Free audio software
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Free audio software is free software that can be used to listen to, modify, create and/or author audio signals and music. There is free audio software available for Windows and Mac OS, but the largest quantity of the free audio software only runs on GNU/Linux.
Dynebolic, Planet CCRMA and AGNULA are GNU/Linux distributions designed for musicians and/or audio engineers.
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Technologies
- ALSA is the sound card management system in the Linux kernel
- LADSPA is a plugin architecture for digital sound processing
- DSSI is a plugin architecture for software synthesizers and the like
- JACK is a daemon that provides low latency connections between JACKified applications. JACK runs on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X. It can use ALSA, OSS and PortAudio.
Audio Recording and Editing
Trackers
- Cheesetracker is an Impulse Tracker clone
- Soundtracker [1] (http://www.soundtracker.org)
- ModPlug Tracker was released as free software in 2004
Programming languages
- Csound has been released under the LGPL.
- SuperCollider
- ChucK is a new concurrent, on-the-fly audio programming language, (just released!) [2] (http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/)
- see computer music programming languages
Modular systems
- SpiralSynthModular
- Pure data
- jMax
- SynFactory
- aRts
- Psycle is a Jeskola Buzz clone
Streaming
- MuSE is for mixing, encoding, and streaming of encoded audio, not to be confused with MusE; see above.
- Icecast is a broadcast server to serve audio signals to clients over http.
- PeerCast is an open source peercasting tool.
Softsynths
Audio analysis
- WaveSurfer [3] (http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/)
External links
- Dave Phillips' Sound & MIDI Software For Linux (http://sound.condorow.net/)
- Free Audio Software for Microsoft Windows OS (http://www.hsinlin.com/software/audio.html)