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LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio , which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

Live is software for creating musical ideas, turning them into finished songs, and even taking them onto the stage.

REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for Windows and OS X, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.

Cubase is a computer program for music production/recording.The program offers recording, producing and mixing of sounds in order to make music production for distribution on CDs or the internet.

Logic Pro lets you translate musical inspiration into professional productions. A range of powerful, easy-to-use features puts sophisticated tools at your fingertips, and complete surround support lets you make incredible, immersive music.

Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.

Tracktion is an advanced DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) that uses an intuitive, single-screen interface to ease the music production workflow.

SunVox is a small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern based sequencer (tracker). It is a tool for those people who like to compose music wherever they are, whenever they wish. On any device. SunVox is available for desktop PC (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X), pocket computers (Windows Mobile, PalmOS, Maemo, iOS, Android) and netbooks.

Bosca Ceoil is all about looping, and designed that way at its heart. Songs are built up from lots of tiny 16 note patterns – the intended workflow is that you loop over these single patterns until you have something you like, then you start making variations. If you approach it this way, you’ll find it’s pretty decent at doing that – but it’s not very good at other things, like say, long melody lines. It is what it is! I made it for myself, and the way I work, but hopefully some of you out there will find it useful too. It’s free, and open source under the FreeBSD licence. If anyone wants to port it/fork it, go for it! »

MuLab is a rich and rock solid sound and music production tool for Mac OSX and Windows, designed to create, record, edit and finalize Your Music!

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Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of the main features of Audio Evolution 5:Completely new audio system called 'eXtream'. It features 32-bit floating point processing from begin to end with lots of headroom, flexible routing and is very friendly on cpu usage.MIDI sequencing: recording and playback to/from multiple MIDI sources and edit them directly on the time line!Real-time effects (VST and Audio Units)Virtual instrument support (VSTi and Audio Units) Unlimited number of tracksUnlimited number of groupsEvent automation (automate volume, panning, fx sends, fx parameters etc.)Route tracks to groups and groups to other groupsUnlimited effect sends and busses (add as many as you want)Unlimited insert effectsMulti-channel recording and playback up to 32-bits @ 192kHzTime stretchingComplete undo/redoWorks under both Windows and OSXRecord straight away with only one button or key pressRemote controlUse AE5 either with an outboard mixing desk or your sound card's monitoring facilities for zero-latency monitoring, or use the software input monitoring facilities if you don't have such equipment »

KORG Gadget offers a collection of more than 20* different synthesizers and drum machines called “Gadgets.” These gadgets were designed to assist the user to produce powerful electronic music. The latest version features universal support not only for the iPad, but also for the iPad Pro and the iPhone. The painstaking attention that Korg has given its hardware instruments for more than fifty years has now taken shape as cutting-edge software in the Gadget. It's the ultimate all-in-one music production studio app. »