Audio Authoring Application of the Year
 

A new category this year.

--jeremy

I haven't really had much time to delve into this much this year. Some of those programs are on my "wish list" for installation. I definitely use LAME quite regularly, though.

I used Lame for the first time this year and I'm hooked, I'm amazed that it is as powerful as it is. It works ! Perfect for a CLI addict that can follow instructions.
Scott

Voted for Audacity, but it's sidekick GWC is also a must-have.

I love all the functionality of audacity, and it's good cross-platform support. It's a true cross platform app, not just a linux app with an ugly hack to let it run on windows. (For when you have to play nice with the MS users)

Definately Audacity!

Jokosher should have been on the list.

Jokosher looks very interesting, but it quite new. Based on what I see it'll definitely be added next year.

--jeremy

What; no REZOUND ?!?
 

Since Rezound didn't make your nominee's list, I
must vote this category "LAME".

Voted for Audacity.

I voted for LAME since I use it all the time with GRIP ;)

I discovered Audacity a while back, and like that it works on Windows, so I can exchange stuff with my brother who I haven't managed to convert yet. I'm using it to re-master a load of old reel-to-reel tape for my Dad, and it is fast and easy to use.

Rosegarden is my second choice, though I am a real beginner with it. Still haven't got a synth back-end working properly.

Would have voted Jokosher... My second choice is Audacity.

Ardour is very good:tisk:

LAME, Too bad there aren't that many audio recording programs that run on the CLI. Rawrec is cool, but doesn't do everything the GUIs do, too bad.

hi all!

since we're talking about music authoring... doesnt Creox fit in here? its a program to add a wide range of effects to whatever comes in the input... mainly meant for the guitar though. And it makes me sound waaaay better than i really do :-) I've used it so much this year and its even part of the Ubuntu Studio Project!

Please add Creox...

http://zyzstar.kosoru.com/?creox

cheers!

LAME is good enough for me =)

RoseGarden is the only useful linux notation editor in Linux. Doesn't seem to fit in with the others in this category, actually.

Voted for Audacity. I now use Jokosher, though.

GramoFile is my favourite for ripping vinyl to ogg.

Since that's not listed, I'll go with Audacity. Great for tidying up albums manually on the few occasions where GramoFile's automatic processing produces an unsatisfactory result.

Audacity and LAME is the way to go..I dual boot, its great on win to

I have not voted, as I like some of them just as much.

Audacity: pretty much the standard audio editor. Good for editing wavefiles & such.

Muse & Rosegarden : very nice (midi) sequencers. Haven't really made up my mind which I like best. The perfect linux sequencer would be a combination of both I guess.

Other 'missing' apps include lmms and beast.

Ardour is a much heavier, more powerful tool than audacity, but it can be a bit of a pain to set up JACK.

I voted for Audacity even though I use both Audacity and LAME together.

No contest - it has to be Audacity.

JACK is the real audio application of the year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For lack of Jokosher: Audacity.

I started using Audacity when I was a (puke) Window$ user. I just find everything I need in there.

Audacity & JACK
 

If audacity worked with JACK, it would indeed be sweet. I can't vote for any program that doesn't jive with JACK, Jack. If it did though.... cowabunga!

Should Hydrogen be in here?

I fail to see the common denominator of all those programs. How can you possibly choose audacity over lame, or the other way around? I use Ardour as daw, Audacity for quick editing, lame for encoding...

audacity , obviously

How about LMMS? it's better than all of those!

Yes lmms is impressive - I found it useful and easy to get up and running. Maybe not as many features or as pretty as some but so much nicer to work with in my opinion. Definitely deserves inclusion on the list

You reading these comments Jeremy ???

This is one area where windoze software spanks Linux and sends it whimpering away in a corner. Cakewalk and protools have no counterpart in Linux, although audacity is coming along. Needs better hardware support, filters and stuff yet..

Lame takes my vote.

hmm lame is for mp3 which all of the above use . Kinda in the wrong catagory. I like audacity but haven't tried the others yet so i wont vote yet:D

My favourite is a Windows program which runs well under wine. MP3 direct cut. Is there any other program that can do what it does without re-encoding the files?

Audacity does everything I need re: audio. I must not require too much :)

Audacity is cool:)

Lame is in essence a conversion tool. How would that be an AUTHORING tool? geez..

Lmms
 

Try playing with LMMS, all the functionality of windows Fruity Loops, but for Linux. This is well worth considering!

Sadly, I must agree Poet. Although I'm familiar w/ProTools (cakewalk a LONG time ago), I use Reason, Cubase & FruityLoops way, way more.

Thx for the link, Smudge. I will definitely be investigating LMMS as it does look somewhat like FruityLoops. Whether or not it can hang w/the heavyweights of other studio-quality software, I'll have to see for myself (sure would be nice though, not to have to run Win at ALL!).

new to linux,
 

here's the proof

...seeking some pointers about AUDIO
 

:newbie::Pengy::newbie: Hi. I've wandered over here from the noobie section. Figuring there are folks in this forum who know, can you point me to some resources for linux audio?

Specifically, I'm using Fedora, firewire, Audacity, and FLAC. I think.:rolleyes:

And maybe JACK, once I figure out why I want it.


thanks

Audacity is a realy good conversion and sound editing tool. It is also my favorite in windows. We used to use an old program from Windows 3x. :D

Rezound better than Audacity, Ardour, GNUsound, Sweep
 

Rezound:
I have spent over 100 hours recording from and creating sound files from dozens of 60 minute Ethical Society tapes.
I liked many attributes of Rezound,
finding it better for my work than Audacity, Ardour,
GNUsound, or Sweep.
I would like to see Rezound have a button to disconnect/reconnect from the sound system, so I could listen to sound files
separately from Rezound without exiting my Rezound edit.
I chose to create *.wav files with Rezound,
then outside Rezound run lame for mp3 files,
run mp3gain to adjust sound,
and finally run kid3 to add tags.
I keep both the *.wav files created for future changes,
and *.mp3 files for use.


Audacity:
when I tried this 2 years ago,
it had visible aberations of lines and fields
not matching where the developer intended
(probably correct on MS Windows, but not on my Debian Linux).
For example, some buttons were chopped.

Ardour:
I spent about 30 hours with Ardour 2 years ago,
but it collapsed too often.
A more complex/flexible setup might justify Ardour,
but I found it required extra work during each use.
For example, I had to get the application "Jack" also running as a daemon.

When you tried it, it was still very early alpha. The final version was released just a few weeks ago.
Ardour/Ardour2 Is one of, if not the one most flexible DAW I've ever used (among Cubase vst32 to SX2, Audacity, Nuendo, Reaper). If you claim it lacks flexibility you should elaborate. Jack is a very powerful soundserver. It would be rather stupid not to build an audio workstation around it, if you're going to write one for linux. I agree that it should start by default when you start Ardour.
But I can think of more complex startup scripts than "qjackctl -s & ardour2" :)