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A list of software and resources for professional audio/video/live events production on the Linux platform

Work in progress - See current issues and CONTRIBUTING.

This list is provided to help you build your own GNU/Linux based A/V production environment. Most of the listed software is packaged for Debian, and should be directly installable using your package manager. Software that can be run on other GNU/Linux distributions may also be added to the list. This list focuses on sound, video, lighting and live applications. Software listed here is Free Software unless noted otherwise.


List keys:

  • â—¼ Debian package: can be installed directly using APT on Debian and derivatives.
  • â–’ KXStudio package: can be installed using APT on KXStudio or Debian with KXStudio repositories enabled.
  • © Non-Free/closed source software: programs that restrict use/study/modification/distribution.


Software

DAW/Sequencers

  • ardour - Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and Multichannel Hard Disk Recorder (HDR) (â—¼) â–’
  • lmms - Linux Multimedia Studio (â—¼) â–’
  • vcvrack - Open-source virtual Eurorack DAW â–’
  • 1BITDRAGON - easy to use sample based sequencer. Rhythm Generators, arpeggiators, MIDI/WAV export. ©
  • AudioNodes - Free, modular audio production suite with multi-track audio mixing, audio effects, parameter automation, MIDI editing, synthesis, cloud production, custom MIDI i/o, and more. (Browser version) ©
  • Bitwig Studio - dynamic software for creation and performance of your musical ideas on stage or in the studio. ©
  • dino - Integrated MIDI piano roll editor and sequencer engine
  • friniika - A complete music workstation for Windows/Linux/OSX
  • Harrison Mixbus - the first full-featured DAW with true analog style mixing. ©
  • helio-workstation - Free linear-based music For macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS and Android, with clean interface, version control, synchronization between devices, undo history, and more. â–’
  • Laborejo - is a MIDI sequencer based on classical music notation. â–’
  • meterec - minimalistic multi track recorder (â—¼)
  • muse - Qt4-based audio/MIDI sequencer (â—¼)
  • ossia score - Interactive sequencer with intelligent timelines supporting audio, video, OSC, MIDI, DMX and more.
  • Patroneo - is an easy to use, pattern based midi sequencer â–’
  • qtractor - MIDI/Audio multi-track sequencer application (â—¼)
  • Radium Editor - Radium is a music editor with a new type of interface.
  • REAPER - A complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset. ©
  • rosegarden - music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer (â—¼)
  • seq24 - Minimalist Real time MIDI sequencer (â—¼)
  • sequencer64 - Real time MIDI sequencer, a major reboot of seq24 with many new features.
  • Stargate DAW - Cross-platform, all-in-one DAW and plugin suite
  • Tracktion - The musician's DAW ©
  • traverso - Multitrack audio recorder and editor (â—¼)
  • Zrythm - A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation

Trackers

Audio Editors

  • audacity - fast, cross-platform audio editor (â—¼)
  • eisenkraut - A multi-channel and hi-res capable audio file editor
  • kwave - sound editor for KDE (â—¼)
  • 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 (â—¼) 2013
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 (â—¼)

Samplers

  • avldrums.lv2 - drum sample player plugin dedicated to Glen MacArthur's AVLdrums. Rapidly sequence and mix midi-drums. â–’
  • bliss - Performance sampler featuring scalable & themeable GUI, VSTi sampling, 8 macro assignments, dual zero delay feedback filters, sample editor, 7 built-in effects, flexible modulation, parameter morphing and highest offline resampling quality using 512 points SINC algorithm. ©
  • dgedit - drum kit editor for DrumGizmo (â—¼)
  • drumgizmo - multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application. It enables you to compose drums in midi and mix them with a multichannel approach (â—¼) â–’
  • Fluajho- a simple sf2 soundfont host/player for Linux. Behind the scenes the Fluidsynth library is at work, hence the name. â–’
  • freewheeling - live looping musical instrument (â—¼)
  • giada - hardcore loop machine (â—¼) â–’
  • hydrogen - advanced drum machine/step sequencer (â—¼)
  • hydrogen-drumkits - drumkits for Hydrogen (â—¼) â–’
  • hydrogen-drumkits-effects - collection of unusual drumkits for Hydrogen (â—¼) â–’
  • kluppe - Loop-player and recorder designed for live use. (â—¼)
  • linuxsampler-all - Realtime audio sampler. (Standalone, DSSI, LV2 and VST) â–’
  • luppp - Music creation tool, intended for live use. â–’
  • qsampler - LinuxSampler GUI frontend based on the Qt toolkit. (â—¼)
  • redux - Sample-based instrument, combined with a powerful phrase sequencer. ©
  • samplv1 - Polyphonic sampler synthesizer. (â—¼)
  • sfizz - SFZ sampler and synth (library, AU/LV2/VST3 plugins and JACK standalone).
  • sooperlooper - Looping sampler. (â—¼)
  • sooperlooper-lv2 - Looping sampler plugin. â–’
  • soundux - A cross-platform soundboard
  • Speedrum - MPC style drum sampler, 32 pads with essential effects, and with 8 sample layers per pad ©
  • superboucle - Loop application synced with jack transport.
  • TAL-Sampler - full featured analog modeled synthesizer with a sampler engine as sound source, including a powerful modulation matrix and a high quality self-oscillating 24/12/6 dB low pass filter ©

Effects/Processing

Collections

  • calf-plugins - Calf Studiogear - audio effects and sound generators (â—¼)
  • dpf-plugins - audio plugin collection from DISTRHO â–’
  • freaked-plugins - Granulator, pre-delay, reverb tail and distortion LV2 Plugins â–’
  • Linux Studio Plugins (LSP) - Collection of Open Source LV2/LADSPA/VST/standalone audio processing applications.
  • tal-plugins - Togu Audio Line Plugins (Dub-3, Filter/-2, Reverb/-2/-3, Vocoder-2) â–’
  • ACMT Essential VST Plug-Ins Collection for Linux - A comprehensive range of essential high-end analogue modelled plug-ins for Linux ©
  • amb-plugins - ambisonics LADSPA plugins (â—¼)
  • arctican-plugins - Arctican Plugins â–’
  • artyfx - Arty FX plugin suite â–’
  • avw.lv2 - collection of Voltage Controlled LV2 modules (â—¼) 2013
  • BYOD - Build-Your-Own-Distortion is an audio plugin that allows the user to create custom guitar effects, with a focus on guitar distortion
  • caps-lv2 - LV2 port for the CAPS Audio Plugin Suite â–’
  • caps - C* Audio Plugin Suite (CAPS) comprises a range of classic sound effects and a few more basic audio DSP units, signal and noise generators. (â—¼)
  • cmt - a collection of LADSPA plugins (â—¼) â–’
  • drowaudio-plugins - dRowAudio Plugins (LV2 & VST) â–’
  • fomp - 1 auto-wah, 1 EQ, 3 chorus, 5 filters, and 3 oscillators LV2 plugins. (â—¼) â–’
  • foo-plugins - small set of LADSPA plugins (Lookahead Limiter/Transient Architect) â–’
  • ardour-lv2-plugins - Set of LV2 plugins provided by Ardour. (â—¼)
  • Chow Tape Model - digital emulation of a reel-to-reel analog tape machine. The original algorithm was developed to emulate the Sony TC-260
  • Chow Matrix - infinitely growable delay effect, with complex internal modulation and feedback. With extra features including pitch-shifting, diffusion, and distortion
  • Chow Centaur - digital emulation of the Klon Centaur guitar pedal
  • Chow Phaser - digital phaser effect originally inspired by the Schulte Compact Phasing 'A'
  • ChowDSP VCV - several modules for VCV Rack, including ports of ChowTape and ChowPhaser. Other modules include distortion effects, modal filters, and more
  • infamous-plugins - creative LV2 plugins â–’
  • invada-studio-plugins-ladspa - Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LADSPA audio plugins (â—¼) â–’
  • invada-studio-plugins-lv2 - Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LV2 audio plugins (â—¼) â–’
  • juced-plugins - Juced Plugins â–’
  • leet-plugins - LEET LADSPA plugins â–’
  • mda-lv2 - Paul Kellett's MDA 36 high-quality plugins ported to LV2 (â—¼)
  • mda-vst - Paul Kellett's MDA plugins ported to VST â–’
  • mod-mda-lv2 - Paul Kellett's MDA plugins ported to LV2 (MOD version) â–’
  • mod-utilities - LV2 plugin utilities (filters/gain/switches/meter) â–’
  • psi-plugins - small collection of LV2 plugins ideal for (but not limited to) electronic music.
  • ste-plugins - stereo LADPSA plugins (â—¼) â–’
  • swh-lv2 - Steve Harris's SWH plugins ported to LV2 (â—¼) â–’
  • swh-plugins - Steve Harris's LADSPA plugins (â—¼) â–’
  • tap-plugins - Tom's Audio Processing LADSPA plugins (â—¼) â–’
  • teragonaudio-plugins - audio plugins from Teragon Audio â–’
  • vcf-plugins - VCF LADSPA plugins â–’
  • vco-plugins - LADSPA plugin sporting anti-aliased oscillators (â—¼) â–’
  • x42-plugins - Collection of LV2 plugins (â—¼) â–’
  • zam-plugins - Plugins for high quality audio processing (â—¼) â–’

EQ

  • eq10q - LV2 equalizer (â—¼) â–’
  • fil-plugins - parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin (â—¼) â–’
  • luftikus - analog modeled equalizer â–’
  • lv2fil - Stereo and mono LV2 plugins, four-band parametric equalisers â–’

Other FX

DJing / Vinyl emulation

  • mixxx - Digital Disc Jockey Interface (â—¼)
  • xwax - open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux with timecoded vinyl support (â—¼)
  • DiscoDOS - the geekiest DJ tool on the planet - remember and analyze your DJ sets based on Discogs and AcousticBrainz data (â—¼)

Synthesizers

Synthesizers - Additive

  • add64 - additive synthesizer for JACK â–’
  • andes - Sound synthesiser based on Perlin noise
  • triceratops-lv2 - polyphonic additive software synthesizer plugin â–’
  • vertigo - 256 oscillators additive synth with resynthesis and sound morphing. Imports WAV and BMP. Very accurate recreation of complex musical phrases, drumloops, speech and simple tones. ©
  • yoshimi - software synthesizer based on ZynAddSubFX (â—¼)
  • zynaddsubfx - Realtime software synthesizer for Linux (â—¼) â–’

Synthesizers - Subtractive

  • amsynth - Two oscillator software synthesizer. (â—¼)
  • blepvco - LADSPA, minBLEP-based, hard-sync-capable oscillator plugins. (â—¼) â–’
  • bristol - Vintage synthesizer emulator. (â—¼)
  • cursynth - Cursynth is a polyphonic music synthesizer that runs graphically inside your terminal. â–’
  • discovery - Virtual Analog synthesizer. ©
  • discovery pro - Virtual Analog synthesizer + sampler. ©
  • helm - Polyphonic synthesizer. â–’
  • ob-xd - OB-Xd is based on the Oberheim OB-X. â–’
    • ob-xd - Open source version of OB-Xd
  • sineshaper - Monophonic synth plugin with two oscillators and waveshapers.
  • synthv1 - Old-school polyphonic synthesizer. (â—¼) â–’
  • whysynth - DSSI Soft Synth Interface. (â—¼)
  • wolpertinger - Subtractive synth with a sharp bandpass filter. â–’

Synthesizers - FM

  • adlplug - FM synthesizer plugins, based on OPL3 and OPN2 sound chip emulations â–’
  • dexed - FM Plugin Synth closely modeled on the Yamaha DX7, including midi cartridge librarian/manager for the DX7. â–’
  • hexter - Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin (â—¼) â–’
  • OPL - The OPL is a digital sound synthesis chip developed by Yamaha in the mid 1980s â–’
  • juce-opl - Emulation of the Yamaha OPL sound chip used in PC sound cards from the 90s. â–’
  • oxefmsynth - 8 operators FM synth

Synthesizers - Wavetable

  • sorcer - Sorcer polyphonic wavetable synth LV2 plugin â–’
  • wsynth-dssi - hack on Xsynth-DSSI to allow wavetable synthesis (â—¼) â–’

Synthesizers - Other

  • Chow Kick - kick drum synthesizer based on creative physical modelling of old drum machine circuits
  • drumkv1 - old-school drum-kit sampler (â—¼) â–’
  • fabla - Fabla drum sampler plugin instrument â–’
  • foo-yc20-vst - VST implementation of a 1969 designed Yamaha combo organ, the YC-20. â–’
  • qsynth - fluidsynth MIDI sound synthesiser front-end (â—¼)
  • Tracktion BioTek - new generation of software synth that combines the sounds of nature with a complex synthesis engine to create weird and wonderful organic soundscapes. ©
  • argotlunar - Realtime granulator LV2/VST plugin â–’
  • din - digital audio synthesizer (â—¼)
  • drmr - An LV2 sampler plugin that (currently) plays hydrogen drum kits â–’
  • fluid-soundfont-gm - Fluid (R3) General MIDI SoundFont (GM)
  • fluid-soundfont-gs - Fluid (R3) General MIDI SoundFont (GS)
  • fluidr3-gm-soundfont - Fluid (R3) Mono GM SoundFont from MuseScore 2
  • fluidsynth/-static - Real-time MIDI software synthesizer with plugins for media players (â—¼) â–’
  • freebirth - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer (â—¼)
  • freebirth-data - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer -- sound samples (â—¼)
  • gmorgan - MIDI rhythm station emulator software
  • newtonator - LV2 synth that produces unpredictable sounds â–’
  • Odin 2 - powerful 24-voice polyphonic virtual analog synthesizer with multiple oscillator types LV2/VST3/CLAP
  • paraphrasis - spectral modeling synthesizer
  • Surge XT - hybrid synthesizer featuring many synthesis techniques, a great selection of filters, a flexible modulation engine, a smorgasbord of effects, and modern features like MPE and microtuning
  • TAL-BassLine-101 - monophonic bass synthesizer and a very accurate emulation of the popular SH 101 ©
  • TAL-J-8 - very accurate emulation of the popular 80’s hardware synthesiser and calibrated after our own Jupiter 8 device ©
  • TAL-NoiseMaker - free virtual analog synthesizer with a great sound and low CPU usage ©
  • TAL-U-No-LX - complete emulation of the popular Juno 60, zero feedback delay filters and carefully calibrated controls make this synth a good replacement for the analog device ©
  • u-he Diva - Virtual Analogue synthesizer ©
  • u-he Hive - Uncomplicated, flexible, CPU-friendly hybrid synthesizer ©
  • u-he Podolski - free, straightforward, CPU-efficient virtual analogue synthesizer. One oscillator, one filter, one envelope and an arpeggiator / sequencer. ©
  • u-he Repro - Meticulously modelled reproductions of two famous analogue synthesizers ©
  • u-he Triple Cheese - Unusual freeware synthesizer without traditional oscillators/wavetables/FM/phase distortion/analogue modelled filters, capable of some surprising sounds. ©
  • u-he Zebra 2 - sound-design playground with numerous sound sculpting tools ©
  • u-he Zebralette - A free synthesizer and an introduction to Zebra2’s fantastic oscillators. ©
  • xsynth-dssi - classic-analog (VCOs/VCF/VCA) style software synthesizer (â—¼)
  • pianoteq - Virtual piano based on physical modeling of real instruments. ©
  • organteq - Physically modelled pipe organ. ©

Synthesizers - Modular

  • ams - Realtime modular synthesizer for ALSA (â—¼)
  • BEAST/BSE - music composition and modular synthesis application
  • ingen - modular audio processing system for Jack and LV2 based systems. â–’
    • ams-lv2 - set of Voltage Controlled LV2 modules for Ingen â–’
  • mcp-plugins - LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth (â—¼) â–’
  • omins - collection of LADSPA plugins aimed at modular synthesizers (â—¼)
  • spiralsynthmodular - object orientated music studio â–’
  • Sunvox - a small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker) ©
  • TAL-MOD - virtual analog synthesizer with an exceptional sound and almost unlimited modulation possiblities ©
  • u-he ACE - compact, clear synthesizer, with a careful selection of modules and semi-modular architecture ©
  • u-he Bazille - large polyphonic modular system with digital (PD, FM based) oscillators, multimode filters, modulation options, and more ©

Synthesizers - Organ simulators

Audio utilities

Audio utilities - Misc

  • sox - Swiss army knife of sound processing (â—¼)
  • declick - a dynamic digital declicker for audio sample files.
  • ecasound - command-line multitrack-capable audio recorder and effect processor (â—¼)
  • fadecut - toolset to rip audiostreams, cut, fade in/out and tag the resulting audiofiles (â—¼)
  • gwc - Audio file denoiser (â—¼)
  • libsox-fmt-all - All SoX format libraries (â—¼)
  • Linux Show Player a free cue player designed for sound-playback in stage production. The goal of the project is to provide a complete playback software for musical plays, theater shows and similar. (â—¼)
  • nama - Multitrack recording with Ecasound (â—¼)
  • pianobooster - Learn the piano just by playing a game, inspired by Guitar Hero (â—¼)
  • Samplecat - a program for cataloguing and auditioning audio samples.
  • showq - MIDI controllable audio player (â—¼)
  • silan - commandline tool to detect silence in audio-files
  • silentjack - silence detector for the JACK audio system (â—¼)
  • sync-audio-tracks - Audio tracks synchronization command-line tool for video editors that don't support it
  • taptempo - A command line tap tempo. Hit enter key with style and you'll get the corresponding number of beats per minute (BPM). (â—¼)
  • timemachine - JACK audio recorder for spontaneous and conservatory use (â—¼)

Audio utilities - Meters & Analysis

  • easyssp - audio visualization plugin (spectrometer/goniometer) (LV2 & VST) â–’
  • 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 (â—¼)
  • brp-pacu - audio analysis tool (â—¼)
  • ebumeter - Loudness measurement according to EBU-R128 (â—¼)
  • jaaa - audio signal generator and spectrum analyser (â—¼)
  • jackmeter - a basic command line meter for the JACK audio system (â—¼)
  • japa - JACK and ALSA Perceptual Analyser (â—¼)
  • jkmeter - horizontal or vertical bargraph audio level meter for Jack Audio Connection Kit (â—¼)
  • lufsmeter - measures loudness similar to the human perception of loudness. (LV2/VST) â–’
  • meterbridge - Collection of Audio meters for the JACK audio server (â—¼)
  • QLoud - tool to measure loudspeaker frequency and step responses and distortions
  • siggen - a set of tools for imitating a laboratory Signal Generator, generating audio signals out of Linux's /dev/dsp audio device. (â—¼)
  • Scope - Simple oscilloscope ©
  • sonic-visualiser - View and analyse the contents of music audio files (â—¼)
  • spek - acoustic spectrum analyser
  • xoscope - digital oscilloscope (â—¼)

Audio utilities - Tuners & Metronomes

Audio utilities - MIDI Utilities

  • jack-keyboard - Virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI (â—¼)
  • timidity - Software sound renderer (MIDI sequencer, MOD player) (â—¼)
  • abcmidi - converter from ABC to MIDI format and back (â—¼)
  • arpage - MIDI Arpeggiator w/ JACK Tempo Sync. â–’
  • gmidimonitor - GTK application that shows MIDI events (â—¼)
  • jack-midi-clock - JACK client that sends MIDI beat clock pulses â–’
  • jackass - JACK-MIDI support for VST hosts, including Wine apps â–’
  • LibreArp - LV2/VST3 free-form pattern arpeggiator
  • midi-matrix.lv2 - 3-in-1 plugin with GUI (MIDI channel filtering/rerouting/multiplication) â–’
  • MidiJoystick - MidiJoystick is a MIDI client for the Jack Audio Connection Kit on Linux, which lets you use your joystick to emit MIDI commands
  • midimsg-lv2 - set of plugins to transform midi output â–’
  • midisox - a SoX-like workalike, for handling MIDI files
  • pizmidi-plugins - collection of cross-platform MIDI processing plugins. â–’
  • pjb.au MIDI scripts - Various MIDI utilities and scripts
  • qmidiarp - MIDI arpeggiator for ALSA (â—¼)
  • QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast
  • qmidinet - MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast (â—¼)
  • QXGEdit - Editor for MIDI System Exclusive files for XG devices (eg. Yamaha DB50XG).
  • qxgedit - MIDI System Exclusive files editor (â—¼)
  • SendMIDI - multi-platform command-line tool makes it very easy to quickly send MIDI messages to MIDI devices from your computer.
  • simple-sysexxer - GUI tool to create backups of the memory contents of MIDI devices
  • swami - MIDI instrument editor application (â—¼)
  • vmpk - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (â—¼)

Audio utilities - Transcoding

  • 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. (â—¼)
  • ambdec - Ambisonic decoder for first and second order (â—¼)
  • audiotools - Collection of audio handling programs for the command line (â—¼)
  • dir2ogg - audio file converter into ogg-vorbis format (â—¼)
  • ffmpeg2theora - Theora video encoder using ffmpeg (â—¼)
  • ffmpeg - Tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files (â—¼)
  • gigedit - instrument editor for Gigasampler files (â—¼) â–’
  • gigtools - command line tools for Gigasampler and DLS Level 1/2 files (â—¼) â–’
  • mediainfo-gui - graphical utility for reading information from audio/video files (â—¼)
  • mediainfo - command-line utility for reading information from audio/video files (â—¼)
  • mp3diags - find issues in MP3 files and help to solve them (â—¼)
  • mp3splt-gtk - GTK interface to split MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files without reencoding (â—¼)
  • mp3val - program for MPEG audio stream validation (â—¼)
  • mplayer - movie player for Unix-like systems (â—¼)
  • sfarkxtc - Converts soundfonts from legacy sfArk v2 file format to sf2 (â—¼)
  • soundconverter - GNOME application to convert audio files into other formats (â—¼)
  • winff - graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg or avconv (â—¼)
  • zita-bls1 - binaural stereo signals converter (â—¼)
  • lame - MP3 encoding library, frontend application, and other sound analysis/convenience tools (â—¼)
  • vorbis-tools - OGG Vorbis encoder/decoder, player, information tool, and splitter (â—¼)
  • mp3info - An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor (â—¼)
  • puddletag - simple, powerful audio tag editor (â—¼)
  • Ex Falso - audio tag editor for GTK+ (â—¼)

Audio utilities - CD/DVD Ripping

System utilities

System utilities - JACK

  • Agordejo - is a music production session manager. It is used to start your programs, remember their (JACK) interconnections and make your life easier in general. â–’
  • aj-snapshot - make snapshots of JACK connections (â—¼)
  • cadence - set of tools useful for audio production â–’
  • catia - JACK Audio Patchbay with A2J Bridge and JACK transport integration. â–’
  • claudia - LADISH frontend, focused at session management â–’
  • gjacktransport - access to the JACK's transport mechanism as touchable slider (â—¼)
  • jack-capture - program for recording soundfiles with jack (â—¼)
  • jackd2-firewire - JACK Audio Connection Kit (FFADO and FreeBoB backends) (â—¼)
  • jackd - JACK Audio Connection Kit (â—¼)
  • jack-link - JACK transport timebase bridge to Ableton Link â–’
  • jack_mixer - JACK Audio Mixer (â—¼)
  • jack-tools - various JACK tools: dl, record, scope, osc, plumbing, udp, play, transport (â—¼)
  • qjackctl - User interface for controlling the JACK sound server (â—¼)
  • qjackrcd - Qt4 application to record JACK server outputs (â—¼)
  • rotter - JACK client for transmission recording and audio logging (â—¼)
  • studio-controls - small application to allow setting up audio for semi-pro audio work.
  • zita-mu1 - organise stereo monitoring for Jack Audio Connection Kit (â—¼)

System utilities - ALSA

System utilities - Firewire

System utilities - Pipewire

System utilities - Plugin hosts & adapters

  • carla/carla-git - Carla is an audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats, MIDI CC automation and OSC control. â–’
  • festige - graphical interface for fst and dssi-vst, allowing you to run Windows VST plugins on Linux. â–’
  • airwave 2016 - Airwave is a WINE-based VST bridge, that allows for the use of Windows 32- and 64-bit VST 2.4 audio plugins with Linux VST hosts
  • dssi-vst - Adapter for VST an VSTi audio plugins â–’
  • linvst - LinVst enables Windows VSTs to be used as Linux VSTs in Linux VST-capable DAWs.
  • mod-host - LV2 host for JACK, controllable via socket or command line â–’
  • synthpod - Synthpod is an LV2 host â–’
  • vst-bridge - VST bridge for Windows vst on Linux â–’
  • wineasio - Wine ASIO driver for JACK â–’
  • yabridge - A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2 and VST3 plugins on Linux

System utilities - Pulseaudio

System utilities - Other

System utilities - Network streaming/broadcasting

See https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted/#media-streaming for the main list

Icecast clients

Lighting

  • D::Light - mobile, flexible solution to control modern lighting/performance technology. ©
  • hyperion - An opensource 'AmbiLight' implementation controlled using the RaspBerry Pi
  • OLA - The DMX512 standard for Digital MultipleX is used for digital communication networks commonly used to control stage lighting and effects. (â—¼)
  • Q Light Controller+ (QLC+) - a free and cross-platform software to control DMX or analog lighting systems like moving heads, dimmers, scanners etc.

Video

See also Linux4VJs VJ tools

  • kdenlive - non-linear video editor (â—¼)
  • Natron - Cross-platform open-source compositing software, used to produce visual effects.
  • flowblade - Free & Libre multitrack non-linear video editor (â—¼)
  • olive - Professional open-source NLE video editor (â—¼)
  • auto-editor - a program for automatically editing video and audio by analyzing a variety of methods, most notably audio loudness. (â—¼)
  • Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve** - editing, color correction and professional audio post production, all in a single application ©
  • CasparCG Server - professional software used to play out and record professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs.for broadcast production
  • CHDK - Canon Hack Development Kit
  • cinelerra - Cinema Production Software
  • delvj - a cyborg video jockey extension for pure data processing
  • dvgrab - grab digital video data via IEEE1394 and USB links (â—¼)
  • frei0r-plugins - minimalistic plugin API for video effects, plugins collection (â—¼)
  • Gephex - modular video jockey software
  • glmixer - Graphic Live Mixer
  • Lightworks - professional Non-Linear Editing (NLE) software supporting resolutions up to 4K. ©
  • lives - Video Editing system allowing users to edit and create video (â—¼)
  • Luz Studio - A live motion graphics editor and performer.
  • Magic Lantern Firmware - a software enhancement that offers increased functionality to the excellent Canon DSLR cameras.
  • mistserver - Live or Video on Demand streaming media server that works well in any streaming environment
  • Moviepy - Python module for video editing, which can be used for basic operations (like cuts, concatenations, title insertions), video compositing (a.k.a. non-linear editing), video processing, or to create advanced effects.
  • nageru - live video mixer, takes in inputs from one or more video cards, mixes them together and outputs a high-quality H.264 stream over TCP (â—¼)
  • Nuke Studio - cutting-edge toolkits for node-based compositing, editorial and review ©
  • openshot - Create and edit videos and movies (â—¼)
  • pitivi - non-linear audio/video editor using GStreamer (â—¼)
  • pydub - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface http://pydub.com
  • Shotcut - a free, open source, cross-platform video editor (â—¼)
  • synaesthesia - Program for representing sounds visually
  • Veejay - realtime video sequencer and effects processor
  • vid.stab - Video stabilization library
  • xdmx - distributed multihead X server
  • xjadeo - Video player with JACK sync (â—¼)
  • ZS4 - advanced video editing and compositing software with over 150 built-in video effects. ©
  • Syncplay - Synchronize playback of various video players via internet. (â—¼)

3D Modeling/CGI

Authoring

Signal processing/electronics

Sample segmentation, analysis, programmable editors

  • aubio-tools - library for audio segmentation -- utilities (â—¼)
  • snd-gtk-jack - Powerful sound file editor that can be customized and extended using the Scheme programming language (â—¼)
  • SndBite - audio editor specialized in linguistic research, designed for breaking large recordings into smaller components with great efficiency.
  • wavesurfer - Sound visualization and manipulation program for speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription (â—¼)

Score Editors

Media players

Graphical

Command-line/TUI

  • cmus - lightweight ncurses audio player (â—¼)
  • moc - ncurses based console audio player (â—¼)
  • mpd - a music server/player that allows local or remote access to audio files, streams and playlists. (â—¼)
  • mpv - video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2 (â—¼)
  • adplug-utils - audio player for AdLib (OPL2) and Sound Blaster (Dual OPL2/OPL3) audio formats (â—¼)
  • gbsplay - emulates the sound hardware of the Nintendo Gameboy from .GBS module dumps (â—¼)
  • modplug-tools - command line players for modplug formats (amf, ams, mod...) (â—¼)
  • mp3blaster - Full-screen console mp3 and Ogg Vorbis player (â—¼)
  • mpg123 - Command-line MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio player (â—¼)
  • opencubicplayer - UNIX port of Open Cubic Player (â—¼)

Metapackages

Linux Distributions

  • KXStudio - KXStudio is a collection of applications and plugins for professional audio production. KXStudio provides Debian and Ubuntu compatible repositories and its own Linux Distribution currently based on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS.
  • DidJiX
  • Tango Studio
  • Ubuntu Studio

SAMPLES/PRESETS/RESOURCES

  • 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...

DOCUMENTATION

Other Software Lists

Documentation/Blogs

Communities/Forums


CONTRIBUTING

See CONTRIBUTING.md

MIRRORS

LICENSE

This work is licensed under the CreativeCommons Attribution Share-alike license. Copyright (c) 2015-2020:

   294	nodiscc <[email protected]>
     4	Сухарик <[email protected]>
     3	Paulo Thiago Santa <[email protected]>
     2	bcaccia <[email protected]>
     1	Aaron Wolf <[email protected]>
     1	Alexander Lopatin <[email protected]>
     1	Amal Karunarathna <[email protected]>
     1	Andre Plötze <[email protected]>
     1	Andrew Kelley <[email protected]>
     1	Artem Popov <[email protected]>
     1	BoySka <[email protected]>
     1	David Marzal <[email protected]>
     1	Derek Bever <[email protected]>
     1	Fabio Neves <[email protected]>
     1	Jean-Michaël Celerier <[email protected]>
     1	John White <[email protected]>
     1	José Fernández Ramos <[email protected]>
     1	Luraktinus <[email protected]>
     1	Robbert van der Helm <[email protected]>
     1	Thibaud Keller <[email protected]>
     1	VirtualTam <[email protected]>
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     1	paulbatchelor <[email protected]>
     1	reales <[email protected]>
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