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LINUX
Audio Links for Musicians & Composers
- 4Front
Technologies - Digital sound system for UNIX (Open Sound System
- OSS).
- AMACDYS
- (A)utomatic (M)peg (A)udio (CD) s(YS)tem
- ARTS
- Analog realtime synthesizer
- Advanced
Linux Sound Architecture - ALSA
- Aglaophone
- A system for real-time analysis and processing of sound
- Agnula
Home Page - Development of derived Debian and RedHat distributions
dedicated to audio and multimedia applications and development.
- Agnula
Libre Music - A publicly accessible database of Libre Music, i.e.
works licensed to allow free redistribution and usage.
- AlsaModularSynth
- A MIDI controlled realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor
with support for LADSPA and JACK.
- AlsaPlayer
- A PCM audio player for Linux and UNIX.
- Ampache
- shared mp3 archive system
- Answers
to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the SoundBlaster Live under
Linux
- Anthem
Open Source Edition - A MIDI sequencer for KDE.
- Aqualung
- A music player for Linux; features continuous, gapless transitions
between tracks which produces a quality music experience.
- Ardour
- Multichannel hard disk recorder (HDR) and digital audio workstation(DAW).
- Arkkra
Enterprises - music publication software
- Audacity
- Audio editor.
- AudioLink
- A music content manager with both a CLI (command-line interface) and
other GUI options for data retrieval.
- AudioSlack
- Pre-packaged audio applications for the Slackware distribution.
- Aumix
- A program adjusts an audio mixer from X, the console, aterminal,
the command line or a script.
- BEAST/BSE
- A music composition and modular synthesis application which supports
popular audio formats, such as MIDI, WAV, MP3 and Ogg.
- BeatForce
Computer DJ Player
- Bewdy,
Maaate! - Australian audio analysis tools
- Bomb
- visual-musical instrument
- Brahms
- Music System
- BruteFIR
- CDDA
Paranoia Homepage
- CDXA
- Playstation XA track player
- Cecilia
- Graphic User Interface to CSound.
- CheeseTronic
- Electronic Music/Audio Tools
- Cthugha
- displays colorful animated graphics synced to sound
- DAP
(Digital Audio Processor for Unix) Home
- DarkIce
Live Audio Streamer
- Dolby
Surround sound for Linux
- DrumPatterns
Home Page
- Ecasound
- multitrack audio processing tool
- Ecasound
Documentation
- Ecawave
- graphical sound file editor - No more active development; last
version is: v0.6.0. (2003)
- Emptytree
Seedy - digital audio ripping, encoding, listening system
- Extace
- Audio visualization tool - Audio visualization plugin for GNOME.
- FLAC
- Free Lossless Audio Codec
- FreqTweak
- A realtime audio spectral manipulation and display tool with interactive
GUI to manipulate and display the spectral data; sound synthesis.
- GLAME
- GNU/Linux Audio Mechanics - Sound editor for Linux.
- GNU
Solfege - Ear training software for GNOME.
- GNU
xhippo - generic playlist manager
- GNUsound
Homepage
- GStreamer
- plugin multimedia architecture
- GeeXboX
HomePage - A standalone media player Linux distribution based on
MPlayer and similar to MoviX. Site available in English and French.
- Get
RealPlayer Plug-in for Linux
- GiantDisc
Homepage - Jukebox for mp3 and ogg vorbis formats.
- GlobeCom
Jukebox
- Gnome
Wave Cleaner from Redhawk.org
- Graphical
Audio Language - gAlan (modular synthesiser - drum-machine - sequencer
- effects-unit)
- Grip
-- CD Ripping/MP3 Encoding for Linux - For the GNOME desktop.
- Grip
User's Guide
- Gstring
- Simple Guitar Tuning Application
- Helix
Community - A collaborative effort between developers and RealNetworks
to make an open multi-format digital media platform based on the Helix
DNA platform.
- Home
Page :: Speex :: Xiph.org Foundation - A royalty-free, open source
free voice codec; complementary to the Ogg Vorbis code.
- Homepage
MidiMountain - Midi sequencer for Linux.
- Homepage
of gtkpod -- a GUI for Apple's iPod using GTK2
- Hydrogen
- GNU/Linux Drum Machine - A simple real-time Drum machine/sequencer
featuring Midi I/O, OSS and Jack audio drivers, and a QT-based graphic
interface.
- Hydrogenaudio
Forums - An extensive resource site for audio technology users.
- Icecast
-Open Source Streaming Audio
- Installing
and configuring ALSA, JACK, & Ardour on Red Hat 7.3
- JAMin
- JACK Audio Mastering interface - Audio mastering software designed
to perform professional audio mastering of any number of input streams.
- JMax
- GUI RealTime Audio Programming
- Jack
audio connection kit - A low-latency audio server.
- Jack
audio connection kit: frequently asked questions (FAQ)
- KGuitar
official homepage
- KGuitune/QtGuitune/GtkGuitune
- guitar tuners
- KPlayer,
the KDE media player - A KDE media player based on MPlayer, with
the ability to play a variety of audio and video files and streams.
- Keen
little rabbit ears - An ear training program for Linux and Windows.
- KmusicdB
- A music collection manager for KDE.
- Kwave
- A sound editor for KDE
- LAoE
- Graphical audiosample editor.
- LilyPond
- Music Notation for Everyone - Software that creates beautiful
sheet music.
- Linabx
- A program to determine audibility.
- Linux
Audio Blog - News and blogs primarily related to audio applications;
search engine available.
- Linux
Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API (LADSPA)
- Linux
Audio Systems
- Linux
Audio Users Guide - A comprehensive site of HOWTOs and FAQs and
other basic documentation.
- Linux
Audio.Org - Welcome - A non-profit consortium to produce professional
audio tools with free/opensource software.
- Linux
Csound - Meta site for Linux CSound resources.
- Linux
HTPC Howto - A detailed HOWTO on setting up a Home Theatre PC (LTPC)
with all the expected functionality: CD and DVD player, TV tuner, photo
gallery, Ogg & MP3 collection, game console, e-mail client, web
browser, and more. A must read.
- Linux
Journal Article - "Linux MIDI: A Brief Survey, Part 2"
- A nice review of Linux MIDI sequencers. (2004)
- Linux
Journal Article - "Linux MIDI: A Brief Survey, Part 4"
- This installment reviews some experimental MIDI music-making applications
including Improv, Q-Midi and Csound. (2005)
- Linux
Journal Article - "Linux MIDI: a Brief History, Part 1"
- A comprehensive look at the development of Linux MIDI. (2004)
- Linux
Journal Article - "Visiting the New World of Linux Sound &
Music Software" - A comprehensive article by Dave Phillips
about Planet CCRMA and Anjuka, systems designed to make installing and
configuring an advanced Linux audio system easier. (2004)
- Linux
Journal Article -"Linux MIDI: A Brief Survey, Part 3"
- This article covers several MIDI utilities, including JSynthLib, Midirgui
and SynthEd. (2004)
- Linux
Media Labs, LLC - Motion video solutions for GNU/Linux OS.
- Linux
Musician - A new website (2004) for musicians using Linux.
- Linux
for PlayStation 2 Community: Home
- LiveIce
Homepage - Source client for Icecast.
- MAS
- Media Application Server - Audio server and multimedia framework.
- MIDI
Database - A massive database of free and commercial MIDI files.
- MIDI
Manufacturer's Association - A good technical resource site for
MIDI.
- MIDI
Technical Fanatic's Brainwashing Center - An excellent resource
site for everthing MIDI, including tutorials, documentation, MIDI files,
software programs.
- MMA
Home Page - A MIDI musical accompaniment generator.
- Marlin
- A GNOME Sample Editor - A sound editor/processing package for
the GNOME2 desktop.
- Mim/XMIM
- Watch mpeg multicast streams on Linux/UNIX
- Movix
- Three small, related Linux CD distributions that allow the user to
boot from a CD and play multimedia files through the MPlayer. A multi-lingual
site.
- MusE:
Linux Music Editor - A MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing
capabilities.
- Music
Player Daemon (MPD) - Remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg
Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, and wave files) and managing playlists.
- NetStreamer
- What is it?
- NewsForge
Article - " How to Build a Home Recording Studio for Less Than
$1,000" - A good article which outlines the software and hardware
needed to build a Linux-based home recording studio (part 1). (2004)
- NewsForge
Article - "Using a Linux-Based Home Recording Studio"
- Part 2 of the Linux-based home recording studio series. This article
deals with recording music with Ecasound, importing with Audacity (a
good overview of Audacity is included), final mixdown, preparing recordings
for distribution and expanding the recording studio. (2004)
- Noatun
- The KDE Media Player
- Normalize
- WAV file volume adjuster
- NoteEdit
- Musical Score Editor for Linux - A musical editor for KDE.
- Nwfiir
audio tools
- Ogg
Traffic - Weekly Updates from the Ogg Team
- Ogg
Vorbis Help - Comprehensive information site; includes support
forums, downloads, glossary, links.
- Open
Studios Homepage
- OpenJ....the
new DJ class - Site dedicated to using open source software for
disk jockeys.
- OpenMusic!
- Pawfal
v3.0.1 - A wiki site for audio/visual foolishness for Linux.
- PeerCast
- Peer-to-peer broadcasting software; audio streaming server and client.
A multi-lingual site.
- Pitchtune
homepage
- Planet
CCRMA at Home - A collection of rpms for RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9 or Fedora
Core 1 to create an audio workstation with a low-latency kernel, current
ALSA drivers, music and audio applications.
- Protux
- Professional Audio Tools for Linux
- Quick
Toots - Articles about Linux audio applications.
- QuickRip
- DVD ripper.
- RIMiRadio
- floppy based Icecast Server
- RaWrapper
for Linux - Controls X11-based streaming-audio (such as RealPlayer)
from the command line. Last updated 1999.
- RadioActive
- Radio Tuner Card Interface
- ReZound
Homepage - Graphic audio file editor.
- Rhythmbox
- A GNOME music library and player for MP3 and Ogg Vorbis music files.
- Rosegarden
music software for Unix - MIDI and audio sequencer, notation editor,
and general-purpose music composition and editing application for KDE.
- Rplay
- network audio system
- SADP
- Sing Along Disk Player - A CD player for Linux and X.
- SND
- an incredible sound editor
- Scala
Home Page - Music software tool which supports scale creation, tuning
of electronic instruments, and MIDI file generation and tuning conversion.
- SkySound
Project - high quality stream-oriented audio library
- Sloop.splitter
- Real-time sound effect program.
- Smixer
- command line mixer control
- Smurf
SoundFont Editor - A sound font editor for Linux and other *nix
like operating systems. As of August 2004 no further development work;
continued by the Swami project (http://swami.sourceforge.net/).
- SnackAmp
Tcl/Tk Music Player - A multi-platform music player with normal
music player abilities, multi-user support, integrated web server, and
an AutoPlaylist feature; supports MP3, wav, ogg vorbis and plays mp3
and ogg streams.
- SoX
- Sound eXchange
- Sound
& MIDI Software for Linux - One of the top sites for Linux sound
& MIDI software.
- Sound
Blaster Live! Linux page
- SoundTracker
- Spiral
Synth Modular Homepage - Object oriented modular softsynth / sequencer
/ sampler.
- Swami
- Sampled Waveforms And Musical Instruments - An advanced instrument
editor for MIDI music composition and a sampler frontend. Continues
the Smurf SoundFont Editor project (http://smurf.sourceforge.net/)
- Sweep
- Full-featured digital audio editor with live playback tool. Support
for French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish
languages available.
- TAON
- The Art Of Noise
- TK
Ecasound - A TCL/TK frontend for Ecasound.
- TerminatorX
- realtime audio synthesizer with DJ scratching ability
- The
AGNULA project - Dave Phillips's Tutorials - An ongoing series of
tutorials for the Agnula project by Linux audio luminary, Dave Phillips.
- The
Gnomoradio Project: promoting independent musicians by creating a legal,
peer-to-peer, free software music player - Software that allows
artists to freely distribute their music on the Internet.
- The
JAZZ Plus Plus Midi Sequencer
- The
Linux Sound HOWTO
- The
Network Audio System (NAS)
- The
Official MikMod for Unix Page
- The
amSynth Homepage - Analogue Modelling SYNTHesizer
- The
freedb.org Homepage - GPL'd database of artists and cds.
- The
gTick page - GTK+ Metronome App
- The
gmmusic Homepage - Music collection management system for Gnome.
Site in English and German.
- The
gmorgan Home Page - An organ for play in real time and for use like
a sequencer; other features include recording, loading and saving music
as midi files.
- The
libsndfile Homepage - A C library for reading and writing different
audio formats.
- The
wxMusik Homepage - A cross-platform multimedia player and library.
- TiMidity++
- MIDI to Wave converter/player
- Trommler
- GTK Drum Machine
- Turn-Key
Linux Audio - Scripted installation package (shell scripts, smart
aliases, tutorials, documentation) for the core set of Linux audio applications
used at the Eastman Computer Music Center (ECMC). Currently designed
to install on Mandrake 9.0, but SuSE and Red Hat are in the works.
- Vorbis.com
- Open, Free Audio
- WaveSurfer
Homepage - Tool for sound visualization and manipulation.
- Welcome
to MusicBrainz! - A community music metadatabase, which contains
artist, title and track information, but not music for download.
- Welcome
to the SLab Exchange - Recording studio software for the home user.
- Writing
Audio Applications With JACK - A Tutorial/Journal
- XMCD:
Motif CD Player - A full-featured CD player and ripper software
package.
- Xiph
- home of the Ogg Vorbis project
- Zinf
Audio Player - Supercedes the FreeAmp project.
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