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Production

Awesome Music Production

A curated list of software, hardware, and other resources to create music.

Software

Audio Workstations

Ableton
Ardour
Bitwig
Cubase
Garage Band
Giada - Minimal audio tool for DJs, live performers and musicians.
GridSound - Free online DAW implemented with the Web Audio API.
Logic Pro X
Pro Tools
Reaper - Complete digital audio production app for Windows and macOS.
Rytmik Studio - Music creation software.

Libraries

Alda - A music programming language for musicians.
Aubio - Segmentation, pitch detection, tapping the beat and producing midi streams.
Band.js - Music composer interface for the Web Audio API.
Blip - Looping and sampling with the Web Audio API.
Dplug - Library to make audio plug-ins with the D programming language.
Euterpea - In Haskell embedded language for computer music applications.
Faust - Functional programming language for sound synthesis and audio processing.
FourVoices - Automatic music generator for four-part writing.
Klasma - Chiptune music composition kit.
libsoundio - Cross platform audio input and output library.
LickCreator - Online web based music notation.
Leipzig - Composition library for Clojure and ClojureScript.
Magenta - Music and Art Generation with Machine Intelligence.
Magiclock - Feel MIDI clock beat via the magic trackpad.
meSing.js - JavaScript singing synthesis library.
Microm - JavaScript library to convert browser microphone to mp3.
Music Suite - Haskell based language for describing music.
Node Speaker - Output PCM audio data to the speakers.
Octavian - Utility to reason about notes, frequencies, and intervals.
Orca - Esoteric programming language to create procedural sequencers.
Overtone - Open Source toolkit for designing synthesizers and collaborating with music.
Pedalboard.js - JavaScript framework to develop audio effects for guitars.
PitchFinder & Node PitchFinder - Javascript (and node c++ addon) with pitch detection algorithms
React Music - Create beats with React.
Repitch - Real-time polyphonic MIDI-controlled audio pitch shifting.
Sharp11 - Music theorization and improvisation engine.
Slang - Simple audio programming language implemented in JavaScript.
Spleeter - Source separation library (e.g. extract drums from a track).
Step Sequencer - Elm step sequencer for programming drum beats.
Teoria - JavaScript library for music theory.
TidalCycles - Programming language to describe polyphonic, polyrhythmic, and generative music sequences.
timbre.js - JavaScript library for objective sound programming.
Tonal - Functional music theory library.
Tone.js - A Web Audio framework for making interactive music in the browser.
Tuna - An audio effects library for the Web Audio API.
VCV Rack - Open source virtual modular synthesizer.
Vexwarp - JavaSCript library for audio time stretching and pitch shifting.
Vivid - High quality audio in Haskell with SuperCollider.

Synthesizers

Amsynth - Synthesizer with a classic subtractive synthesizer topology.
Helm - GPL licensed polyphonic synth with lots of modulation.
Surge Synthesizer - Open source digital synthesizer.
NSynth Super - Open source AI synth from the Google Magenta team.

Apps

Auxy - Modern instruments for mobile creators.
Composer's Sketchpad - Sequencer that combines musical staff paper with an artist's sketchbook (iOS only).
Luna - MIDI sequencer.
Melodics - Desktop app to teach playing MIDI keyboards, pads, and e-drums.
Midica - Music programming language and desktop app for MIDI generation.
SeekMIDI - Graphical multi channel MIDI sequencer.
Seq24 - Minimal loop based midi sequencer.
Sonic Pi - Live coding music synth for everyone.
Spire - iOS multitrack recording app with FX & mixing features.
SFZ Designer - Visual sample mapping tool to create SFZ files.

Webapps

108 - Minimal beat machine.
AI Duet - A smart piano that responds to you.
Arpeggiator - Web Audio Arpeggiator.
Baroque Dances - Procedurally generated classical music.
Beat Push - Online music production with built-in parallel drum and synth machine.
beatboxer - Simple drum machine.
BlokDust - Interactive music-making app to build synths and sounds.
Djenerator - A metal breakdown generator.
Funklet - Drum machine and library of famous drum patterns.
Jamwithchrome - Play music live with your friends online.
Keithwhor.com/music - Musical Keyboard - JS Dynamic Audio Synth.
Klangmeister - Live coding environment for the browser.
Landr - Automatic audio mastering.
Lissajous - A tool for programmatic audio performance in the browser.
Loopjs - Live Electronic Music Performance Software.
Looplabs - Cloud based music studio.
Matrix Piano - Virtual 2D piano to use the PC keyboard as an instrument.
Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator - Sketch out musical chord progressions.
MyNoise - Background noises and interactive soundscapes.
Piano Genie - Machine learning augmented piano app.
Reactor - Online DJ controller connected to SoundCloud.
Repeater Orchestra - An orchestra of repeaters which repeat the conductor.
Song Maker - Simple step sequencer.
Sononym - Visual sample browser.
Splice - Music creation and collaboration platform.
SuperCollider - Platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.
Synth Time - Simple synthesizer.
Synthi-JS - A JavaScript emulator of the legendary EMS Synthi A synthesizer.
TimeStretch - Online tool to loop, speed up, slow down, and pitch shift sections of an audio file.
ToneBasic - Programmatic sound generation in the browser.
Websynths - Free browser-based microtonal midi instrument.
QuasiMusic - Quasiperiodic tilings of the plane as sound triggers.
Qwerkey - Keyboard tonnetz.

Virtual Reality

Block Rocking Beats - Play with music in a virtual sound studio.
Electronauts - DJ simulation with 8 digital instruments.
Exa - The infinite instrument.
Lyra VR - Room scale music creation app.
Modulia Studio - App for music creation and performance.
Paradiddle - Virtual reality drum kit.
SoundStage - Music sandbox built specifically for room-scale VR.

Guitar

Chordata - A dummy chordbook for mandolin, ukulele and guitar.
Fretboard
UkeGeeks - Creates fingering diagrams by reading plain text or ChordPro ukulele songs.
Ukutabs - source for ukulele tabs, chords, tips, tools, guides

Services

AI Music Creation

Amper
Jukedeck
Melodrive
Humtap
Popgun

Music Distribution

Management

SongRiffer - Organize and browse riffs and song ideas.

Datasets

SigSep - Publicly available datasets for research on source separation.

Hardware

Synthesizers

dadamachines - Toolkit to create automated analog sounds.
Modal 002R - 8 or 12 voice digital/analogue hybrid 3U rack.
Organelle - Intuitive controls with a powerful and flexible sound engine.
OP-1 - A powerful portable music workstation. with sampler, multi-track support, and onboard synth generation.
Pocket Operators - Tiny, low-cost digital instruments.
LittleBits Synth Kit - Snap-together modular synthesizer built in partnership with KORG.
ZynAddSubFX - Polyphonic fully featured musical software synthesizer.
Zynthian - Open hardware swiss army knife of synthesis, equipped with multiple engines, filters and effects.

MIDI Controllers

Artiphon - Guitar like MPE controller.
Bela - Computing platform for creating responsive interactive applications.
C-Thru Music Axis - Hexagonal and harmonic table based controller.
Continuum Fingerboard - Linear piano like MPE playing surface.
Dodeka Stellar - Linear and isomorphic MIDI keyboard.
dualo du-touch - Accordion like controller with hexagonal pads.
Eigenharp - Grid, breath pipe, and touch strip enabled MPE instrument.
Joué - Expressive and modular MPE controller.
LinnStrument - Grid based expressive MPE controller.
Mimu Gloves - Expressive wearable musical instrument.
Morph - Expressive MPE touch controller with swappable hardware interfaces.
MPK Mini mkII - Cheap, functional, excellent starter controller.
Neova - Expressive finger ring.
Open Woodwind Project - Electronic aerophone.
OpenDeck - Hardware platform to build custom MIDI controllers.
Poly Expressive - Foot controller.
QuNexus - Small and portable MPE keyboard.
ROLI Blocks - Portable snap-together MIDI controller with both desktop and mobile interfaces.
DIY Controller - DIY midi controller with simple buttons.

Instruments

Chapman Stick - 8, 10, or 12 string fretboard tapping instrument.
Harpejji - Electric stringed musical instrument.
Karlax - Multi sensor expressive Clarinette like instrument.
Keytam - Tunable guitar-tambourine hybrid.
Musical Instrument Challenge - List of DIY instruments.
OTTO - Sampler, sequencer, multi-engine synth and effects in a box.

Knowledge

Misc

Audio Working Group - Add advanced sound & music synthesis capabilities to the Open Web Platform.
Awesome Sheet Music - Curated list of tools to create, edit, and display sheet music.
Awesome WebAudio - A curated list of awesome WebAudio packages and demos.
Digital Filters Introduction - Jupyter notebooks and a geometric interpretation of digital audio filters.
Music Theory - The exciting universe of music theory.
youtube.com/i_0DXxNeaQ0 - The science and mathematics of music.
Sound hacking and music technologies

Articles

Detecting piano notes with web audio
DeepAudioClassification - Finding the genre of a song with deep learning.
Learning Synths - Learn the basics of using synthesizers.
Modeling Music with algebraic data types
Musimathics - The mathematical foundations of music.
Sound, Motion, Notation - Information and Art.
Terry Riley's "In C" - A Journey Through a Musical Possibility Space.
Theory Pages - Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People.
Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music
Visual Music & Machine Learning Workshop for Kids

Research

Harmony Explained - Progress towards a scientific theory of music.
Musical User Interfaces - Rethink how audio software is designed.
Universal Music Translation Network
Virtual Reality Musical Instruments: State of the Art, Design Principles, and Future Directions