Orca
Hundred Rabbits
Orca is a grid-based programming environment for generating musical control patterns.
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Live Performance – Free Music Software & Plug-ins
Free tools for loop triggering, live coding, controller mapping and performance-oriented routing. A dependable live system involves the software, audio device, controllers and saved configuration together. Check the supported workflow and rehearse the complete setup, including how to recover after an interrupted device or connection.
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ossia score
ossia
ossia score is an interactive sequencer for coordinating media and control processes.
View details →PdDroidParty
Chris McCormick / PdDroidParty Contributors
PdDroidParty runs compatible Pure Data based musical patches on Android devices.
View details →PipeWire
PipeWire Contributors
PipeWire is a Linux multimedia routing system used to connect audio applications and hardware.
View details →Pure Data
Pure Data Community
Pure Data is a visual programming environment in which objects and connections form audio and control patches.
View details →Purr Data
Purr Data Community
Purr Data is a visual audio-programming environment derived from Pure Data, with a revised interface and an extended object collection.
View details →QMidiArp
QMidiArp Contributors
QMidiArp generates arpeggiated patterns and other MIDI modulation in a Linux music setup.
View details →qpwgraph
rncbc / Rui Nuno Capela
qpwgraph presents a graphical patchbay for PipeWire audio and related connections.
View details →Rakarrack
Sonic Ladder
Rakarrack is a Linux-oriented guitar multi-effects application with a rack of processing options.
View details →RTcmix
RTcmix Contributors
RTcmix is a programmable environment for synthesis, processing and algorithmic music.
View details →SAVIHost
Hermann Seib
SAVIHost turns a compatible plug-in into a compact standalone-style application.
View details →seq24
Seq24 Project
seq24 is a minimal loop-oriented MIDI sequencer designed around patterns that can be triggered and arranged.
View details →Seq66
Seq66 Project
Seq66 is a pattern-based MIDI sequencer developed from the seq24 family.
View details →Sonic Pi
Sonic Pi
Sonic Pi turns code into playable musical patterns using synthesizers, samples and timed events.
View details →SonoBus
SonoBus Contributors
SonoBus shares live audio between participants over a network, with controls for connection and audio-quality tradeoffs.
View details →Strudel
Strudel Contributors
Strudel is a browser-based live-coding environment for making music through patterns.
View details →SuperCollider
SuperCollider Community
SuperCollider is a programming environment for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.
View details →TidalCycles
TidalCycles Contributors
TidalCycles is a live-coding environment for describing musical patterns as text.
View details →Toc2
The Twom
Toc2 is an open-source Android metronome for keeping time during practice and rehearsal.
View details →VSTHost
Hermann Seib
VSTHost is a Windows environment for loading and connecting compatible plug-ins outside a full recording workstation.
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