awesome-linuxaudio

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

This list is provided to help you build your own GNU/Linux based A/V production environment. 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.

Software
SAMPLES/PRESETS/RESOURCES
DOCUMENTATION
CONTRIBUTING
MIRRORS
LICENSE

Software

DAW/Sequencers

ardour - Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and Multichannel Hard Disk Recorder (HDR) (◼) ▒
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) ©
BespokeSynth - software modular synthesizer. (◼)
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. ▒
lmms - Linux Multimedia Studio (◼) ▒
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.
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 (◼)
vcvrack - Open-source virtual Eurorack DAW ▒
Zrythm - A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation
1BITDRAGON - easy to use sample based sequencer. Rhythm Generators, arpeggiators, MIDI/WAV export. ©

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

Ami-Sampler-VST - VSTi 8-bit Sampler inspired by the sound of the famous Commodore Amiga for Windows/MacOS/Linux using VST3/AU/LV2
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 (◼) ▒
drumlabooh - LV2/VSTi drum machine that can use Hydrogen, SFZ, and own drumkit formats
freewheeling - live looping musical instrument (◼)
giada - hardcore loop machine (◼) ▒
hydrogen-drumkits-effects - collection of unusual drumkits for Hydrogen (◼) ▒
hydrogen-drumkits - drumkits for Hydrogen (◼) ▒
hydrogen - advanced drum machine/step sequencer (◼)
JAMin - Audio mastering from a mixed down multitrack source with JACK. (◼)
Just-a-Sample - Just a Sample is a modern, open-source audio sampler
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. ©
samplv1 - Polyphonic sampler synthesizer. (◼)
sfizz - SFZ sampler and synth (library, AU/LV2/VST3 plugins and JACK standalone).
shoopdaloop - A (live) looping application with DAW elements.
sooperlooper-lv2 - Looping sampler plugin. ▒
sooperlooper - Looping sampler. (◼)
soundux - A cross-platform soundboard
SpectMorph - analyze samples of musical instruments, and combine them (morphing).
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

Effects/Processing - Collections

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 (◼)
ardour-lv2-plugins - Set of LV2 plugins provided by Ardour. (◼)
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
calf-plugins - Calf Studiogear - audio effects and sound generators (◼)
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. (◼)
Chow Centaur - digital emulation of the Klon Centaur guitar pedal
Chow Matrix - infinitely growable delay effect, with complex internal modulation and feedback. With extra features including pitch-shifting, diffusion, and distortion
Chow Phaser - digital phaser effect originally inspired by the Schulte Compact Phasing 'A'
Chow Tape Model - digital emulation of a reel-to-reel analog tape machine. The original algorithm was developed to emulate the Sony TC-260
ChowDSP VCV - several modules for VCV Rack, including ports of ChowTape and ChowPhaser. Other modules include distortion effects, modal filters, and more
cmt - a collection of LADSPA plugins (◼) ▒
dpf-plugins - audio plugin collection from DISTRHO ▒
drowaudio-plugins - dRowAudio Plugins (LV2 & VST) ▒
fomp - 1 auto-wah, 1 EQ, 3 chorus, 5 filters, and 3 oscillators LV2 plugins. (◼) ▒
freaked-plugins - Granulator, pre-delay, reverb tail and distortion LV2 Plugins ▒
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 ▒
Linux Studio Plugins (LSP) - Collection of Open Source LV2/LADSPA/VST/standalone audio processing applications. (◼)
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 (◼) ▒
tal-plugins - Togu Audio Line Plugins (Dub-3, Filter/-2, Reverb/-2/-3, Vocoder-2) ▒
tap-plugins - Tom's Audio Processing LADSPA plugins (◼) ▒
ToneTwistPlugs - Multi-format audio effect 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

Effects/Processing - EQ

eq10q - LV2 equalizer (◼) ▒
fil-plugins - parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin (◼) ▒
luftikus-lv2 - analog modeled equalizer (LV2) ▒
luftikus-vst - analog modeled equalizer (VST) ▒

Effects/Processing - Other

SmoothIR - Creating impulse responses through spectral matching of two audio files.
abgate - LV2 noise gate plugin (◼)
- gxplugins - extra lv2 plugins from the guitarix project ▒
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-lv2 - Bandlimited LADSPA oscillator plugins ported to LV2. (◼) ▒
blop - Bandlimited wavetable-based oscillator plugins for LADSPA hosts. (◼) ▒
centered - this plugin automatically pans the input signal such that it's centered in the stereo field
creox - a real-time sound/effects processor.
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) (◼) ▒
gxvoxtonebender - Fuzz Tonebender LV2 plugin ▒
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-lv2 - pitch-shifting delay (LV2) ▒
pitcheddelay-vst - pitch-shifting delay (VST) ▒
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 (◼)
Schroeder - Modeled reverb based on Schroeder reverberator. ©
sonic - Simple utility to speed up or slow down speech (◼)
soundstretch - Stretches and pitch-shifts sound independently (◼)
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) ▒
vocproc - LV2 plugin for pitch shifting and vocoding (◼)
wah-plugins - auto-wah 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

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

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

ob-xd - Open source version of OB-Xd
amsynth - Two oscillator software synthesizer. (◼)
monique-monosynth - monophonic synth from the surge-synth-team family of products
blepvco - LADSPA, minBLEP-based, hard-sync-capable oscillator plugins. (◼) ▒
bristol - Vintage synthesizer emulator. (◼)
cursynth - Cursynth is a polyphonic music synthesizer that runs graphically inside your terminal. ▒
discovery pro - Virtual Analog synthesizer + sampler. ©
discovery - Virtual Analog synthesizer. ©
helm - Polyphonic synthesizer. ▒
monobristol - Simple GUI for Bristol. (◼)
ob-xd - OB-Xd is based on the Oberheim OB-X. ▒
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 (◼) ▒
juce-opl - Emulation of the Yamaha OPL sound chip used in PC sound cards from the 90s. ▒
OPL - The OPL is a digital sound synthesis chip developed by Yamaha in the mid 1980s ▒

Synthesizers - Wavetable

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

Synthesizers - Other

argotlunar - Realtime granulator LV2/VST plugin
Chow Kick - kick drum synthesizer based on creative physical modelling of old drum machine circuits
din - digital audio synthesizer (◼)
drmr - An LV2 sampler plugin that (currently) plays hydrogen drum kits ▒
drumkv1 - old-school drum-kit sampler (◼) ▒
fabla - Fabla drum sampler plugin instrument ▒
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 (◼) ▒
foo-yc20-vst - VST implementation of a 1969 designed Yamaha combo organ, the YC-20. ▒
geonkick - synthesizer capable of generating a wide range of percussive sounds
gmorgan - MIDI rhythm station emulator software
linuxwave - Generate music from the entropy of Linux.
Odin 2 - powerful 24-voice polyphonic virtual analog synthesizer with multiple oscillator types LV2/VST3/CLAP
organteq - Physically modelled pipe organ. ©
paraphrasis - spectral modeling synthesizer
pianoteq - Virtual piano based on physical modeling of real instruments. ©
qsynth - fluidsynth MIDI sound synthesiser front-end (◼)
qwertone - Simple music synthesizer app (like a toy-piano), but based on usual qwerty-keyboard for input. (◼)
sointu - modular software synthesizer for small intros.
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 ©
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. ©
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 (◼)

Synthesizers - Modular

ams-lv2 - set of Voltage Controlled LV2 modules for Ingen ▒
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. ▒
mcp-plugins - LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth (◼) ▒
omins - collection of LADSPA plugins aimed at modular synthesizers (◼)
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

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 (◼)
noise-repellent - plugins for broadband noise reduction.
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 (◼)
soundcraft-utils - Linux Utilities for Soundcraft Mixers. (◼)
sox - Swiss army knife of sound processing (◼)
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). (◼)

Audio utilities - Meters & Analysis

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 (◼)
easyssp-lv2 - audio visualization plugin (spectrometer/goniometer) (LV2) ▒
easyssp-lv2 - audio visualization plugin (spectrometer/goniometer) (VST) ▒
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
Scope - Simple oscilloscope ©
siggen - a set of tools for imitating a laboratory Signal Generator, generating audio signals out of Linux's /dev/dsp audio device. (◼)
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

abcmidi - converter from ABC to MIDI format and back (◼)
arpage - MIDI Arpeggiator w/ JACK Tempo Sync. ▒
gmidimonitor - GTK application that shows MIDI events (◼)
jack-keyboard - Virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI (◼)
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
mamba - Virtual Midi keyboard and Midi Live Looper.
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 ▒
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 (◼)
timidity - Software sound renderer (MIDI sequencer, MOD player) (◼)
vmpk - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (◼)

Audio utilities - Transcoding

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 (◼)
Ex Falso - audio tag editor for GTK+ (◼)
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 (◼) ▒
lame - MP3 encoding library, frontend application, and other sound analysis/convenience tools (◼)
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 (◼)
mp3info - An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor (◼)
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 (◼)
polyphone - cross-platform SoundFont editor. (◼)
puddletag - simple, powerful audio tag editor (◼)
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. (◼)
sfarkxtc - Converts soundfonts from legacy sfArk v2 file format to sf2 (◼)
soundconverter - GNOME application to convert audio files into other formats (◼)
vorbis-tools - OGG Vorbis encoder/decoder, player, information tool, and splitter (◼)
winff - graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg or avconv (◼)
zita-bls1 - binaural stereo signals converter (◼)

Audio utilities - CD/DVD Ripping

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

System utilities

System utilities - JACK

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_mixer - JACK Audio Mixer (◼)
jack-capture - program for recording soundfiles with jack (◼)
jack-link - JACK transport timebase bridge to Ableton Link ▒
jack-tools - various JACK tools: dl, record, scope, osc, plumbing, udp, play, transport (◼)
jackd - JACK Audio Connection Kit (◼)
jackd2-firewire - JACK Audio Connection Kit (FFADO and FreeBoB backends) (◼)
patachance - Jack Patchbay GUI.
qjackctl - User interface for controlling the JACK sound server (◼)
qjackrcd - Qt4 application to record JACK server outputs (◼)
RaySession - Session manager for linux musical programs.
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-control - GUI based ALSA default soundcard and volume configurator with Dmix, Dsnoop and Softvol support
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 (◼)
qasmixer - ALSA mixer for the desktop. (◼)
zita-ajbridge - alsa to jack bridge (◼)

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

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
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) ▒
carla/carla-git - Carla is an audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats, MIDI CC automation and OSC control. ▒
dssi-vst - Adapter for VST an VSTi audio plugins ▒
festige - graphical interface for fst and dssi-vst, allowing you to run Windows VST plugins on Linux. ▒
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 (◼)
pulseaudio - PulseAudio sound server (◼)
pulsemixer - command-line mixer for PulseAudio with a curses interface (◼)

System utilities - Other

jalv.select - GUI to select lv2 plugs from a list and run them with jalv ▒
jalv - tool to run LV2 plugins as stand-alone applications (◼) ▒
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
pwvucontrol - Pipewire Volume Control.
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 (◼)
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 (◼)
gpac - GPAC Project on Advanced Content (◼)
ices2 - Ogg Vorbis streaming source for Icecast 2 (◼)
jamulus - Low latency audio server/client for collaborative music sessions
larigira - radio automation software based on MPD
liquidsoap - audio streaming language (◼)
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 (◼)

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

See also Linux4VJs VJ tools

auto-editor - a program for automatically editing video and audio by analyzing a variety of methods, most notably audio loudness. (◼)
Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve - editing, color correction and professional audio post production, all in a single application ©
CasparCG Server - professional software used to play out and record professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs.for broadcast production (◼)
CHDK - Canon Hack Development Kit
cinelerra - Cinema Production Software
delvj - a cyborg video jockey extension for pure data processing
dvgrab - grab digital video data via IEEE1394 and USB links (◼)
flowblade - Free & Libre multitrack non-linear video editor (◼)
frei0r-plugins - minimalistic plugin API for video effects, plugins collection (◼)
Gephex - modular video jockey software
glmixer - Graphic Live Mixer
kdenlive - non-linear video editor (◼)
lives - Video Editing system allowing users to edit and create video (◼)
Luz Studio - A live motion graphics editor and performer.
Magic Lantern Firmware - a software enhancement that offers increased functionality to the excellent Canon DSLR cameras.
mistserver - Live or Video on Demand streaming media server that works well in any streaming environment
Moviepy - Python module for video editing, which can be used for basic operations (like cuts, concatenations, title insertions), video compositing (a.k.a. non-linear editing), video processing, or to create advanced effects.
nageru - live video mixer, takes in inputs from one or more video cards, mixes them together and outputs a high-quality H.264 stream over TCP (◼)
Natron - Cross-platform open-source compositing software, used to produce visual effects.
olive - Professional open-source NLE video editor (◼)
openshot - Create and edit videos and movies (◼)
pitivi - non-linear audio/video editor using GStreamer (◼)
pydub - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface http://pydub.com
Shotcut - a free, open source, cross-platform video editor (◼)
synaesthesia - Program for representing sounds visually
Syncplay - Synchronize playback of various video players via internet. (◼)
Veejay - realtime video sequencer and effects processor
vid.stab - Video stabilization library
xdmx - distributed multihead X server
xjadeo - Video player with JACK sync (◼)

CGI & 3D Modeling

Art of Illusion - 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java.
Ayam - a free 3D modelling environment for the RenderMan interface.
blender - Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer (◼)
cloudcompare - 3D point cloud and mesh processing software (◼)
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

Sample segmentation, analysis, programmable editors.

aubio-tools - library for audio segmentation -- utilities (◼)
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 (◼)
plugdata - Plugin wrapper around Pure Data to allow patching in a wide selection of DAWs.
puredata - realtime computer music and graphics system (◼)
Room EQ Wizard -room acoustics analysis software for measuring and analysing room and loudspeaker responses.
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.
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 (◼)

Score Editors

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 (◼)
musescore - popular professional level WYIWYG music score editor (◼)
nted - Musical score editor (◼)
tuxguitar-synth-lv2 - tuxguitar LV2 audio plugin (◼)
tuxguitar - Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player (gp3 to gp5) (◼)

Media players

Media players - Graphical interfaces

ario - GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) (◼)
audacious - small and fast audio player which supports lots of formats (◼)
cantata - KDE client for the music player daemon (MPD) (◼)
clementine - modern music player and library organizer (◼)
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
quodlibet - audio library manager and player for GTK3 (◼)
rhythmbox - music player and organizer for GNOME (◼)
sonata - GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) (◼)
strawberry - audio player and music collection organizer, for of Clementine. (◼)
vlc - multimedia player and streamer (◼)
ymuse - GTK client for Music Player Daemon (MPD) written in Go (◼)

Media players - Command-line interfaces/TUI

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

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.
Ubuntu Studio

SAMPLES/PRESETS/RESOURCES

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

DOCUMENTATION

CONTRIBUTING

See CONTRIBUTING.md

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
.gitignore		.gitignore
.gitlab-ci.yml		.gitlab-ci.yml
AUTHORS		AUTHORS
CONTRIBUTING.md		CONTRIBUTING.md
LICENSE		LICENSE
Makefile		Makefile
README.md		README.md
logo.png		logo.png
logo.svg		logo.svg
utils.sh		utils.sh

Latest commit

History

Folders and files

Repository files navigation