Category Archives: Open Source

Opensource audioware

Zrythm ~ Automated & Intuitive DAW

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Zrythm is a cross-platform digital audio workstation designed to be featureful and easy to use. Automate almost anything with automation events using straight lines, ramps and curves, or with LFOs and envelopes. Featuring a chord pad for quickly trying out chords in a scale and a chord track to help with chord progressions.

Complete support for LV2 and VST2, with experimental support for VST3, AU, SFZ and SF2. Fully JACK aware, including support for JACK transport, ALSA, WASAPI, Windows MME, CoreMidi and CoreAudio.

Zrythm (Basic) is free software. Use, study, share and improve it freely. Available in multiple languages including English, French, Galician, Portuguese, Japanese and German.

zrythm

www.zrythm.org
github.com/zrythm
flathub.org/apps/org.zrythm.Zrythm
www.facebook.com/zrythm/
twitter.com/ZrythmDAW

Essentia ~ Open Source Audio Algorithms

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Open-source library and tools for audio and music analysis, description and synthesis.

  • Extensive collection of reusable algorithms
  • Cross-platform
  • Fast prototyping
  • Optimized for computational speed

essentia.upf.edu

NewMixer ~ Spatial Mixing Tool

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A unique and revolutionary audio mixing tool that allows the user to visualize audio sources by their location in space rather than as channels on a mixing board.

newmixer

github.com/jatinchowdhury18/NewMixer

Carla ~ Cross-platform Plugin Host

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Carla is a fully-featured modular audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats. It has some nice features like transport control, automation of parameters via MIDI CC and remote control over OSC.

Carla currently supports LADSPA (including LRDF), DSSI, LV2, VST2, VST3 and AU plugin formats, plus SF2 and SFZ file support. It uses JACK as the default and preferred audio driver but also supports native drivers like ALSA, DirectSound or CoreAudio.

There are 4 types of engine processing:

  • Single-client: (JACK driver only)
    Same as Multi-client, except that all JACK ports belong to a single master client.
    This is needed when a setup doesn’t support multi-client JACK apps, such as LADISH.
  • Multi-client: (JACK driver only)
    Every single plugin is exposed as a new JACK client. Audio and MIDI ports are registered as needed.
  • Rack:
    Plugins are processed in order, from top to bottom.
    Plugins with non-stereo audio channels are not supported, but a forced-stereo option is available for Mono ones.
  • Patchbay:
    Modular patchbay mode, just like in JACK Multi-client and many other modular applications.
    Every plugin gets its own canvas group and ports allowing you to interconnect plugin audio and MIDI.
carla

kx.studio/Applications:Carla
github.com/falkTX/Carla

Nuclear ~ Stream From Free Sources

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A modern music player focused on streaming from free sources.

Features:

  • Searching for and playing music from YouTube (including integration with playlists), Jamendo, and SoundCloud
  • Searching for albums (powered by Last.fm and Discogs), album view, automatic song lookup based on artist and track name (in progress, can be dodgy sometimes)
  • Song queue, which can be exported as a playlist
  • Loading saved playlists (stored in json files)
  • Scrobbling to last.fm (along with updating the ‘now playing’ status)
  • Newest releases with reviews – tracks and albums
  • Browsing by genre
  • Radio mode (automatically queue similar tracks)
  • Unlimited downloads (powered by youtube)
  • Realtime lyrics
  • Browsing by popularity
  • List of favorite tracks
  • Listen from local library

nuclear
nuclear.js.org
github.com/nukeop/nuclear

foo_musicbrainz ~ Foobar2000 & MusicBrainz

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Allows tagging files using data from MusicBrainz.

Features:

  • Fetches data by automatically calculated MusicBrainz Disc ID, existing Artist/Album or MusicBrainz Album ID tags;
  • Uses the latest version of MusicBrainz web service, which corresponds to the NGS data model;
  • Supports many different tags, including artist, album, date, track number / total tracks, disc number / total discs, label, catalog number, barcode etc.;
  • Supports MusicBrainz-specific tags: Artist ID, Album ID, Release Group ID, Disc ID, Track ID, album type, album status;
  • Missing TOCs can be submitted to MusicBrainz from the context menu.

HA Support Topic
github.com/kbuffington/foo_musicbrainz
musicbrainz.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz

Sine Generator ~ Windows Sine & Tone Generator

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Sine generator combines individual sine or square waves into a single waveform. Parameters are frequency, frequency modulation, noise, phase, volume and wave type.

Features:

  • sine generator
  • tone generator
  • wav file output

sine_generator

sourceforge.net/projects/sinegenerator

foo_bestversion ~ Foobar2000 Compares Track Qualities

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foo_bestversion is a Foobar2000 component which can pick the best versions of tracks from your library, (plus last.fm top tracks list grabbing).

github.com/hymerman/foo_bestversion
hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=100019.0

gmorgan ~ Cross-platform Rhythm Station

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gmorgan is a rhythm station, a modern organ with full editable accompaniment for play in real time emulating the capabilities of commercial rhythm stations “Korg”,”Roland”, “Solton” … also has a small pattern based sequencer like “Band in a Box”. Uses the capabilities of ALSA sequencer to produce MIDI accompaniment.

gmorgan.sourceforge.net
deb-multimedia.org/dists/testing/main/binary-armhf/package/gmorgan

AV Linux ~ Install & Create

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AV Linux is a free shared downloadable and installable snapshot ISO image based on Debian/GNU Linux pre-configured to be a turnkey AV content creation system pre-configured and ready to “Install and Create”.

Features:

  • Originates from 32bit and 64bit snapshots of the Debian Stable Distribution.
  • Custom Realtime Preempt Kernel for optimal low-latency Audio potential.
  • CPU governed for performance by default.
  • Extra tweaks for performance, meets all criteria of the included Realtime Configuration Quick Scan.
  • Some special custom packaging not found in default Repositories.
  • Fast and Light XFCE4 Desktop Environment with attractive customizations.
  • falkTX’s KXStudio Repositories for up to date Audio Applications.
  • Extensive Audio/Video and Administrator-friendly Custom Actions.
  • Seamless JACK Audio/MIDI environment with PulseAudio Integration.
  • Extended Application platforms Flatpak and Docker included.
  • Robust Environment for developers: Compilers, GIT, SVN, BZR, tools and development libs.
  • Mozilla builds of Firefox and Thunderbird.

AVL-2020Desktop

www.bandshed.net/avlinux
www.bandshed.net/iso/
www.wikihow.com/Install-AV-Linux
distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=avlinux
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV_Linux

Rakarrack ~ Guitar Effects For Linux

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Rakarrack is a richly featured multi-effects processor emulating a guitar effects pedalboard. Effects include compressor, expander, noise gate, graphic equalizer, parametric equalizer, exciter, shuffle, convolotron, valve, flanger, dual flange, chorus, musical delay, arpie, echo with reverse playback, musical delay, reverb, digital phaser, analogic phaser, synthfilter, varyband, ring, wah-wah, alien-wah, mutromojo, harmonizer, looper and four flexible distortion modules including sub-octave modulation and dirty octave up. Most of the effects engine is built from modules found in the excellent software synthesizer ZynAddSubFX. Presets and user interface are optimized for guitar, but Rakarrack processes signals in stereo while it does not apply internal band-limiting filtering, and thus is well suited to all musical instruments and vocals. Rakarrack is designed for Linux distributions with Jack Audio Connection Kit.

rakarrack

rakarrack.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/rakarrack

ReZound ~ Multi-platform Audio Editor

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ReZound aims to be a stable, open source, and graphical audio file editor primarily for, but not limited to, the Linux operating system.

ReZound

rezound.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/rezound
github.com/ddurham2/rezound