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Audio editing and production gathers tools for recording, mixing, and shaping sound. Entries include digital audio workstations, mixers, synthesis tools, sound effect libraries, and small utilities for pitch, tempo, or mastering. They range from full studios to single-purpose tools, so look at what each one does before you build a workflow around it, since track limits, plugin support, and how it handles latency matter more than a long feature list. Sample packs and presets carry their own licences, so check what you are allowed to use in a release. Some entries are free and some are commercial, with very different support.
The Mod Archive is a collection of music modules, described as one of the world's largest, and is in its 30th year online. It offers module browsing by genre, rating and license, artist charts, forums and torrents of additions. It also accepts donations for its hosting fund.
OpenAudio is a list of open-source audio software projects, covering apps, plugins and libraries. The intent is to catalog open-source audio apps, plugins such as VSTs, and other resources that are either fully featured or useful examples with non-trivial features. It includes sections for audio plugins, collections, audio apps, development libraries and APIs, code samples and open data resources.
Rosegarden is a music composition and editing environment for Linux built around a MIDI sequencer with music notation understanding and basic digital audio support. It is described as aimed at composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.
Schism Tracker is a free and open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a sample-based music composition tool. Its player is based on a modified ModPlug engine with bugfixes and playback changes. It runs on platforms supported by SDL, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and others.
Slowed and Reverb is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
Sound Instants is an audio creation tool for recording, editing, mixing, sound design, or music production.
Sound Show is a soundboard application for live events that plays music, sound effects and ambience, and can send images, video, text, webcams and color backgrounds to a dedicated display. It is available on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. A free core version exists, with limits on categories and playables per category, and a Pro edition unlocks unlimited categories and advanced features.
Tenacity is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems, developed by volunteers as open-source software. It supports recording from real or virtual audio devices, import and export of many audio formats extendible with FFmpeg, up to 32-bit float audio, and VST, LV2 and AU plug-ins.
bungee is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
GuitarML offers software plugins for guitar tone, with amp and pedal capture done by recording input/output samples and training machine learning models. Captures load into the Proteus plugin. Epoch Amp is an amp modelling plugin with four amp models, a mix control and built-in impulse responses.
looperman is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
TwistedWave is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
VI-CONTROL is a forum for composers and users of virtual instruments, sample libraries and synths. Sections cover sample talk, newbie questions, commercial announcements, deals, reviews, tech support, mixing and mastering, digital audio workstations, and computer hardware and peripherals. Some sections are reserved for paying advertisers, and members can introduce themselves and discuss music topics.
VK is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
XAudioPro is an online audio station for real-time editing and transcoding, using WebAudio and WebAssembly for front-end processing. It also offers spectrum-subtraction denoising, RNN neural network noise removal, and voice removal to extract background music. The site states the tool is not long online and its functions are limited, with more features in development.
Acid Machine 2 is a browser-based tool for creating acid techno. The site recommends the Chrome browser and notes that it may not work correctly in other browsers; a downloadable app is also mentioned.
AudioZ helps download, archive, convert, or manage audio and music files from supported sources.
BandLab helps download, archive, convert, or manage audio and music files from supported sources.
Bosca Ceoil: The Blue Album is a beginner-friendly music-making app and a modern port of Terry Cavanagh's Bosca Ceoil. It uses a step sequencer with a pattern editor and drag-and-drop arrangement editor supporting up to 8 channels, with over 300 synthesized instruments. Songs can be exported to WAV, MIDI, and XM. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and in browsers including Firefox and Chrome.
Chowdhury DSP produces audio signal processing tools for music makers, including the ChowMultiTool plugin with EQ, waveshaper and band-splitter tools, and BYOD, a plugin for creating custom guitar effects focused on guitar distortion. It also offers digital emulations and effects such as the Chow Tape Model, a digital emulation of a reel-to-reel analog tape machine.
Element is a modular plugin host for Mac, Windows and Linux. It is used to build effect racks and instruments and to route audio and MIDI, running on stage or as a plugin inside a DAW. It is free and open source under GPLv3, with development funded by its users. It supports CLAP and LV2 alongside VST, VST3 and AU.
Free VST Plugins is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
Furnace is a free and open-source chiptune music tracker that supports many old-school 8-bit and 16-bit systems, from the Atari 2600 and Commodore PET to SNES, Genesis and arcades. It emulates numerous sound chips and uses a true, real-time sound engine.
GDC is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.
