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iAnalyze is an application for musical analysis, it permits you to combine a score with an audio file to study the movements etc…. in french only !
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http://web.mac.com/pierre.couprie/Logiciels/iAnalyse.html (404 clicks)

A multitrack tablature editor and player.
- Tablature editor
- Score Viewer
- Multitrack display
- Autoscroll while playing
- Note duration management
- Various effects (bend, slide, vibrato, hammer-on/pull-off)
- Support for triplets (5,6,7,9,10,11,12)
- Repeat open and close
- Time signature management
- Tempo management
- Imports and exports gp3,gp4 and gp5 files
available for WinXP, Linux and MacOSX
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http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ (290 clicks)

Provides accompaniment to the improvising musician. Never tires, never gets bored. Never plays off key. Comes with a bunch of scales and easy to add more.
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http://mars.pingdynasty.com/software.oml (1583 clicks)

Kids Synth is a sound creation tool for kids. You can create many types of sounds only by dragging and lining up blocks. Kids Synth is designed to help kids to learn how to make sounds and how sounds work.
Requirements:
Mac OSX 10.4 or higher.
Download:
http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~masuda/ks/ks_en.html (283 clicks)

Software for making educational animations from music scores.
EDiMu (Edition of Diaporamas Musical) is a software that makes it possible to create an animation from one or several images (like a music score), including a time cursor, annotations graphics and one or more soundfiles.
view an example movie to get an exact idea of what this software [...]

With this app, created melodic shapes are harmonized with an infinite variety of modal chords that can be developed into full compositions for use in film scores, pop, classical and jazz works.
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http://homepage.mac.com/ronmiller2/RonsSite/chordsX.html (293 clicks)

The AC Toolbox is a Macintosh application to assist the algorithmic composition of music.
Several models for defining musical events are included. They can be used by defining objects such as sections, shapes, masks, or note structures. It is also possible to play, plot, modify, and examine objects in a number of ways. Extensive [...]

MIDI Builder enables the creation of 1 to 4-voice MIDI files in “step-entry” fashion.
Please note that although MIDI Builder can be used by practically anyone to create simple melodies, it will be found more useful to those who are comfortable with music notation and who can keep track of musical sequences in memory.
MIDI Builder does [...]

…This project is loosely based on the school of music theory called Just Intonation.I say ‘loosely’ because I don’t claim to be a musician, much less a student of music theory, but you really don’t have to be either to understand the basic concepts of Just Intonation, which are rooted in observations, thousands of years [...]

Music Math is a freeware which converts music values (BPM, transpose, Delay, Samples, ms, Hz, Timestretch %, Notes ). Music-Math has 7 conversion functions: Tempo Change, Transpose, Delay, Tap Tempo, Samples, Notes and SMPTE:
- Tempo : computes the equivalent TimeStrecthing from the original and new tempos.
- Transpose: converts semi tones to TimeStrecthing values
- Delay [...]

The Conductor Program — computer-mediated musical performance
Remember how you could record a melody in your casio and how you could play it back only with 2 fingers and with a different timing ? well, this is the basic idea of Tapper.
Give it a midi file to use as a score, select the MIDI input and [...]

Open Source Package for Composition & Performance .
Jade is a flexible, relatively easy-to-use, environment for composition and performance. For many Jade has made approaching the complexities of interactive music possible. Now it is available for free as an open-source project.
The basic unit in Jade is a Module. Jade has a number of ready-made modules for [...]

Strasheela is a highly expressive constraint-based music composition system.
The Strasheela user declaratively states a music theory and the computer generates music which complies with this theory. A theory is formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) by a set of rules (constraints) applied to a music representation in which some aspects are expressed by variables [...]

Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.
The aim of Sonic Visualiser is to be the program you reach for when you find a musical recording you want to study rather than simply hear.
As well as a number of features designed to make exploring audio data as [...]

An Application for the Creation of Geophonic Music
Have you ever wondered what climate cycles of the last million years SOUND like? What would happen if you turned tide level data into sound waves? If geological cycles could make music – what would the melody be? The harmony?
Maestro Frankenstein is a unique application that is designed [...]

Follow Me is a simple ear training application. It plays intervals you have to follow on the fretboard, keyboard, etc.
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/followme/ (417 clicks)

WaveSurfer is an Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. It has been designed to suit both novice and advanced users. WaveSurfer has a simple and logical user interface that provides functionality in an intuitive way and which can be adapted to different tasks. It can be used as a stand-alone tool for a [...]

this app will provide the pop and jazz improvisor with that ‘play along’ practice that is so ubiquituos; it differs from other software-based playalongs in that the user clicks on a staff to place the roots of choice. The random create part puts the app in the algorithmic composition categorie as well.
http://homepage.mac.com/ronmiller2/RonsSite/playalong.html (371 clicks)

MaxScore was originally designed to demonstrate algorithmic thinking in computer music. It is loosely based upon Barry Truax’s POD systems of the 1980s.
MaxScore follows the POD design of events contained within notelists (scores). This convention is also used by many other computer music programs, including Csound and MIDI sequencers. This version of MaxScore is limited [...]

An easy but sophisticated and flexible way to practice ear training for improved aural skills.
I found, when practicing intervals myself, that there was no good, flexible ear-training software available for free. So I built Intervals.Take it for a spin and learn some stuff!
Features:
Uses MIDI to play notes, allowing you to use any synthesizer you want
MIDI [...]

My First Step Sequencer is a simple 16-(or 8-)step sequencer aimed at children. It was designed in conjunction with spacedad (from kvr) and Jacky Lee, and comes with a shuffle mode and a note randomise button, as well as a scale-forcing control, to make it so that you can only select notes within a particular [...]

Sonogram has been programmed at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz DFKI, www.dfki.de (245 clicks)). Sonogram is an signal analyze tool to visualize different signal analyze algorithms in the frequency domain. It generates visual plots/graphs from this algorithms and has the ability to render three dimensional interactive plots of [...]

MidiSwing is a “midi sequencer” displaying the content of midi files as a piano roll which you can edit. You can edit any existing midi file, or compose your own music from scratch. MidiSwing has been written in Java and is supposed to run on any Java 2 platform (Linux, Windows, Mac…). MidiSwing has been [...]

Aquallegro is a suite of music theory teaching software. It contains sections that teach note names in Treble, Alto, Tenor, and Bass clef, and helps with the recognization of key signatures – both flat and sharp – in Treble, Alto, Tenor, and Bass clef. It also teaches ear training to help recognize Major, Minor, Diminished, [...]

MAX / MSP standalone to study the musical temperaments.
Designed for music teachers and students of Musicology.
http://users.skynet.be/almusie/logiciel.html (310 clicks)

Scala is a powerful software tool for experimentation with musical tunings, such as just intonation scales, equal and historical temperaments, microtonal and macrotonal scales, and non-Western scales.
It supports scale creation, editing, comparison, analysis, storage, tuning of electronic instruments, and MIDI file generation and tuning conversion. All this is integrated into a single application with [...]

Matriosity is a serial matrix generator and chord analyser. It can be used in the creation of serial music as a compositional aide
Matriosity is a serial matrix creation tool. It allows users to enter in a prime row, either as numbers (1-11, and either 0 or 12 for C) or letters (C, C#, etc.). It [...]

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Cecilia is a program to make sound. Sound in its widest definition. Sound as music, sound as composition, sound as accessory.
Cecilia is a general sound-processing environment
Cecilia is a graphical interface
Cecilia is a text editor
Cecilia is a music programming language
Cecilia serves the composer with little programming experience and the programmer with little composing experience. [...]

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jMax is a visual programming environment for building interactive real-time music and multimedia applications.
jMax is a new implementation of the MAX software written originally by Miller Puckette at Ircam. The name MAX is an homage to Max Matthews, one of the fathers of computer music.
The MAX concepts
MAX reuses the patchable modular analog synthesizer [...]

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SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis. You can write programs to generate or process sound in real time or non real time. SuperCollider can be controlled by MIDI, the mouse, Wacom graphics tablet, and over a network via Open Sound Control.

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To Learn Chords And Scales
This software provides information about chords and scales. It shows the corresponding pattern of chords on scores and keyboards.

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MakingMusic 2.7 is an online Musical Instrument Encyclopedia, providing a description, an image and a sound clip per instrument.
This is an ongoing Freeware project, with new instruments being added to the database as the research progresses. Each time you launch the application you may find you have access to different amounts of information. [...]