Audio/Music applications for GNU/Linux

I thought people might find it useful if a list of audio/sound/music -production/editing tools for GNU/Linux operating systems was drawn up.

• Rosegarden 4 - an audio and MIDI sequencer
• MusE - another audio and MIDI sequencer. I have been using this more than Rosegarden, due to the convenient way it allows you to load soundfonts via fluidsynth (..it's a little bit trickier with Rosegarden AFAIK). On the other hand, Rosegarden has other nice features - such as a 'Repeat' button for MIDI segments.
• Fluidsynth - enables you to load soundfonts
• Hydrogen - a really cool drum editor
• ZynAddSubFX - a software-synthesizer which I think has quite a good reputation.
• Snd - a very powerful sound editor
• SoX - a command-line audio tool (...very useful for converting sound files from one format to another for example; or adding reverb to a track - sometimes a graphical program is overkill for this kind of thing!)
• SWAMI - "an advanced instrument editor for MIDI music composition and a sampler frontend." I haven't had much use for this yet, but it seems like a very useful tool, if you wanted to make your own soundfonts for example.
• Ardour - a digital audio workstation. Would you believe - I don't even have this installed! The reason is that I work more with MIDI than with audio (..a MIDI sequencer is planned for it though, I think). Apparently it's a great application though.
• Audacity - a "Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor"
• JACK Timemachine

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Some stuff that works away quietly in the 'background' (..but is very important nonetheless):

• Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - this package will enable you to use various sound-cards with Linux etc.., plus much more (..I don't fully understand what it does to be honest); it is quite likely pre-installed on your distribution, so you possibly don't have to worry about installing it yourself
• Jack Audio Connection Kit - "can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves" (it's a crucial component in the Linux musician's setup), and QJackCtl - which provides a graphical user interface for controlling JACK
• Libjackasyn - enables you to use certain applications with JACK that haven't been properly configured to work with JACK yet. For example, I use it with Mozilla to allow myself listen to the audio from Flash objects on websites, without having to stop JACK
• xmms-jack - a jack audio output plugin for XMMS
• LADSPA - Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API, and some plugins here

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Hammersound - for lots of soundfonts

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If I have time I'll try to find samples of music that was actually composed with a GNU/Linux setup. Until then ... feel free to add your own information, or correct any of the above (..it was drafted in haste).

 

tks for the info ....

 

No worries raysun.

Just to update - I have found a repository for music created with GNU/Linux:
http://musicians.opensrc.org/ (..there are some fine musicians on that list).
To go straight to the music: http://musicians.opensrc.org/index.php?page=RadIO

 

I just switched from woody to sarge so I will try the music thingie soon
tks dude...

peace and perpetullight for all...