Free audio software

Free audio software

Free audio software is free software that can be used to listen to, modify, create and/or author audio signals and music. There is free audio software available for Windows and MacOS, but the largest quantity of the free audio software only runs on GNU/Linux.

Planet CCRMA and AGNULA are GNU/Linux distributions designed for musicians and/or audio engineers.

Table of contents

1 Audio Recording and Editing
2 JACK Audio Connection Kit
3 Trackers
4 Programming languages
5 Modular systems
6 Diverse
7 External links

Audio Recording and Editing

Ardour
Audacity
Ecasound

JACK Audio Connection Kit

JACK is a daemon that provides low latency connections between JACKified applications. Currently it needs ALSA.

Trackers

Cheesetracker is an Impulse Tracker clone
Soundtracker

Programming languages

CSound has recently been released under the LGPL.
SuperCollider
ChucK is a concurrent, on-the-fly audio programming language, (not yet released).
see computer music programming languages

Modular systems

SpiralSynthModular

Pure data
jMax

Diverse

MuSE is for mixing, encoding, and streaming of encoded audio.

External links

Dave Phillips' Sound & MIDI Software For Linux

Audacity is an excellent free audio editor