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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?
I once used Music Construction Set on my C-64 to play Jingle Bells. After that I played Bach's Fugue in D-minor........
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.
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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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
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.