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Take a whack at
http://www.gnuitar.com/
or
http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecamegapedal

After playing a guitar through both of the open source packages for about 5 minutes you will probably come to the same conclusion I did. The quality of the sound produced by the guitar port is far better than that of the free programs. that is if you consider the guitar port to be capable of producing good emulations relative to true tube based distortions.

By all means if there were good free programs I would not shell out the money for a software emulation package or a real amplifier. The cost in speakers necessary to produce high quality live sounds with any software package is considerable. The software packages such as guitar port and amplitube are fine for recording but when you try to use them for performance they are not as flexible as using a real amp.

• • mxv MiXViews sound editor
  • snd sound editor
  • ecasound multitrack audio processing tool
  • cdrecord
  • cdparanoia
  • ecasound
  • sox
  • ecasignalview
  • mkisofs
  • aumix

  Once you get the right tools, audio is a snap on Linux. I'd never go back to Windows.

How about one copy of a multitrack recorder? I don't know if these support recording multiple inputs at once, but check out either Audacity or Ecasound for free alternatives.

SLab is an excellent multitrack recorder/mixer. It is not up to snuff with ProTools yet (though no program is on any platform).

Other Linux audio related links include (sorry if some links are bad, I haven't updated this list in awhile):

Multitrack audio recording/mixing:
Ardour
Slab
Snd

Midi Sequencing:
Jazz++
Rosegarden
Brahms (I THINK this is a sequencer)

Sound editing / effects processing:
MixViews
ecasound

Audio creation (synth emulators):
Ultramaster RS-101 and Juno6 CSound
Cecilia (requires Csound)

Notation:
Lilypond
Rosegarden
Mup

Awesome pages with links to everything you wanted to know about Linux audio:
Applications for Open Sound System
Sound and MIDI software for Linux

I did download ecasound and ecawave last night but, sadly, I'm missing some dependencies and haven't been able to run them. Ecawave claims to be a stable wave editor.

:-only kona in my cup-:
:-robert taylor-:

I did download ecasound and ecawave last night but, sadly, I'm missing some dependencies and haven't been able to run them. Ecawave claims to be a stable wave editor.

:-only kona in my cup-:
:-robert taylor-:

Ecasound, and Broadcast 2000.

Both are excellet programs. I use broadcast 2000 almost daily my self, and find it abseloutly amazing. Better then any multitrack audio software for windows.

BTW: You better use ALSA with theese apps, at least OSS/Free makes them both very buggy for me.

I assume there are some basic sound tools available, but I would be surprised if they are equal to the best windows or mac tools. That is probably the most approachable sector to work on improving.

Certainly, hacking on a sound tools sounds a lot easier than creating a Maya clone.