yaph / awesome-music-production

A curated list of software, services and resources to create and distribute music.

Awesome Music Production

A curated list of software and resources to create music.

Audio Workstations

• Ableton
• Ardour
• Bitwig
• Cubase
• Garage Band
• Logic Pro X
• Pro Tools
• Reaper - Complete digital audio production application for Windows and OS X.

Hardware

Synthesizers

• dadamachines - Toolkit to create automated analog sounds.
• Organelle - Intuitive controls with a powerful and flexible sound engine.
• OP-1 - A powerful portable music workstation. with sampler, multi-track support, and onboard synth generation.
• Pocket Operators - Tiny, low-cost digital instruments.
• LittleBits Synth Kit - Snap-together modular synthesizer built in partnership with KORG.
• Zynthian - Open hardware swiss army knife of synthesis, equipped with multiple engines, filters and effects.

MIDI Controllers

• Artiphon - Guitar like MPE controller.
• Bela - Computing platform for creating responsive interactive applications.
• C-Thru Music Axis - Hexagonal and harmonic table based controller.
• Continuum Fingerboard - Linear piano like MPE playing surface.
• Dodeka Stellar - Linear and isomorphic MIDI keyboard.
• dualo du-touch - Accordion like controller with hexagonal pads.
• Eigenharp - Grid, breath pipe, and touch strip enabled MPE instrument.
• Joué - Expressive and modular MPE controller.
• LinnStrument - Grid based expressive MPE controller.
• Morph - Expressive MPE touch controller with swappable hardware interfaces.
• MPK Mini mkII - Cheap, functional, excellent starter controller.
• Open Woodwind Project - Electronic aerophone.
• OpenDeck - Hardware platform to build custom MIDI controllers.
• QuNexus - Small and portable MPE keyboard.
• ROLI Blocks - Portable snap-together MIDI controller with both desktop and mobile interfaces.

Instruments

• Harpejji - Electric stringed musical instrument.
• Keytam - Tunable guitar-tambourine hybrid.
• Musical Instrument Challenge - List of DIY instruments.

Software Libraries

• Alda - A music programming language for musicians.
• Aubio - Segmentation, pitch detection, tapping the beat and producing midi streams.
• Band.js - Music composer interface for the Web Audio API.
• Blip - Looping and sampling with the Web Audio API.
• Dplug - Library to make audio plug-ins with the D programming language.
• Euterpea - In Haskell embedded language for computer music applications.
• Faust - Functional programming language for sound synthesis and audio processing.
• FourVoices - Automatic music generator for four-part writing.
• Klasma - Chiptune music composition kit.
• libsoundio - Cross platform audio input and output library.
• LickCreator - Online web based music notation.
• Leipzig - Composition library for Clojure and ClojureScript.
• Magenta - Music and Art Generation with Machine Intelligence.
• Magiclock - Feel MIDI clock beat via the magic trackpad.
• meSing.js - JavaScript singing synthesis library.
• Microm - JavaScript library to convert browser microphone to mp3.
• Music Suite - Haskell based language for describing music.
• Node Speaker - Output PCM audio data to the speakers.
• Octavian - Utility to reason about notes, frequencies, and intervals.
• Overtone - Open Source toolkit for designing synthesizers and collaborating with music.
• Pedalboard.js - JavaScript framework to develop audio effects for guitars.
• React Music - Create beats with React.
• Sharp11 - Music theorization and improvisation engine.
• Slang - Simple audio programming language implemented in JavaScript.
• Step Sequencer - Elm step sequencer for programming drum beats.
• Teoria - JavaScript library for music theory.
• TidalCycles - Programming language to describe polyphonic, polyrhythmic, and generative music sequences.
• timbre.js - JavaScript library for objective sound programming.
• Tonal - Functional music theory library.
• Tone.js - A Web Audio framework for making interactive music in the browser.
• Tuna - An audio effects library for the Web Audio API.
• VCV Rack - Open source virtual modular synthesizer.
• Vexwarp - JavaSCript library for audio time stretching and pitch shifting.
• Vivid - High quality audio in Haskell with SuperCollider.

Apps

• Auxy - Modern instruments for mobile creators.
• Composer's Sketchpad - Sequencer that combines musical staff paper with an artist's sketchbook (iOS only).
• SeekMIDI - Graphical multi channel MIDI sequencer.
• Seq24 - Minimal loop based midi sequencer.
• SFZ Designer - Visual sample mapping tool to create SFZ files.

Webapps

• 108 - Minimal beat machine.
• AI Duet - A smart piano that responds to you.
• Arpeggiator - Web Audio Arpeggiator.
• Baroque Dances - Procedurally generated classical music.
• Beat Push - Online music production with built-in parallel drum and synth machine.
• beatboxer - Simple drum machine.
• BlokDust - Interactive music-making app to build synths and sounds.
• Djenerator - A metal breakdown generator.
• Funklet - Drum machine and library of famous drum patterns.
• Jamwithchrome - Play music live with your friends online.
• Keithwhor.com/music - Musical Keyboard - JS Dynamic Audio Synth.
• Klangmeister - Live coding environment for the browser.
• Landr - Automatic audio mastering.
• Lissajous - A tool for programmatic audio performance in the browser.
• Loopjs - Live Electronic Music Performance Software.
• Looplabs - Cloud based music studio.
• Matrix Piano - Virtual 2D piano to use the PC keyboard as an instrument.
• Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator - Sketch out musical chord progressions.
• Piano Genie - Machine learning augmented piano app.
• Reactor - Online DJ controller connected to SoundCloud.
• Repeater Orchestra - An orchestra of repeaters which repeat the conductor.
• Sononym - Visual sample browser.
• Splice - Music creation and collaboration platform.
• SuperCollider - Platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.
• Synth Time - Simple synthesizer.
• Synthi-JS - A JavaScript emulator of the legendary EMS Synthi A synthesizer.
• TimeStretch - Online tool to loop, speed up, slow down, and pitch shift sections of an audio file.
• Websynths - Free browser-based microtonal midi instrument.
• QuasiMusic - Quasiperiodic tilings of the plane as sound triggers.
• Qwerkey - Keyboard tonnetz.

Guitar

• Chordata - A dummy chordbook for mandolin, ukulele and guitar.
• Fretboard
• UkeGeeks - Creates fingering diagrams by reading plain text or ChordPro ukulele songs.
• UkuleleSongbook
• Ukutabs - source for ukulele tabs, chords, tips, tools, guides

Knowledge

• Digital Filters Introduction - Jupyter notebooks and a geometric interpretation of digital audio filters.
• Music Theory - The exciting universe of music theory.
• youtube.com/i_0DXxNeaQ0 - The science and mathematics of music.

Articles

• Detecting piano notes with web audio
• DeepAudioClassification - Finding the genre of a song with deep learning.
• Modeling Music with algebraic data types
• Musimathics - The mathematical foundations of music.
• Sound, Motion, Notation - Information and Art.
• Terry Riley's "In C" - A Journey Through a Musical Possibility Space.
• Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music
• Visual Music & Machine Learning Workshop for Kids

Research

• Harmony Explained - Progress towards a scientific theory of music.
• Musical User Interfaces - Rethink how audio software is designed.
• Universal Music Translation Network