Recording audio tracks in Audacity
Audacity is a cross-platform digital audio editor application. This tutorial presents the most important functions of Audacity. Part 1 is devoted to issues associated with recording of audio files.
Not only Ardour
Ardour is currently the most advanced digital audio workstation for Linux. However, several other useful applications are also available. This article presents Traverso, Qtractor, Wired, Frinika, and Protux DAWs.
In Polish: Mixxx and BpmDj
The current issue of Linux Magazine (polish edition) includes an article on open source DJ tools – BpmDj and Mixxx.
Rosegarden 1.6.0
Release 1.6.0 of Rosegarden sequencer is now available! This is a substantial new feature release. The code is available here. See also release notes.
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A multi-purpose WAVE data processing and reporting utility. File formats are abstracted from its core, so it can process any file that contains WAVE data, compressed or not - provided there exists a format module to handle that particular file type.
Category: Sound and music
Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It is a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
Category: Sound and music
DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs and CDs (VCD, sVCD or CVD), suitables for home players, from any number of video files, in any of the formats supported by Mplayer. The big advantage over other utilites is that it only needs Mplayer, Mencoder, DVDAuthor, VCDImager and MKisofs (well, and Python 2.4, PyGTK and PyGlade), so its dependencies are really small.
Category: Video
Software drum machine designed to a creative pattern based way of drum programming with automatic music composition capabilities and polyrhythm functions. You can compose beats, bass line and complete songs using included drum kits with the audio sequencer functions.
Category: Sound and music
Decibel Audio Player is a GTK+ open-source (GPL license) audio player designed for GNU/Linux, which aims at being very straightforward to use by mean of a very clean and user friendly interface. It is especially targeted at Gnome.
Category: Sound and music
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