Music Radar have put together a list of 20 of the best free and open source music making applications.

You can see the full list here for more details but here’s the list for you:

  1. Audacity

  2. LinuxSampler

  3. Cecilia

  4. Hydrogen

  5. Pure Data

  6. Mixxx

  7. Rosegarden

  8. Qtractor

  9. samplv1

  10. SuperCollider

  11. SonicBirth

  12. Soundgrain

  13. LMMS

  14. ZynAddSubFX

  15. TAL-NoiseMaker

  16. Giada

  17. Hexter

  18. Rackarrack

  19. Ardour

  20. Ubuntu Studio