Amsterdam Music Composer

Amuc is a Linux application for composing and playing music. The current version is 1.7 (june 2009).

It works like this:

Tune fragments are entered graphically. These are combined into a complete tune by means of a script file.

Five-bar staff or piano roll display.

5 different built-in instruments, 6 mono synthesizers, synthesized drums, sampled instruments.

For the composer there is help available with scales and chords.

Tunes can be exported as WAVE or MIDI files, or as human-readable scores in postscript format.

MIDI files can be imported.

WAVE files can be read and transformed to notes.

Support for USB keyboard.

Interface with Jack (the Jack Audio Connection Kit).

Amuc is written in C++. It is a lightweight application, not needing a GUI toolkit or an unusual library (required: X11, alsa, xft, cairo). Speedy operation: maybe this is the fastest tool to explore musical ideas and to create a complete piece of music.

Also a binary Debian package is available.

Downloads:

Source code: amuc-1.7.tar.gz
Debian package: amuc_1.7-1_i386.deb
Manual (also included with the source code)

Some tunes created with this application:

Shanty (arrangement: van Bergeijk) [ogg]
Angry [ogg]