Free/open source software for creating and/or editing sounds and music.
General Sound Editing
Sound editors
| Application name/link
|
Active1
|
Stable2
|
Details
|
License
|
| Audacity
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Feature-rich recorder/editor
|
GPL
|
Music applications
Music applications
| Application name/link
|
Active1
|
Stable2
|
Multi-Track Recording
|
MIDI
|
LADSPA plugins
|
LV2 plugins
|
VST plugins
|
Jack support
|
Details
|
License
|
Operating Systems
|
| Ardour
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Digital audio workstation
|
GPL
|
Linux, OS X
|
| Hydrogen
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Drum computer
|
GPL
|
Linux, OS X, Windows3
|
| Rosegarden
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Digital audio workstation
|
GPL
|
Linux, OS X
|
| Wired
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
|
|
|
Digital audio workstation
|
GPL/LGPL
|
Linux
|
| Traverso DAW
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Digital audio workstation
|
GPL
|
Linux, OS X, Windows
|
| LMMS
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Multimedia Studio
|
GPL
|
Linux, Windows
|
| Jokosher
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Multi-track recording software
|
GPL
|
Linux, OS X, Windows
|
| ZynAddSubFX
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Advanced synthesizer
|
GPLv2
|
Linux, OS X, Windows
|
1Development activity (releases, activity in repository) must not be older than one year 2'Stable' releases exist 3Experimental
Trackers
Scorewriters
Scorewriters
| Application name/link
|
Active1
|
Stable2
|
GUI
|
Details
|
License
|
| LilyPond
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Can process text files
|
GPL
|
| Denemo
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
GUI-frontend for Lilypond, multi-platform
|
GPL
|
| NoteEdito
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
KDE scorewriter, old though
|
GPL
|
Sound effect generators
Sound editors
| Application name/link
|
Active1
|
Stable2
|
Details
|
License
|
| sfxr
|
No
|
Yes
|
8-bit sfx (flash version available)
|
MIT
|
| Explodomatica
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Explosion sound generator
|
GPL
|
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