Audio Editing & Production

Convert audio recordings to MIDI with Basic Pitch, an open-source tool from Spotify.

Compose audiovisual programs in a browser with WebChucK IDE and its ChuGL graphics environment.

Orange Free Sounds provides downloadable sound effects, music, loops, beats, and ringtones, organized into browsable categories.

Edit audio in a browser and apply gain adjustment, fade-in, or fade-out effects to sound files.

VO Pads combines video playback, editing, and sequencing, with an interactive drum machine feature shown on its page.

This Image-Line knowledge base links to product support, video tutorials, and software installers on a single help page.

Browse and listen to BBC sound recordings in the BBC Rewind Sound Effects collection.

Airwindows Consolidated collects audio plugins available in Mac AU and VST formats for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

WebSynths provides browser-based musical instruments, including a drum machine, microtonal synths, grooves, and sample tools.

samplv1 provides polyphonic sample synthesis with stereo effects, including standalone JACK client support.

VirtualDJ is DJ software with tools for mixing music, aimed at both people starting to DJ and experienced performers.

SoundboardGuys offers more than 10,000 playable and downloadable buttons for meme sounds, pranks, games, and other sound effects.

OpenUtau is an open-source editor for the UTAU community and singing synthesis, with setup guides and contribution instructions.

Surge XT combines hybrid synthesis, filters, modulation, effects, microtuning, MPE, and OSC support in an open-source synthesizer.

For Linux musicians, Rosegarden provides a composition and editing environment centered on a MIDI sequencer, with audio, MIDI, and score editing tools.

ChipTone generates sound effects, mainly for games, and includes sampler and sequencer features under development.

This curated list gathers software, services, and resources for creating and distributing music, with music-production topics in its repository.

With Element, users can build effect racks and instruments and route audio and MIDI through a modular plugin host for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Draw notes on a grid and hear them as music with Draw.Audio, a free online music maker.

OpenMPT provides Windows music tracking with module playback, broad format imports, and step sequencing for music creation.

JummBox lets users compose and share instrumental melodies in a browser, storing song data in the page URL.

Bfxr2 creates game sound effects in JavaScript, with a footstep generator and other additions described in its repository.

Bosca Ceoil: The Blue Album is a beginner-friendly music-making app available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Audacity is a free, open-source audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS and Linux. It supports multitrack editing, audio format conversion and effects plugins.