Utilities

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ALSA MIDI Kommander"a DCOP interface exposing many ALSA sequencer features for shell scripts, Kommander scripts, or ..
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ALSA Patch Bay"a graphical patch bay for the ALSA sequencer API" (requires FLTK or GTKmm), from Bob Ham
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Alpha Junoeditorlibrarian for Roland Alpha Juno 12 and MKS50 synthesizers, from Chris Wareham 
AutoTrackis a "...tool for creating practizing and demo tracks from chord charts", creating MIDI files wit.. 
Beat Monkeycalculates soundfile BPM and sample frames 
DenoisingDenoising * Utilities 
Div's MIDI Utilities for Unixexcellent collection of command-line MIDI tools2006-06-28 
FANRfree audio note recognition (WAV to MIDI) software from Gilles Degottex 
GMid2Modutility to convert General MIDI files to MOD format, from Guy Thornley 
GMidiMona simple MIDI monitor, requires GTK 
GWC-libthe GNOME Wave Cleaner is now a library ! 
Gnome Wave Cleanerdenoise, dehiss and amplify CD-quality WAV files 
GramoFilea program to clean gramophone recordings for transfer to CD2001-05-23
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JSynthLibuniversal synth editorlibrarian project, requires Java 
KCompact/K25StripLinux utilities for the Kurzweil K2x00 samplers 
KMetronomeMIDI based metronome using the ALSA sequencer, with KDE user interface
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KMidimonMIDI monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and KDE user interface
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KontrollMIDI utility to generate controller messages from the mouse position, more software from Florian .. 
MC303 Bulk Dumpa new utility from Olivier Delhaye 
MIDI ControllerGUI to connect sliders and spinbuttons to MIDI continuous controllers (CCs), from Lars Luthman 
MIDI Splitterneat Perl script to split MIDI files into separate trackschannels 
Midgeis a text-to-MIDI program from David Riley 
MidiChatsendreceive MIDI in realtime over the Internet 
MidiCompreads and writes Type 01 MIDI files in SMF and plain text format 
MidiKinesis"MIDI controllers for (almost) any purpose", a cool tool from Peter Brinkmann 
MidiMutatorperforms various cross-mutations on a pair of MIDI files 
MidiShareis a "... real-time operating system for musical applications" from the great crew at http:www.gr.. 
MidingsoloGille Degottex's realtime audio-to-pitch recognition software for monophonic signals, with MIDI o.. 
Miditoysturns a Playstation2 into a MIDI control surface 
Nomadpatch editorlibrarian for the Nord Modular synthesizer 
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OplEditinteractive editor for Yamaha OPL23 soundchips, from John Meacham 
QMidi*arpeggiator, controller box, event filterrouter, all that and more from Matthias Nagorni
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Random Phase GeneratorReichian fun from Tak-Shing Chan 
Rat"... translates mouse movements into MIDI controller messages", thanks to programmer Doug Garmon 
RawMIDI2SMFKen Ellinwood's command-line utility for converting ALSA'a amidi to a standard MIDI file (require.. 
SMDIToolsa set of command-line utilities for exchanging samples with an SMDI-compatible sampler, from Oliv.. 
Sample Calculatorsvery useful on-line calculators for time-stretching, pitch-shifting, and transposing samples 
Shelljamplay softsynths and other MIDI instruments from the command shell 
Simple Sysexxernew MIDI sys-ex utility from Christoph Eckert 
SynthEdnew project for creating a universal patch editorlibrarian for MIDI synthesizers 
SysExxerutility for receiving, saving, and sending raw sys-ex messages, from Christian Nitschkowski 
UMPUNIX MIDI plug-in for Netscape 
Virtual KeyboardVirtual MIDI keyboard for ALSA sequencer
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Virtual MIDI Piano KeyboardVMPK is a virtual MIDI piano keyboard for Linux, Windows and OSX.
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WaoNis a WAV-to-MID converter from Kengo Ichiki 
WavSplita utility for (surprise!) splitting WAV files according to a list of time values 
Wavelengthrepairs erroneous data length entry in WAV file header1999-06-20 
X MIDI softwarea suite of programs utilizing the Direct MIDI interface of the 4Front commercial OSS driver 
XmToMIDconverts XM tracker files to MIDI files 
Xpandnice PythonGlade GUI for dynamics compressionexpansion, requires SoX and normalize 
abrowsenice utility for reading and converting AKAI S10003000 sample CDs 
acecommand-line MIDI splitterprocessor, performance software from Atte Andr 
aconnectguiMaarten de Boer's FLTK-based GUI for ALSA's aconnect utility 
amidmapreads, processes, and transmits MIDI events 
aseqjoyAlexander K 
basefutility for manipulating parameters found in AIFF soundfile header 
bcx2000editeditor for the Behringer BCR2000BCF2000 MIDI control surfaces, from Pieter Palmers 
calcampcalculates what factor a sample needs for amplification to maximum volume (requires libsndfile) 
clavierfrom Simon K 
declickJoachim Schurig's "dynamic digital declicker for audio files" 
dnrdenoising utility from Matti Koskinen 
dx7bag"a collection of utilities for the Yamaha DX7 and... the DX1, DX5, DX7s, DX7II, DX7IIFD, TX7, TX8.. 
gjvidtimelinedisplays a movie as timeline of video-frames2007-02-15
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glibgeneric editorlibrarian for synthesizer patches 
gtklicka simple metronome, providing a graphical frontend to klick
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icubean editorcontroller for the http:www.infusionsystems.comICubeX sensordigitizer, from Paul Davis 
jWaveset of packages for Java to create and process RIFF (WAV) files 
jack bitmeterdiagnostic utility for JACK
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jack_oscrolloscoperealtime waveform viewer
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jackctlmmcControl JACK transport using MMC (MIDI)2006-05-09
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kbdztransforms USB PC keyboardsmice into MIDI controllers 
klickan advanced metronome for jack
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mcontrolis an ALSA sequencer client that can assign up to twelve MIDI control messages for the controller.. 
midi2gmn"...converts gmn (GUIDO Music Notation) files into MIDI files..." 
mididingsa MIDI router/processor
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midikbuses QWERTY keyboard for testing Csound instruments or for output to devmidi 
midirguisimple MIDI routerchannelizer with FLTK GUI, more fine software from Josep Andreu a.k.a. Holborn 
mirage-diska utility for copying the samples from Ensoniq Mirage diskettes, from Jean Zundel 
multimidicastMIDI over a network, cool software from Dirk Jagdmann 
naconnectan ncurses-based ALSA MIDI sequencer connection manager
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normalize"a WAV file volume normalizer" 
sc88sysexcommand-line utility to sendreceive data to 
shntoolmulti-purpose WAV processing and reporting utility 
sxpressSampo Savolainen's software "... for controlling MMC compatible software 
tkdnoisenice TclTk GUI for the Csound dnoise utility, from Hudson Lacerda 
wavbreaker/wavmergeGUI utilities to break or merge WAV file 
wave2midaudio to MIDI conversion from Pablo Busto 
wavnormutility to normalize 16-bit stereo WAV files 
xphatuser-configurable software MIDI fader box from Paul Davis