Audio Software for Linux

diskonext · Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK

Nice to see such a forum!

Anyway,

let's compile a list of audio software for Linux. I'll kick off with some:

pd
SuperCollider
mixxx
CSound
Festival

I remember a physical modeling program (non-realtime) that could emulate steel bars and bells, anyone remember?

-diskonext

jksuperstar · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:08 am Post subject:

Yes, great idea. If anyone has new software, please keep the links in this thread! We can discuss the use of particular software in their own threads. If this explodes, maybe we'll break it up into Recording, Synths, MIDI, etc.

Here's one place to start:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/one-page.html

And the homebase of most things Linux/Audio:
http://linux-sound.org/

diskonext · Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK

Oh my,

that's a big list Wink

Now we should have some reader feedback on which one to tackle (what with lots of linux software requiring some free hours to build&test)....

Great list! I'll try some of those...

-diskonext

diskonext · Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK

I see some mentions of VSTi adapters for Linux... this wouldn't mean I'd be able to fire up .dll's on linux right?

I was just wondering about that yesterday, and it just might work (if you wouldn't fire up the GUI and running on a i386)... hmmm, I'll look into that.

-diskonext

mosc · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:43 am Post subject:

diskonext · Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK

I'll add stuff I actually got to work (and which pleased my ears) in my original post.

Today's addition: festival!

Non-realtime speech synthesis program, the lovechild of several Ph.Ds and other professional geeks. Pretty cool.

-diskonext

diskonext · Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK

When I have some time on my hands I'll start building some apps on my new linux machine (which is gathering dust under my desk, looking at it's baby brother which is actually put to work) and try to report some of the basic steps needed to transform a standard linux install into a DAW(ish).

There is a whole slew of libs and stuff needed for most programs, but they might be included in the current distro's.

-diskonext

algorhythm · Joined: Feb 22, 2005 Posts: 46 Location: Shoreline, WA

Here is a list of all the linux audio applications packaged with CCRMA that runs on Fedora core.
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/packages.html

thanks,
Jeff Sandys

tjt · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject: keykit article in Linux Journal

Assuming you include MIDI things in the category of audio software,
here's a pointer to an article in this month's Linux Journal
about keykit: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8153

...Tim...

mosc · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:49 pm Post subject:

That is really a nice article. Congratulations, Tim.

Here's a secret that now out of the bag. Tim will be presenting a talk/performance at electro-music 2005. Be there or be sinusoidal.

kruhft · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject:

some of the apps that I use to produce my stuff:

ardour (recording, mixing, mastering)
jamin (mastering)
sox (command line chopping, batch processing and fx)
rezound (editing)
audacity (editing)
snd (editing)
chuck (synthesis, rendering, composition)
cheesetracker (uhhh...tracking Wink

jack-rack (fx)
keykit (midi, sequencing)
faust (dsp development)

to name a few...i'm sure I've forgotten some and that's not including the audio hacks I write myself and don't ever release.

majutsu · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject:

great thread!

here's my apps: (ubuntu)

ams (amazing mod synth, mind blowing!)
ardour (outstanding hard disk recorder)
cecilia (csound front)
chuck (music oop, live coding)
hydrogen (awesome drum machine, best on any platform imo)
jack control (jack server and connector)
jack rack (effects rack)
kaconnect (alsa connector)
puredata (music oop, graphical)
qsynth (soundfont player)
rezound (wave editor)
rosegarden (better than cubase DAW!)
soundtracker (i love trackers, damnit! blow me.)
specimen (sampler)
supercollider (oop, text)
zynaddsubfx (vst like synth)

you can do no wrong with that list, and your creativity should be unhampered. with feisty fawn release, ubuntu plans on releasing ubuntustudio as well. looking forward to it! just a pass-on to those interested.

kijjaz · Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject:

i salute XMMS .. the music player ..

jwm · Joined: May 30, 2007 Posts: 10 Location: england

Here's an interesting synth I found yesterday,

Mx44

http://web.comhem.se/luna/

a little idiosyncratic, one for fiddlers.

jwm · Joined: May 30, 2007 Posts: 10 Location: england

Anyone used the linux sampler yet?

http://www.linuxsampler.org/

For the moment you can only use gig sampler files with it, it's still quite early stage software, but worth keeping your eye on.

kruhft · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:07 am Post subject:

I wanted to try linux sampler but I couldn't get it to compile and didn't have the time to get it working unfortunately.

My favorite straight sampler is chionic (basically the sound engine of cheesetracker with some added features) since it's really fast (low cpu usage) and loads XI instruments natively and has a pretty cool plugin/channel routing architecture for FX.

--
kruhft

Drumfix · Joined: Apr 20, 2007 Posts: 3 Location: Germany

As for using windows VST(i) through wine look at

http://ladspavst.linuxaudio.org/

for running linux compiled vst(i) look here

http://www.anticore.org/jucetice/

or here

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