Free audio software

Free audio software is free software that can be used to listen to, modify, create and/or author audio signals and music. There is free audio software available for Windows and MacOS, but the largest quantity of the free audio software only runs on GNU/Linux.

Planet CCRMA and AGNULA are GNU/Linux distributions designed for musicians and/or audio engineers.

Table of contents

1 JACK Audio Connection Kit
2 Trackers
3 Programming languages
4 Modular systems
5 Diverse
6 External links

JACK Audio Connection Kit

JACK is a daemon that provides low latency connections between JACKified applications. Currently it needs ALSA.

Trackers

Cheesetracker is an Impulse Tracker clone
Soundtracker

Programming languages

CSound has recently been released under the LGPL.
SuperCollider

Modular systems

SpiralSynthModular
pure data
jMax

Diverse

MuSE is for mixing, encoding, and streaming of encoded audio.

External links

Dave Phillips' Sound & MIDI Software For Linux