Contents
Background[]
- Ubuntu Studio alternate install DVDs is a version of Ubuntu specifically for audio, graphics, and video production that includes Rosegarden4 as well as tons of other packages.
Details[]
Tips[]
Do all the updates (esp. security) after install first thing before using it.
Package list:[]
Basic infrastructure
alsa-tools - Console based ALSA utilities for specific hardware alsa-tools-gui - GUI based ALSA utilities for specific hardware linux-image-rt - Low latency kernel qamix - Configurable mixer for ALSA
JACK and JACK Utilities
jackd - JACK Audio Connection Kit (server and example clients) qjackctl - User interface for controlling the JACK sound server bitscope - diagnosis tool for JACK audio software jdelay - A small command line JACK app you can use to measure the latency of your sound card. meterbridge - A collection of Audio meters for the JACK audio server patchage - modular patch bay for Jack audio and Alsa Midi jack-tools - various JACK tools: plumbing, play, udp, ctl, scope, clock
Sound editing and recording
audacity - Swiss army audio editor timemachine - JACK audio recorder for spontaneous and conservatory use
Audio playback
xmms - Versatile X audio player xmms-jackasyn - JACK Output plugin for xmms xmms-modplug - ModPlug plugin for XMMS
Digital Audio Workstation software
ardour - Digital audio workstation (graphical gtk interface) beast - music synthesis and composition framework
Synthesizers
fluidsynth - Real-time MIDI software synthesizer bristol - vintage synthesizer emulator freebirth - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer similar to Rebirth qsynth - fluidsynth MIDI sound synthesiser front-end zynaddsubfx - Realtime software synthesizer for Linux csound - powerful and versatile sound synthesis software swami - SoundFont editor
Sampling
linuxsampler - software audio sampler sooperlooper - Looping Sampler LADSPA plugin
Sequencing
aconnectgui - graphical ALSA sequencer connection manager rosegarden4 - music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer hydrogen - Simple drum machine/step sequencer seq24 - Real time MIDI sequencer jackbeat - audio sequencer muse - Qt-based midi/audio sequencer tk707 - drum sequencer for a sound card or MIDI device shaketracker - MIDI sequencer with tracker GUI
Effects and signal processing
jack-rack - LADSPA effects "rack" for JACK tapiir - A tool for real time audio delay and feedback effects freqtweak - Realtime audio frequency spectral manipulation jamin - Audio mastering from a mixed down multitrack source with JACK creox - real-time guitar effects jackeq - routes and manipulates audio from/to multiple sources
DJ tools
terminatorx - A realtime audio synthesizer mixxx - A digital DJ interface (for beat-mixing)
MIDI Utilities
timidity - Software sound renderer (MIDI sequencer, MOD player) vkeybd - Virtual Keyboard program
Musical typesetting
denemo - A gtk+ frontend to GNU Lilypond lilypond-data - LilyPond music typesetter (data files) lilypond - A program for typesetting sheet music
Miscellaneous / uncategorized
gtick - Metronome application puredata - realtime computer music and graphics system audatious -
Plug-ins package list:
aeolus - Aeolus is a synthesized (i.e. not sampled) pipe organ emulator blop - Bandlimited wavetable-based oscillator plugins for LADSPA hosts. caps - A collection of refined LADSPA plugins. cmt - (Computer Music Toolkit) A collection of LADSPA compatible plugins. fil-plugins - Parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin. hexter - Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin ladspa-sdk - Sample tools for linux-audio-dev plugin architecture. mcp-plugins - LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth. omins - Collection of LADSPA plugins geared at modular synthesizers. swh-plugins - Steve Harris's LADSPA plugins. tap-plugins - Tom's Audio Processing LADSPA plugins. vcf - Audio EQ biquad filter LADSPA plugins. dssi-example-plugins - Example DSSI plugins. dssi-host-jack - An example DSSI host. fluidsynth-dssi - Soundfont player/synth for DSSI. xsynth-dssi - A classic-analog style softsynth DSSI plugin. dssi-utils - Command-line utilities for sending commands to DSSI plugins.
