Table of Contents
Misc
Ambisonics
| Page | Description | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Almus VCU Makes a computer equipped with a multi-channel sound card into a real-time versatile convolver unit. convolution dsp ambisonics | Convolution, dsp, Ambisonics | ||
| AMB-Plugins Plugins for first order Ambisonics B-format. ladspa_plugin ambisonics | LADSPA plugin, Ambisonics | ||
| AmbDec An Ambisonic decoder for first and second order. * 1st, 2nd and 3rd order 2-D or 3-D decoding. * Up to 36 speakers (could be extended). * Optiona… | Ambisonics, JACK | ||
| Ambisonics csound_helper ambisonics | CSound Helper, Ambisonics | ||
| Ambisonics Player ambisonics | Ambisonics | ||
| Non-Mixer The Non Mixer is a powerful, reliable and fast modular Digital Audio Mixer, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It utilizes the JACK… | Mixers, JACK, FLTK, LADSPA Host, Open Sound Control (OSC), Ambisonics, Non Session Management | ||
| TetraProc / TetraCal TetraProc converts the A-format signals from a tetrahedral Ambisonic microphone into B-format signals ready for recording. Main features: … | JACK, Ambisonics | ||
| zita-rev1 A reworked version of the reverb originally developed for Aeolus effects_processors reverb_delay ambisonics | Effects Processors, Reverb/Delay, Ambisonics |
Binaural/Brainwave
| Page | Description | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AutoZen binaural_brainwave | Binaural/Brainwave | ||
| Gnaural binaural_brainwave | Binaural/Brainwave | ||
| GuineaPig2 unmaintained binaural_brainwave | Unmaintained projects, Binaural/Brainwave | ||
| SBaGen binaural_brainwave | Binaural/Brainwave |
Game related
| Page | Description | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux Games Reviews/listings/videos of games for linux game_things and_now_for_something_rather_different on-line_articles | Game Things, Not software, On-line articles | ||
| MAME the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, supports sound & music game_things | Game Things | ||
| PSG Player a program for playing Atari tunes unmaintained game_things | Unmaintained projects, Game Things | ||
| Sidplay2 emulates the soundchip of the Commodore C64 game_things | Game Things | ||
| Snes9x Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator with sound support game_things | Game Things | ||
| TinySID game_things | Game Things | ||
| TuxNES emulates the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System, with experimental support for sound game_things | Game Things | ||
| Virtual GameBoy emulates the popular Nintendo game console game_things | Game Things |
Graphics and Sound
| Page | Description | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bomb Displays animated organic graphics in response to the PC keyboard, audio music, or on its own. graphic_i_o | Graphic I/O | ||
| Cthugha Takes sound input from a CD, stereo, or microphone and displays colorful animated graphics synced to the sound. graphic_i_o | Graphic I/O | ||
| fluxus * <http://www.pawfal.org/Software/fluxus/> * <http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/> A small realtime render engine for Linux that generates animation from… | JACK, Graphic I/O | ||
| rmsps graphic_i_o | Graphic I/O | ||
| Synaesthesia graphic_i_o | Graphic I/O | ||
| Waveform Draws and exports function graphs for use with audio programs and exports WAV files. graphic_i_o | Graphic I/O |
Loudspeaker Design
| Page | Description | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSpeakers GTK loudspeaker design program speaker_design | Speaker Design | ||
| KFilter speaker_design | Speaker Design | ||
| QLoud Measure loudspeaker frequency and step responses and distortions. Other hardware such an audio amplifier or a sound card itself can be tested also. spea… | Speaker Design | ||
| qspeakers DIY speakers design software written with the Qt graphical toolkit and Qwt. This program simulates common acoustical enclosures behaviour in the mean… | Speaker Design |
MOD Trackers/Players
Recommended: ProTrekkr, Milkytracker
| Page | Description | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AdLib-S3M Player Subroutines for playing Adlib-S3M or MidiS3M files in a QuickBasic program. mod_trackers_and_players | MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| BassMOD mod_trackers_and_players | MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| Buzz Tracker On Linux mod_trackers_and_players howtos_and_faqs and_now_for_something_rather_different | MOD Trackers/Players, HOWTOs and FAQs, Not software | ||
| CheeseTracker QT-based module tracker with support for LADSPA effects and multiple sound formats. jack ladspa mod_trackers_and_players | JACK, LADSPA Host, MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| chibitracker 64-tracks tracker with many features, including builtin sample editor, sound effects (reverb, chorus), themeable SDL-based GUI and importing other… | MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| FunktrackerGOLD mod_trackers_and_players unmaintained | MOD Trackers/Players, Unmaintained projects | ||
| GModplay mod_trackers_and_players | MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| insoTracker mod_trackers_and_players unmaintained | MOD Trackers/Players, Unmaintained projects | ||
| klystrack klystrack is a little chiptune (8-bit style music) composing tool that uses klystron. It is comparable to AHX on the Amiga. mod_trackers_and_players | MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| MikMod classic MOD player for Linux with curses or X interface (Be sure to check out this page as well !) mod_trackers_and_players | MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| Milkytracker Module tracker inspired by Fast Tracker 2. An open source, multi-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. mod_trackers_… | MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| MODPlug Player popular MOD player now for Linux's own XMMS mod_trackers_and_players | MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| ProTrekkr - An audio tracker, sampler, synth ProTrekkr (formerly known as NoiseTrekker by Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius) is a tracker program combining a softwar… | MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| S3MOD MOD/S3M module player unmaintained mod_trackers_and_players | Unmaintained projects, MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| Schism Tracker Reimplementation of Impulse Tracker. Runs on almost any platform that SDL supports. mod_trackers_and_players | MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| SkaleTracker mod_trackers_and_players | MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| SoundTracker mod_trackers_and_players | MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| The MOD Archive mod_trackers_and_players and_now_for_something_rather_different | MOD Trackers/Players, Not software | ||
| UADE mod_trackers_and_players | MOD Trackers/Players | ||
| United Trackers mod_trackers_and_players and_now_for_something_rather_different other_webpages | MOD Trackers/Players, Not software, Other Sound Webpages | ||
| xmp mod_trackers_and_players | MOD Trackers/Players |
Network Audio
| Page | Description | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Linux Media Players: Which is the Best Fit? network_audio and_now_for_something_rather_different on-line_articles video_software | Network Audio, Not software, On-line articles, Video Software | ||
| darkice mpeg_players_and_encoders network_audio jack | MPEG Player/Encoder, Network Audio, JACK | ||
| Freecast oggvorbis network_audio | OggVorbis, Network Audio | ||
| GStreamer network_audio development | Network Audio, Development | ||
| GStreamer Pipeline Editor requires GStreamer network_audio development | Network Audio, Development | ||
| Helix DNA Producer network_audio development | Network Audio, Development | ||
| Icecast * <http://www.icecast.org/> is an MP3 audio broadcasting system icecast network_audio | icecast, Network Audio | ||
| jammr Play online jam sessions network_audio !- preferred date format: YYYY-MM-DD -! | Network Audio | ||
| javashout Java app for shouting MP3s to a Shoutcast server network_audio | Network Audio | ||
| mod_mp3 network_audio | Network Audio | ||
| MozPlugger autoplay embedded audio and MIDI files in the Mozilla Web browser network_audio | Network Audio | ||
| MP3SB perl script that acts as a network interface to the rxaudio or a patched version of mpg123 player mpeg_players_and_encoders network_audio | MPEG Player/Encoder, Network Audio | ||
| MPD server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protoco… | Network Audio | ||
| MPEG4IP provides an end to end system to stream MPEG-4 multimedia. network_audio | Network Audio | ||
| MuSE network_audio | Network Audio | ||
| NAS network_audio | Network Audio | ||
| ninjam network jam session software network_audio | Network Audio | ||
| pongserver client/server programs that talk to one another about the current location of the client objects in the server's playing field unmaintained netwo… | Unmaintained projects, Network Audio | ||
| R-BOSS the Radio Broadcasting Open Source System, a project from Radio Free Asia network_audio and_now_for_something_rather_different documentation | Network Audio, Not software, Resources and Support | ||
| RadioSuite HD a Linux-based hard-disk storage system (hard/software) for high-performance network broadcasting network_audio | Network Audio | ||
| RPlay feature-rich UDP/TCP network audio system network_audio | Network Audio | ||
| Shoutcast network_audio | Network Audio | ||
| ShoutCastProxy Shoutcast multiplexer, lets multiple clients listen to the same ShoutCast session using only single-client bandwidth. network_audio unmaintaine… | Network Audio, Unmaintained projects | ||
| Snake dance: The Kamaelia streaming media system a description from Daniel James on-line_articles network_audio | On-line articles, Network Audio | ||
| Streaming Media With Linux in-depth article on using software for both the client and server sides on-line_articles_by_dave_phillips network_audio howtos_an… | On-line Dave Phillips, Network Audio, HOWTOs and FAQs | ||
| streamixer network_audio | Network Audio | ||
| VLC Media Player a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, a… | Network Audio, Simple Player, Video Software | ||
| WWR World Wide Radio, a low-bandwidth Internet radio client/server network_audio | Network Audio | ||
| Zinf simple powerful audio player formerly known as FreeAMP, supports MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV and CD audio, SHOUTcast/Icecast HTTP streaming players mpeg_playe… | Simple Player, MPEG Player/Encoder, Network Audio |
Radio
| Page | Description | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campcaster A free and open source automation system for radio stations. Campcaster is currently undergoing rebranding. Campcaster 1.5 will be available end of… | Radio | ||
| HamFax * <http://hamfax.sourceforge.net/> sends and receives faxes broadcast over amateur radio frequencies radio | Radio | ||
| KDE Radio KDE program to control Video4Linux radio cards radio | Radio | ||
| LinRadio radio | Radio | ||
| Radio Timeshifting How to do it with ecasound ecasound radio and_now_for_something_rather_different howtos_and_faqs | ecasound, Radio, Not software, HOWTOs and FAQs | ||
| RadioActive radio application for Video4Linux-compatible radio tuner cards radio unmaintained | Radio, Unmaintained projects | ||
| Rivendell a complete radio broadcast automation solution radio jack | Radio, JACK | ||
| Rotter “Recording of Transmission/Audio Logger”, logging software for radio stations, requires JACK radio jack | Radio, JACK | ||
| Tempest for Eliza radio | Radio |
Speech
| Page | Description | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| comp.speech Speech FAQ speech_software and_now_for_something_rather_different howtos_and_faqs | Speech software, Not software, HOWTOs and FAQs | ||
| Emacspeak speech_software | Speech software | ||
| Emu speech_software unmaintained | Speech software, Unmaintained projects | ||
| Festival speech synthesis system Related: development speech_software | Development, Speech software | ||
| Festvox suite of tools for building synthesized voices for Festival. festival speech_software | festival, Speech software | ||
| Flite light-weight alternative to Festival for voices built using Festvox. festival speech_software | festival, Speech software | ||
| FreeTTS festival speech_software java | festival, Speech software, JAVA software | ||
| Jovie KDE text-to-speech synthesis system speech_software | Speech software | ||
| KPE80 klatt speech_software | klatt, Speech software | ||
| LiarLiar speech_software | Speech software | ||
| MBRDICO talking dictionary using MBROLA for speech synth mbrola speech_software | mbrola, Speech software | ||
| MBROLA easy-to-use CLI speech synthesis project Related: speech_software | Speech software | ||
| Open Mind Speech speech_software | Speech software | ||
| Praat * dissertation writing * <http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/> “...a comprehensive speech analysis, synthesis, and manipulation package” for phoneticia… | Speech software | ||
| rsynth speech_software | Speech software | ||
| rsynth on SourceForge speech_software | Speech software | ||
| SFS (see FTP archive for UNIX/Linux versions) speech_software | Speech software | ||
| Speech Links and_now_for_something_rather_different speech_software | Not software, Speech software | ||
| speechd-el Emacs speech output interface. uses rsynth. speech_software | Speech software | ||
| Speex speech_software | Speech software | ||
| Sphinx speech_software | Speech software | ||
| TkFestival Tk GUI for Festival. festival speech_software | festival, Speech software | ||
| Voxpak speech_software | Speech software | ||
| XVoice speech_software | Speech software |
Telephony & A/V Conferencing
Recommended: Ekiga
| Page | Description | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asterisk * <http://www.asterisk.org/> open-source PBX for Linux, from Mark Spencer and others telephony_and_a_v_conferencing | Telephony & A/V Conferencing | ||
| Bayonne the GNU voice server/telephony project telephony_and_a_v_conferencing | Telephony & A/V Conferencing | ||
| Ekiga * <http://www.gnomemeeting.org/> formerly GnomeMeeting), videoconferencing/VOIP telephony application that makes audio/video calls to users with H.323… | Telephony & A/V Conferencing | ||
| erikyyyphone * <http://www.erikyyy.de/erikyyyphone/> Internet audio conferencing application, uses very little bandwith and handles network lags intelligent… | Telephony & A/V Conferencing, Unmaintained projects | ||
| FreePhone * <http://www-sop.inria.fr/rodeo/fphone/> Internet telephony tool from INRIA telephony_and_a_v_conferencing | Telephony & A/V Conferencing | ||
| I Hear U a Voice over IP (VoIP) application for Linux (using Qt), that creates an audio stream between two computers easily and with the minimal traffic on the… | Telephony & A/V Conferencing | ||
| Intercom “a simple voice over IP (VoIP) utility” unmaintained telephony_and_a_v_conferencing | Unmaintained projects, Telephony & A/V Conferencing | ||
| JVOIPLIB telephony_and_a_v_conferencing unmaintained development | Telephony & A/V Conferencing, Unmaintained projects, Development | ||
| KPhone * <http://sourceforge.net/projects/kphone/> “... is a SIP user agent for Linux, with which you can initiate VoIP connections over the Internet” te… | Telephony & A/V Conferencing | ||
| linphone * <http://www.linphone.org/> more VoIP for Linux, from Simon Morlat telephony_and_a_v_conferencing | Telephony & A/V Conferencing | ||
| SUMOVER formerly the Robust Audio Tool, open-source streaming audio and conferencing software from UCL telephony_and_a_v_conferencing unmaintained | Telephony & A/V Conferencing, Unmaintained projects | ||
| Whisper modular software for handling local or remote data streams, includes a VoIP application telephony_and_a_v_conferencing unmaintained | Telephony & A/V Conferencing, Unmaintained projects |
Test tone
Recommended: JAAA
| Page | Description | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GtkSigGen signal_generators | Signal Generators | ||
| JAAA the JACK & ALSA Audio Analyser, an audio signal generator and spectrum analyser jack signal_generators | JACK, Signal Generators | ||
| jnoise A command line JACK app generating accurate white and pink noise with Gaussian amplitude distribution. jack signal_generators | JACK, Signal Generators | ||
| saugns saugns implements the SAU (Scriptable AUdio) language, and is a command-line parser, player, and WAV file writer for SAU scripts. It makes it easy to wr… | Synthesis/Composition Tools, Signal Generators, oss, alsa, sndio | ||
| tonegen Command-line app plays a test tone. Uses OSS (not ALSA or JACK). signal_generators | Signal Generators | ||
| Yoshimi Yoshimi is a software synthesizer, a live soft-DSP audio signal generator. It receives MIDI signals as input either from ALSA MIDI or JACK, and sends d… | JACK, JACK MIDI, FLTK, Soft Synths/Samplers, ladish L1, JACK Session, Signal Generators, Synthesis/Composition Tools, MIDI Software |
Other
| Page | Description | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aliki software for room impulse response measurement jack utilities dsp | JACK, Utilities, dsp | ||
| ameter An Alsa meter plugin for Linux audio softwares, with a graphical display This program aims at giving level metering capability to Linux Alsa audio prog… | Utilities | ||
| ATSH dsp utilities unmaintained | dsp, Utilities, Unmaintained projects | ||
| audiobrowse.bash simple commandline audio preview of directories for sample-artists / musician and producers Because deadsimple audition of directories with sa… | bookmark, Simple Player, Soundfile utility, Utilities | ||
| BeatRoot java utilities | JAVA software, Utilities | ||
| Calf Studio Gear Calf Studio Gear is an audio plug-in pack for LV2 and JACK environments under LINUX operating systems. The suite contains 47 effects (delay, m… | LV2 Plugins, LASH, JACK MIDI, JACK, Soft Synths/Samplers, Effects Processors, LV2 Host, MIDI Software, Audio Plugin Systems, Filters, General Synthesis Packages, Soundfonts and Related, Reverb/Delay, Utilities | ||
| Claudia Session Management Overview Claudia is a powerful GUI frontend for the ladish session manager and is part of the KXStudio project. Claudia has more f… | ladish L1, JACK Session, Utilities, LASH | ||
| Das_Watchdog monitors realtime processes so they won't hang your machine. Based on rt_watchdog, but has some more features and only turns off realtime priority… | Unmaintained projects, Utilities | ||
| GJackTransport GJackTransport is a standalone application that provides access to the Jack Audio Connection Kit's, JACK transport mechanism via a dynamic graph… | JACK Transport, JACK, Utilities | ||
| HASAS unmaintained utilities | Unmaintained projects, Utilities | ||
| IRMix mixers utilities | Mixers, Utilities | ||
| JACK bitmeter JACK bitmeter is a diagnostic utility for JACK. As its name might suggest, the bitmeter operates at the bare metal of JACK's I/O layer, looking a… | Utilities, JACK | ||
| jack_delay This is a small command line JACK app you can use to measure the latency of your sound card. It uses a phase measurements on a set of tones to measu… | JACK, Utilities | ||
| jackctlmmc / QJackMMC Control JACK transport using Midi Machine Control (MMC) <http://jackctlmmc.sourceforge.net> jack_transport alsa_seq lash midi_software u… | JACK Transport, ALSA sequencer, LASH, MIDI Software, Utilities, JACK | ||
| jalv.select A little gtkmm GUI to select lv2 plugs from a list and run them with jalv. Features: select jalv interpreter from combo box, select LV2 plugin fr… | LV2 Host, JACK, Utilities | ||
| Jnoisemeter a small Jack/GUI app for measuring noise levels to various standards jack utilities | JACK, Utilities | ||
| Kasound Qt app lets you easily create the ALSA .asoundrc file. primary_resources sound_cards_and_drivers utilities | Primary Resources, Sound Cards & Drivers, Utilities | ||
| latency test analyzes scheduling latencies of programs running in realtime under high system loads unmaintained utilities | Unmaintained projects, Utilities | ||
| LSA * <https://github.com/mrkkrp/lsa> is LSA, a command similar to Unix LS, but for listing properties of audio files. This is minimal, lightweight, consol… | Utilities | ||
| QAMix mixers utilities | Mixers, Utilities | ||
| RaySession Session Management Overview RaySession is a GNU/Linux session manager for audio programs such as Ardour, Carla, QTractor, Guitarix, Patroneo etc...… | Non Session Management, session manager, JACK Session, Utilities, LASH | ||
| rt_watchdog Florian Schmidt's “watchdog daemon that kills runaway SCHED_FIFO tasks” utilities | Utilities | ||
| RTS Tools tools for setting and getting realtime priority utilities | Utilities | ||
| Sample Calculators * <http://mp3.deepsound.net/eng/samples_calculs.php> very useful on-line calculators for time-stretching, pitch-shifting, and transposing… | Utilities, soundfile editors | ||
| sample-multi-shotifier A sample 'stitcher'. Breath new life into your hardware/software samplers by using multishots + start-sample-offset-parameter. Combine a… | new, Soundfile utility, File Conversion, Utilities | ||
| SampleHive SampleHive let’s you manage your audio samples in a nice and simple way, just add a directory where you store all your samples, or drag and drop a d… | Utilities | ||
| set_rlimits gives unpriviledged users access to realtime scheduling via the new rlimits added to kernel 2.6.12 utilities | Utilities | ||
| SilentJack a silence/dead-air detector for JACK jack utilities | JACK, Utilities | ||
| sndpeek dsp utilities | dsp, Utilities | ||
| SonaSound realtime music/sound visualization dsp utilities | dsp, Utilities | ||
| Sound Ruler acoustic analysis software dsp utilities | dsp, Utilities | ||
| Soundcard Attrition Page Richard Dobson's torture tests: Can <em>your</em> board withstand the challenge ? sound_cards_and_drivers utilities | Sound Cards & Drivers, Utilities | ||
| SSPLab AudioAnalyser (SAA) Tool for analyzing audio signals in terms of its content. dsp utilities | dsp, Utilities | ||
| Waterfall realtime spectrum analyzer for XMMS dsp utilities | dsp, Utilities | ||
| wdat utility that “reads and writes to an audio capable SCSI DDS DAT drive” utilities | Utilities | ||
| whitenoise Utility to turn your computer into a random noise generator. An experimental gui for GNOME is also available. utilities | Utilities | ||
| wrk2mid Command line utility for translating WRK (Cakewalk) files into MID (standard MIDI files) new midi_software utilities file_conversion | new, MIDI Software, Utilities, File Conversion | ||
| xanalyser dsp utilities | dsp, Utilities | ||
| zita-ajbridge !- << do not remove this special command -! zita-ajbridge provides two applications, zita-a2j and zita-j2a. They allow to use an ALSA device a… | JACK, Utilities |