Audio Software for Linux

mau · Joined: Oct 21, 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Mexico

Hi, after using Windows for long long time, yesterday I decided to install Ubuntu in a new partition.
I can't tell you how pleasant it is to work with this OS. The GUI is light years further from Windows XP, it has a lot of features compared with other Intel OS but I find kind of lost in the search of a good open software for MIDI & audio.
Since I did not find any Linux focused forum I'm posting this one here. I'm sure that after so many years of Linux development there must be something if not so easy-to-install as Cakewalk or Cubase yet powerful enough to arrange complex MIDI/Audio projects.
My gear is a Intel Pentium IV 3Ghz two HD (250Gb each ATA) and 1Gb ram. Nord Lead 2x and Edirol UA-25. I've tried the Sonar LE that ships with the Edirol and it really sucks. I was going to buy Cubase SE but before that I would like to give a try to open Linux software. I need to use softsynths of course.
Any advice would be great!
Thanks.

jksuperstar · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:03 am Post subject:

You should try "upgrading" to Ubuntu Studio ([url]ubuntustudio.org[/url]) - it comes with a bunch of software bundled with it. Rosegarden is the big hitter, cakewalk-like software.

Maybe this is a good place for you to start (it has the big list of software):
http://linux-sound.org/
-jk*

Blue Hell

felix30 · Joined: Oct 27, 2007 Posts: 1 Location: US

Search it in google, you will get many under that.

EdisonRex · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:20 am Post subject:

mau · Joined: Oct 21, 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Mexico

Well gentlemen, you have been of great help.
Now I feel in the right direction. Special thanks to Blue Hell for the forum advice.
Cheers!

432hz · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:10 am Post subject: energy-xt

energyXT2.0.2 - Music Production Software

"It's a fully fledged power- house of a sequencer..."
- Computer Music, 116

Ardour, Rosengarden thats the old fashion way.
EnergyXT2 is my number 1

http://www.energy-xt.com/xt2beta.php

http://www.energy-xt.com/download/beta/betaXT2linux.tar.gz

Traverso
http://traverso-daw.org/

nescivi · Joined: Mar 23, 2005 Posts: 94 Location: Montreal

www.linuxaudio.org

and in specific

apps.linuxaudio.org

spideth · Joined: Apr 14, 2008 Posts: 4 Location: London

Have you try Ardour???
its open source software and it runs in Mac OS and Linux
I have not tried it but I was at the presentation and it seems
pretty good.

Ardour.org

pythonusr · Joined: May 11, 2008 Posts: 7 Location: Massachuetts, USA

Traverso is very well built and works for many things. But making music on Linux requires many tools linked (even though I dislike JACK in many ways).

I use Traverso, Energy XT2, LMMS, Rosegarden, Ardour, and MusE. They all work good together. ZynAddSubFX is a great synth, too.

fengland · Joined: Feb 18, 2010 Posts: 50 Location: Burlington, VT

This thread is old, but I'll put in my 2 cents anyway. I've tried every bit of linux music software I could get my hands on and the ones that work best for me are:
seq24 - nice simple cubase/hardware like sequencer. It's pattern/loop oriented. You can turn looping sequences on or off like track mutes on a hardware sequencer, or arrange the sequences in song mode, and hase cubase style graphical editing.
ardour, audacity - recording
amsynth - analog modeling soft synth
specimen - simple sampler
trackers - milkytracker, renoise - old school amiga style tracking