Beginner Friendly tools

A free collection of software instruments from Spitfire Audio presented in a single plugin.

An AI-powered brickwall limiter with content-aware parametrization and detailed loudness monitoring.

An online AI-powered audio mastering service that processes uploaded tracks to commercial standards.

An all-in-one mastering plugin with a guided workflow and a pre-tuned analog-style processing chain.

BandLab is a free, browser- and mobile-based music creation platform with a multitrack DAW and collaboration tools.

These Lyrics Do Not Exist is a free AI tool that generates original song lyrics from a topic, genre, and mood.

Noteflight is online music notation software for writing, editing, playing back, and printing sheet music.

Cakewalk by BandLab is a free, full-featured digital audio workstation for Windows for recording, mixing, and mastering music.

MuseScore is free, open-source music notation software for creating, playing back, and printing sheet music.

Soundtrap is a cloud-based digital audio workstation, owned by Spotify, that runs entirely in a web browser.

RhymeZone is a free online rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and brainstorming tool for the English language.

Hookpad is a music-theory-aware songwriting sketchpad for writing chord progressions and melodies that fit together.

Free, open-source, cross-platform audio editor and multitrack recorder.

Flat is an online collaborative music notation platform for creating, editing, and sharing sheet music in real time.

AI background music generator that creates royalty-free tracks from scene, mood, and genre.

Chordify turns any song or audio into chords and provides a synced play-along interface for guitar, piano, and ukulele.

EZdrummer 3 is intuitive virtual drum software from Toontrack aimed at songwriters and producers.

ChordChord is an online chord progression generator for building, hearing, and exporting progressions.

Autochords is a chord progression generator that creates progressions based on a chosen mood for guitar, piano, and ukulele.

Mixcraft is a Windows digital audio workstation for recording, editing, and mixing music.

LMMS is a free, open-source digital audio workstation for composing, arranging, and producing music.

Odesi is a music composition sketchpad for quickly writing chords, basslines, and melodies and exporting MIDI.

Steinberg's music notation and composition software for writing, engraving, and playing back scores.

A cross-platform music creation app from Roland with onscreen instruments, effects and plugin support.

A free sampler plugin that plays and lets you build instruments in the DecentSampler format.

A browser-based online music studio for creating, editing and collaborating on music tracks.

Beat-making DAW with drum sequencing, sampling, and stem separation.

Avid's music notation software for creating, editing, and publishing musical scores.

A free browser-based collaborative digital audio workstation with modular virtual devices.

A free virtual analog synthesizer plugin with subtractive synthesis and built-in effects.

Voltage Modular is a software platform that emulates a modular synthesizer with patchable virtual modules.

Free online tap-tempo tool: tap along to any track to measure its BPM instantly.

Apple's free digital audio workstation for recording, arranging and producing music on Mac and iOS devices.