Frinika is a free, complete music workstation software for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX and other operating systems running Java. It features a sequencer, soft-synths, real-time effects and audio recording.
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freeDSP ~ DIY Audio DSP Project
The freeDSP is an open-source digital signal processor family for the do-it-yourself community. The applications range from active loudspeaker concepts (digital crossovers, bass enhancement, …) and room equalization over advanced musical effect processors to car audio signal processing.
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LinuxSampler ~ Open Source Sampler
The LinuxSampler project was founded in 2002 with the goal to produce a free, (cross-platform), streaming capable, open source, pure software audio sampler with high stability, efficiency and very low latency, while providing professional grade features, comparable to both hardware and commercial Windows / Mac software samplers and to introduce new features not yet available by any other sampler in the world.
Visual Front Ends ~ GUI:
QSampler
JSampler
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Impro-Visor ~ Jazz Improvisation Adviser
Impro-Visor (short for “Improvisation Advisor”) is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised. The objective is to improve understanding of solo construction and tune chord changes. There are other, secondary, things it can do, such as improvise on its own. It has also been used for transcription. Because rhythm-section (e.g. piano, bass, drums) accompaniment is automatically generated from chords, Impro-Visor can be used as a play-along device. Now having a wider array of accompaniment styles, its use is not limited to jazz.
www.cs.hmc.edu
sourceforge.net/projects/impro-visor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impro-Visor
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Librivox ~ Free Public Domain Audiobooks
Read by volunteers from around the world. LibriVox audiobooks are free for anyone to listen to on their computers, iPods or other mobile devices, or to burn onto a CD.
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Discogs ~ Website Clientside Scripting
Automatically sorting Discogs master release pages by country:
- First download and install Tampermonkey from https://tampermonkey.net/
- Once it’s installed, open the extension menu and click “Create new script”
- Paste the Javascript code below into the editor and click File > Save
(replace everything that’s there with this code)
// ==UserScript== // @name Discogs Master Release Default Sort By Country // @namespace https://www.discogs-enhancer.com // @version 0.1 // @description Set MR release link to include custom filters by default // @author Matthew Salcido (discogs.enhancer@gmail.com) // @match https://www.discogs.com/* // @grant none // ==/UserScript== (function() { 'use strict'; const links = [...document.querySelectorAll('a')]; links.forEach(link => { if (link.href.includes('/master/')) { link.href += '?sort=country&sort_order='; } }); })();
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OpenSebJ ~ Real-time Sample Mixer
OpenSebJ is a free real time audio sample mixer that runs on Microsoft Windows. The source code for OpenSebJ is released under the GNU General Public License.
- Supports loading of 255 audio samples, in wav format, which can be played in real time.
- Sample properties such as volume, pan and frequency can be adjusted individually for each sample. (even during mid-play)
- A composition tool is provided and presented in a familiar multi-track sequencer environment. Looping compositions are also supported.
- Samples can be linked to keys on a keyboard and triggered in real time when a key press occurs.
- Each sample can also have the play cursor position adjusted while the sample is playing, to provide a virtual needle to be moved.
- Stream to disk recording, allows all audio played from OpenSebJ to be saved.
- Pitch shifter roll, allows an order to be set up, so that each time a sample is played, the next pitch shift in the sequence is undertaken before the sample is played. i.e. set up a sample to key ‘1’, then set up a pitch shift sequence, high, mid, low, higher, etc. (using frequency values which are transposed onto screen ‘ranges’ to allow easier utilization).
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Raven Lite ~ Visualize Sounds
Raven Lite is a free cross-platform software program that lets users record, save and visualize sounds as spectrograms and waveforms. Raven Lite is intended for students, educators, and hobbyists and can be used for learning about sounds, as an aid in birdsong recognition, and in musical instruction.
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PaulStretch ~ Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch
This is a program for stretching audio. It is suitable only for extreme sound stretching of the audio (like 50x) and for applying special effects by “spectral smoothing” the sounds. It can transform any sound / music to a texture. The program is Open-Source and it’s released under the version 2 of the General Public License. You can download the source code for Linux or the Windows binaries.
hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch
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RAT ~ Open Source Audio Conferencing
The Robust Audio Tool (RAT) is an open-source audio conferencing and streaming application that allows users to participate in audio conferences over the internet. These can be between two participants directly, or between a group of participants on a common multicast group.
mediatools.cs.ucl.ac.uk
freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/rat
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Ogger Club ~ Extend Discogs Functionality
Ogger for Discogs is a web system which uses the Discogs API in order to provide advanced functionality for the Discogs community. The Ogger Club is the place where you can take advantage of all the system’s features.
The goal of the project is not to replace your Discogs experience, but to extend it with new features that have been requested over time and are yet to be available on Discogs.
ogger.club
Discogs Discussion
Discogs Group
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NINJAM ~ Host An Internet Jam
NINJAM is open source (GPL) software which allows people to make real music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to their liking. NINJAM is cross-platform, with clients available for Mac OSX, Linux and Windows. REAPER (our digital audio workstation software for Windows and Mac) also includes NINJAM support (ReaNINJAM plug-in).
www.cockos.com/ninjam
autosong.ninjam.com/server-list
github.com/justinfrankel/ninjam
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjam
