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Music Related Free and Open Source Software?
An anonymous reader asks: "I'm going to a demonstration of some music software products tomorrow night. The music store hosting the event may be attempting to start a users group of music software. This seems like a job for open source advocacy! Anyone know of any good F/OSS for working with music and audio? I am already aware of Audacity and (Free as in Beer) Jeskola Buzz, but what else is there in the realm of sequencers and audio manipulation?" We did another helpful article back in 2001, and another from last August. What musical creations have you put together with any of this software, and others we may have missed?
Linux Journal has an article in the most recent edition entitled "The Linux Soundfile Editor Roundup". Check it out! Audacity is reviewed, along with several other audio file editors.
I haven't tried this yet, but I am starting to get desperate for a way to digitize my LP's, and it can do that job:
http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/
Looks pretty good.
http://www.linux-sound.org/
check out the agnula/DeMuDi (http://www.agnula.org/) collection of software; they have everything in that distribution! download the livecd iso, boot it, check out the software. everything from synths to drum trackers to recorders, the whole sha-bang. oh, and the dynebolic (http://www.dynebolic.org/) project has a good livecd for audio, too!
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Show them terminatorX
A friend of mine installed Linux, just to be able to run this app.
And it's a lot of fun to scratch on some Steve Ballmer samples!
I tired posting these as proper hyperlinks but apparently I had too few characters per line.
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net - CDex
http://www.vorbis.com - Ogg Vorbis
http://audacity.sourceforge.net - Audacity
http://xtractor.sourceforge.net - CD-DA X-Tractor
http://www.audiocoding.com - AudioCoding
http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net - Mp3splt
http://mp3wrap.sourceforge.net - Mp3Wrap
http://alba.sourceforge.net - Alba Extractor
http://www.peercast.org - PeerCast
http://gnump3d.sourceforge.net - GNUMP3d
http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net - Mp3 Tag Tools
http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/%7Ecostar/gramofile/ - GramoFile
http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net - FFmpeg
http://www.jazzware.com - JAZZ++
http://osw.sourceforge.net/ - Open Sound World
your most important tools are VSTs
check here: kvr-vst.
you can load them into buzz and then run them like virtual synths. the quality varies, but some of the free ones are actually better than my real hardware synths, notably the killer series, like MindKiller, SoulKiller, etc, or TriangleII, or Crystal...
look around, dont cost nothing and they're fun.
shaolin punk, activist post-industrial
Lilypond is a program, IMHO, generates scores & sheet music that aesthetically look better than anything that Finale can do. Though the format used isn't too user friendly. However, there are plenty of front-ends and programs capable of exporting to the lilypond format. One such program, Rosegarden, which not only is a music notation program, but a full suite of music editing funness (does audio recording). But like a brother post simply stated, linux-sound.org is a very usefull site with many many FOSS projects regarding audio.
As the page shows it also can be used to generate pov files and other kinds of oddness. There is a current running version at this page that is generating "plants" and selecting them for "how well they compete for sunlight" (sort of).
Don't tell me the UI is terrible. I know. I'm more interested in what I can make it do and playing with the innards. Currently I'm working on "poetry", event generation for testing java programs and finding a way to import grammars that generate other music - so I could possibly produce music(???) that is the b-st-rd offspring of Mozart and Madonna (say).