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This thing is a TB 303, TR808 and 909 emulator, a dance music only instrument.
There are -IMO- much more interesting music projects on Linux that deserve some space on Slashdot, like the SpiralsynthModular analog synthesizer, the Ardour mutitrack hard disk recording system, or the Brahms MIDI sequencer.

A long list of projects can be found on LinuxSound.

Dave Phillip's linux audio page should cover most of linux audio software. Check it out.

I was about to write you a loooooong answer in order to show you most alternatives but this link just does it much better that I may have...

Have fun!

Are you aware of the Linux Sound & MIDI site? (There is also a European mirror) It's the best collection of links to Linux music-related software and documentation I've found.

Here's their Music Notation page.

Pax,

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"Sounds like a worthy project, but sound processing is still in its infancy under Linux, ..."

I think the situation is much better than that. For a long time now, Linux has offered a lot to musicians and other audio enthusiasts. Just take a look at Dave Phillips' Sound&Midi page at http://www.linuxsound.at ! Linux audio apps might not have the same polished neat-knobs-and-stuff look as the popular Windows+Mac apps have, but they are very powerful tools for working with audio. Check Ardour, Quasimodo, aRts, GDAM, terminatorX, Snd, Sweep, Slab, SAOL, Csound,etc, etc... and not forgetting my own project, ecasound.

As for the clustering discussion, this is an old topic for linux-audio-dev folks. See for instance these threads: http://eca.cx/lad/2000/19991108-0307/0575.html and http://eca.cx/lad/2000/19991108-0307/0580.html. As a quick summary, I can say it's not easy. At the moment, even getting solid rt perfomance for running one userspace audio app on a Linux box requires a patched kernel (Ingo's 2.2.x ll-patches that never made it into the mainstream kernel are probably the most well-known). Running multiple rt-processes is even more difficult. Now from this, it's easy to see how far we are from realtime DSP-clustering. But nevertheless, problems can be solved, and Linux is a very good platform for experimenting. If you are interested in these matters, be sure to check the linux-audio-dev resources at http://www.linuxaudiodev.com.

"I am 99% ready to completely wipe all Windows software from my machines, but the last 1% I need ..."

Umm, if you've got more than one computer, leave Windows into one of them if only for the sake of running Cubase or Logic Audio or whatever in it. Linux audio software isn't yet up to those of Windows, but they're slowly getting there.

Most of the audio software I've tried are in their very early stages of development. There are a couple of relatively decent MIDI packages around (such as Brahms, aka. "ex-koobase"), but for those of us dealing with samples, the situation does not seem so bright. Crashes and unexpected weirdness is not uncommon. But that's acceptable for software still in development!

However, there are a couple of real jewels (for the bedroom music enthusiast) emerging, mainly terminatorX and soundtracker. IMO they both need no-compromise stereo sample support (mono as of 3.55 and 0.3.10 respectively), and Soundtracker should get rid of that horrible "pitchbender" gizmo. and improve the sound quality instead... I like terminatorX because the user interface is very intuitive. You can just blast away and make music without having to conduct The Ceremony of Ye Olde Premeditated Scripting Of Obscure Syntax. I'm not a person who can spend one week thinking about some strange way to make the program put my inspiration into audio form. So the interface has to be wham, bam, thank you ma'am.

What Linux needs is a Gimp for audio. That would really be a killer app. Still, things are looking bright. Bump around the Sound and MIDI Software for Linux site and you'll not only see glimpses of the future but might come across some pleasant surprises to adopt as well!