Included and recommended apps
Listed below are recommended audio, video and productivity apps for GNU/Linux complete with a short description.
Many of these apps are, or will be, included on the KXStudio DVD. Those not included are easily installed from the repositories in most cases.
- Amarok Feature-packed music player with support for syncing with ipods (up to 4th gen)
- Ardour The original Linux DAW
- Audacious Uncomplicated music player with good JACK support
- Audacity Popular cross-platform sound editor but with poor JACK support
- Avidemux Simple video editing and conversion tool ala Virtualdub
- Bitwig Proprietary commercial DAW geared towards electronic music production
- Blender 3D Powerful 3D modelling, animation, rendering and compositing
- Cadence Controls and monitors various Linux sound systems
- cadence-jackmeter Cadence-JackMeter is a digital peak meter for JACK
- cadence-xycontroller Cadence-XY Controller is a simple XY widget that sends and receives data from Jack MIDI
- Carla Audio plugin host (LADSPA, LV2, VST etc)
- Catia Catia is a JACK Patchbay, with some neat features like A2J bridge support and JACK Transport
- cinepaint HDR, High bit-depth movie still editor
- Claudia Claudia is a LADISH frontend; it's just like Catia, but focused on session management through LADISH
- darktable Virtual lighttable and darkroom
- DeVeDe Creates DVD video and (S)VCD discs from movie files
- DIN (Din Is Noise) Advanced fluid microtonal synthesis with drones and melodic effects, oriented toward Indian classical music
- Dolphin The default KDE file manager
- Firefox The original and best web browser
- FileZilla (s)FTP client (and server)
- GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program - Photoshop alternative
- gnumeric A superior spreadsheet to the one included in LibreOffice or OpenOffice
- Guitarix JACK virtual guitar amplifier
- gxtuner Instrument tuner
- Handbrake Cross-platform DVD ripping and video transcoding
- Hydrogen JACK drum machine and sequencer, note: many additional drum-kits are available by installing the package “hydrogen-drumkits”
- IDJC Internet DJ Console is for live, web radio production. Features voip integration
- Inkscape Leading open source vector graphics editor
- JAmin JACK stereo audio mastering tool
- k3b CD, DVD and BD burning
- Kdenlive KDE video editor, similar to Sony Vegas
- ksnapshot Take screenshots of windows or desktops
- LibreOffice MS Office-compatible word processor, spreadsheet and presentation suite
- LightWorks Professional, high-end video editor used in Hollywood productions (currently beta and 64-bit only)
- Lincoder Java/mencoder based batch video conversion tool
- Lingot Instrument tuner
- LMMS FruityLoops-esque sequencer w/ integrated synths
- mhwaveedit Lightweight sound editor with good JACK support
- Mixxx DJ mixing software
- MusE DAW with good MIDI editing features and some integrated plugins
- Musescore Professional quality music notation and scoring
- Mypaint Bitmap paint program that can simulate real painting techniques
- Okular PDF and document viewer
- Paulstretch Ambient sound generation via stretched sound recordings, extreme stretch lenghts and many controls over the sound
- QDVDauthor DVD menu authoring
- Qsynth Allows use of SoundFont files
- Qsampler Allows use of sfz and gigasampler sample sets
- Qtractor Fast, lightweight DAW
- REAPER Powerful Windows-based DAW, officially supported under Wine
- Recorditnow Record your desktop to a video file
- Rakarrack JACK Guitar FX processor
- Rosegarden MIDI sequencer with integrated notation
- samplv1 Simple sampler available as LV2 plugin and JACK app
- scribus Professional layout and publishing software
- setBfree Great sounding DSP B3 Hammond organ emulator LV2 plugin
- smplayer Excellent audio and video playback app
- Soundkonverter batch audio file conversion
- Sooperlooper live looping sampler
- sunvox Advanced module tracker with integrated synths, samplers and JACK support
- Swami SoundFont editor
- synfig Powerful 2D vector animation software
- TAL-Noisemaker Superb sounding, fully automatable softsynth plugin
- Tracktion Commercial DAW with unique interface and free Linux version
- Triceratops Triple oscillator LV2 synth
- VLC The famous VLC media player
- VMPK Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard
- Wine Wine allows most MS Windows software to run under GNU/Linux
- XCFA Another sound conversion tool with more options than soundkonverter
- XJadeo X JACK video monitor plays video in sync with a external time source (eg Ardour)
- Zynaddsubfx JACK synthesizer