Free Audio, Music and Sound Design Software for Linux

All discussions related to sound, sync-sound, audiographers and equipment etc.


Post Reply
User avatar
Team
Posts: 616
Joined: Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:20 am

Free Audio, Music and Sound Design Software for Linux

Post by Team »


Ardour is a heavyweight audio tool that lets you record, edit and mix audio. Great for sound designers, mixing engineers, composers....

Musicians: Being the best tool to record talented performers on actual instruments has always been a top priority for Ardour. Rather than being focused on electronic and pop music idioms, Ardour steps out of the way to encourage the creative process to remain where it always has been: a musician playing a carefully designed and well built instrument.

 

Soundtrack Editors: Sample accurate sync and shared transport control with video playback tools allows Ardour to provide a fast and natural environment for creating and editing soundtracks for film and video projects.

Composers: Arrange audio and MIDI using the same tools and same workflow. Use external hardware synthesizers or software instruments as sound sources. From sound design to electro-acoustic composition to dense multitrack MIDI editing, Ardour can help.

Audio and MIDI Multi-Track Recording and Editing

Any number of tracks and busses. Non-linear editing. Non-destructive (and destructive!) recording. Any bit depth, any sample rate. Dozens of file formats.



Plugins with Full Sample Accurate Automation

AudioUnit, LV2, LinuxVST and LADSPA formats. FX plugins. Software instruments. MIDI processors. Automate any parameters. Physically manipulate them via control surfaces. Distribute processing across as many (or as few) cores as you want.

Transport Sync and External Control Surfaces

Best-in-industry sync to MIDI timecode and LTC. Send and receive MIDI Machine Control. Sync with JACK transport and MIDI clock. Dedicated Mackie Control protocol support, pre-defined mappings for many MIDI controllers plus dynamic MIDI learn. Use OSC to drive almost any operation in Ardour.



Powerful Anywhere-to-Anywhere Signal Routing

Complex signal flows are simple and elegant. Inputs and outputs connect to your hardware and/or other applications. Use sends, inserts and returns freely. Connections can be one-to-many, many-to-one or many-to-many. Tap signal flows at any point. If you can't connect in the way you want with Ardour, it probably can't be done.

Video Timeline

Import a single video and optionally extract the soundtrack from it. Display a frame-by-frame (thumbnail) timeline of the video. Use a Video-monitor window, or full-screen display, of the imported video in sync with any of the available ardour timecode sources. Lock audio-regions to the video: Move audio-regions with the video at video-frame granularity. Export the video, cut start/end, add blank frames and/or mux it with the soundtrack of the current-session.

Ardour Is Open

Ardour is an open source, collaborative effort of a worldwide team including musicians, programmers, and professional recording engineers. Development is transparent — anyone can watch our work as it happens. Like a good piece of vintage hardware, you can open the box and look inside. Of course, you don't have to … but one day the fact that anybody can will be useful.

This openness forces a kind of integrity on the project that is hard to find in proprietary software, and helps us to focus on issues and features that matter to our users rather than stuff that just looks good in advertisements.

Ardour.png

The DesiShoots Support & Editorial Team

User avatar
Team
Posts: 616
Joined: Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:20 am

Free Audio, Music and Sound Design Software for Linux

Post by Team »


Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages. You can use Audacity to:

Record live audio.

Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine.

Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.

Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files.

AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC), WMA and other formats supported using optional libraries.

Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.

Numerous effects including change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Write your own plug-in effects with Nyquist.

And more! See the complete list of features.

 

The DesiShoots Support & Editorial Team

User avatar
s_meera1
Posts: 177
Joined: Wed Dec 12, 2012 5:35 am

Free Audio, Music and Sound Design Software for Linux

Post by s_meera1 »


Rosegarden is a music composition and editing environment based around a MIDI sequencer that features a rich understanding of music notation and includes basic support for digital audio.

Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments. Explore Rosegarden here for

1. Editing – Intuitive ways to record and edit notes.

2. MIDI – Managing your MIDI ports, banks, programs and controllers without having to remember any numbers.

3. Notation – Entering, editing and printing score.

4. Audio – Recording, mixing, and using samples and effects.

5. Synths – Playing your MIDI tracks through hosted synths, for more accurate control.

6. Languages – The international state of Rosegarden.

7. Integration – How Rosegarden works together with other software.

 



Rosegarden.png

Post Reply

Return to “Audiography”