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As everyone has noted, Ardour is great for recording. Another really useful tool is Guitarix which is a fantastic guitar amp and effects modelling piece of open source software. Plug your electric guitar directly into your computer via a USB interface (I use my Rocksmith connector) and you can amp/effect model in Guitarix and record as you play in Ardour. Add the Hydrogen and you've also got your drums playing and sync'ed as you record. As well recording, these make a great set of tools for guitar practice.

Okay, here's the list that I can find:

Hydrogen
http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/?p=main

OrDrumBox
http://www.ordrumbox.com/

OpenBeatBox
Mac
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/Open-Beat-Box.shtml
Linux
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Open-Beat-Box-4095.shtml

Koblo
http://koblo.com/beta

Free Cycle
http://freecycle.redsteamrecords.com/

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"Beat making software."

FWIW, Hydrogen is free.

Yes. Depending on what you are attempting to accomplish it may not be for you. I use an m-audio delta 44 and have been using it to make music for a couple years now. Have some links, if you are interested:

Jack - Low latency audio server. Allows you to connect together sound applications. Arguably the coolest thing about audio in linux.

Ardour - Multi-track sequencer

Hydrogen - Drum machine

Jamin - Mastering software

LAPSDA - Plugin API

DSSI-VST - Way to run windows compiled VSTs on linux (of course its not always going to work)

Linux has plenty of other software out there. These are just some links to get you started.

There are many reasons one might not want to choose linux for audio tasks. With a windows and mac setup you have many more choices in regards to soundcards, software, plugins, and virtual instruments. It also may take a little effort to setup properly. To get proper latency you may need to use a real-time kernel. You may need to spend a little time configuring jack to get the best results out of your card. A finely tuned linux system can be excellent for creating music. It may not be the best choice, but it works for me and I can avoid dual booting.

I'm with you. I've been using Ardour and Hydrogen for years. Also use Rosegarden for keyboard synth. My keyboard is a M-Audio 49-key USB interface, just plug it in and go. I've set up a few audio production systems for friends as well. Shane Bertrand has been recording and mixing his own music on one for 5 years now. A 10 input M-Audio Delta 1010LT sound card, Ardour, and Hydrogen are his main tools. They recorded and produced both CWO albums on this setup. They used 5 mics to record the drummer; Shane's modest system had no problems handling it all, even at more than 40 tracks in a song. He had a Sempron 2500+ and 512MB RAM w/ Kubuntu, just upgraded to a X2 3800, 2GB RAM a few months ago.

I've performed with Pure Data on tour and it stood up well on my Debian laptop. At the time I was either using a gamepad or midi-slider interface to drive the instruments I made with this tool, some of which were multichannel. A friend and I have had several hundred people play with our audiovisual instrument Fijuu2 day in day out for a week. This setup runs on Ubuntu and uses PD as a sound server. Several other friends perform with Supercollideron their Linux laptops .

Where sequencing is concerned I've heard some enjoy Hydrogen. For a DAW on Linux it's hard to go past Ardour, though that's hardly an instrument.

check THIS out:

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

and paired with audacity for chopping and converting samples you would have everything you need to make your own music:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

A nice drum machine:
http://www.hydrogen-music.org/

use ardour to mix it all!
http://ardour.org/

I'm learning to play bass guitar at the moment, and I've found Hydrogen (Free, Open Source) to be of great help. It's a drum machine, which lets me quickly setup simple or more advanced drum-loops, even layout the drum patterns for an entire song. Granted, this is probably not quite as important for a violin player - although it can be used as a simple metronome as well.

There are only three Linux audio programs worth a shit.
Hydrogen
Audacity
Rezound

There are no software drum machines that can touch what Hydrogen does. Not on Mac, not on Windows. Audacity is a utilitarian but useful multitrack recorder. Rezound is an excellent wave editor, which I actually like better than Soundforge.

All other Linux sound programs are uniformly useless shit, no matter what the fanboys tell you.

Hydrogen, an advaned GNU/Linux drumkit, also exist for Windows and Mac, it is great.

http://www.hydrogen-music.org/

Whoever modded me flamebait has obviously not actually tried to use any Linux sound software. Three fucking years I used Linux as my only OS, and in that time I found THREE sound apps worth using.

Hydrogen
Audacity
Rezound
Those three apps got me through a shitload of home recording. I'm considering doing a small Fedora setup just so I can use Hydrogen again. Nothing else I used was worth the effort it took to get it to the half-assed stage it was at. Rosegarden, Muse, Beast, Ardour... all total shit. If you don't believe me... actually TRY those sometime.

Recently I heard about a software called Hydrogen, it is an advanced drum machine with pattern based sequencer.
It is under the GNU GPL.

http://www.hydrogen-music.org/
If anyone is interested...

Speaking of, is there anything remotely close to FL for Linux for music production?

Hydrogen is pretty close to old-skool Fruityloops, like version 3 or something.

Actually, at that point, I preferred Fruity to where it's at now, because it was simpler and did a really good job of making nice loops to mess around with. In that vein, Hydrogen is a winner!