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.

A selected list of web-based music teaching and creation resources.

Much of the content posted initially to this wiki was ported over from the former Home Practice Online website. HPO was created in 1998 as a resource for young instrumentalists and their directors. HPO was used by many band directors, and was featured in numerous music education articles, texts, and at conferences and university music education technology classes, all over the United States. With the advent of Web 2.0, and its ease-of-use, perhaps this wiki can expand the scope, content, and usefulness of HPO.

Sonic Amigos specializes in software for the Macintosh and iPhone platforms. Formed in 1999, Sonic Amigos strives to provide the Macintosh and iPhone communities with compelling, useful, and fun software. Software includes PolyPhontics and PolyPhontics GB (GarageBand) that allow one to create software instruments. If you like to download MIDI files from the web and import them into GarageBand or Logic, PolyPhontics MIDI Utilities may be of use.

Access the world’s biggest iOS ringtone and sound effects library. More than 15,000 sounds ready to download as ringtones for your iPhone or turn your iPad into a massive sound effects deck. From monkeys to mustangs with unlimited downloads!

The Interactive Circle of Fifths ("the Circle" for short) is a tool designed to help musicians to: (a) figure out the key of a piece of music, (b) easily transpose music to a different key, (c) compose new music, and (d) understand key signatures, scales, and modes.

Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. Share your music, download your favorite artists!

Royalty free music to use in multimedia projects.

Resources include materials from workshops and presentations on copyright and multimedia resources.

Music theory tutorials on clefs, key and time signatures, scales, chords, and more.

Soundation Studio has all the functionality of a professional desktop DAW including real time effects, virtual instruments, automation, recording and much more! And best of all - It’s online, accessible through your browser.

PolyPhontics GB is a software instrument toolbox made specifically for Apple's GarageBand. Sporting some of the same features as its big brother, PolyPhontics, PolyPhontics GB gives you the tools that you need to create software instruments for use in GarageBand compositions.

Game produced by the Kennedy Center's Arts Edge. Perfect Pitch teaches students about the instruments in an orchestra through a baseball game setting. The game introduces students to four eras of orchestral music and the instruments used in each. Students can create their own small orchestras and virtually play each instrument to hear how it sounds. After building an orchestra students then test their knowledge in short quizzes about the instruments and their sounds.