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Wired: Pro-Level, GPL'd Audio Editing For Linux

Posted by timothy on from the this-looks-very-nice dept.

Sven Hertz writes "For all us music professionals who were longing to a promising music production and creation software on Linux, there is now Wired (screenshots). It supports unlimited Audio/Midi tracks playback and recording, and introduces a Plugin system for instruments and effects (VST support under way too). It can also read AKAI CDs and import 18 different Wave formats. The first test version was released a few days ago and its news made the rounds successfully on OSNews & GnomeDesktop while it was placed "app of the week" over at GnomeFiles."

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  1. This rules by necro2607 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Awesome... The only reason I still use Windows on my desktop is because the audio software I use is Windows-only...

    Let's hope this program will be good enough for me to be able to switch over to Linux full-time :)

    1. Re:This rules by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Interesting

      for mac -> seting up any of these audio tools is easy.

      for linux -> getting alsa and JACK running together correctly is a nightmare.

      getting some of the apps to recognize your version of JACK is also a fight, give up on binaries, try to compile and then can not figure out why rosegarden will not see your installed JACK libraries and therefore refuses to compile with JACK support making it 100% useless.

      Fight to get your midiman MIDI hardware recognized. Get pissed because your nice 8 channel USB midi rackmount device is not supported yet, you need to downgrade to the 2 port cheap model.

      Be happy that your pro soundcard is supported, format your linux partition and go back to windows in hopes of tyring this while dance again in another 6 months.

      I am a huge support and user of linux, the only 2 machines in my home that run windows are my video editor and the dedicated audio PC in the music studio.

      I would love to get microsoft completely out of my house but it is not possible yet again.

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  2. Cool, but what about... by AceJohnny · · Score: 5, Interesting
    There are other "professional audio" tools for Linux out there. Now I'm not into this, but how does Wired compare with these?

    Ardour multi-track sound editor (not MIDI, I think)

    Rosegarden Audio and MIDI sequencer

    The smaller Audacity A wave/AIFF/MP3/Ogg/etc editor

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  3. SMP support? by Thaidog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Being both Linux and "pro level" I would imagine this would be a no brainer but I don't see it in the documentation...?

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