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- Snarfy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6
From OS news: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1511
* ReBorn - A Linux version of the Windows/Mac program ReBirth, providing a software emulation of three of Roland Corporation's most famous electronic musical instruments: the TB303 Bassline, the TR808 Rhythm Composer and the TR909 Rhythm Composer. Also thrown in are four audio effects, individual mixers and a programmable sequencer. ReBorn is fully compatible with the ReBirth .rbs song file format. (UPDATE: The project is now dead due to legal issues.)
* ReZound -Aims to be a stable, open source, and graphical audio file editor primarily for but not limited to the Linux operating system.
* Anthem - An advanced open source MIDI sequencer which allows you to record, edit, and playback music using a sophisticated and acclaimed object oriented song technology.
* Ardour - A professional multitrack/multichannel audio recorder and DAW for Linux, using ALSA-supported audio interfaces. It supports up to 32 bit samples, 24+ channels at up to 96kHz, full MMC control, a non-destructive, non-linear editor, and LADSPA plugins.
* DAP - A comprehensive audio sample editing and processing suite. It currently supports AIFF and AIFF-C audio files, 8 or 16 bit resolution, and 1, 2 or 4 channels of audio data. The package offers comprehensive editing, playback, and recording facilities including full time stretch resampling, manual data editing, and a reasonably complete DSP processing suite.
* GNUsound - A sound editor for Linux/x86. It supports multiple tracks, multiple outputs, and 8, 16, or 24/32 bit samples. It can read a number of audio formats through libaudiofile, and saves them as WAV.
* Bristol - A synthesizer emulation package. It includes a Moog Mini, Moog Voyager, Hammond B3, Prophet 5, Juno 6, DX 7, and others.
* Audacity - A cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import Ogg, WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, or MP3 files. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The GUI was built with wxWindows and the audio I/O currently uses OSS under Linux. We recently reviewed its version 1.0.
* TerminatorX - A realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data (*.wav, *.au, *.mp3, etc.) the way hiphop-DJs scratch on vinyl records. It features multiple turntables, realtime effects (built-in as well as LADSPA plugin effects), a sequencer, and an easy-to-use GTK+ GUI.
* LAoE - A graphical audiosample-editor, based on multi-layers, floating-point samples, volume-masks, variable selection-intensity, and many plugins suitable to manipulate sound, such as filtering, retouching, resampling, graphical spectrogram editing by brushes and rectangles, sample-curve editing by freehand-pen and spline and other interpolation curves, effects like reverb, echo, compress, expand, pitch-shift, time-stretch, and much more.
* MidiMountain - A sequencer to edit standard MIDI files. Its easy-to-use interface should help beginners to edit and create MIDI songs (sequences), and it is designed to edit every definition known to standard MIDI files and the MIDI transfer protocol, from easy piano roll editing to changing binary system exclusive messages.
* GNoise - A GTK+ based wave file editor. It uses a display cache and a double-buffered display for maximum speed with large files. It supports common editing functions such as cut, copy, paste, fade in/out, normalize, and more, with unlimited undo.
* MusE - A Qt 2.1-based MIDI sequencer for Linux with editing and recording capabilities. While the sequencer is playing you can edit events in realtime with the pianoroll editor or the score editor. Recorded MIDI events can be grouped as parts and arranged in the arrange editor.
* Rosegarden - An integrated MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor. The stable version (2.1) is a simple application for any Unix/X system. The development branch (Rosegarden-4) is an entirely new KDE application.
* KGuitar - A guitarist suite for KDE. It's based on MIDI concepts and includes tabulature editor, chord construction helpers, and importing and exporting song formats.
* Swami - An instrument patch file editor using SoundFont files that allows you to create and distribute instruments from audio samples used for composing music. It uses iiwusynth, a software synthesizer, which has real time effect control, support for modulators, and routable audio via Jack.
* SoundTracker - A pattern-oriented music editor (similar to the DOS program 'FastTracker'). Samples are lined up on tracks and patterns which are then arranged to a song. Supported module formats are XM and MOD; the player code is the one from OpenCP. A basic sample recorder and editor is also included.
* Tutka - A tracker style MIDI sequencer for Linux (and other systems; only Linux is supported at this time though). It is similar to programs like SoundTracker, ProTracker and FastTracker except that it does not support samples and is meant for MIDI use only.
* amSynth - A realtime polyphonic analogue modeling synthesizer. It provides a virtual analogue synthesizer in the style of the classic Moog Minimoog/Roland Junos. It offers an easy-to-use interface and synth engine, while still creating varied sounds. It runs as a standalone application, using either the ALSA audio and MIDI sequencer system or the plain OSS devices.
* Cheese Tracker - A program to create module music that aims to have an interface and feature set similar to that of Impulse Tracker. It also has some advantages such as oscilloscopes over each pattern track, more detailed sample info, a more detailed envelope editor, improved filters, and effect buffers (chorus/reverb) with individual send levels per channel.
* SpiralSynth Modular - An object orientated modular softsynth / sequencer / sampler. Audio or control data can be freely passed between the plugins, and is all treated the same.
* gAlan - An audio-processing tool for X windows and Win32. It allows you to build synthesizers, effects chains, mixers, sequencers, drum-machines, etc. in a modular fashion by linking together icons representing primitive audio-processing components.
* Xsox - An X interface for sox. Record or play many types of sound files. Cut, copy, paste, add effects, convert file types etc.
* Voodoo Tracker - A project that aims to harness and extend the power of conventional trackers. Imagine self contained digital studio; complete and ready for your modern music needs. Additionally Voodoo will provide an interface that is designed for live performances.
* SLab - Direct to Disk Audio Recording Studio is a free HDD audio recording system for linux operating systems, written using Tcl/Tk. SLab can record up to 64 tracks.
* BeatForce - A computer DJing system, with two players with independent playlist, song database, mixer, sampler etc. It was planned as a feature enhanced Linux replacement for BPM-Studio from Alcatech.
Here is a decent article:
http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/linux-audio.ars - kepsux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm a veteran Linux user and a experienced digital musician. There are a lot of aps out there that do various sound editing/creation chores under Linux, but it always takes witchcraft to get them working properly, mostly complicated by the need to have JACK ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit )running just to get the programs to start. Granted, it's been a couple of years now since I worked with it...I haven't looked into it yet (I will) but hopefully this software will make it a little easier to get off the ground.
The other big problem Linux faces is the large number of obscure but very powerful soundcards/midi controllers drivers will have to be created for. I use a Echo Layla24 for multitrack recording on a windows boxen, and for some reason I don't see this in the 2.6 kernel anytime soon. Haha. - Vagabond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is great. The only thing holding me back from installing linux on my machine was that I couldn't find any music software. I'm definitely gonna install it now.
- clvrmnky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yup. I bought a Mac all those years ago partly to set up a small production system. Music production on Linux was just too tweaky and immature back then. Good to see some real work being made in that direction.
- guhappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1there is also Rosegarden http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
- TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Linux MultiMedia Studio--Because big music studios and professionals actually use Linux."
- chickenrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, this software is a lot of fun, but at version 0.11 quite buggy. I had to compile it, it ran OK the first run, I opened a demo song and played with it, but when I went to open another song it opened but had some weird synth noise that never stopped. after a few more attempts at opening it, now it just crashes with a segmentation fault. But it was fun to try and the ii is beautiful
- toasterwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1always good to see open source clones of commercial software, especially for students and music enthusiasts -- in other words, people that don't have too much money... LIKE ME!
- dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hey this is good news for the producers running linux! but not a reason i would switch. reason 2.5 and ableton live 5 (yes i DIDm pay for them, i got them from sound control) plus my m-audio 2496 soundcard does the damn job for me. but still. linux is up and coming
- crosswick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A big hurdle still is the low amount of good audio/MIDI interface drivers for Linux. You can't hook up your MOTU or M-Audio devices as far as I know, at least not with the same functionality as with XP or OSX.
Jack is is very cool by the way. It's a little like Rewire or ASIO, but better. It doesn't have the restrictive property of a server-client model; it's more like a modular nodespace in which you can hook anything up to anything.
So the combination of these two might produce the kind of coolness that would make Linux for music suddenly very interesting. Especially if there was a good ASIO/Rewire/VST wrapper for Jack, with low-latency, low-jitter networking.
On a PS3 :-) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think your just saying that PatrickStar because you can't figure out how to take advantage of it. Most commercial software is stolen open source code today.
- yensed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I would use it if it worked on windows. I use Audacity but it hasnt been updates for over a year.
- AnusBreaker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"A big hurdle still is the low amount of good audio/MIDI interface drivers for Linux. You can't hook up your MOTU or M-Audio devices as far as I know, at least not with the same functionality as with XP or OSX."
haha *****, M-Audio is very well supported by ALSA. RME cards also have fantastic support. you dont know what the ***** you are talking about, sir. - unitedkronos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I think I'll stick with MED Soundstudio for the time being, until I can afford a Mac Mini and Logic Pro 7.
- northernmonk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"Only n00bs and RIAA supporters use free open source crap."
Why says this mate, its just flame bait.
how old are u? just a bit of advice. - honkaform, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0wow, i've been waiting for something like this. :)
- arganot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0thanks for this one i will have fun with it
- Gneisbaard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0i want a reason alternative...
- gnatinator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Looks fairly elite :)
- TheQwe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0PatrickStar: STFU if you can't say anything whose level of rationality is above "troll".
- 0zzy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I dont have linux :(
- anagami, on 07/02/2008, -2/+0"Most commercial software is stolen open source code today."
Prove it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I got it installed and am not a noob it doest seem to work that well with fedora core 4 but chances are its my sound card not sure yet ill be giving a follow up soon.
- ahmerhussain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Me like garageband better!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1"Most commercial software is stolen open source code today."
LOL, dumb ass statement. - teknobryan, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0This is stupid.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Only n00bs and RIAA supporters use free open source crap.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0***** free open source crap!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0"I'm a veteran Linux user and a experienced digital musician. "
You mean you're a turbo n00b and a wanker? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Only n00bs and RIAA supporters use free open source crap.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Only n00bs and RIAA supporters use free open source crap.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0open source clones of commercial software are for n00bs who can't warez commercial software.
***** free open source crap! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Only n00bs and RIAA supporters use free open source crap.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0open source clones of commercial software are for n00bs who can't warez commercial software.
***** free open source crap!
PatrickStar posted by PatrickStar (0) at 11:07 PM
your like 12 right oneday you will grow up! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0open source clones of commercial software are for n00bs who can't warez commercial software.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0***** free open source crap!
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