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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