Cantabile Alternatives

GarageBand

Welcome to the school of rock. A Mac-sized practice space. Your own recording studio. If you want to learn to play an instrument, write music, or record a song, GarageBand can help — whether you’re a rookie or a rock star. GarageBand is a whole music creation studio right inside your Mac — with a complete sound library that includes software instruments, presets for guitar and voice, and virtual session drummers.

Features:

• Preset beats
• Music Composer
• Audio Recording
• Audio Samples
• Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
• Works Offline
• Piano Roll
• Virtual instrument

Ableton Live

Live is software for creating musical ideas, turning them into finished songs, and even taking them onto the stage. With two views - the classic Arrangement View, where musical ideas are laid out along a timeline, and the unique Session View, where you can improvise and quickly experiment with musical ideas - Live is a fast, fun, intuitive way to make music. What's new: The latest version of Live comes with everything from workflow enhancements to audio improvements.

Features:

• Live performance
• Session View
• Batch Editing
• Drag n drop
• MIDI keyboard input
• Mix Music
• Music Composer
• Piano Roll
• Pitch Shifting
• Virtual instrument
• Support for VST plugins

Carla

Carla is an audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats. It has some nice features like automation of parameters via MIDI CC (and send output back as MIDI too) and full OSC control. Carla currently supports LADSPA (including LRDF), DSSI, LV2, VST2/3 and AU plugin formats, plus GIG, SF2 and SFZ file support. It uses JACK as the default and preferred audio driver but also supports native drivers like ALSA, DirectSound or CoreAudio.

Features:

• Music Composer
• Rack Effects
• Support for VST plugins

MOTU Digital Performer

Digital Performer lets you record, edit, arrange, mix, process and master audio and MIDI tracks side by side for songwriting, studio production, live performance, film and television sound tracks, audio post production, surround mixing and other professional audio production tasks.

Features:

• Support for 64 bit
• DAW
• Live performance
• Mix Music
• Music Composer
• Piano Roll
• Support for VST plugins

AudioMulch

AudioMulch is an interactive musician's environment for PC and Mac. It is used for live electronic music performance, composition and sound design. AudioMulch allows you to make music by patching together a range of sound producing and processing modules. Unlike some patcher-based programming environments, AudioMulch's modules perform high-level musical functions, so you don't have to create things from the ground up using individual oscillators and filters.

Features:

• Modular System
• Music Composer
• Real-time
• Support for VST plugins

Gig Performer

Build and control your live music rig with Gig Performer to transform and elevate your live performing experience by gaining complete control over the sound of your instrument or voice. Our innovative approach and focus on usability is paired with an intuitive rack design, called a Rackspace, which transforms your plugins into the most powerful, yet user-friendly live music software system.

Blue Cat's PatchWork

Blue Cat's PatchWork is a universal plug-ins patchbay that can host up to 64 VST, VST3, Audio Unit or built-in plug-ins into any Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) in one instance. It is possible to chain effects in series or create up to 8 parallel chains that can be activated independently. This lets you create your favorite effects or instruments configurations within the plug-in, without the need for multiple busses.

Mainstage

MainStage lets you take your Mac to the stage with a full-screen interface optimized for live performance, flexible hardware control, and a massive collection of plug-ins and sounds that are fully compatible with https://alternativeto .

Features:

• Midi
• Music Composer

New Sonic Arts Freestyle

Freestyle is an innovative VST host for stage and studio. In Studio Split, layer and combine your VST instruments and FX to explore vast new sound design possibilities. Quickly organise and access your VST collection via the visual Plugin Browser. On Stage Transform your laptop into a powerful keyboard workstation. Perform with Macro Controls, and navigate your set mouse-free with the Snapshot list.