Top 5 Free Applications for Music Production

At the musical level, there are many programs that can serve as support or as a tool for multiple tasks related to this area. We speak from something as simple as writing or playing scores, to handling everything that involves the production of a song or musical composition. The ideal is always, for those who meet or identify with music production, have free tools available that can offer the best at a musical level.

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Speaking from the point of view of computing, what users are looking for, apart from a complete and easy-to-use program, is multiplatform versatility. What logically offers to work in the system where the user feels most comfortable. Therefore this article will talk about some of the programs that, in our opinion, are los traditional Featured for Linux.

If you want to make basic audio recordings, Audacity is the one for this. It has elements and tools to provide editing and adding effects to audio files. It is by far one of the best programs to understand sound in a fundamental way. Being able to work with it, in the generation of tones, in waveforms, change in the time of the scale, application of effects, recording or in the composition of songs. You only need to have any Linux distribution that has a graphical environment installed on your computer.

Apart from Linux, Audacity can also be used on MacOS and Windows. Not only can you record and play back very easily, too the program supports a wide variety of audio formatssuch as MP3, MP2, MPA, MPG, MPEG, WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, AU, LOFF, and FLAC.

Among other virtues, Audacity also can create ringtones for your cell phoneJust choose the part you like the most of a song and this can be extracted to customize the ringtone of your mobile, another point of the application stands out.

Audacity

Audacity

We have MuseScore; done and centered for himto music notation, with WYSIWYM notation system. Compatible with JACK. It can be integrated with other programs, as well as sent to any synthesizer. Which makes it a high-quality program, without nothing that envy other expensive programs, for its range of functionalities and ease of use. MuseScore can export and import MusicXML files, if you want to do this.

You can play each note with the indicated intonation or in the one you want, obtaining the correct pitch of these in the audio output.

MuseScore

MuseScore

As DAW we have Ardor; ideal high-quality recordings, mixing work, multitrack recording and all the detail of the production process. We talk about being able to do from studio recordings, hasta dubbing for live events. All this in one program. Ardor is frequently used to master audio, which does not take away from its main features, editing and recording. It can record in 12 or 24 bits and supports CAF, AIFF, WAV and WAV64 formats. With Ardor multi-channel recordings can be made, without damaging the recording and doing and undoing this, as many times as necessary. In addition to having repeat modes for both tracks or for each session.

Ardor

Ardor

As a drum sampler, Hydrogen Drum Machine it is the one indicated for GNU / Linux. It works completely with JACK and has a very intuitive and fast interface. with it you can write patterns to build themes, in addition to having different functions to manage speed and time. Basically you can build groups of sounds from any audio source, following patterns and programming them, and then playing them. It has a visible metronome and an edit mode for the tempo. The number of patterns is unlimited, which allows you to use them to assemble your themes without complications, all thanks to the variations that you can have as a pattern. It has a wide variety of instrument tracks and also controls their volume and balance.

You can also import audio samples, with support for AIFF, AU and WAV formats. In addition to exporting and importing files of the themes.

Hydrogen Drum Machine

Hydrogen Drum Machine

Last but not least, this Guitaris; which serves as a guitar amp simulator. It uses JACK and is fully usable as long as you have a low-latency interface, a MIDI pedal controller, and a device or computer with acceptable features. Sound amplification is very fast, which makes it ideal for live performances. It has controls to handle both high and low frequencies, overdrive, compressor, distortion, an amplifier selector, in addition to the different effects that the program has to modify the sound as you wish, being done in mono or stereo mode, plus one input and two outputs. audio.

So if you want a powerful amplifier for your instrument, you already know the right program.

Guitaris

Guitaris

The possibilities with each of these programs are great. If you are a music lover, and have not used some of these tools, go ahead and enjoy what each program offers you to improve your musical experience.


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  1.   neysonv said

    I lack piano booster, although it would not be for musical production but to learn to play piano

    1.    neysonv said

      Now that I think about it, you should change the name to "The best 5 free applications for music production"

  2.   Dirty Harry said

    I don't know much about the subject, but I've heard a lot about LMMS, doesn't it fit into this category or isn't it good enough?

  3.   Gustavo said

    I live with Musescore on my Ubuntu ...

  4.   abaddon said

    I think this blog has improved a LOT since elav kzgaara and all those left; CONGRATULATIONS, keep up the good work because this blog has become one of my favorites.

    1.    eliotime3000 said

      Why? Because now more articles are published and less "volunteering"?

      In fact, those who started the project were they after not having "opportunities" in the Cuban hosts they offered. So much so that they have even managed to gather a community of users who have shared their experiences so far and even some of the bloggers who started here are already on other blogs such as Hypertextual and / or MuyLinux.

      The reason why they have practically sold the site was because they are already busy as sysadmins and as far as I know, @elav with the help of his relatives managed to be in Florida after the abolition of the embargo in Cuba, while @ KZKG ^ Gaara focused more in your sysadmin career.

      Now, the cake has changed, and what is neglected is the forum, which is pitifully with weeds rolling after the conclusion of the purchase of the site, in addition to the section «10 minutes with DesdeLinux» There are no longer volunteers willing to send their video tutorials through the Vimeo platform.

      It is not to fall as a fanboy, but the truth is that when KZKG ^ Gaara and Elav were there, at least you could realize that the forum was alive and from there tutorials and news came out before it was confirmed and better synthesized in the blog posts Besides, the flame was better controlled there.

      Anyway, if what you think is that they were the "friends of spammers and trolls", there you.

  5.   eliotime3000 said

    Mixxx missing for DJ's.

  6.   Javi said

    Good list, here are some others that I have seen and / or used:

    Q synth (http://qsynth.sourceforge.net), a powerful and easy-to-use graphical interface for FluidSynth. I use it to give voice to my MIDI keyboard.
    There are lots of open source audio plugins; Calf (http://calf-studio-gear.org) is one of the most popular packs.
    Non-DAW (http://non.tuxfamily.org), a lightweight alternative to Ardor and the like.
    A bit further from what music production is as such, Pure Data (https://puredata.info) is a graphical multimedia programming environment, especially music.

  7.   blackhat said

    You missed LMSS, an alternative to fl studio

  8.   Ruben said

    good applications, but the programs to do Live Coding are missing: Tidal, Overtone, Sonic Pi, Gibber and Supercollider and if you hurry Pure Data. Greetings!

    1.    ruben said

      I am good and I put the links.
      gibber (http://gibber.mat.ucsb.edu/)
      Sonic Pihttp://sonic-pi.net/)
      tide (http://tidal.lurk.org/)
      SuperCollider(https://supercollider.github.io/)
      Overtone (https://overtone.github.io/)

      and in case someone wants to get closer to the world of Live Coding, an interesting website (http://toplap.org/)

      Health!