This list of free mac music software exists to help people to have fun with and become inspired by creating electronic music using their macs.

FlexiMusic makes your home PC into a complete music studio. You will find FlexiMusic products to be fun, easy to use, and economical. No matter what your experience level is, Ours is among the best music software available for editing and creating music o

WEB-BASED AND TRADITIONAL MUSIC APPLICATIONSThe following are links to some of the best free web-based and traditional applications for creative musical activities available on the Internet. This listing will be updated from time to time.

Add additional functionality and save time with plug-ins for Sibelius.

Impro-Visor ("Improvisation Advisor") is a software tool designed by musician and computer scientist Bob Keller to help jazz musicians work out, hear, and record solo ideas, including studying the work of others. It provides a notation capability for lead

8 Free, Cross-Platform Apps for Musicians

Practice reading music with quizzes tailored to suit your needs. See every wrong answer drawn on a staff next to the correct answer.

The Music Software Guide is published by The Fun Music Companyhttp://www.funmusicco.comThe Fun Music Company independent review team reviews each piece of software they can.

Impromptu has been designed as a teaching tool to help you interrogate and develop your own musical intuitions. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the text Developing Musical Intuitions, and the accompanying music audio CD. Please remember that

Free video tutorials on Sibelius 6.

Capo is a musician's best friend. It lets you slow down your favorite songs, so you can hear the notes and learn how they are played.

jam2jam is an application that generates music that you can control while it plays. Even better, you can connect via a network with your friends who have jam2jam to jointly control the music. Jam just like a band, but without the need for complex instrume

Qualitative data analysis software for the Macintosh platform.

LilyPond is an automated engraving system. It formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files. It is Free Software (‘open source’).

DrumStepsDrumSteps is a great way to compose music. You don't need to know notation, you just need an imagination and best of all it's FREE.

A virtual tour of Groovy Music Jungle.

OSWINS DVD is a collection of Free and Open Source software for educational use that run on Windows. The educational software varies from mathematics to music, from science to graphics, from programming to educational gamesi and includes office tools, b

List of free educational music software.

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learni

Interactive Classics music games bring the work of great composers to children as young as five years old - in a way that's both fun and accessible.

MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program, licenced under GNU GPL. Some highlights include (a) WYSIWYG, notes are entered on a "virtual note sheet," (b) Unlimited number of staves, (c) Up to four voices per staff, (d) Easy and fas

Mario Paint Composer is a remake of the music system from the original Mario Paint for the Super NES. It is made by unFun Games. The game is completely free.

Transcriva is transcription software for the Mac. Whether it's your meeting minutes, interviews, lectures, home movies, dictation, speeches, or your favorite TV show, Transcriva can help you transcribe them all. You do the typing, Transcriva takes care of

Tuneblocks is an innovative group of musicians and computer software designers whose mission is to build computer-based and hands-on products that will help you develop your creative intuitions while having fun with music.

With djay you can control and mix your whole digital music

Scribe 4 is an optimally flexible data analysis program that permits users to label events in live observations or in QuickTime movies, summarize event timings, and play back labeled events in customized configurations.

Amadeus II is a very powerful sound editor for Macintosh. It runs on MacOS 9.2 and up, as well as natively on MacOS X.

This site is the online companion to my book, The Macintosh iLife '06, published by Peachpit Press and Avondale Media.

Updates, loops, and plug-ins for GarageBand.

The CD-Rom companion to O'Reilly's tutorial text for GarageBand.