Top 8 music-programming Open-Source Projects

alda

11 5,542 6.5 Go

A music programming language for musicians. :notes:

Project mention: Show HN: Code music in Python that generates MIDI | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-09

Interesting approach. There has been much activity in recent years in live coding with a lot of interesting solutions.
> most music coding software out there is more focused on experimentation rather than conventional songwriting
Did you have a look at e.g. https://github.com/alda-lang/alda or https://abcnotation.com/? Or e.g. https://github.com/emicklei/melrose is a similar approach as yours. There is also an algorithcmic composition language called SAL which is used in Common Music (https://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/) and Niquist (https://sourceforge.net/projects/nyquist/).

awesome-music

4 1,701 6.2

Awesome Music Projects
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musicpy

2 1,202 7.9 Python

Musicpy is a music programming language in Python designed to write music in very handy syntax through music theory and algorithms.

Project mention: GitHub - Rainbow-Dreamer/musicpy: Musicpy is a music programming language in Python designed to write music in very handy syntax through music theory and algorithms. | /r/Python | 2023-05-26

noisecraft

4 1,017 4.4 JavaScript

Browser-based visual programming language and platform for sound synthesis.
tuneflow-py

1 938 7.4 Python

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melrose

3 179 5.0 Go

interactive programming of melodies, producing MIDI

Project mention: Show HN: Code music in Python that generates MIDI | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-09

Interesting approach. There has been much activity in recent years in live coding with a lot of interesting solutions.
> most music coding software out there is more focused on experimentation rather than conventional songwriting
Did you have a look at e.g. https://github.com/alda-lang/alda or https://abcnotation.com/? Or e.g. https://github.com/emicklei/melrose is a similar approach as yours. There is also an algorithcmic composition language called SAL which is used in Common Music (https://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/) and Niquist (https://sourceforge.net/projects/nyquist/).

midica

8 105 5.3 Java

A Music programming language. Translates source code into MIDI. Includes a player. Supports MIDI-Karaoke. Includes a MIDI analyzer.

Project mention: supercollider VS midica - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/supercollider | 2023-08-12

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tomato-rubato-openal

0 30 0.0 Haskell

Tomato-rubato is an easy to use library for live audio programming in Haskell.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).