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List of music software

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Merge Useful Tools into Software and move to List of music software

Audio recording software (DAWs)

See DAWs

Electronic composing software

  • alt-tuner microtuning plug-in, does adaptive tunings, on-the-fly retuning, and scale analysis.
  • Chameleon – a customizable MIDI controller interface that can be used to create, among other things, virtual microtonal keyboards.
  • Csound (→ Csound and Wikipedia: Csound).
  • Droneo – 8-voice polyphonic droning iPhone app, defines intervals in Just rations, equal divisions of an interval, or interactively with a tone spiral. Sounds nice, too.
  • Dynamic Tonality – freely available dynamic tonality synthesizers and sequencers. (Wikipedia article on the dynamic tonality paradigm).
  • Frequency Explorer – a browser-based synthesizer + sequencer with precisely-configurable musical scale and harmonic spectrum.
  • Melodyne – commercial audio software with editing and analysis functions for scales and tunings.
  • Mutabor – open-source dynamic microtuner, allowing mutable and static scales and tunings using flexible language developed for musicians with GUI (tutorial).
  • Offtonic Microtonal Synthesizer – a JavaScript browser app that lets you play around with tunings.
  • Orphion – an iPad/iPhone touch-to-play app with customizable layout and scales.
  • scalemap – drop-in microtonal note-to-frequency mapping for C, C++, and Javascript
  • Scale Workshop Browser-based scale-creation site by Sevish. Allows playing via QWERTY computer keyboard. Can also export .scl and .kbm files.
  • Schismata Musical composition tool in any user defined tuning. Supports polyrhythms, tuning changes in real-time, sliding notes, instrument design.
  • Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone – besides Live Coding, you can also record to WAV format, microtonal capabilities are provided through adding decimals to MIDI numbers.
  • SoundModeler Free sound modeling application. Exports audio files and Halion multisamples. The note pitch is transposed in accordance with chosen temperament (equal, Pythagorean, just or meantone 1/4 comma) in the settings..
  • SunVox Modular Music Studio – a modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker), available for desktop (free of cost) and mobile devices (for approx. $6). Changing the musical scale in SunVox (video)
  • Terpstra Keyboard WebApp – cross-platform web app that allows mapping of any tuning (in Scala format) on any form of generalized hexagonal layout. Settings are stored in the address bar for easy sharing.
  • ThumbJam – an iPad/iPhone touch-to-play app with customizable layout and scales. It can open any .scl (Scala) files.
  • TiMidity++ (→ Wikipedia: TiMidity++)
  • Tonescape – music composition, analysis and educational tool.
  • Tune Smithy.
  • Tuning Vine – an interface for just intonation, with a color-coded lattice
  • Wilsonic – an iPad/iPhone app for exploring alternative scales, see it in action: the source file 3 - YouTube.
    • AudioKit Synth One – a free iPad/iPhone touch-to-play app with customizable layout and scales, which can import scales directly from within Wilsonic
  • Xenharmonic Keyboard – a Windows-only isomorphic microtonal MIDI keyboard.

Mathematics software

Notation software

  • abcm2ps Free, open-source, ASCII-based editor with support for some microtonal accidentals.
  • Lilypond Free, open-source, outstanding notation software that produces beautiful engraving-quality output on a par with commercial applications like Sibelius. Thanks to the work of Graham Breed, can use Sagittal glyphs. With the Ekmelily extension, it can support several other notation styles, namely Tartini, Richter Herf/Madel and Sims.
  • MaxScore is an Java object for Max/MSP. It is based on Nick Didkovsky's JMSL which natively supports quarter-tone notation, but is capable of playing back microtonal music with unlimited precision. In the most recent version of MaxScore, microMaps have been implemented in the score canvas that allow the display of microtonal inflections in any kind of notation system provided that a font exists to represent those inflections. So far, microMaps for 48TET and 72TET exist. It is planned to develop an standalone editor which doesn't require any Max programming expertise. For more information send an email to [email protected]
  • Mus2 is a microtonal score editor with intonationally-correct playback. It allows the retuning of staves and import of symbols from graphics files and fonts to be used as accidentals.
  • MuseScore open-source notation software. Can be microtuned with the retuner plugin for almost any edo. The Xentuner plugin by Keenan Pepper is also very good. See MuseScore for the dedicated page.

Research software

Software plugins (VST etc.)

See List of Microtonal Software Plugins

Tuning manipulation software

Tuning manipulation software (browser-based)

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