Free audio software
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Free audio software is free software that can be used to listen to, modify, create and/or author audio signals and music. There is free audio software available for Windows and Mac OS.
dyne:bolic, AGNULA and Musix are Linux distributions designed for musicians and/or audio engineers. Planet CCRMA is a set of RPM files for audio production work.
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Technologies
- ALSA is the sound card management system in the Linux kernel
- LADSPA is a plugin architecture for digital sound processing
- DSSI is a plugin architecture for software synthesizers and the like
- JACK is a daemon that provides low latency connections between JACKified applications. JACK runs on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X. It can use ALSA, OSS and PortAudio.
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Audio Recording and Editing
- Ardour
- Audacity
- Ecasound
- Linux MultiMedia Studio [1]
- MusE (not to be confused with MuSE; see below.)
- Rosegarden
- Seq24
- SndBite [2] A specialized editor intended for cutting large recordings into small pieces with great efficiency.
- Sweep
- Mp3splt - splits mp3 and ogg files without decoding (see mp3splt-gtk and libmp3splt)
- OpenSebJ [3] An Open Source, real time audio DJ mixer
- Freecycle A linux beat slicer [4]
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Trackers
- Cheesetracker is an Impulse Tracker clone
- Schism Tracker is another Impulse Tracker clone, and also has the classic interface
- Soundtracker [5]
- ModPlug Tracker was released as free software in 2004
- Psycle is a classical tracker with a sampler cloning Impulse Tracker and Fast Tracker ones
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Programming languages
- Csound has been released under the LGPL.
- SuperCollider
- ChucK is a concurrent, on-the-fly audio programming language
See computer music programming languages
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Modular systems
- SpiralSynthModular
- Pure data
- jMax
- SynFactory
- aRts
- Psycle is a tracker combined with modular capabilities
- buzztard
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Streaming
- MuSE is for mixing, encoding, and streaming of encoded audio, not to be confused with MusE; see above.
- Icecast is a broadcast server to serve audio signals to clients over http.
- PeerCast is an open source peercasting tool.
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Radio broadcasting
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Softsynths
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Audio analysis
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Others
- abc notation
- Hydrogen.
- SoX The Swiss Army knife of audio. Converts among file and data formats, sampling rates, etc. and can also add effects.
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