * SpectraLayers * WaveLab {{div col end}}

=== Trackers === {{Main|Music tracker}}

Historical tracker software: *SoundMonitor (C64, 1986) *Ultimate Soundtracker (Amiga, 1987) *NoiseTracker (Amiga, 1989) *OctaMED (Amiga, 1989) *Protracker (Amiga, 1990) *ScreamTracker (PC, 1994) *FastTracker 2 (PC, 1994) *Impulse Tracker (PC, 1995)

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===Virtual Studio Technology hosting software=== {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * Ableton Live * ACID Pro * Adobe Audition * Adobe Premiere Elements * Adobe Premiere Pro * Acoustica Mixcraft * Ardour (open source) * Audacity (open source, Windows, Linux and Mac platforms only<ref>{{cite web|title=VST plug-ins|url=http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/VST_Plug-ins|publisher=Audacity Wiki}}</ref>) * AudioMulch * Band-in-a-Box * Cakewalk by BandLab * Deckadance * Digital Performer (version 8 or higher) * FL Studio * GoldWave * Jeskola Buzz * LMMS (open source) * Logic Pro * Magix Music Maker * Max MSP * ModPlug Tracker * MultitrackStudio * n-Track Studio * NOTION * REAPER * Reason * Renoise * Samplitude * Sony Acid Pro * Sony Sound Forge * Sony Vegas * Soundtrap * Steinberg Cubase * Steinberg Nuendo * Studio One * Steinberg Wavelab * Traktor * Vocaloid * WavePad Audio Editor * Podium {{div col end}}

=== Virtual synthesizer and studio software === {{See also|Virtual Studio Technology}} {{main category|Software synthesizers}} * Amsynth * Minimoog * Reaktor (software creation of instrument) * Reason (DAW and virtual recording studio, integrated with Record) * Spire * VCV Rack * ZynAddSubFX

=== Wave editors === {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} * Audition * Audacity * Goldwave * Sound Forge * WavePad Audio Editor {{div col end}}

==See also== {{Main|Outline of music|Index of music articles}} {{Portal|Music|Internet}} <!-- Please keep entries in alphabetical order & add a short description WP:SEEALSO --> {{div col|colwidth=20em|small=no}} * Audio editing software * Comparison of audio synthesis environments * Comparison of digital audio editors * Comparison of free software for audio * Comparison of MIDI editors and sequencers * Comparison of scorewriters * List of audio conversion software * List of audio programming languages * List of Linux audio software * List of scorewriters * Music technology {{div col end}} <!-- please keep entries in alphabetical order -->

== References == {{Reflist}}

{{Audio editing software}} {{Computer music}} {{Electronic music}} {{Media player software|free}} {{Music genres}}

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