LAoE (Layer Based Audio Editor)

LAoE stands for Layer-based Audio Editor, and it is a rich featured graphical audio sample-editor, based on multi-layers, floating-point samples, volume-masks, variable selection-intensity, and many plugins suitable to manipulate sound, such as filtering, retouching, resampling, graphical spectrogram editing by brushes and rectangles, sample-curve editing by freehand-pen and spline and other interpolation curves, effects like reverb, echo, compress, expand, pitch-shift, time-stretch, and much more.

To download LAoE, visit this link:

http://www.oli4.ch/laoe/

Sweep - Audio Editor

Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins.

Features

• Extreme ease of use
• Support for many PCM and voice file formats via libsndfile by Erik de Castro Lopo
• Support for Ogg Vorbis format audio files
• Support for Speex files
• Support for LADSPA effects plugins, including
• Powerful editing operations
• Intuitive visualisation
• Versatile playback modes
• Flexible recording
  
• Device handling and portability
  

To download Sweep, visit there download page:

http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/download.html

LMMS - Linux MultiMedia Studio

What is LMMS?

LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

Features

• Song-Editor for composing songs
• A Beat+Bassline-Editor for creating beats and basslines
• An easy-to-use Piano-Roll for editing patterns and melodies
• An FX mixer with 64 FX channels and arbitrary number of effects allow unlimited mixing possibilities
• Many powerful instrument and effect-plugins out of the box
• Full user-defined track-based automation and computer-controlled automation sources
• Compatible with many standards such as SoundFont2, VST(i), LADSPA, GUS Patches, and full MIDI support
• Import of MIDI and FLP (Fruityloops® Project) files

To download LMMS, visit the link below:

http://lmms.sourceforge.net/download.php

MixPad

MixPad is a powerful, no-fuss multi-track music mixing program designed for audio production. Designed to have all the features you need without the clutter, MixPad lets you mix multiple audio tracks together quickly and easily.

Using the intuitive project cursor to navigate along the waveform, MixPad music mixing software allows you to accurately add fade points to adjust the volume, pan the audio or fade in or out. The track control area allows you to mute or 'solo' a track, add effects, or record new clips.

Features

• Unlimited track mixing lets you mix 100+ clips at once.
• Supports a number of file formats including wav (multiple codecs), mp3, wma, vox, gsm, real audio and many more.
• Supports importing video file formats to extract the audio and add to a production.
• Includes a CD ripper to load audio direct from a CD-ROM.
• Drag and drop files from your desktop or folders easily to Mixpad.
• Manage your clips in the Clip Manager.
• Mute a single track or set it as 'solo' (will mute all other tracks).
• Add effects to individual tracks, including echo, reverb and distort.
• Record new clips to a track using MixPad's superb quality audio recorder.
• Use more advanced editing tools for your recordings using the seamlessly integrated WavePad sound editor.
• Mix tracks for Zulu Professional Dj Software.

Typical Applications

• Mix music and record vocal tracks for professional audio production of songs.
• Create a music mash up of your favorite tracks.
• Produce soundtracks for video editing or slideshow software.
• Create audio presentations for broadcast interviews or commercials for online broadcasting software.

System Requirements

• Works on Windows XP 2000/2003/Vista/2008
• Sound support on your computer.
• CD burner [optional]

Visit the link below to download:

http://www.nch.com.au/mixpad/index.html

WavePad Sound Editor

WavePad Sound Editor is very similar to Audacity. It lets you make and edit music, voice and other audio recordings.WavePad works as a wav editor or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.

Features

• Sound editing functions include cut, copy, paste, delete, insert, silence, autotrim and more.
  
• Full featured Mp3 editing software support.
  
• Tools include spectral analysis (FFT) and speech synthesis (text-to-speech).
  
• Recorder supports autotrim and voice activated recording and more.
  
• Audio restoration features including noise reduction and click pop removal.
  
• Supports sample rates from 6000 to 96000Hz, stereo or mono, 8, 16, 24 or 32 bits.
  
• Includes its own CD ripper with 'ultrafast 'rip mode and cddb music database lookup.
  
• Works directly with MixPad multi-track audio mixing software.
  
• Links directly to the Express Burn CD Recorder to burn your sound files to CD.
  
• Edit tracks for the Zulu DJ software.
  
• Easy to use interface will get you started editing in just minutes.
  

To download WavePad, visit therw site. Here is the link:

http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html

Traverso DAW

Traverso DAW is a GPL licensed, cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite, with an innovative and easy to master User Interface. It’s suited for both the professional and home user, who needs a robust and solid DAW.

Features

Traverso's main feature is it's Graphical User Interface philosophy. Use the graphical elements to control the application.This not only makes using the program faster, but you will learn how to use the application and it's available functions just by using it.

• Clean and concise interface
  
• Non-destructive editing
  
• Virtually unlimited track count
  
• Unlimited un/redo
  
• Playback and Record in the file format of your choice
  
• On the fly samplerate conversion
  
• Multiple Driver Backends
  
• Lockless realtime audio processing
  
• CD TOC creation, integrated CD Burning 
  

Although Traverso does perform the main DAW functions, it still cant compete with ardour

To download traverso, visit the link below

http://traverso-daw.org/download.html

Audacity

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It allows you to record live audio, converts tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.

Features

Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.

• Record from microphone, line input, or other sources.
  
• Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.
  
• Record up to 16 channels at once (requires multi-channel hardware).
  
• Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during, and after recording.

To Download Audacity, check out there site.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

Frescobaldi - Free Sheet Music Editor

What is Frescobaldi?

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music editor for KDE4. named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use.

Features

• Enter LilyPond scores, build and preview them with a mouseclick
• Point-and-click support: click on notes or error messages to jump to the correct position
• A powerful Score Wizard to quickly setup a musical score
• Editing tools to:
  • manipulate the rhythm
  • hyphenate lyrics
  • quickly enter or add articulations and other symbols to existing music
  • run the document through convert-ly to update it to a newer LilyPond version
• Context sensitive autocomplete, helping you to quickly enter LilyPond commands
• Expansion manager to enter larger snippets of LilyPond input using short mnemonics
• A powerful Rumor plugin, using the Rumor program to quickly enter music by playing it on a MIDI keyboard or even your computer keyboard
• Built-in comprehensive User Guide
• Translated into Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Polish, Russian and Turkish.

To download Frescobaldi, visit there website.

Here is the link:

http://www.frescobaldi.org

Hydrogen - Free Drum Machine

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming. 

Features

General

• Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 3.
  
• Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
  
• Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.
  

Sequencer and mixer

• Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
  
• Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
  
• 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
  
• Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
  
• Ability to import/export song files.
  
• Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
  
• Multiple patterns playing at once.
  

Other

• JACK, ALSA, PortAudio and OSS audio drivers.
  
• ALSA MIDI and PortMidi input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
  
• Import/export of drumkits.
  
• Export song to wav file.
  
• Export song to midi file.
  

Hydrogen is the perfect linux solution for MIDI drumming. It contains a number of drum-kits, and there are many more available for download.

To Download Hydrogen, Visit there wesite. 

Here is the link:

http://www.hydrogen-music.org

Ardour 2 released

Ardour 2 is finally released. 

Visit the Ardour website to download

http://ardour.org/download

Ardour

Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on Linux and Mac OS X.[3] Its primary author is Paul Davis, who is also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit. Ardour's intention is to provide digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use.Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Ardour is free software.

Features

The feature list below is an overview of Ardour's features including the most essential features. Covering all features is beyond the scope of this article.

Recording

Ardour's recording capabilities are limited only by the hardware it is run on. There are no built in limitations in the software. When recording on top of existing material Ardour can do latency compensation, positioning the recorded material where it was intended to be when recording it. Monitoring options include monitoring with external hardware (a feature supported by some sound cards), monitoring with Ardour and monitoring with JACK. Monitoring with Ardour makes it possible to apply plugin effects to the signal while it is recorded in real time. Using the Audioserver JACK Ardour can not only record from the soundcard but from JACK-compatible Software also at the same time. There are hundreds of sound-applications like software-synthesizers or audio-effect-hosts that work with JACK.New versions of JACK also support transporting audio over a generic IP network.[4] This makes it possible to run Ardour on hardware separate from the hardware that actually contains the audio interface.

Mixing

Ardour supports an arbitrary number of tracks and busses. It also has a completely flexible "anything to anywhere" routing system. All gain, panning and plugin parameters can be automated. All sample data is mixed and maintained internally in 32-bit floating point format for maximum headroom and fidelity.

Editing

Ardour supports dragging, trimming, splitting and timestretching recorded regions with sample-level resolution and has a possibility to layer regions. A versatile crossfade editor and a beat detection tool are also included in Ardour. Ardour has unlimited undo/redo and a snapshot feature for storing the current state of a session to a file for future reference.

Mastering

Ardour can be used as an audio mastering environment. Its integration with JACK makes it possible to use mastering tools such as JAMin to process the audio data. The output of Ardours mixer can be sent to JAMin and/or any other JACK-aware audio-processing software and the output processed by these programmes can be recorded using a recording-software. Ardour can also export TOC and CUE files, which allows for the creation of audio CDs.

Compatability

As Ardour is a free and open source software application; anyone can read and modify the source code of the program. This allowed the first port of Ardour to Mac OS X to be carried out by someone previously uninvolved with the Ardour project. Ardour attempts to adhere to industry standards to maximize functionality and ease portability.[5]Ardour has been tested and runs on the GNU/Linux operating system, on the x86-64, x86, PPC architectures, Sun Solaris, and Mac OS X on Intel and PowerPC. It takes advantage of multiprocessor and multicore SMP and realtime features of these operating systems. Support is limited on operating systems other than Linux and OS X, however.

Plugins

Ardour relies on plugins to enable many features from audio effects processing to dynamic control. Ardour supports the LADSPA and LV2 plugin architectures on Linux and additionallyAudio Units on OS X. Using Steinberg's VST plugins with Ardour on Linux is possible if Ardour is compiled by the user or packager/distributor to include VST support. As of version 2.8, VST support no longer requires use of the VST SDK from Steinberg.

Import and Export

Ardour supports exporting whole sessions or parts of sessions, and importing audio clips into session from more than 30 different audio file formats. This can be done using Ardour's builtin audio file database manager or directly from an ordinary file browser.

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