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awesome-linuxaudio

[mirror] A list of software and resources for professional audio/video/live events production on Linux.
https://github.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio

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SAMPLES/PRESETS/RESOURCES

Linux Distributions

  • Musical Artifacts - Helping to catalogue, preserve and free the artifacts you need to produce music.
  • Freesound - a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.
  • CCMixter - Search engine for Creative Commons multimedia content
  • Freepats project - Free and open instrument sets, samples, sound synthesis, music...
  • CCMixter - Search engine for Creative Commons multimedia content
  • Freepats project - Free and open instrument sets, samples, sound synthesis, music...
  • LMMS assets - Samples, presets, projects and patches for LMMS

Software

Audio Editors

  • audacity - fast, cross-platform audio editor (◼)
  • eisenkraut - A multi-channel and hi-res capable audio file editor
  • LAoE - Rich featured graphical audio sample editor featuring multi-layers, floating-point samples, volume-masks, variable selection-intensity, spectrogram editing, and plugins 2011
  • ReZound - ReZound aims to be a stable, open source, and graphical audio file editor primarily for but not limited to the Linux operating system. 2008
  • smasher - Cross-platform audio loop slicer designed to create sliced loops from WAV, MP3, FLAC or AIFF files in seconds without a sequencer 2013
  • Sound Studio - A simple (minimal) light-weight tool for editing smaller soundfiles. Because Sound Studio uses Sox, it can cope with a wide variety of audio file formats. 2013
  • sweep - Audio editor and live playback tool (◼)
  • kwave - sound editor for KDE (◼)
  • tenacity - an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder
  • ocenaudio - cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor ©
  • ReZound - ReZound aims to be a stable, open source, and graphical audio file editor primarily for but not limited to the Linux operating system. 2008
  • LAoE - Rich featured graphical audio sample editor featuring multi-layers, floating-point samples, volume-masks, variable selection-intensity, spectrogram editing, and plugins 2011
  • mhwaveedit - Simple and fast GTK2 sound editor (◼) 2013
  • Shuriken beat slicer - beat slicer with beat detection and time stretching capabilities. Easy QT4 interface to slice up drum loops, assign hits to MIDI keys, and change the tempo of loops in real-time.
  • ReZound - ReZound aims to be a stable, open source, and graphical audio file editor primarily for but not limited to the Linux operating system. 2008

Audio utilities - CD/DVD Ripping

  • asunder - graphical audio CD ripper and encoder (◼)
  • sound-juicer - GNOME CD Ripper (◼)
  • ogmrip - Application for ripping and encoding DVD (◼)
  • cdparanoia - audio extraction tool for sampling CDs (◼)
  • yaret - console tool to turn CDs into encoded music (◼)
  • ripit - Textbased audio CD ripper (◼)
  • gramofile - transfer sound from gramophone records to CD (◼)
  • ripperx - GTK-based audio CD ripper/encoder (◼)
  • abcde - A Better CD Encoder (◼)
  • asunder - graphical audio CD ripper and encoder (◼)
  • yaret - console tool to turn CDs into encoded music (◼)
  • ripit - Textbased audio CD ripper (◼)
  • gramofile - transfer sound from gramophone records to CD (◼)
  • abcde - A Better CD Encoder (◼)
  • ogmrip - Application for ripping and encoding DVD (◼)
  • ripperx - GTK-based audio CD ripper/encoder (◼)

Audio utilities - Meters & Analysis

  • baudline - Time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain - Fourier, correlation, transfer function, impulse response, and raster transforms
  • bitmeter - diagnosis tool for JACK audio software (◼)
  • brp-pacu - audio analysis tool (◼)
  • ebumeter - Loudness measurement according to EBU-R128 (◼)
  • jackmeter - a basic command line meter for the JACK audio system (◼)
  • jkmeter - horizontal or vertical bargraph audio level meter for Jack Audio Connection Kit (◼)
  • lufsmeter - measures loudness similar to the human perception of loudness. (LV2/VST) ▒
  • meterbridge - Collection of Audio meters for the JACK audio server (◼)
  • siggen - a set of tools for imitating a laboratory Signal Generator, generating audio signals out of Linux's /dev/dsp audio device. (◼)
  • Scope - Simple oscilloscope ©
  • spek - acoustic spectrum analyser
  • xoscope - digital oscilloscope (◼)
  • baudline - Time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain - Fourier, correlation, transfer function, impulse response, and raster transforms
  • bitmeter - diagnosis tool for JACK audio software (◼)
  • ebumeter - Loudness measurement according to EBU-R128 (◼)
  • jkmeter - horizontal or vertical bargraph audio level meter for Jack Audio Connection Kit (◼)
  • MultiMeter - comprehensive set of AU/VST real-time audio analysis tools
  • QLoud - tool to measure loudspeaker frequency and step responses and distortions
  • wolf-spectrum - Real-time 2D spectrogram plugin
  • MultiMeter - comprehensive set of AU/VST real-time audio analysis tools
  • meterbridge - Collection of Audio meters for the JACK audio server (◼)
  • xoscope - digital oscilloscope (◼)
  • brp-pacu - audio analysis tool (◼)

Audio utilities - MIDI Utilities

  • jack-keyboard - Virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI (◼)
  • abcmidi - converter from ABC to MIDI format and back (◼)
  • arpage - MIDI Arpeggiator w/ JACK Tempo Sync. ▒
  • gmidimonitor - GTK application that shows MIDI events (◼)
  • LibreArp - LV2/VST3 free-form pattern arpeggiator
  • midi-matrix.lv2 - 3-in-1 plugin with GUI (MIDI channel filtering/rerouting/multiplication) ▒
  • midimsg-lv2 - set of plugins to transform midi output ▒
  • midisox - a SoX-like workalike, for handling MIDI files
  • pizmidi-plugins - collection of cross-platform MIDI processing plugins. ▒
  • pjb.au MIDI scripts - Various MIDI utilities and scripts
  • qmidiarp - MIDI arpeggiator for ALSA (◼)
  • QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast
  • qmidinet - MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast (◼)
  • qxgedit - Editor for MIDI System Exclusive files for XG devices. (◼)
  • swami - MIDI instrument editor application (◼)
  • vmpk - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (◼)
  • timidity - Software sound renderer (MIDI sequencer, MOD player) (◼)
  • qmidiarp - MIDI arpeggiator for ALSA (◼)
  • vmpk - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (◼)
  • jack-midi-clock - JACK client that sends MIDI beat clock pulses ▒
  • MidiJoystick - MidiJoystick is a MIDI client for the Jack Audio Connection Kit on Linux, which lets you use your joystick to emit MIDI commands
  • SendMIDI - multi-platform command-line tool makes it very easy to quickly send MIDI messages to MIDI devices from your computer.
  • jackass - JACK-MIDI support for VST hosts, including Wine apps ▒
  • mamba - Virtual Midi keyboard and Midi Live Looper.
  • jack-keyboard - Virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI (◼)
  • qmidiarp - MIDI arpeggiator for ALSA (◼)
  • QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast
  • qmidinet - MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast (◼)
  • qxgedit - Editor for MIDI System Exclusive files for XG devices. (◼)
  • vmpk - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (◼)
  • simple-sysexxer - GUI tool to create backups of the memory contents of MIDI devices

Audio utilities - Misc

  • declick - a dynamic digital declicker for audio sample files.
  • ecasound - command-line multitrack-capable audio recorder and effect processor (◼)
  • gwc - Audio file denoiser (◼)
  • Linux Show Player - playback in stage production. The goal of the project is to provide a complete playback software for musical plays, theater shows and similar. (◼)
  • nama - Multitrack recording with Ecasound (◼)
  • pianobooster - Learn the piano just by playing a game, inspired by Guitar Hero (◼)
  • silan - commandline tool to detect silence in audio-files
  • silentjack - silence detector for the JACK audio system (◼)
  • taptempo - A command line tap tempo. Hit enter key with style and you'll get the corresponding number of beats per minute (BPM). (◼)
  • timemachine - JACK audio recorder for spontaneous and conservatory use (◼)
  • pianobooster - Learn the piano just by playing a game, inspired by Guitar Hero (◼)
  • declick - a dynamic digital declicker for audio sample files.
  • fadecut - toolset to rip audiostreams, cut, fade in/out and tag the resulting audiofiles (◼)
  • Samplecat - a program for cataloguing and auditioning audio samples.
  • showq - MIDI controllable audio player (◼)
  • fadecut - toolset to rip audiostreams, cut, fade in/out and tag the resulting audiofiles (◼)
  • sync-audio-tracks - Audio tracks synchronization command-line tool for video editors that don't support it
  • noise-repellent - plugins for broadband noise reduction.
  • soundcraft-utils - Linux Utilities for Soundcraft Mixers. (◼)
  • gwc - Audio file denoiser (◼)
  • libsox-fmt-all - All SoX format libraries (◼)
  • pianobooster - Learn the piano just by playing a game, inspired by Guitar Hero (◼)
  • taptempo - A command line tap tempo. Hit enter key with style and you'll get the corresponding number of beats per minute (BPM). (◼)

Audio utilities - Transcoding

  • ambdec - Ambisonic decoder for first and second order (◼)
  • zita-bls1 - binaural stereo signals converter (◼)
  • qwinff - GUI for FFmpeg, a powerful command-line media converter. FFmpeg can read audio and video files in various formats and convert them into other formats. (◼)
  • audiotools - Collection of audio handling programs for the command line (◼)
  • dir2ogg - audio file converter into ogg-vorbis format (◼)
  • ffmpeg2theora - Theora video encoder using ffmpeg (◼)
  • ffmpeg - Tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files (◼)
  • gigedit - instrument editor for Gigasampler files (◼) ▒
  • gigtools - command line tools for Gigasampler and DLS Level 1/2 files (◼) ▒
  • mediainfo - command-line utility for reading information from audio/video files (◼)
  • mp3diags - find issues in MP3 files and help to solve them (◼)
  • mp3splt-gtk - GTK interface to split MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files without reencoding (◼)
  • mp3val - program for MPEG audio stream validation (◼)
  • mplayer - movie player for Unix-like systems (◼)
  • soundconverter - GNOME application to convert audio files into other formats (◼)
  • mp3info - An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor (◼)
  • puddletag - simple, powerful audio tag editor (◼)
  • Ex Falso - audio tag editor for GTK+ (◼)
  • mp3diags - find issues in MP3 files and help to solve them (◼)
  • gigedit - instrument editor for Gigasampler files (◼) ▒
  • gigtools - command line tools for Gigasampler and DLS Level 1/2 files (◼) ▒
  • mplayer - movie player for Unix-like systems (◼)
  • sfarkxtc - Converts soundfonts from legacy sfArk v2 file format to sf2 (◼)
  • winff - graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg or avconv (◼)
  • mp3info - An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor (◼)
  • polyphone - cross-platform SoundFont editor. (◼)
  • audiotools - Collection of audio handling programs for the command line (◼)
  • mp3diags - find issues in MP3 files and help to solve them (◼)
  • mp3val - program for MPEG audio stream validation (◼)
  • lame - MP3 encoding library, frontend application, and other sound analysis/convenience tools (◼)

Audio utilities - Tuners & Metronomes