Sound/music applications for Linux

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Sound/music applications for Linux

Post by Yoshi »

Hello.

Does anyone know if there is any good Linux applications for sound-editing and composing?

I guess there will never be an Impulse Tracker 3 so I keep my hopes high for Cheese Tracker. Current version works quite ok so perhaps it will grow into something big in the future. :)
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Post by Vosla »

Just be patient, there have to be more dudes with at least one linux system out there. Question is: are they remixing with it?
Anyway, give them a lil bit more time to respond. (I for my part had a terrible hangover this weekend dunno what their excuses are. But doesn't help you much because I just experiment with Linux routers and do not use them as workstations.)
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Post by Yoshi »

Well, I didn't think making music on a Linux workstation is very common. I just hoped to get some names of any software available so I could look around and possibly find something useful.

I'll be patient..
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Right now Linux is a poor choice for music production, but it's getting better.
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Post by Jan Morgenstern »

Yoshi wrote:Well, I didn't think making music on a Linux workstation is very common. I just hoped to get some names of any software available so I could look around and possibly find something useful.
Here goes:

Try soundtracker as a pretty useable FT clone (I actually scored a game with it, and it didn't fail me ;)

As for HD recording, there's a pretty promising multitrack solution called ardour. It's the most advanced linux multitrack program so far.

There's unfortunately no really powerful integrated MIDI-Sequencing/HD-Recording at the moment. Brahms is propably what comes closest to Cubase at the moment, but don't expect too much.

The best linux sample editor is audacity, at least IMHO. I'm using this thing on my studio workstation for post production work, and it's amazing.

As regards software synthesizers, Alsa Modular Synth, ArtS and SpiralModular are modular systems. There are also lots of smaller projects, take a look at http://linux-sound.org. If you're really adventurous, try csound, but don't say I didn't warn you. ;)

As for audio visualization and analyzing... umhh... wait a few weeks, I'm working on it. :)

Hope that helps,
jan
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