Music Related Software

Notation & Recording Software

Any software that can help you get your music out there and learning.

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8 November 2024

Music Notation Software

MuseScore 4 • Run MuseScore on your Linux, macOS or Windows computer

MuseScore

MuseScore is a scorewriter for Windows, macOS, and Linux, comparable to Finale and Sibelius, supporting a wide variety of file formats and input methods. It is released as free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. MuseScore is accompanied by a freemium mobile score viewer and playback app, and an online score sharing platform. The makers of MuseScore claim that it is the world's most popular notation software.

Sibelius Software

The latest generation of the world’s best-selling music notation software, Avid® Sibelius® 7 is sophisticated enough to meet the demands of top composers, arrangers, and publishers, yet simple enough for beginners and students. Work quickly with the brand-new, task-oriented user interface.

Notion Music

Notion Music products allow musicians of all levels and genres to use their computers or iPad’s to compose, playback, and experience music creation with an ease and simplicity that is unprecedented in the industry. We are dedicated to perfecting music creation software, combining a fervent passion and vast musical knowledge with sounds of finest musicians and best recording technology in the world. Founded in 1998 as VirtuosoWorks, Notion Music, Inc has received numerous awards recognizing the innovative vision of its software. In 2013 PreSonus Audio Electronics, Inc purchased the assets of Notion Music, Inc

Dorico , Finale are other options. I personally have used Sibelius for a lot of scores on LearningUkulele.com and moving all my scores to MuseScore.

Digital Audio Workstations (DAW)

A Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing and producing audio files. DAWs come in a wide variety of configurations from a single software program on a laptop, to an integrated stand-alone unit, all the way to a highly complex configuration of numerous components controlled by a central computer. Regardless of configuration, modern DAWs have a central interface that allows the user to alter and mix multiple recordings and tracks into a final produced piece.

Bitwig • Digital Audio Workstation • Run Bitwig on your Linux, macOS or Windows computer

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• DAW: 10 Best Digital Audio Workstation for Windows and Mac by Shanoon Cox, Proven Solutions 27 March 2024
• Best DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) Available for Linux Desktops By Ankush Das Updated 14 Sept 2023
• PC Magazine: The Best Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) for 2024 by By Jamie Lendino, Updated 4 Jan 2024

A search for Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) on the good ole' Inter-web will yield you a lot of results. LearningUkulele.com will be adding more information as we dive into DAWs.

Bitwig

Bitwig Studio is the single solution for realizing any musical idea across every stage of production. Bitwig was founded in 2009 in Berlin by four people who envisioned a digital-audio workstation (DAW) that's reliable, innovative, and that makes helpful suggestions — and then gets out of the way. That was the idea behind the launch of our first product in 2014, Bitwig Studio.

Ardour

Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application that runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who was also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit. It is intended as a digital audio workstation suitable for professional use.

Reaper

REAPER - an advanced multi-track audio, MIDI and video production and recording environment.

SMuFL Music Fonts

The Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) standard was created by the Dorico development team at Steinberg. It provides a consistent standard way of mapping the thousands of musical symbols required by conventional music notation into a single font that can be used by a variety of software and font designers. It was first implemented in MuseScore, then in Dorico's first release and in Finale.

Types of Music Software

• This is a list of software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music. This article only includes software, not services. (wikiwand); List of Music Software

Resources & Links

• ABC Music Notation home of abc notation – the text-based music notation system and the de facto standard for folk and traditional music.
• Notation Central: NYC Music Services — The marketplace for music notation technology and sheet music.

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