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awesome-linuxaudio

A list of software and resources for professional audio/video/live events production on the Linux platform

Work in progress - See current issues and CONTRIBUTING.

This list is provided to help you build your own GNU/Linux based A/V production environment. Most of the listed software is packaged for Debian, and should be directly installable using your package manager. Software that can be run on other GNU/Linux distributions may also be added to the list. This list focuses on sound, video, lighting and live applications. Software listed here is Free Software unless noted otherwise.

List keys:

◼ Debian package: can be installed directly using APT on Debian and derivatives.
▒ KXStudio package: can be installed using APT on KXStudio or Debian with KXStudio repositories enabled.
© Non-Free/closed source software: programs that restrict use/study/modification/distribution.

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CONTRIBUTING
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LICENSE

Software

DAW/Sequencers

ardour - Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and Multichannel Hard Disk Recorder (HDR) (◼) ▒
lmms - Linux Multimedia Studio (◼) ▒
vcvrack - Open-source virtual Eurorack DAW ▒
1BITDRAGON - easy to use sample based sequencer. Rhythm Generators, arpeggiators, MIDI/WAV export. ©
AudioNodes - Free, modular audio production suite with multi-track audio mixing, audio effects, parameter automation, MIDI editing, synthesis, cloud production, custom MIDI i/o, and more. (Browser version) ©
Bitwig Studio - dynamic software for creation and performance of your musical ideas on stage or in the studio. ©
dino - Integrated MIDI piano roll editor and sequencer engine
friniika - A complete music workstation for Windows/Linux/OSX
Harrison Mixbus - the first full-featured DAW with true analog style mixing. ©
helio-workstation - Free linear-based music For macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS and Android, with clean interface, version control, synchronization between devices, undo history, and more. ▒
Laborejo - is a MIDI sequencer based on classical music notation. ▒
meterec - minimalistic multi track recorder (◼)
muse - Qt4-based audio/MIDI sequencer (◼)
ossia score - Interactive sequencer with intelligent timelines supporting audio, video, OSC, MIDI, DMX and more.
Patroneo - is an easy to use, pattern based midi sequencer ▒
qtractor - MIDI/Audio multi-track sequencer application (◼)
Radium Editor - Radium is a music editor with a new type of interface.
REAPER - A complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset. ©
rosegarden - music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer (◼)
seq24 - Minimalist Real time MIDI sequencer (◼)
sequencer64 - Real time MIDI sequencer, a major reboot of seq24 with many new features.
Stargate DAW - Cross-platform, all-in-one DAW and plugin suite
Tracktion - The musician's DAW ©
traverso - Multitrack audio recorder and editor (◼)
Zrythm - A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation

Trackers

bambootracker - Cross-platform music tracker for the Yamaha YM2608 (OPNA) sound chip which was used in NEC PC-8801/9801 series computers. (◼)
cheesecutter - Tracker program for composing music for the SID chip. (◼)
ft2-clone - Fasttracker 2 clone. (◼)
furnace - Multi-system chiptune tracker.
goattracker - C64 music editor. (◼)
hivelytracker - Music tracker program based upon the AHX. (◼)
klystrack - Chiptune tracker. (◼)
komposter - lightweight music composing system. (◼)
milkytracker - Music creation tool inspired by Fast Tracker 2. (◼)
pt2-clone - Multi-platform clone of the classic music making software ProTracker 2 from the Commodore Amiga days. (◼)
Renoise - Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) using a tracker-based approach. ©
schism - ImpulseTracker clone aiming at providing the same look & feel. (◼)
tiatracker - music tracker for making Atari VCS 2600. (◼)
tutka - tracker style MIDI sequencer. (◼)
vht - live midi sequencer/tracker for JACK/GTK.
zytrax - Easy to use, tracker-inspired music sequencer. (◼)

Audio Editors

audacity - fast, cross-platform audio editor (◼)
eisenkraut - A multi-channel and hi-res capable audio file editor
kwave - sound editor for KDE (◼)
LAoE - Rich featured graphical audio sample editor featuring multi-layers, floating-point samples, volume-masks, variable selection-intensity, spectrogram editing, and plugins 2011
mhwaveedit - Simple and fast GTK2 sound editor (◼) 2013
ocenaudio - cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor ©
ReZound - ReZound aims to be a stable, open source, and graphical audio file editor primarily for but not limited to the Linux operating system. 2008
Shuriken beat slicer - beat slicer with beat detection and time stretching capabilities. Easy QT4 interface to slice up drum loops, assign hits to MIDI keys, and change the tempo of loops in real-time.
smasher - Cross-platform audio loop slicer designed to create sliced loops from WAV, MP3, FLAC or AIFF files in seconds without a sequencer 2013
Sound Studio - A simple (minimal) light-weight tool for editing smaller soundfiles. Because Sound Studio uses Sox, it can cope with a wide variety of audio file formats. 2013
tenacity - an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder

Samplers

samplv1 - Polyphonic sampler synthesizer. (◼)
avldrums.lv2 - drum sample player plugin dedicated to Glen MacArthur's AVLdrums. Rapidly sequence and mix midi-drums. ▒
bliss - Performance sampler featuring scalable & themeable GUI, VSTi sampling, 8 macro assignments, dual zero delay feedback filters, sample editor, 7 built-in effects, flexible modulation, parameter morphing and highest offline resampling quality using 512 points SINC algorithm. ©
dgedit - drum kit editor for DrumGizmo (◼)
drumgizmo - multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application. It enables you to compose drums in midi and mix them with a multichannel approach (◼) ▒
Fluajho- a simple sf2 soundfont host/player for Linux. Behind the scenes the Fluidsynth library is at work, hence the name. ▒
freewheeling - live looping musical instrument (◼)
giada - hardcore loop machine (◼) ▒
hydrogen - advanced drum machine/step sequencer (◼)
hydrogen-drumkits - drumkits for Hydrogen (◼) ▒
hydrogen-drumkits-effects - collection of unusual drumkits for Hydrogen (◼) ▒
kluppe - Loop-player and recorder designed for live use. (◼)
linuxsampler-all - Realtime audio sampler. (Standalone, DSSI, LV2 and VST) ▒
luppp - Music creation tool, intended for live use. ▒
qsampler - LinuxSampler GUI frontend based on the Qt toolkit. (◼)
redux - Sample-based instrument, combined with a powerful phrase sequencer. ©
sfizz - SFZ sampler and synth (library, AU/LV2/VST3 plugins and JACK standalone).
sooperlooper - Looping sampler. (◼)
sooperlooper-lv2 - Looping sampler plugin. ▒
soundux - A cross-platform soundboard
Speedrum - MPC style drum sampler, 32 pads with essential effects, and with 8 sample layers per pad ©
superboucle - Loop application synced with jack transport.
TAL-Sampler - full featured analog modeled synthesizer with a sampler engine as sound source, including a powerful modulation matrix and a high quality self-oscillating 24/12/6 dB low pass filter ©

Effects/Processing

Collections

calf-plugins - Calf Studiogear - audio effects and sound generators (◼)
dpf-plugins - audio plugin collection from DISTRHO ▒
freaked-plugins - Granulator, pre-delay, reverb tail and distortion LV2 Plugins ▒
Linux Studio Plugins (LSP) - Collection of Open Source LV2/LADSPA/VST/standalone audio processing applications. (◼)
tal-plugins - Togu Audio Line Plugins (Dub-3, Filter/-2, Reverb/-2/-3, Vocoder-2) ▒
ACMT Essential VST Plug-Ins Collection for Linux - A comprehensive range of essential high-end analogue modelled plug-ins for Linux ©
amb-plugins - ambisonics LADSPA plugins (◼)
artyfx - Arty FX plugin suite ▒
avw.lv2 - collection of Voltage Controlled LV2 modules (◼) 2013
BYOD - Build-Your-Own-Distortion is an audio plugin that allows the user to create custom guitar effects, with a focus on guitar distortion
caps-lv2 - LV2 port for the CAPS Audio Plugin Suite ▒
caps - C* Audio Plugin Suite (CAPS) comprises a range of classic sound effects and a few more basic audio DSP units, signal and noise generators. (◼)
cmt - a collection of LADSPA plugins (◼) ▒
drowaudio-plugins - dRowAudio Plugins (LV2 & VST) ▒
fomp - 1 auto-wah, 1 EQ, 3 chorus, 5 filters, and 3 oscillators LV2 plugins. (◼) ▒
foo-plugins - small set of LADSPA plugins (Lookahead Limiter/Transient Architect) ▒
ardour-lv2-plugins - Set of LV2 plugins provided by Ardour. (◼)
Chow Tape Model - digital emulation of a reel-to-reel analog tape machine. The original algorithm was developed to emulate the Sony TC-260
Chow Matrix - infinitely growable delay effect, with complex internal modulation and feedback. With extra features including pitch-shifting, diffusion, and distortion
Chow Centaur - digital emulation of the Klon Centaur guitar pedal
Chow Phaser - digital phaser effect originally inspired by the Schulte Compact Phasing 'A'
ChowDSP VCV - several modules for VCV Rack, including ports of ChowTape and ChowPhaser. Other modules include distortion effects, modal filters, and more
infamous-plugins - creative LV2 plugins ▒
invada-studio-plugins-ladspa - Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LADSPA audio plugins (◼) ▒
invada-studio-plugins-lv2 - Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LV2 audio plugins (◼) ▒
juced-plugins - Juced Plugins ▒
leet-plugins - LEET LADSPA plugins ▒
mda-lv2 - Paul Kellett's MDA 36 high-quality plugins ported to LV2 (◼)
mda-vst - Paul Kellett's MDA plugins ported to VST ▒
mod-mda-lv2 - Paul Kellett's MDA plugins ported to LV2 (MOD version) ▒
mod-utilities - LV2 plugin utilities (filters/gain/switches/meter) ▒
psi-plugins - small collection of LV2 plugins ideal for (but not limited to) electronic music.
ste-plugins - stereo LADPSA plugins (◼) ▒
swh-lv2 - Steve Harris's SWH plugins ported to LV2 (◼) ▒
swh-plugins - Steve Harris's LADSPA plugins (◼) ▒
tap-plugins - Tom's Audio Processing LADSPA plugins (◼) ▒
teragonaudio-plugins - audio plugins from Teragon Audio ▒
vcf-plugins - VCF LADSPA plugins ▒
vco-plugins - LADSPA plugin sporting anti-aliased oscillators (◼) ▒
x42-plugins - Collection of LV2 plugins (◼) ▒
zam-plugins - Plugins for high quality audio processing (◼) ▒
ZL Audio Plugins - ZL Audio makes audio plugins and audio processing tools

EQ

eq10q - LV2 equalizer (◼) ▒
fil-plugins - parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin (◼) ▒
luftikus - analog modeled equalizer ▒
lv2fil - Stereo and mono LV2 plugins, four-band parametric equalisers ▒

Other FX

abgate - LV2 noise gate plugin (◼)
airwin2rack - Airwindows plugins, Consolidated into a single Library, Rack Plugin and DAW Plugin
autotalent - pitch correction LADSPA plugin (◼) ▒
beatslash-lv2 - A set of LV2 plugins to slash, repeat beats. ▒
blop - Bandlimited wavetable-based oscillator plugins for LADSPA hosts. (◼) ▒
blop-lv2 - Bandlimited LADSPA oscillator plugins ported to LV2. (◼) ▒
centered - this plugin automatically pans the input signal such that it's centered in the stereo field
creox - a real-time sound/effects processor.
deteriorate-lv2 - set of LV2 plugins to deteriorate sound quality ▒
dragonfly-reverb - bundle of free audio reverb effects. (◼)
drc - digital room correction (◼)
Fire - mutiband distortion plugin
freqtweak - Realtime audio frequency spectral manipulation
g2reverb -reverb LADSPA plugin ▒
glitch - Multi-effects audio plugin with sequencer ©
go-dsp-guitar - A cross-platform effects processor / amp simulator for electric guitars and other instruments. Supports JACK and remote control through web interface.
guitarix - Rock guitar amplifier for Jack (Standalone/LADSPA/LV2) (◼) ▒
- gxplugins - extra lv2 plugins from the guitarix project ▒
gxvoxtonebender - Fuzz Tonebender LV2 plugin ▒
holap - Holborn Audio DSSI and LADSPA audio plugins including DSP effects and a FM synthesizer ▒
ir.lv2 - LV2 IR reverb (◼) ▒
klangfalter - convolution reverb audio plugin (LV2/VST) ▒
lamb-rs - A lookahead compressor/limiter that's soft as a lamb.
LoudMax - Look-Ahead Brickwall Loudness Maximizer LADSPA Plugin with a clean transparent sound. It is designed to retain the original character of the music as much as possible ©
lv2vocoder - LV2 vocoder plugin (◼)
mod-distortion - analog distortion emulation plugin ▒
mod-pitchshifter - Pitch Shifter LV2 effects ▒
paulstretch - Extreme sound time-stretch (◼)
PeakEater - cross-platform wave shaper plugin
phasex - Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis EXperiment (◼)
pitcheddelay - pitch-shifting delay ▒
radium-compressor - audio compressor for JACK (◼)
rakarrack - Simple and easy guitar effects processor for GNU/Linux (◼)
rev-plugins - reverb LADSPA plugin (◼)
rkrlv2 - Rakarrack LV2 Plugin Ports ▒
RoomReverb - mono/stereo to stereo algorithmic reverb
rubberband-ladspa - LADSPA plugin for audio pitch-shifting (◼)
rubberband-lv2 - LV2 plugin for audio pitch-shifting (◼)
sonic - Simple utility to speed up or slow down speech (◼)
soundstretch - Stretches and pitch-shifts sound independently (◼)
Schroeder - Modeled reverb based on Schroeder reverberator. ©
stretchplayer - Audio file player with time stretch and pitch shifting (◼)
terminatorx - realtime audio synthesizer (◼)
valentine - open source compressor meant to pump and breathe
vm.lv2 - virtual machine plugin bundle (Control, CV, Audio, Atom) ▒
vocoder-ladspa - LADSPA Vocoder Plugin ▒
vocproc - LV2 plugin for pitch shifting and vocoding (◼)
wah-plugins - auto-wah LADSPA plugin (◼)
wasp-ladspa - WASP LADSPA plugin ▒
wolf-shaper - Waveshaper plugin with a spline-based graph editor
zita-at1 - JACK autotuner (◼)
zita-rev1 - pro-audio reverb effect (◼)

DJing / Vinyl emulation

mixxx - Digital Disc Jockey Interface (◼)
xwax - open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux with timecoded vinyl support (◼)
DiscoDOS - the geekiest DJ tool on the planet - remember and analyze your DJ sets based on Discogs and AcousticBrainz data (◼)

Synthesizers

Synthesizers - Additive

add64 - additive synthesizer for JACK ▒
andes - Sound synthesiser based on Perlin noise
triceratops-lv2 - polyphonic additive software synthesizer plugin ▒
vertigo - 256 oscillators additive synth with resynthesis and sound morphing. Imports WAV and BMP. Very accurate recreation of complex musical phrases, drumloops, speech and simple tones. ©
yoshimi - software synthesizer based on ZynAddSubFX (◼)
zynaddsubfx - Realtime software synthesizer for Linux (◼) ▒

Synthesizers - Subtractive

amsynth - Two oscillator software synthesizer. (◼)
blepvco - LADSPA, minBLEP-based, hard-sync-capable oscillator plugins. (◼) ▒
bristol - Vintage synthesizer emulator. (◼)
- monobristol - Simple GUI for Bristol. (◼)
cursynth - Cursynth is a polyphonic music synthesizer that runs graphically inside your terminal. ▒
discovery - Virtual Analog synthesizer. ©
discovery pro - Virtual Analog synthesizer + sampler. ©
helm - Polyphonic synthesizer. ▒
ob-xd - OB-Xd is based on the Oberheim OB-X. ▒
- ob-xd - Open source version of OB-Xd
sineshaper - Monophonic synth plugin with two oscillators and waveshapers.
synthv1 - Old-school polyphonic synthesizer. (◼) ▒
whysynth - DSSI Soft Synth Interface. (◼)
wolpertinger - Subtractive synth with a sharp bandpass filter. ▒

Synthesizers - FM

adlplug - FM synthesizer plugins, based on OPL3 and OPN2 sound chip emulations ▒
dexed - FM Plugin Synth closely modeled on the Yamaha DX7, including midi cartridge librarian/manager for the DX7. ▒
hexter - Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin (◼) ▒
OPL - The OPL is a digital sound synthesis chip developed by Yamaha in the mid 1980s ▒
juce-opl - Emulation of the Yamaha OPL sound chip used in PC sound cards from the 90s. ▒
oxefmsynth - 8 operators FM synth

Synthesizers - Wavetable

sorcer - Sorcer polyphonic wavetable synth LV2 plugin ▒
wsynth-dssi - hack on Xsynth-DSSI to allow wavetable synthesis (◼) ▒

Synthesizers - Other

BespokeSynth - software modular synthesizer. (◼)
Chow Kick - kick drum synthesizer based on creative physical modelling of old drum machine circuits
drumkv1 - old-school drum-kit sampler (◼) ▒
fabla - Fabla drum sampler plugin instrument ▒
foo-yc20-vst - VST implementation of a 1969 designed Yamaha combo organ, the YC-20. ▒
qsynth - fluidsynth MIDI sound synthesiser front-end (◼)
Tracktion BioTek - new generation of software synth that combines the sounds of nature with a complex synthesis engine to create weird and wonderful organic soundscapes. ©
argotlunar - Realtime granulator LV2/VST plugin ▒
din - digital audio synthesizer (◼)
drmr - An LV2 sampler plugin that (currently) plays hydrogen drum kits ▒
fluid-soundfont-gm - Fluid (R3) General MIDI SoundFont (GM)
fluid-soundfont-gs - Fluid (R3) General MIDI SoundFont (GS)
fluidr3-gm-soundfont - Fluid (R3) Mono GM SoundFont from MuseScore 2
fluidsynth/-static - Real-time MIDI software synthesizer with plugins for media players (◼) ▒
geonkick - synthesizer capable of generating a wide range of percussive sounds
gmorgan - MIDI rhythm station emulator software
newtonator - LV2 synth that produces unpredictable sounds ▒
Odin 2 - powerful 24-voice polyphonic virtual analog synthesizer with multiple oscillator types LV2/VST3/CLAP
paraphrasis - spectral modeling synthesizer
Surge XT - hybrid synthesizer featuring many synthesis techniques, a great selection of filters, a flexible modulation engine, a smorgasbord of effects, and modern features like MPE and microtuning
TAL-BassLine-101 - monophonic bass synthesizer and a very accurate emulation of the popular SH 101 ©
TAL-J-8 - very accurate emulation of the popular 80’s hardware synthesiser and calibrated after our own Jupiter 8 device ©
TAL-NoiseMaker - free virtual analog synthesizer with a great sound and low CPU usage ©
TAL-U-No-LX - complete emulation of the popular Juno 60, zero feedback delay filters and carefully calibrated controls make this synth a good replacement for the analog device ©
u-he Diva - Virtual Analogue synthesizer ©
u-he Hive - Uncomplicated, flexible, CPU-friendly hybrid synthesizer ©
u-he Podolski - free, straightforward, CPU-efficient virtual analogue synthesizer. One oscillator, one filter, one envelope and an arpeggiator / sequencer. ©
u-he Repro - Meticulously modelled reproductions of two famous analogue synthesizers ©
u-he Triple Cheese - Unusual freeware synthesizer without traditional oscillators/wavetables/FM/phase distortion/analogue modelled filters, capable of some surprising sounds. ©
u-he Zebra 2 - sound-design playground with numerous sound sculpting tools ©
u-he Zebralette - A free synthesizer and an introduction to Zebra2’s fantastic oscillators. ©
xsynth-dssi - classic-analog (VCOs/VCF/VCA) style software synthesizer (◼)
pianoteq - Virtual piano based on physical modeling of real instruments. ©
organteq - Physically modelled pipe organ. ©

Synthesizers - Modular

ams - Realtime modular synthesizer for ALSA (◼)
BEAST/BSE - music composition and modular synthesis application
Cardinal - Virtual modular synthesizer plugin
ingen - modular audio processing system for Jack and LV2 based systems. ▒
- ams-lv2 - set of Voltage Controlled LV2 modules for Ingen ▒
mcp-plugins - LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth (◼) ▒
omins - collection of LADSPA plugins aimed at modular synthesizers (◼)
spiralsynthmodular - object orientated music studio ▒
Sunvox - a small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker) ©
TAL-MOD - virtual analog synthesizer with an exceptional sound and almost unlimited modulation possiblities ©
u-he ACE - compact, clear synthesizer, with a careful selection of modules and semi-modular architecture ©
u-he Bazille - large polyphonic modular system with digital (PD, FM based) oscillators, multimode filters, modulation options, and more ©

Synthesizers - Organ simulators

aeolus - Synthesised pipe organ emulator (◼)
azr3-jack - drawbar organ simulator
horgand - JACK capable organ softsynth (◼)
setbfree - DSP tonewheel organ (◼)

Audio utilities

Audio utilities - Misc

sox - Swiss army knife of sound processing (◼)
declick - a dynamic digital declicker for audio sample files.
ecasound - command-line multitrack-capable audio recorder and effect processor (◼)
fadecut - toolset to rip audiostreams, cut, fade in/out and tag the resulting audiofiles (◼)
gwc - Audio file denoiser (◼)
libsox-fmt-all - All SoX format libraries (◼)
Linux Show Player a free cue player designed for sound-playback in stage production. The goal of the project is to provide a complete playback software for musical plays, theater shows and similar. (◼)
nama - Multitrack recording with Ecasound (◼)
pianobooster - Learn the piano just by playing a game, inspired by Guitar Hero (◼)
Samplecat - a program for cataloguing and auditioning audio samples.
showq - MIDI controllable audio player (◼)
silan - commandline tool to detect silence in audio-files
silentjack - silence detector for the JACK audio system (◼)
sync-audio-tracks - Audio tracks synchronization command-line tool for video editors that don't support it
taptempo - A command line tap tempo. Hit enter key with style and you'll get the corresponding number of beats per minute (BPM). (◼)
timemachine - JACK audio recorder for spontaneous and conservatory use (◼)

Audio utilities - Meters & Analysis

easyssp - audio visualization plugin (spectrometer/goniometer) (LV2 & VST) ▒
baudline - Time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain - Fourier, correlation, transfer function, impulse response, and raster transforms
bitmeter - diagnosis tool for JACK audio software (◼)
brp-pacu - audio analysis tool (◼)
ebumeter - Loudness measurement according to EBU-R128 (◼)
jaaa - audio signal generator and spectrum analyser (◼)
jackmeter - a basic command line meter for the JACK audio system (◼)
japa - JACK and ALSA Perceptual Analyser (◼)
jkmeter - horizontal or vertical bargraph audio level meter for Jack Audio Connection Kit (◼)
lufsmeter - measures loudness similar to the human perception of loudness. (LV2/VST) ▒
meterbridge - Collection of Audio meters for the JACK audio server (◼)
MultiMeter - comprehensive set of AU/VST real-time audio analysis tools
QLoud - tool to measure loudspeaker frequency and step responses and distortions
siggen - a set of tools for imitating a laboratory Signal Generator, generating audio signals out of Linux's /dev/dsp audio device. (◼)
Scope - Simple oscilloscope ©
sonic-visualiser - View and analyse the contents of music audio files (◼)
spek - acoustic spectrum analyser
wolf-spectrum - Real-time 2D spectrogram plugin
xoscope - digital oscilloscope (◼)

Audio utilities - Tuners & Metronomes

fmit - Free Music Instrument Tuner (◼)
gtick - Metronome application (◼)
gtkguitune - Guitar and other instruments tuner
gxtuner - Tuner for Jack (◼)
klick - advanced metronome for JACK (◼)
lingot - accurate and easy to use musical instrument tuner

Audio utilities - MIDI Utilities

jack-keyboard - Virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI (◼)
timidity - Software sound renderer (MIDI sequencer, MOD player) (◼)
abcmidi - converter from ABC to MIDI format and back (◼)
arpage - MIDI Arpeggiator w/ JACK Tempo Sync. ▒
gmidimonitor - GTK application that shows MIDI events (◼)
jack-midi-clock - JACK client that sends MIDI beat clock pulses ▒
jackass - JACK-MIDI support for VST hosts, including Wine apps ▒
LibreArp - LV2/VST3 free-form pattern arpeggiator
midi-matrix.lv2 - 3-in-1 plugin with GUI (MIDI channel filtering/rerouting/multiplication) ▒
MidiJoystick - MidiJoystick is a MIDI client for the Jack Audio Connection Kit on Linux, which lets you use your joystick to emit MIDI commands
midimsg-lv2 - set of plugins to transform midi output ▒
midisox - a SoX-like workalike, for handling MIDI files
pizmidi-plugins - collection of cross-platform MIDI processing plugins. ▒
pjb.au MIDI scripts - Various MIDI utilities and scripts
qmidiarp - MIDI arpeggiator for ALSA (◼)
QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast
qmidinet - MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast (◼)
qxgedit - Editor for MIDI System Exclusive files for XG devices. (◼)
SendMIDI - multi-platform command-line tool makes it very easy to quickly send MIDI messages to MIDI devices from your computer.
simple-sysexxer - GUI tool to create backups of the memory contents of MIDI devices
swami - MIDI instrument editor application (◼)
vmpk - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (◼)

Audio utilities - Transcoding

qwinff - GUI for FFmpeg, a powerful command-line media converter. FFmpeg can read audio and video files in various formats and convert them into other formats. (◼)
ambdec - Ambisonic decoder for first and second order (◼)
audiotools - Collection of audio handling programs for the command line (◼)
dir2ogg - audio file converter into ogg-vorbis format (◼)
ffmpeg - Tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files (◼)
gigedit - instrument editor for Gigasampler files (◼) ▒
gigtools - command line tools for Gigasampler and DLS Level 1/2 files (◼) ▒
mediainfo-gui - graphical utility for reading information from audio/video files (◼)
mediainfo - command-line utility for reading information from audio/video files (◼)
mp3diags - find issues in MP3 files and help to solve them (◼)
mp3splt-gtk - GTK interface to split MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files without reencoding (◼)
mp3val - program for MPEG audio stream validation (◼)
mplayer - movie player for Unix-like systems (◼)
sfarkxtc - Converts soundfonts from legacy sfArk v2 file format to sf2 (◼)
soundconverter - GNOME application to convert audio files into other formats (◼)
winff - graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg or avconv (◼)
zita-bls1 - binaural stereo signals converter (◼)
lame - MP3 encoding library, frontend application, and other sound analysis/convenience tools (◼)
vorbis-tools - OGG Vorbis encoder/decoder, player, information tool, and splitter (◼)
mp3info - An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor (◼)
puddletag - simple, powerful audio tag editor (◼)
Ex Falso - audio tag editor for GTK+ (◼)

Audio utilities - CD/DVD Ripping

asunder - graphical audio CD ripper and encoder (◼)
handbrake - versatile DVD ripper and video transcoder (GTK+ GUI) (◼)
sound-juicer - GNOME CD Ripper (◼)
ogmrip - Application for ripping and encoding DVD (◼)
cdparanoia - audio extraction tool for sampling CDs (◼)
yaret - console tool to turn CDs into encoded music (◼)
ripit - Textbased audio CD ripper (◼)
gramofile - transfer sound from gramophone records to CD (◼)
ripperx - GTK-based audio CD ripper/encoder (◼)
abcde - A Better CD Encoder (◼)

System utilities

System utilities - JACK

Agordejo - is a music production session manager. It is used to start your programs, remember their (JACK) interconnections and make your life easier in general. ▒
aj-snapshot - make snapshots of JACK connections (◼)
cadence - set of tools useful for audio production ▒
catia - JACK Audio Patchbay with A2J Bridge and JACK transport integration. ▒
claudia - LADISH frontend, focused at session management ▒
gjacktransport - access to the JACK's transport mechanism as touchable slider (◼)
jack-capture - program for recording soundfiles with jack (◼)
jackd2-firewire - JACK Audio Connection Kit (FFADO and FreeBoB backends) (◼)
jackd - JACK Audio Connection Kit (◼)
jack-link - JACK transport timebase bridge to Ableton Link ▒
jack_mixer - JACK Audio Mixer (◼)
jack-tools - various JACK tools: dl, record, scope, osc, plumbing, udp, play, transport (◼)
qjackctl - User interface for controlling the JACK sound server (◼)
qjackrcd - Qt4 application to record JACK server outputs (◼)
rotter - JACK client for transmission recording and audio logging (◼)
studio-controls - small application to allow setting up audio for semi-pro audio work.
zita-mu1 - organise stereo monitoring for Jack Audio Connection Kit (◼)

System utilities - ALSA

a2jmidid - Daemon for exposing legacy ALSA MIDI in JACK MIDI systems (◼)
aconnectgui - graphical ALSA sequencer connection manager
alsa-tools-gui - GUI based ALSA utilities for specific hardware (◼)
alsa-tools - Console based ALSA utilities for specific hardware (◼)
alsa-utils - Utilities for configuring and using ALSA (◼)
zita-ajbridge - alsa to jack bridge (◼)
alsa-control - GUI based ALSA default soundcard and volume configurator with Dmix, Dsnoop and Softvol support

System utilities - Firewire

ffado-mixer-qt4 - FFADO D-Bus mixer applets (QT4) (◼)
libraw1394-11 - library for direct access to IEEE 1394 bus (aka FireWire) (◼)
libraw1394-tools - library for direct access to IEEE 1394 bus (aka FireWire) (◼)

System utilities - Pipewire

pipewire - PipeWire audio and video graph processing engine (◼)

System utilities - Plugin hosts & adapters

carla/carla-git - Carla is an audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats, MIDI CC automation and OSC control. ▒
- carla-bridge-linux/win/wine32/64 - Carla bridges for loading linux / windows 32/64 bits plugins ▒
- carla-lv2/vst - audio plugin host (LV2/VST plugins) ▒
festige - graphical interface for fst and dssi-vst, allowing you to run Windows VST plugins on Linux. ▒
airwave 2016 - Airwave is a WINE-based VST bridge, that allows for the use of Windows 32- and 64-bit VST 2.4 audio plugins with Linux VST hosts
dssi-vst - Adapter for VST an VSTi audio plugins ▒
linvst - LinVst enables Windows VSTs to be used as Linux VSTs in Linux VST-capable DAWs.
mod-host - LV2 host for JACK, controllable via socket or command line ▒
synthpod - Synthpod is an LV2 host ▒
vst-bridge - VST bridge for Windows vst on Linux ▒
wineasio - Wine ASIO driver for JACK ▒
yabridge - A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2 and VST3 plugins on Linux

System utilities - Pulseaudio

paprefs - PulseAudio Preferences (◼)
pavucontrol - PulseAudio Volume Control (◼)
pavumeter - PulseAudio Volume Meter (◼)
pulseaudio-module-jack - jackd modules for PulseAudio sound server (◼)
pulseaudio-module-lirc - lirc module for PulseAudio sound server (◼)
pulseaudio-utils - Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server (◼)
pulsemixer - command-line mixer for PulseAudio with a curses interface (◼)
pulseaudio - PulseAudio sound server (◼)

System utilities - Other

jalv - tool to run LV2 plugins as stand-alone applications (◼) ▒
jalv.select - GUI to select lv2 plugs from a list and run them with jalv ▒
linux-image-rt-686-pae - Linux for modern PCs (meta-package), PREEMPT_RT
linux-image-rt-686-pae - Linux for modern PCs (meta-package), PREEMPT_RT
realtimeconfigquickscan - Linux configuration checker for systems to be used for real-time audio
rtirq-init - startup script for realtime-preempt enabled kernels (◼)
rtkit - Realtime Policy and Watchdog Daemon (◼)

System utilities - Network streaming/broadcasting

See https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted/#media-streaming for the main list

autoradio - radio automation software (◼)
gpac - GPAC Project on Advanced Content (◼)
jamulus - Low latency audio server/client for collaborative music sessions
larigira - radio automation software based on MPD
Open Broadcaster Software - recorder and streamer for live video content (◼)
vlc-bin - multimedia player and streamer (headless) (◼)
vlc - multimedia player and streamer (◼)
zita-njbridge - Jack clients to transmit multichannel audio over a local IP network (◼)

Icecast clients

darkice - Live audio streamer (◼)
DeeFuzzer - light and instant streaming client for audio and video written in Python
ezstream - easy media streaming client over icecast servers (◼)
ices2 - Ogg Vorbis streaming source for Icecast 2 (◼)
liquidsoap - audio streaming language (◼)

Lighting

D::Light - mobile, flexible solution to control modern lighting/performance technology. ©
hyperion - An opensource 'AmbiLight' implementation controlled using the RaspBerry Pi
OLA - The DMX512 standard for Digital MultipleX is used for digital communication networks commonly used to control stage lighting and effects. (◼)
Q Light Controller+ (QLC+) - a free and cross-platform software to control DMX or analog lighting systems like moving heads, dimmers, scanners etc.

Video

CGI & 3D Modeling

blender - Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer (◼)
cloudcompare - 3D point cloud and mesh processing software (◼)
Art of Illusion - 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java.
Ayam - a free 3D modelling environment for the RenderMan interface.
evolvotron - Generator of textures through interactive evolution (◼)
f3d - Fast and minimalist 3D viewer (◼)
flumotion - modern streaming media server built with a modular distributed design, giving you stability and scalability in offering high-quality streaming media.
fractalnow - Fast, advanced fractal generator (◼)
fraqtive - draws Mandelbrot and Julia fractals (◼)
geomview - interactive geometry viewing program (◼)
javamorph - Java morphing film-make program for pixel picture-input (◼)
mandelbulber2 - 3D fractal renderer and animator (◼)
meshlab - System for processing and editing triangular meshes (◼)
mm3d - OpenGL based 3D model editor (◼)
sunflow - rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis (GUI) (◼)
sweethome3d-furniture-editor - Sweet Home 3D Furniture Library Editor (◼)
sweethome3d-furniture-nonfree - Interior 2D design application with 3D preview (additional non-free furniture) (◼)
sweethome3d-furniture - Interior 2D design application with 3D preview (additional furniture) (◼)
sweethome3d-textures-editor - Sweet Home 3D Textures Library Editor (◼)
sweethome3d - Interior 2D design application with 3D preview (◼)
VSXu Artiste - create stunning open GL based audio reactive visuals.
VSXu Player - program that creates inspiring, beautiful pictures to your sound and music
wings3d - Nendo-inspired 3D polygon mesh modeller (◼)
yaprm - a free-as-in-freedom modeller to graphicaly design 3d scenes and generate POV-Ray-files for them.

Authoring

aegisub - advanced subtitle editor (◼)
devede - simple application to create Video DVDs (◼)
gnome-subtitles - Subtitle editor for the GNOME Desktop environment (◼)
subtitlecomposer - Subtitles editor for KDE (◼)
subtitleeditor - Graphical subtitle editor with sound waves representation (◼)

Signal processing/electronics

puredata - realtime computer music and graphics system (◼)
cabbage-plugins-extra - csound development toolkit plugins (LV2 & VST, Extra) ▒
cabbage-plugins - csound development toolkit plugins (LV2 & VST) ▒
camomile - a dynamic vst plugin that loads Pure Data patches
csladspa - LADSPA plugin for Csound (◼)
csound-data - data files used by the csound library (◼)
csound-utils - miscellaneous utilities for the Csound system (◼)
csound - powerful and versatile sound synthesis software (◼)
csoundqt - frontend for the csound sound processor (◼)
eteroj.lv2 - Suite of Open Sound Control implementation (OSC) LV2 plugins. ▒
IanniX - a graphical open source sequencer, based on Iannis Xenakis works, for digital art.
lcd4linux - Grabs information and displays it on an external lcd (◼)
lcdproc - LCD display driver daemon and clients (◼)
lirc - infra-red remote control support (◼)
nyquist - language for music composition and sound synthesis (◼)
pd-csound - Csound external for PureData (◼)
Room EQ Wizard -room acoustics analysis software for measuring and analysing room and loudspeaker responses.
Soundpipe - A library of high quality music DSP algorithms.
supercollider-supernova - real time audio synthesis server (multiprocessor version) (◼)
supercollider - real time audio synthesis programming language (◼)

Sample segmentation, analysis, programmable editors

aubio-tools - library for audio segmentation -- utilities (◼)
snd-gtk-jack - Powerful sound file editor that can be customized and extended using the Scheme programming language (◼)
SndBite - audio editor specialized in linguistic research, designed for breaking large recordings into smaller components with great efficiency.

Score Editors

musescore - popular professional level WYIWYG music score editor (◼)
ariamaestosa - midi tracker/editor with keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views. ▒
denemo - GTK+ front end to GNU Lilypond (◼)
impro-visor - Jazz improvisation advisor ▒
lilypond - program for typesetting sheet music (◼)
nted - Musical score editor (◼)
tuxguitar - Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player (gp3 to gp5) (◼)
tuxguitar-synth-lv2 - tuxguitar LV2 audio plugin (◼)

Media players

Graphical

audacious - small and fast audio player which supports lots of formats (◼)
clementine - modern music player and library organizer (◼)
quodlibet - audio library manager and player for GTK3 (◼)
rhythmbox - music player and organizer for GNOME (◼)
vlc - multimedia player and streamer (◼)
ario - GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) (◼)
cantata - KDE client for the music player daemon (MPD) (◼)
DeaDBeeF - Modular foobar2000-like audio player.
exaile - flexible, full-featured audio player
gnome-music - Music is the new GNOME music playing application (◼)
gpodder - podcast client and feed aggregator (◼)
lollypop - modern music player for GNOME
sonata - GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) (◼)
strawberry - audio player and music collection organizer, for of Clementine. (◼)
ymuse - GTK client for Music Player Daemon (MPD) written in Go (◼)

Command-line/TUI

cmus - lightweight ncurses audio player (◼)
moc - ncurses based console audio player (◼)
mpd - a music server/player that allows local or remote access to audio files, streams and playlists. (◼)
mpv - video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2 (◼)
adplug-utils - audio player for AdLib (OPL2) and Sound Blaster (Dual OPL2/OPL3) audio formats (◼)
gbsplay - emulates the sound hardware of the Nintendo Gameboy from .GBS module dumps (◼)
modplug-tools - command line players for modplug formats (amf, ams, mod...) (◼)
mp3blaster - Full-screen console mp3 and Ogg Vorbis player (◼)
mpg123 - Command-line MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio player (◼)
opencubicplayer - UNIX port of Open Cubic Player (◼)

Metapackages

multimedia-ambisonics - Packages for working with ambisonics (3D surround sound) (◼)
multimedia-audio-plugins - Audio processing plugins, synths and virtual instruments (◼)
multimedia-devel - Extra packages for developers and package compiling (◼)
multimedia-djing - DJ packages. (◼)
multimedia-drums - Packages for drums & beats (◼)
multimedia-firewire - Packages for your firewire audiocard / interface (◼)
multimedia-graphics - Packages for making and editing artwork (◼)
multimedia-guitar - Packages for playing with your (virtual) guitar gear (◼)
multimedia-jack - JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit) and ALSA related packages (◼)
multimedia-ladi - LADI, Linuxaudio session management, packages (◼)
multimedia-looping - Packages for looping music and audio (◼)
multimedia-midi - MIDI related packages (◼)
multimedia-mixing - Packages for mixing and mastering your music (◼)
multimedia-musiciantools - Packages for musicians (◼)
multimedia-players - Packages which makes your multimedia tools complete (◼)
multimedia-recording - Packages for audio recording (◼)
multimedia-samplers - Software samplers (◼)
multimedia-soundsynthesis - Packages for sound synthesis (◼)
multimedia-tasks - Debian Multimedia tasks for tasksel (◼)
multimedia-video - Video packages (◼)
kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins- KXStudio meta-packages - Audio plugins
kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins-collection - KXStudio meta-packages - Collection of good audio plugins
kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins-dssi - KXStudio meta-packages - DSSI plugins
kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins-ladspa - KXStudio meta-packages - LADSPA plugins
kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins-lv2 - KXStudio meta-packages - LV2 plugins
kxstudio-meta-audio-plugins-vst - KXStudio meta-packages - VST plugins

Linux Distributions

KXStudio - KXStudio is a collection of applications and plugins for professional audio production. KXStudio provides Debian and Ubuntu compatible repositories and its own Linux Distribution currently based on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS.
DidJiX
Tango Studio
Ubuntu Studio

SAMPLES/PRESETS/RESOURCES

Musical Artifacts - Helping to catalogue, preserve and free the artifacts you need to produce music.
Freesound - a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.
CCMixter - Search engine for Creative Commons multimedia content
Freepats project - Free and open instrument sets, samples, sound synthesis, music...
LMMS assets - Samples, presets, projects and patches for LMMS

DOCUMENTATION

Other Software Lists

Linux Audio Wiki - All apps
LinuxMusic.Rocks - Searcheable Linux compatible Plugin database
Linux Software on KVR Audio
linuxdaw.org - list of quality audio software for Linux
Awesome Linux Software (audio section)
Comparison of free software for audio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LV2 Plugins list
awesome-juce - A curated list of JUCE modules, templates and plugins
Wine-VST - Some VSTs tested under Linux with Wine and LinVst.
Fedora packages for Music/Audio

Documentation/Blogs

Libre Music Production - News, articles, tutorials, interviews, tools, resources...
Linux MAO Wiki (fr)
Linux Audio Wiki
KXStudio Manual - a good introduction to Linux Audio in general.
Linuxaudio.org
ALSA Hardware Compatibility list
alsa.opensrc.org Wiki (Source)
JACK Audio Wiki
CommandLineFu - commands tagged audio
Debian Wiki - Multimedia
Arch Wiki - List of Applications

Communities/Forums

IRC channels on the Freenode Network: #lad, #lau, ##linuxaudio, and #opensourcemusicians
Linux Audio Mailing lists: Users, Developers, System Tuning, Announces
/r/linuxaudio - Music and Audio on the Linux platform [RSS]
Linux Audio Blogs/Planet [RSS]
LinuxMusicians forum
audio4linux Forum (de)
Linux Lighting Group - Lighting Hardware and Software for Linux and similar platforms.

CONTRIBUTING

See CONTRIBUTING.md

MIRRORS

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