Music Linux
Hi I have a wierd question. I heard rumors of a Linux that is Music themed and comes with music recording programs and other music software. I searched google but found nothing. I was wonderding if that is true? Thanks!
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Linux isn't exactly a music-centred operating system, but there are indeed quite a few music apps available for it. Check out this page for just a few of the most popular.
My favourites are: AmaroK or JuK (music jukeboxes), Grip (music ripper), Audacity (powerful music editor), and that's about it really for me! As you can see, I'm not much of a music-editing afficionado ;) Cheers, -jk Ps. Welcome to LQ!! ;) |
do you need a DAW or a mp3 player?
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If you ever find it - email me! I'd like to look into it myself.
But unitl then, here are some options: Multitrack stuff: audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ecasound http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/ XO wave http://www.xowave.com/ rezound http://rezound.sourceforge.net/ misc. stuff: proComposer http://www.procomposer-software.com/ hydrogen (nice drum machine program) http://www.hydrogen-music.org/ Sound info: http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/index.php And here - theres only 188 projects in: Sourceforge -> Multimedia --> Sound/Audio --> Capture/Recording http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/t...p?form_cat=115 Have fun! -tw |
dynebolic is a multimedia-centered distro. I don't have a link off-hand but Google should be able to provide :)
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You might be thinking of demudi. There also is planet CCRMA which is a collection of RPM's for Fedora Core. Either one is geared specifically for music/multimedia.
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they are out of germany and have been working on it a lot. Plus it gives info on working the kernel so you can use it for recording....:study: |
ahchewyy - This thread hasn't been post in in a month... So, the original poster may no longer be following the topic :)
But, now that this has been brought back up.. Musix might be a good option. Here's a description of it from an article I read: Quote:
Cheers, -jk |
This is a distribution aimed at music production, has drum machiens and sound editor and what now in it.
http://64studio.com/ |
I'm currently waiting for the jacklab-distribution, which will basically be suse with the jad kernel and some other tweeks.
http://www.jacklab.org/ I tried demudi, without much luck. It produced strange noise, and I couldn't find the problem. It's definitely worth a try though. I didn't put much energy into it, since Ardur, muse, Solfege and jamin work on my normal desktop system with little trouble. I have my own little studio, and the time ardour will be able to handle vst plugins, I'm switching. Ardour/Jack is a monster DAW even compared to cubase. |
I'm using ardour/jack/hydrogen on my gentoo system with an M-Audio Delta 1010 for an awesome home studio (that occasionally makes me money too ;) ) Mmm, 8 balanced XLR ins on a 19" rackmount box recording at 24bit, 96000Hz in an all linux environment! demudi is a debian based distro specifically for DAW use, but you can set one up with any distro you want. it just takes some work. Maybe it's just me but I not only found replacements for everything I used in windows but I have more cool software now (and without resorting to piracy :) )
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I like to run my tracks through ecamegapedal (for the stuff I don't do in hardware) and create a "wet" track then I add this track to ardour so I have a "Dry" and "Wet" tracks for the guitar part etc. then I can adjust the mix and get it right and the cpu intensive stuff is handled ahead of time one track at a time. I put ecamegapedal's "Fake Stereo" preset on all my bass parts to thicken them up a bit (I'm a bass player and picky about my sound.) so this becomes the "Dry" Bass line.
EDIT: Plus ecamegapedal does what the name implies you can use it as a live real-time EP for on stage work too, to replace all those stomp-boxes :) |
cool, I haven't heard of this.
You might even be able to wire it through jack, if you're lucky. I do the same thing with jesusonic now. http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php |
ecasound the api it's based on does support jack so it might be possible, but I usually use a file for in and a file for out or oss type (/dev/dsp) for on stage or experimenting (and no I don't use oss just the alsa oss emulation.)
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