Open Source Music Composition Software

abcCairo is a project to create a Cairo backend for abcm2ps, enabling it to generate output in the formats supported by the Cairo library; PNG, SVG and PDF. abcm2ps is a command line program written by Jean-François Moine which converts abc music notation to music sheet in PostScript or SVG format. It is an extension of Michael Methfessel's abc2ps. This project takes out the PostScript commands to generate various musical symbols and instead replaces them with Cairo function calls that generate the same musical symbols. The Cairo graphics library is an open-source graphics library offering a similar 2D graphics model to PostScript. The Cairo library can write to a GTK canvas, allowing integration with programs using the GTK+ toolkit, or it can write to an image file in a choice of formats: PNG, SVG or PDF. This means that other programs can have access to the abcm2ps music-rendering capability without having to incorporate a PostScript interpreter.

TheDrumMachine is a simulation of a drumset in 3D, using physics and DirectX. You can play with keyboard, assigning keys to different tool or by use the editor to create patterns whih will be played automatically.