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:
- ◼ Debian package: can be installed directly using APT on Debian and derivatives.
- ▒ 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
- Trackers
- Audio Editors
- Samplers
- Effects/Processing
- Collections
- EQ
- Other FX
- DJing / Vinyl emulation
- Synthesizers
- Synthesizers - Additive
- Synthesizers - Subtractive
- Synthesizers - FM
- Synthesizers - Wavetable
- Synthesizers - Other
- Synthesizers - Modular
- Synthesizers - Organ simulators
- Audio utilities
- Audio utilities - Misc
- Audio utilities - Meters & Analysis
- Audio utilities - Tuners & Metronomes
- Audio utilities - MIDI Utilities
- Audio utilities - Transcoding
- Audio utilities - CD/DVD Ripping
- System utilities
- System utilities - JACK
- System utilities - ALSA
- System utilities - Firewire
- System utilities - Pipewire
- System utilities - Plugin hosts & adapters
- System utilities - Pulseaudio
- System utilities - Other
- System utilities - Network streaming/broadcasting
- Lighting
- Video
- CGI & 3D Modeling
- Authoring
- Signal processing/electronics
- Score Editors
- Media players
- Metapackages
- Linux Distributions
- SAMPLES/PRESETS/RESOURCES
- DOCUMENTATION
- CONTRIBUTING
- MIRRORS
- LICENSE
- ardour - Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and Multichannel Hard Disk Recorder (HDR) (◼)
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- lmms - Linux Multimedia Studio (◼)
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- vcvrack - Open-source virtual Eurorack DAW
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- 1BITDRAGON - easy to use sample based sequencer. Rhythm Generators, arpeggiators, MIDI/WAV export.
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- 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)
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- Bitwig Studio - dynamic software for creation and performance of your musical ideas on stage or in the studio.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Laborejo - is a MIDI sequencer based on classical music notation.
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- meterec - minimalistic multi track recorder (◼)
- muse - Qt4-based audio/MIDI sequencer (◼)
- 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
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- qtractor - MIDI/Audio multi-track sequencer application (◼)
- 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.
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- rosegarden - music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer (◼)
- seq24 - Minimalist Real time MIDI sequencer (◼)
- 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
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- traverso - Multitrack audio recorder and editor (◼)
- Zrythm - A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation
- bambootracker - Cross-platform music tracker for the Yamaha YM2608 (OPNA) sound chip which was used in NEC PC-8801/9801 series computers. (◼)
- cheesecutter - Tracker program for composing music for the SID chip. (◼)
- goattracker - C64 music editor. (◼)
- hivelytracker - Music tracker program based upon the AHX. (◼)
- klystrack - Chiptune tracker. (◼)
- komposter - lightweight music composing system. (◼)
- milkytracker - Music creation tool inspired by Fast Tracker 2. (◼)
- pt2-clone - Multi-platform clone of the classic music making software ProTracker 2 from the Commodore Amiga days. (◼)
- Renoise - Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) using a tracker-based approach.
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- schism - ImpulseTracker clone aiming at providing the same look & feel. (◼)
- tiatracker - music tracker for making Atari VCS 2600. (◼)
- tutka - tracker style MIDI sequencer. (◼)
- zytrax - Easy to use, tracker-inspired music sequencer. (◼)
- audacity - fast, cross-platform audio editor (◼)
- eisenkraut - A multi-channel and hi-res capable audio file editor
- kwave - sound editor for KDE (◼)
- LAoE - Rich featured graphical audio sample editor featuring multi-layers, floating-point samples, volume-masks, variable selection-intensity, spectrogram editing, and plugins
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- mhwaveedit - Simple and fast GTK2 sound editor (◼)
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- ReZound - ReZound aims to be a stable, open source, and graphical audio file editor primarily for but not limited to the Linux operating system.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- sweep - Audio editor and live playback tool (◼)
- avldrums.lv2 - drum sample player plugin dedicated to Glen MacArthur's AVLdrums. Rapidly sequence and mix midi-drums.
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- 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.
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- dgedit - drum kit editor for DrumGizmo (◼)
- 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 (◼)
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- Fluajho- a simple sf2 soundfont host/player for Linux. Behind the scenes the Fluidsynth library is at work, hence the name.
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- freewheeling - live looping musical instrument (◼)
- giada - hardcore loop machine (◼)
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- hydrogen - advanced drum machine/step sequencer (◼)
- hydrogen-drumkits - drumkits for Hydrogen (◼)
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- hydrogen-drumkits-effects - collection of unusual drumkits for Hydrogen (◼)
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- kluppe - Loop-player and recorder designed for live use. (◼)
- linuxsampler-all - Realtime audio sampler. (Standalone, DSSI, LV2 and VST)
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- luppp - Music creation tool, intended for live use.
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- qsampler - LinuxSampler GUI frontend based on the Qt toolkit. (◼)
- redux - Sample-based instrument, combined with a powerful phrase sequencer.
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- samplv1 - Polyphonic sampler synthesizer. (◼)
- sfizz - SFZ sampler and synth (library, AU/LV2/VST3 plugins and JACK standalone).
- sooperlooper - Looping sampler. (◼)
- sooperlooper-lv2 - Looping sampler plugin.
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- soundux - A cross-platform soundboard
- Speedrum - MPC style drum sampler, 32 pads with essential effects, and with 8 sample layers per pad
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- 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
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- calf-plugins - Calf Studiogear - audio effects and sound generators (◼)
- dpf-plugins - audio plugin collection from DISTRHO
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- freaked-plugins - Granulator, pre-delay, reverb tail and distortion LV2 Plugins
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- 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)
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- ACMT Essential VST Plug-Ins Collection for Linux - A comprehensive range of essential high-end analogue modelled plug-ins for Linux
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- amb-plugins - ambisonics LADSPA plugins (◼)
- arctican-plugins - Arctican Plugins
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- artyfx - Arty FX plugin suite
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- avw.lv2 - collection of Voltage Controlled LV2 modules (◼)
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- 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
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- 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. (◼)
- cmt - a collection of LADSPA plugins (◼)
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- drowaudio-plugins - dRowAudio Plugins (LV2 & VST)
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- fomp - 1 auto-wah, 1 EQ, 3 chorus, 5 filters, and 3 oscillators LV2 plugins. (◼)
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- foo-plugins - small set of LADSPA plugins (Lookahead Limiter/Transient Architect)
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- ardour-lv2-plugins - Set of LV2 plugins provided by Ardour. (◼)
- 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
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- invada-studio-plugins-ladspa - Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LADSPA audio plugins (◼)
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- invada-studio-plugins-lv2 - Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LV2 audio plugins (◼)
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- juced-plugins - Juced Plugins
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- leet-plugins - LEET LADSPA plugins
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- mda-lv2 - Paul Kellett's MDA 36 high-quality plugins ported to LV2 (◼)
- mda-vst - Paul Kellett's MDA plugins ported to VST
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- mod-mda-lv2 - Paul Kellett's MDA plugins ported to LV2 (MOD version)
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- mod-utilities - LV2 plugin utilities (filters/gain/switches/meter)
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- psi-plugins - small collection of LV2 plugins ideal for (but not limited to) electronic music.
- ste-plugins - stereo LADPSA plugins (◼)
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- swh-lv2 - Steve Harris's SWH plugins ported to LV2 (◼)
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- swh-plugins - Steve Harris's LADSPA plugins (◼)
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- tap-plugins - Tom's Audio Processing LADSPA plugins (◼)
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- teragonaudio-plugins - audio plugins from Teragon Audio
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- vcf-plugins - VCF LADSPA plugins
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- vco-plugins - LADSPA plugin sporting anti-aliased oscillators (◼)
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- x42-plugins - Collection of LV2 plugins (◼)
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- zam-plugins - Plugins for high quality audio processing (◼)
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- eq10q - LV2 equalizer (◼)
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- fil-plugins - parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin (◼)
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- luftikus - analog modeled equalizer
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- lv2fil - Stereo and mono LV2 plugins, four-band parametric equalisers
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- abgate - LV2 noise gate plugin (◼)
- autotalent - pitch correction LADSPA plugin (◼)
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- beatslash-lv2 - A set of LV2 plugins to slash, repeat beats.
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- blop - Bandlimited wavetable-based oscillator plugins for LADSPA hosts. (◼)
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- blop-lv2 - Bandlimited LADSPA oscillator plugins ported to LV2. (◼)
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- creox - a real-time sound/effects processor.
- deteriorate-lv2 - set of LV2 plugins to deteriorate sound quality
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- dragonfly-reverb - bundle of free audio reverb effects. (◼)
- drc - digital room correction (◼)
- freqtweak - Realtime audio frequency spectral manipulation
- g2reverb -reverb LADSPA plugin
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- glitch - Multi-effects audio plugin with sequencer
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- go-dsp-guitar - A cross-platform effects processor / amp simulator for electric guitars and other instruments. Supports JACK and remote control through web interface.
- guitarix - Rock guitar amplifier for Jack (Standalone/LADSPA/LV2) (◼)
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- gxplugins - extra lv2 plugins from the guitarix project
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- gxplugins - extra lv2 plugins from the guitarix project
- gxvoxtonebender - Fuzz Tonebender LV2 plugin
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- holap - Holborn Audio DSSI and LADSPA audio plugins including DSP effects and a FM synthesizer
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- ir.lv2 - LV2 IR reverb (◼)
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- klangfalter - convolution reverb audio plugin (LV2/VST)
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- LoudMax - Look-Ahead Brickwall Loudness Maximizer LADSPA Plugin with a clean transparent sound. It is designed to retain the original character of the music as much as possible
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- lv2vocoder - LV2 vocoder plugin (◼)
- mod-distortion - analog distortion emulation plugin
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- mod-pitchshifter - Pitch Shifter LV2 effects
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- paulstretch - Extreme sound time-stretch (◼)
- phasex - Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis EXperiment (◼)
- pitcheddelay - pitch-shifting delay
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- radium-compressor - audio compressor for JACK (◼)
- rakarrack - Simple and easy guitar effects processor for GNU/Linux (◼)
- rev-plugins - reverb LADSPA plugin (◼)
- rkrlv2 - Rakarrack LV2 Plugin Ports
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- rubberband-ladspa - LADSPA plugin for audio pitch-shifting (◼)
- rubberband-lv2 - LV2 plugin for audio pitch-shifting (◼)
- sonic - Simple utility to speed up or slow down speech (◼)
- soundstretch - Stretches and pitch-shifts sound independently (◼)
- Schroeder - Modeled reverb based on Schroeder reverberator.
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- stretchplayer - Audio file player with time stretch and pitch shifting (◼)
- terminatorx - realtime audio synthesizer (◼)
- vm.lv2 - virtual machine plugin bundle (Control, CV, Audio, Atom)
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- vocoder-ladspa - LADSPA Vocoder Plugin
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- vocproc - LV2 plugin for pitch shifting and vocoding (◼)
- wah-plugins - auto-wah LADSPA plugin (◼)
- wasp-ladspa - WASP LADSPA plugin
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- zita-at1 - JACK autotuner (◼)
- zita-rev1 - pro-audio reverb effect (◼)
- mixxx - Digital Disc Jockey Interface (◼)
- xwax - open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux with timecoded vinyl support (◼)
- DiscoDOS - the geekiest DJ tool on the planet - remember and analyze your DJ sets based on Discogs and AcousticBrainz data (◼)
- add64 - additive synthesizer for JACK
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- andes - Sound synthesiser based on Perlin noise
- triceratops-lv2 - polyphonic additive software synthesizer plugin
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- 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.
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- yoshimi - software synthesizer based on ZynAddSubFX (◼)
- zynaddsubfx - Realtime software synthesizer for Linux (◼)
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- amsynth - Two oscillator software synthesizer. (◼)
- blepvco - LADSPA, minBLEP-based, hard-sync-capable oscillator plugins. (◼)
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- bristol - Vintage synthesizer emulator. (◼)
- monobristol - Simple GUI for Bristol. (◼)
- cursynth - Cursynth is a polyphonic music synthesizer that runs graphically inside your terminal.
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- discovery - Virtual Analog synthesizer.
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- discovery pro - Virtual Analog synthesizer + sampler.
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- helm - Polyphonic synthesizer.
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- ob-xd - OB-Xd is based on the Oberheim OB-X.
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- ob-xd - Open source version of OB-Xd
- sineshaper - Monophonic synth plugin with two oscillators and waveshapers.
- synthv1 - Old-school polyphonic synthesizer. (◼)
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- whysynth - DSSI Soft Synth Interface. (◼)
- wolpertinger - Subtractive synth with a sharp bandpass filter.
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- adlplug - FM synthesizer plugins, based on OPL3 and OPN2 sound chip emulations
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- dexed - FM Plugin Synth closely modeled on the Yamaha DX7, including midi cartridge librarian/manager for the DX7.
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- hexter - Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin (◼)
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- OPL - The OPL is a digital sound synthesis chip developed by Yamaha in the mid 1980s
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- juce-opl - Emulation of the Yamaha OPL sound chip used in PC sound cards from the 90s.
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- oxefmsynth - 8 operators FM synth
- sorcer - Sorcer polyphonic wavetable synth LV2 plugin
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- wsynth-dssi - hack on Xsynth-DSSI to allow wavetable synthesis (◼)
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- Chow Kick - kick drum synthesizer based on creative physical modelling of old drum machine circuits
- drumkv1 - old-school drum-kit sampler (◼)
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- fabla - Fabla drum sampler plugin instrument
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- foo-yc20-vst - VST implementation of a 1969 designed Yamaha combo organ, the YC-20.
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- qsynth - fluidsynth MIDI sound synthesiser front-end (◼)
- 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.
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- argotlunar - Realtime granulator LV2/VST plugin
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- din - digital audio synthesizer (◼)
- drmr - An LV2 sampler plugin that (currently) plays hydrogen drum kits
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- 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 (◼)
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- freebirth - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer (◼)
- freebirth-data - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer -- sound samples (◼)
- gmorgan - MIDI rhythm station emulator software
- newtonator - LV2 synth that produces unpredictable sounds
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- 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
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- TAL-J-8 - very accurate emulation of the popular 80’s hardware synthesiser and calibrated after our own Jupiter 8 device
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- TAL-NoiseMaker - free virtual analog synthesizer with a great sound and low CPU usage
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- 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
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- u-he Diva - Virtual Analogue synthesizer
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- u-he Hive - Uncomplicated, flexible, CPU-friendly hybrid synthesizer
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- u-he Podolski - free, straightforward, CPU-efficient virtual analogue synthesizer. One oscillator, one filter, one envelope and an arpeggiator / sequencer.
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- u-he Repro - Meticulously modelled reproductions of two famous analogue synthesizers
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- u-he Triple Cheese - Unusual freeware synthesizer without traditional oscillators/wavetables/FM/phase distortion/analogue modelled filters, capable of some surprising sounds.
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- u-he Zebra 2 - sound-design playground with numerous sound sculpting tools
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- u-he Zebralette - A free synthesizer and an introduction to Zebra2’s fantastic oscillators.
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- xsynth-dssi - classic-analog (VCOs/VCF/VCA) style software synthesizer (◼)
- pianoteq - Virtual piano based on physical modeling of real instruments.
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- organteq - Physically modelled pipe organ.
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- ams - Realtime modular synthesizer for ALSA (◼)
- BEAST/BSE - music composition and modular synthesis application
- ingen - modular audio processing system for Jack and LV2 based systems.
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- ams-lv2 - set of Voltage Controlled LV2 modules for Ingen
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- ams-lv2 - set of Voltage Controlled LV2 modules for Ingen
- mcp-plugins - LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth (◼)
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- omins - collection of LADSPA plugins aimed at modular synthesizers (◼)
- spiralsynthmodular - object orientated music studio
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- Sunvox - a small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker)
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- TAL-MOD - virtual analog synthesizer with an exceptional sound and almost unlimited modulation possiblities
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- u-he ACE - compact, clear synthesizer, with a careful selection of modules and semi-modular architecture
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- u-he Bazille - large polyphonic modular system with digital (PD, FM based) oscillators, multimode filters, modulation options, and more
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- aeolus - Synthesised pipe organ emulator (◼)
- azr3-jack - drawbar organ simulator
- horgand - JACK capable organ softsynth (◼)
- setbfree - DSP tonewheel organ (◼)
- sox - Swiss army knife of sound processing (◼)
- declick - a dynamic digital declicker for audio sample files.
- ecasound - command-line multitrack-capable audio recorder and effect processor (◼)
- fadecut - toolset to rip audiostreams, cut, fade in/out and tag the resulting audiofiles (◼)
- gwc - Audio file denoiser (◼)
- libsox-fmt-all - All SoX format libraries (◼)
- 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. (◼)
- nama - Multitrack recording with Ecasound (◼)
- pianobooster - Learn the piano just by playing a game, inspired by Guitar Hero (◼)
- Samplecat - a program for cataloguing and auditioning audio samples.
- showq - MIDI controllable audio player (◼)
- silan - commandline tool to detect silence in audio-files
- silentjack - silence detector for the JACK audio system (◼)
- 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). (◼)
- timemachine - JACK audio recorder for spontaneous and conservatory use (◼)
- easyssp - audio visualization plugin (spectrometer/goniometer) (LV2 & VST)
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- 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 (◼)
- jaaa - audio signal generator and spectrum analyser (◼)
- jackmeter - a basic command line meter for the JACK audio system (◼)
- japa - JACK and ALSA Perceptual Analyser (◼)
- 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)
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- meterbridge - Collection of Audio meters for the JACK audio server (◼)
- 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. (◼)
- Scope - Simple oscilloscope
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- sonic-visualiser - View and analyse the contents of music audio files (◼)
- spek - acoustic spectrum analyser
- xoscope - digital oscilloscope (◼)
- fmit - Free Music Instrument Tuner (◼)
- gtick - Metronome application (◼)
- gtkguitune - Guitar and other instruments tuner
- gxtuner - Tuner for Jack (◼)
- klick - advanced metronome for JACK (◼)
- lingot - accurate and easy to use musical instrument tuner
- jack-keyboard - Virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI (◼)
- timidity - Software sound renderer (MIDI sequencer, MOD player) (◼)
- abcmidi - converter from ABC to MIDI format and back (◼)
- arpage - MIDI Arpeggiator w/ JACK Tempo Sync.
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- gmidimonitor - GTK application that shows MIDI events (◼)
- jack-midi-clock - JACK client that sends MIDI beat clock pulses
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- jackass - JACK-MIDI support for VST hosts, including Wine apps
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- LibreArp - LV2/VST3 free-form pattern arpeggiator
- midi-matrix.lv2 - 3-in-1 plugin with GUI (MIDI channel filtering/rerouting/multiplication)
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- 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
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- midisox - a SoX-like workalike, for handling MIDI files
- pizmidi-plugins - collection of cross-platform MIDI processing plugins.
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- 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. (◼)
- 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 (◼)
- vmpk - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (◼)
- 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. (◼)
- ambdec - Ambisonic decoder for first and second order (◼)
- 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 (◼)
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- gigtools - command line tools for Gigasampler and DLS Level 1/2 files (◼)
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- mediainfo-gui - graphical utility for reading information from audio/video 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 (◼)
- sfarkxtc - Converts soundfonts from legacy sfArk v2 file format to sf2 (◼)
- soundconverter - GNOME application to convert audio files into other formats (◼)
- winff - graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg or avconv (◼)
- zita-bls1 - binaural stereo signals converter (◼)
- lame - MP3 encoding library, frontend application, and other sound analysis/convenience tools (◼)
- vorbis-tools - OGG Vorbis encoder/decoder, player, information tool, and splitter (◼)
- 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+ (◼)
- asunder - graphical audio CD ripper and encoder (◼)
- handbrake - versatile DVD ripper and video transcoder (GTK+ GUI) (◼)
- 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 (◼)
- 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.
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- aj-snapshot - make snapshots of JACK connections (◼)
- cadence - set of tools useful for audio production
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- catia - JACK Audio Patchbay with A2J Bridge and JACK transport integration.
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- claudia - LADISH frontend, focused at session management
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- gjacktransport - access to the JACK's transport mechanism as touchable slider (◼)
- jack-capture - program for recording soundfiles with jack (◼)
- jackd2-firewire - JACK Audio Connection Kit (FFADO and FreeBoB backends) (◼)
- jackd - JACK Audio Connection Kit (◼)
- jack-link - JACK transport timebase bridge to Ableton Link
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- jack_mixer - JACK Audio Mixer (◼)
- jack-tools - various JACK tools: dl, record, scope, osc, plumbing, udp, play, transport (◼)
- qjackctl - User interface for controlling the JACK sound server (◼)
- qjackrcd - Qt4 application to record JACK server outputs (◼)
- rotter - JACK client for transmission recording and audio logging (◼)
- studio-controls - small application to allow setting up audio for semi-pro audio work.
- zita-mu1 - organise stereo monitoring for Jack Audio Connection Kit (◼)
- a2jmidid - Daemon for exposing legacy ALSA MIDI in JACK MIDI systems (◼)
- aconnectgui - graphical ALSA sequencer connection manager
- alsa-tools-gui - GUI based ALSA utilities for specific hardware (◼)
- alsa-tools - Console based ALSA utilities for specific hardware (◼)
- alsa-utils - Utilities for configuring and using ALSA (◼)
- zita-ajbridge - alsa to jack bridge (◼)
- alsa-control - GUI based ALSA default soundcard and volume configurator with Dmix, Dsnoop and Softvol support
- ffado-mixer-qt4 - FFADO D-Bus mixer applets (QT4) (◼)
- libraw1394-11 - library for direct access to IEEE 1394 bus (aka FireWire) (◼)
- libraw1394-tools - library for direct access to IEEE 1394 bus (aka FireWire) (◼)
- carla/carla-git - Carla is an audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats, MIDI CC automation and OSC control.
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- carla-bridge-linux/win/wine32/64 - Carla bridges for loading linux / windows 32/64 bits plugins
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- carla-lv2/vst - audio plugin host (LV2/VST plugins)
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- carla-bridge-linux/win/wine32/64 - Carla bridges for loading linux / windows 32/64 bits plugins
- festige - graphical interface for fst and dssi-vst, allowing you to run Windows VST plugins on Linux.
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- airwave
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- 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
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- 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
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- synthpod - Synthpod is an LV2 host
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- vst-bridge - VST bridge for Windows vst on Linux
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- wineasio - Wine ASIO driver for JACK
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- yabridge - A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2 and VST3 plugins on Linux
- paprefs - PulseAudio Preferences (◼)
- pavucontrol - PulseAudio Volume Control (◼)
- pavumeter - PulseAudio Volume Meter (◼)
- pulseaudio-module-jack - jackd modules for PulseAudio sound server (◼)
- pulseaudio-module-lirc - lirc module for PulseAudio sound server (◼)
- pulseaudio-utils - Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server (◼)
- pulsemixer - command-line mixer for PulseAudio with a curses interface (◼)
- pulseaudio - PulseAudio sound server (◼)
- jalv - tool to run LV2 plugins as stand-alone applications (◼)
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- jalv.select - GUI to select lv2 plugs from a list and run them with jalv
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- linux-image-rt-686-pae - Linux for modern PCs (meta-package), PREEMPT_RT
- linux-image-rt-686-pae - Linux for modern PCs (meta-package), PREEMPT_RT
- realtimeconfigquickscan - Linux configuration checker for systems to be used for real-time audio
- rtirq-init - startup script for realtime-preempt enabled kernels (◼)
- rtkit - Realtime Policy and Watchdog Daemon (◼)
See https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted/#media-streaming for the main list
- autoradio - radio automation software (◼)
- gpac - GPAC Project on Advanced Content (◼)
- jamulus - Low latency audio server/client for collaborative music sessions
- larigira - radio automation software based on MPD
- Open Broadcaster Software - recorder and streamer for live video content (◼)
- vlc-bin - multimedia player and streamer (headless) (◼)
- vlc - multimedia player and streamer (◼)
- zita-njbridge - Jack clients to transmit multichannel audio over a local IP network (◼)
Icecast clients
- darkice - Live audio streamer (◼)
- darksnow - simple graphical user interface to darkice (◼)
- DeeFuzzer - light and instant streaming client for audio and video written in Python
- ezstream - easy media streaming client over icecast servers (◼)
- ices2 - Ogg Vorbis streaming source for Icecast 2 (◼)
- liquidsoap - audio streaming language (◼)
- oggfwd - basic icecast source client for audio and video streaming (◼)
- D::Light - mobile, flexible solution to control modern lighting/performance technology.
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- 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. (◼)
- Q Light Controller+ (QLC+) - a free and cross-platform software to control DMX or analog lighting systems like moving heads, dimmers, scanners etc.
See also Linux4VJs VJ tools
- kdenlive - non-linear video editor (◼)
- Natron - Cross-platform open-source compositing software, used to produce visual effects.
- flowblade - Free & Libre multitrack non-linear video editor (◼)
- olive - Professional open-source NLE video editor (◼)
- auto-editor - a program for automatically editing video and audio by analyzing a variety of methods, most notably audio loudness. (◼)
- Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve** - editing, color correction and professional audio post production, all in a single application
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- 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 (◼)
- frei0r-plugins - minimalistic plugin API for video effects, plugins collection (◼)
- Gephex - modular video jockey software
- glmixer - Graphic Live Mixer
- Lightworks - professional Non-Linear Editing (NLE) software supporting resolutions up to 4K.
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- lives - Video Editing system allowing users to edit and create video (◼)
- 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 (◼)
- Nuke Studio - cutting-edge toolkits for node-based compositing, editorial and review
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- openshot - Create and edit videos and movies (◼)
- pitivi - non-linear audio/video editor using GStreamer (◼)
- pydub - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface http://pydub.com
- Shotcut - a free, open source, cross-platform video editor (◼)
- 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 (◼)
- ZS4 - advanced video editing and compositing software with over 150 built-in video effects.
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- Syncplay - Synchronize playback of various video players via internet. (◼)
- blender - Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer (◼)
- cloudcompare - 3D point cloud and mesh processing software (◼)
- Art of Illusion - 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java.
- Ayam - a free 3D modelling environment for the RenderMan interface.
- EQUINOX-3D - The 3D modeler with the fastest, fully integrated ray-tracer.
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- evolvotron - Generator of textures through interactive evolution (◼)
- f3d - Fast and minimalist 3D viewer (◼)
- flumotion - modern streaming media server built with a modular distributed design, giving you stability and scalability in offering high-quality streaming media.
- fractalnow - Fast, advanced fractal generator (◼)
- fraqtive - draws Mandelbrot and Julia fractals (◼)
- geomview - interactive geometry viewing program (◼)
- Houdini - Professionnal 3D animation solution using a procedural node-based workflow
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- javamorph - Java morphing film-make program for pixel picture-input (◼)
- mandelbulber2 - 3D fractal renderer and animator (◼)
- meshlab - System for processing and editing triangular meshes (◼)
- mm3d - OpenGL based 3D model editor (◼)
- Substance Designer - Material Authoring Tool
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- Substance Painter - 3D Painting Software
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- Substance Player - Easy material tweaking and visualization
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- sunflow - rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis (GUI) (◼)
- sweethome3d-furniture-editor - Sweet Home 3D Furniture Library Editor (◼)
- sweethome3d-furniture-nonfree - Interior 2D design application with 3D preview (additional non-free furniture) (◼)
- sweethome3d-furniture - Interior 2D design application with 3D preview (additional furniture) (◼)
- sweethome3d-textures-editor - Sweet Home 3D Textures Library Editor (◼)
- sweethome3d - Interior 2D design application with 3D preview (◼)
- VSXu Artiste - create stunning open GL based audio reactive visuals.
- VSXu Player - program that creates inspiring, beautiful pictures to your sound and music
- wings3d - Nendo-inspired 3D polygon mesh modeller (◼)
- yaprm - a free-as-in-freedom modeller to graphicaly design 3d scenes and generate POV-Ray-files for them.
- aegisub - advanced subtitle editor (◼)
- devede - simple application to create Video DVDs (◼)
- gnome-subtitles - Subtitle editor for the GNOME Desktop environment (◼)
- subtitlecomposer - Subtitles editor for KDE (◼)
- subtitleeditor - Graphical subtitle editor with sound waves representation (◼)
- puredata - realtime computer music and graphics system (◼)
- cabbage-plugins-extra - csound development toolkit plugins (LV2 & VST, Extra)
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- cabbage-plugins - csound development toolkit plugins (LV2 & VST)
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- camomile - a dynamic vst plugin that loads Pure Data patches
- csladspa - LADSPA plugin for Csound (◼)
- csound-data - data files used by the csound library (◼)
- csound-utils - miscellaneous utilities for the Csound system (◼)
- csound - powerful and versatile sound synthesis software (◼)
- csoundqt - frontend for the csound sound processor (◼)
- eteroj.lv2 - Suite of Open Sound Control implementation (OSC) LV2 plugins.
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- IanniX - a graphical open source sequencer, based on Iannis Xenakis works, for digital art.
- lcd4linux - Grabs information and displays it on an external lcd (◼)
- lcdproc - LCD display driver daemon and clients (◼)
- lirc - infra-red remote control support (◼)
- nyquist - language for music composition and sound synthesis (◼)
- pd-csound - Csound external for PureData (◼)
- Room EQ Wizard -room acoustics analysis software for measuring and analysing room and loudspeaker responses.
- Soundpipe - A library of high quality music DSP algorithms.
- supercollider-supernova - real time audio synthesis server (multiprocessor version) (◼)
- supercollider - real time audio synthesis programming language (◼)
Sample segmentation, analysis, programmable editors
- aubio-tools - library for audio segmentation -- utilities (◼)
- snd-gtk-jack - Powerful sound file editor that can be customized and extended using the Scheme programming language (◼)
- 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 (◼)
- musescore - popular professional level WYIWYG music score editor (◼)
- ariamaestosa - midi tracker/editor with keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.
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- denemo - GTK+ front end to GNU Lilypond (◼)
- impro-visor - Jazz improvisation advisor
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- lilypond - program for typesetting sheet music (◼)
- nted - Musical score editor (◼)
- tuxguitar - Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player (gp3 to gp5) (◼)
- tuxguitar-synth-lv2 - tuxguitar LV2 audio plugin (◼)
Graphical
- audacious - small and fast audio player which supports lots of formats (◼)
- clementine - modern music player and library organizer (◼)
- quodlibet - audio library manager and player for GTK3 (◼)
- rhythmbox - music player and organizer for GNOME (◼)
- vlc - multimedia player and streamer (◼)
- ario - GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) (◼)
- cantata - KDE client for the music player daemon (MPD) (◼)
- DeaDBeeF - Modular foobar2000-like audio player.
- exaile - flexible, full-featured audio player
- gnome-music - Music is the new GNOME music playing application (◼)
- gpodder - podcast client and feed aggregator (◼)
- lollypop - modern music player for GNOME
- sonata - GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) (◼)
- strawberry - audio player and music collection organizer, for of Clementine. (◼)
- ymuse - GTK client for Music Player Daemon (MPD) written in Go (◼)
Command-line/TUI
- cmus - lightweight ncurses audio player (◼)
- moc - ncurses based console audio player (◼)
- mpd - a music server/player that allows local or remote access to audio files, streams and playlists. (◼)
- mpv - video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2 (◼)
- adplug-utils - audio player for AdLib (OPL2) and Sound Blaster (Dual OPL2/OPL3) audio formats (◼)
- gbsplay - emulates the sound hardware of the Nintendo Gameboy from .GBS module dumps (◼)
- modplug-tools - command line players for modplug formats (amf, ams, mod...) (◼)
- mp3blaster - Full-screen console mp3 and Ogg Vorbis player (◼)
- mpg123 - Command-line MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio player (◼)
- opencubicplayer - UNIX port of Open Cubic Player (◼)
- multimedia-ambisonics - Packages for working with ambisonics (3D surround sound) (◼)
- multimedia-audio-plugins - Audio processing plugins, synths and virtual instruments (◼)
- multimedia-devel - Extra packages for developers and package compiling (◼)
- multimedia-djing - DJ packages. (◼)
- multimedia-drums - Packages for drums & beats (◼)
- multimedia-firewire - Packages for your firewire audiocard / interface (◼)
- multimedia-graphics - Packages for making and editing artwork (◼)
- multimedia-guitar - Packages for playing with your (virtual) guitar gear (◼)
- multimedia-jack - JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit) and ALSA related packages (◼)
- multimedia-ladi - LADI, Linuxaudio session management, packages (◼)
- multimedia-looping - Packages for looping music and audio (◼)
- multimedia-midi - MIDI related packages (◼)
- multimedia-mixing - Packages for mixing and mastering your music (◼)
- multimedia-musiciantools - Packages for musicians (◼)
- multimedia-players - Packages which makes your multimedia tools complete (◼)
- multimedia-recording - Packages for audio recording (◼)
- multimedia-samplers - Software samplers (◼)
- multimedia-soundsynthesis - Packages for sound synthesis (◼)
- multimedia-tasks - Debian Multimedia tasks for tasksel (◼)
- multimedia-video - Video packages (◼)
- kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins- KXStudio meta-packages - Audio plugins
- kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins-collection - KXStudio meta-packages - Collection of good audio plugins
- kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins-dssi - KXStudio meta-packages - DSSI plugins
- kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins-ladspa - KXStudio meta-packages - LADSPA plugins
- kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins-lv2 - KXStudio meta-packages - LV2 plugins
- kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins-vst - KXStudio meta-packages - VST plugins
- 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
- 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...
- Linux Audio Wiki - All apps
- linux-sound.org - Sound & Midi software for Linux
- LinuxMusic.Rocks - Searcheable Linux compatible Plugin database
- Linux Software on KVR Audio
- Awesome Linux Software (audio section)
- Comparison of free software for audio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- LV2 Plugins list
- Wine-VST - Some VSTs tested under Linux with Wine and LinVst.
- Fedora packages for Music/Audio
- Libre Music Production - News, articles, tutorials, interviews, tools, resources...
- Linux MAO Wiki (fr)
- Linux Audio Wiki
- KXStudio Manual - a good introduction to Linux Audio in general.
- Linuxaudio.org
- ALSA Hardware Compatibility list
- alsa.opensrc.org Wiki (Source)
- JACK Audio Wiki
- CommandLineFu - commands tagged audio
- Debian Wiki - Multimedia
- Arch Wiki - List of Applications
- IRC channels on the Freenode Network: #lad, #lau, ##linuxaudio, and #opensourcemusicians
- Linux Audio Mailing lists: Users, Developers, System Tuning, Announces
- /r/linuxaudio - Music and Audio on the Linux platform [RSS]
- Linux Audio Blogs/Planet [RSS]
- LinuxMusicians forum
- audio4linux Forum (de)
- Linux Lighting Group - Lighting Hardware and Software for Linux and similar platforms.
See CONTRIBUTING.md
- https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio
- https://github.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio
- https://salsa.debian.org/nodiscc2-guest/awesome-linuxaudio
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