Music production
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Gentoo can be a good platform for music production.
See categories/media-sound for more.
Digital Audio Workstations
| Name | Package | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ardour | media-sound/ardour | Digital Audio Workstation. |
| lmms | media-sound/lmms | Cross-platform music production software. |
| qtractor | media-sound/qtractor | Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer written in C++ with the Qt framework. |
Jack Audio Connection Kit
These utilities should help with working with JACK.
| Name | Package | Description |
|---|---|---|
| cadence | media-sound/cadence | Collection of tools useful for audio production. |
| patchage | media-sound/patchage | Modular patch bay for JACK-based audio and MIDI systems. |
| qjackctl | media-sound/qjackctl | Qt GUI to control the JACK Audio Connection Kit and ALSA sequencer connections. |
Other
| Name | Package | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Audacity | media-sound/audacity | Cross-platform audio editing application. |
| denemo | media-sound/denemo | A music notation editor. |
| frescobaldi | media-sound/frescobaldi | A LilyPond sheet music text editor. |
| gnome-sound-recorder | media-sound/gnome-sound-recorder | Simple sound recorder. |
| hydrogen | media-sound/hydrogen | Advanced drum machine. |
| icecast | net-misc/icecast | Streaming server, opensource alternative to shoutcast that supports mp3, ogg and aac streaming. |
| kwave | kde-apps/kwave | Sound editor built on KDE Frameworks 5 that can edit many types of audio files. |
| lilypond | media-sound/lilypond | GNU Music Typesetter. |
| milkytracker | media-sound/milkytracker | FastTracker 2 inspired music tracker. |
| schismtracker | media-sound/schismtracker | Free implementation of Impulse Tracker |
| mhwaveedit | media-sound/mhwaveedit | GTK+ Sound file editor (wav, and a few others). |
| mixxx | media-sound/mixxx | Advanced Digital DJ tool based on Qt. |
| musescore | media-sound/musescore | WYSIWYG Music Score Typesetter. |
| Rosegarden | media-sound/rosegarden | MIDI and audio sequencer and notation editor. |
| seq24 | media-sound/seq24 | Loop based MIDI sequencer with focus on live performances. |
| soundconverter | media-sound/soundconverter | A simple audiofile converter application for the GNOME environment. |
| sox | media-sound/sox | The swiss army knife of sound processing programs. |
| TiMidity++ | media-sound/timidity++ | A handy MIDI to WAV converter with OSS and ALSA output support. |
| guitarix | media-sound/guitarix | Virtual guitar amplifier for Linux with LV2 effects |
Plugins
See the categories/media-plugins category for more plugins.
| Name | Package | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ams-lv2 | media-plugins/ams-lv2 | A port of the AMS internal modules to LV2 plugins to create modular synthesizers. |
| calf | media-plugins/calf | A set of open source instruments and effects for digital audio workstations. |
| caps-plugins | media-plugins/caps-plugins | The CAPS LDAP Audio Plugin Suite - good for use with electric guitar. |
| hexter | media-plugins/hexter | Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin. |
| ir_lv2 | media-plugins/ir_lv2 | LV2 convolver plugin especially for creating reverb effects. |
| mda-lv2 | media-plugins/mda-lv2 | LV2 port of the MDA plugins by Paul Kellett. |
| noise-repellent | media-plugins/noise-repellent | An lv2 plug-in for broadband noise reduction. |
| swh-lv2 | media-plugins/swh-lv2 | Large collection of LV2 audio plugins/effects. |
| tap-plugins | media-plugins/tap-plugins | Tom's audio processing (TAP) LADSPA plugins. |
| x42-plugins | media-plugins/x42-plugins | Collection of LV2 plugins |
| zam-plugins | media-plugins/zam-plugins | Collection of LV2/LADSPA/VST/JACK audio plugins for high quality processing |
Synthesizers
| Name | Package | Description |
|---|---|---|
| amsynth | media-sound/amsynth | Virtual analogue synthesizer. |
| fluidsynth | media-sound/fluidsynth | Software real-time synthesizer based on the Soundfont 2 specifications. |
| helm | media-sound/helm | Open source polyphonic software synthesizer with lots of modulation. |
| qsynth | media-sound/qsynth | Qt application to control FluidSynth. |
| yoshimi | media-sound/yoshimi | Software synthesizer based on ZynAddSubFX. |
| aeolus | media-sound/aeolus | Synthesised pipe organ emulator |
| bristol | media-sound/bristol | Synthesizer keyboard emulation package: Moog, Hammond and others |
| din | media-sound/din | A software musical instrument and audio synthesizer |
| helm | media-sound/helm | Open source polyphonic software synthesizer with lots of modulation |
Samplers
| Name | Package | Description |
|---|---|---|
| linuxsampler | media-sound/linuxsampler | Software audio sampler engine with professional grade features. |
| qsampler | media-sound/qsampler | Graphical frontend to the LinuxSampler engine. |
| sooperlooper | media-sound/sooperlooper | Live looping sampler with immediate loop recording |
See also
- Recommended_applications#Audio - recommended audio acquisitions software.
- Recommended_applications#Audio_players - recommended audio players.