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
• 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