Category Archives: Linux

Audioware For Linux

wtfplay ~ Linux High Quality Sound

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Wtfplay project is an initiative to create a quality music player for Linux. Ultimately the project has just one objective – deliver the best sound quality possible – with no compromises.

Initially the player has been created: wtfplay. Soon the project evolved and wtfplay-live Linux distribution was born.

wtfplay-live is a minimalist Linux distribution purely dedicated to audio playback. It does not have many features, but offers exceptional sound quality as a reward. Simply put: it is created to play music and it plays music well.

The main features of wtfplay-live are:

  • Memory based, bit perfect playback of WAV and FLAC files with PCM data (16 and 24 bit, up to 384kHz), and DSF files with DSD data.
  • Fully command line driven. No graphical mode. No network either. The whole system is optimised for sound playback from local disks.
  • A small text mode user interface: wtfcui – for more convenient usage.
  • Precisely tailored Linux kernel for best sound performance.
  • Distributed as Live CD: does not require installation on a hard disk, does not make any changes to your computer configuration.
  • Very small system size: the distribution ISO image is less than 50MB.
  • Good documentation – to give you all information that you need to comfortably listen to music.

The philosophy of wtfplay project is simple: provide the minimum set of features for easy use and focus 100% efforts on sound quality.

wtfplay-project.org

LoudMax ~ Loudness Maximizer Plugin

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LoudMax is a Look-Ahead Brickwall Loudness Maximizer Plugin with a clean transparent sound. It is designed to retain the original character of the music as much as possible even at high compression levels.

Features:

  • True Peak Limiting (Further information for ISP below)
  • Supported Samplerates: 2kHz – 384kHz
  • Latency: 1.25ms (+ 6 samples with ISP)
  • Look-Ahead and Attack Time: 1.25ms
  • Release Time: Automatic – depending on the input signal
  • No audible distortion
  • Possible overdrive: 740dB
  • Very low CPU usage
loudmax.blogspot.com

terminatorX ~ Realtime Audio Synthesizer

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 This software allows “scratching” on digitally sampled audio data (*.wav, *.au, *.ogg, *.mp3, etc.) the way hip hop DJs scratch on vinyl records. It features multiple turntables, realtime effects (built-in as well as LADSPA plugin effects), a sequencer and MIDI interface – all accessible through an easy-to-use gtk+ GUI. This software is designed to run under Linux, FreeBSD and the like.

terminatorx.org

Sunvox ~ Create Music & Add Synth Tracks

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SunVox is a small, fast and powerful music sequencer with modular synthesizers. This application is addressed at all those who want to compose music everywhere they go.

Built-in synthesizers: FM; Generator; Sampler (supported formats: WAV, XI); SpectraVoice (FFT-based synth for analog-like pads); Kicker; Stereo Delay; Distortion; Echo; Filter; Vocal Filter; Flanger; LFO; Loop; Reverb.

Features and highlights:
  • Modular interface
  • Highly optimized synth algorithms
  • Flexible architecture: SunVox can working on various devices
  • Built-in synthesizers & effects
  • Analog Generator
  • DrumSynth with 120 unique synthetic drum sounds
  • FM synthesizer
  • MetaModule (use it to build your own synths/effects)

Windows download available sunvox.en.lo4d.com/windows
www.apksum.com/app/sunvox/nightradio.sunvox
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nightradio.sunvox
apps.apple.com/ca/app/sunvox/id324462544

CMT ~ Linux Computer Music Toolkit

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The Computer Music Toolkit (CMT) is a collection of sixty five LADSPA plugins for use with software synthesis and recording packages on Linux.

www.ladspa.org/cmt

Calf Studio Gear ~ Free Your Sound!

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You have the need for professional and state-of-the-art audio plug-ins – but don’t have thousands of bucks to spend on it? Then we believe you will love Calf Studio Gear! Focused on high-quality sound processing and a highly usable interface Calf Studio Gear is designed to give you a professional production environment for your open source operating system. Play your SF2 sample banks, create filthy organs, fatten your sounds with phasers, delays, reverbs and other FX, process your recordings with gates, compressors, deesser and finally master your stuff with multiband dynamics – for free! Calf Studio Gear is available exclusively for LINUX-based operating systems and runs as a stand-alone effect rack connectable through Jack sound server or as plug-ins in every audio host that is able to fire up LV2 compliant devices, e.g. the highly recommended Ardour Audio Workstation

calf-studio-gear.org
github.com/calf-studio-gear
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf_Studio_Gear

TAL Reverb ~ Cross Platform Reverberation VSTs

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TAL Reverb-II is a super diffuse and lush reverb effect with a fast build up time. Ideal for ambient reverb sounds.

TAL-Reverb-III is an easy to use stereo reverb plugin. It’s popular because it’s very very diffuse sound 😉 It has an additional signal feedback path.

tal-software.com/products/tal-reverb

Cassette Retro Player ~ MP3 Player With Beautiful Cassette Look & Feel

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Transform a set of mp3 files into a virtual cassette and interact with it just like a real cassette.

Live again all that emotional load attached to the cassette format and the way you interacted with these gadgets: press play, rewind, fast forward and reverse the cassette tape. Concepts that do not exist anymore in modern media players in the same way, but they are still wired in your brain with the music you used to listen in the 70s, 80s and 90s and the places and people that were around you at those moments.

Play the music as you used to do it decades ago, and bring a piece of happiness from the past. Nostalgia ensured.

Features:
  • Simple controls: Play, pause, rewind, fast forward, stop, eject and master volume.
  • Customize cassette color and label aspect.
  • Create a cassette library with all your most appreciated music.
  • Edit cassette track list, adding, removing and reordering the audio files.
  • Support for mp3, aac, and all popular audio formats.
  • Because the music sounds better in the format in which you heard it for the first time.

sourceforge.net/projects/cassette-retro-player

OSD Lyrics ~ Linux On Screen Lyrics

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Show synced lyrics with your favorite media player on Linux. OSD Lyrics is a desktop application to view lyrics compatible with various media players. It is not a plugin but a standalone program. OSD Lyrics shows lyrics on your desktop, in the style similar to KaraOK. It also provides another displaying style, in which lyrics scroll from bottom to top. OSD Lyrics can download lyrics from the network automatically.

github.com/osdlyrics

genius-spicetify ~ Spotify Lyrics

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Fetch lyrics from Genius and Musixmatch right in Spotify’s desktop client.

github.com/khanhas/genius-spicetify

CP-GFX ~ Guitar Effect Processor

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CP-GFX is simply a Cross Platform Guitar Effect Processor. The aim of the project is to create an extensible and easy to use program which is easy to port to different platforms and operating systems. Currently in development are both Linux x86 and Win32 builds.

For the Linux build the primary audio API in use is JACK, which allows CP-GFX to work along side and with other programs, such as Ardour, or any other software using JACK without any fuss or problems.

image of the CP-GFX user interface

cp-gfx.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/cp-gfx

Bosca Ceoil ~ Multiplatform & Online Music Composition App

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Easy to Use ~ A free and easy tool for creating music. Bosca is designed for beginners and takes less than five minutes to learn, and comes with a quick built in tutorial to walk you through everything, step by step.

Scales and Chords ~ Bosca supports lots of different scales and chords, so even if you’ve never composed music before, it’s really easy to get something that sounds good straight away.

Instruments ~ No messing around getting instruments to work! Bosca comes with over a hundred presets, including MIDI and Chiptune instruments.

It’s Free ~ Bosca Ceoil is completely free, and open sourced! Ready to make music? Try it right now in your browser: Online version

boscaceoil.net
github.com/TerryCavanagh/boscaceoil