orDrumbox

The orDrumbox is a software drum machine, designed to a creative pattern based way of drum programming with automatic music composition capabilities. You can compose beats even with polyrhythms, bass line and complete songs using included drum kits with the audio sequencer functions.

• Pattern oriented: You can create songs by assembling various patterns.
• Automatic composer: You can add melodic scales and semi-random notes to make the orDrumbox compose rhythmic and melodic patterns under your control.
• Automatic sound assignations: The orDrumbox use Natural Language Processing for matching sounds to tracks and to "categorize" sounds.
• Drum Kits: You can import, create, modify and save drum kits. It's a "sound library" in one single file.
• Loops: Just import a loop wav file in your drumkit and the orDrumbox will automatically stretch loops to fit your rhythm
• Sequencer: You can assemble patterns in a song.
• Importing/Exporting: The orDrumbox generates and exports songs and individual patterns in 16 bits /44 Khz/stereo sounds CD-quality, so you can re-use them in any other sound application.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

Features are

• Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 3.
• Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
• Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.
• Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
• Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
• 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
• Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
• Ability to import/export song files.
• Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
• Multiple patterns playing at once.
• JACK, ALSA, PortAudio and OSS audio drivers.
• ALSA MIDI and PortMidi input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
• Import/export of drumkits.
• Export song to wav file.
• Export song to midi file.

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Cinefx

Cinefx is a suite of open source, cross platform digital content creation tools.

Cineplay
Now you only need one multimedia player to view all of your videos offline. Cineplay has freed millions of video viewers from the restraints of video codec limitations. It’s simple drag and drop feature makes it one of the easiest multiple format media players on the market.

Cinecode
Cinecode is an offline encoding tool that allows you to convert virtually any file format to flash on your desktop. Just drag and drop any video file into the CineCode application and CineCode will convert the file to flash. It’ that easy!

Cinefx
Cinefx is an offline editing and visual effectstool that allows you to work with any file format in real time on your desktop. Just drag and drop your files into the Cinefx and your are on your way to tkaing over Hollywood!

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LMMS

LMMS is a free cross-platform (Windows and Linux) alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. LMMS can also connect to any of your MIDI devices and allow you to perform live, all in a user-friendly and modern interface. Check out the "demos" page for an idea of what you can do with LMMS.

Features

• Song-Editor for composing songs
• A Beat+Bassline-Editor for creating beats and basslines
• An easy-to-use Piano-Roll for editing patterns and melodies
• An FX mixer with 64 FX channels and arbitrary number of effects allow unlimited mixing possibilities
• Many powerful LADSPA instrument and effect-plugins out of the box, with more available in many Linux Distributions
• Full user-defined track-based automation and computer-controlled automation sources
• Supports most free or professional VST plugins out of the box.
• Compatible with many standards such as SoundFont2, VST(i), LADSPA, GUS Patches, and MIDI
• Import of MIDI and FLP (Fruityloops Project) files

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Max

Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files. When extracting audio from compact discs, Max offers the maximum in flexibility to ensure the true sound of your CD is faithfully extracted. For pristine discs, Max offers a high-speed ripper with no error correction. For damaged discs, Max can either use its built-in comparison ripper (for drives that cache audio) or the error-correcting power of cdparanoia.

Once the audio is extracted, Max can generate audio in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE. If you would like to convert your audio from one format to another, Max can read and write audio files in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats at almost all sample rates and and in most sample sizes. For many popular formats the artist and album metadata is transferred seamlessly between the old and new files. Max can even split a single audio file into multiple tracks using a cue sheet.

Max leverages open source components and the resources of Mac OS X to provide extremely high-quality output. For example, MP3 encoding is accomplished with LAME, Ogg Vorbis encoding with aoTuV, FLAC encoding with libFLAC, and AAC and Apple Lossless encoding with Core Audio. Many PCM conversions are also possible using Core Audio and libsndfile. Max is integrated with MusicBrainz to permit automatic retrieval of compact disc information. For MP3, FLAC, Ogg FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, AAC and Apple Lossless files Max will write this metadata to the output.

Max allows full control over where output files are placed and what they are named. If desired, Max will even add the encoded files to your iTunes library in a playlist of your choice. For advanced users, Max allows control over how many threads are used for encoding, what type of error correction is used for audio extraction, and what parameters are used for each of the various encoders. Max is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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SoX - Sound eXchange

SoX is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS X, etc.) command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on most platforms.

The current release handles the following audio file formats:

• Raw files in various binary formats
• Raw textual data
• Amiga 8svx files
• Apple/SGI AIFF files
• SUN .au files
• AVR files
• CDDA (Compact Disc Digital Audio format)
• CVS and VMS files (continuous variable slope)
• GSM files
• HTK files
• LPC-10 files
• Macintosh HCOM files
• Amiga MAUD files
• AMR-WB & AMR-NB (with optional libamrwb & libamrnb libraries)
• MP3 (with optional libmad and libmp3lame libraries)
• MP4, AAC, AC3, WAVPACK, AMR-NB files (with optional ffmpeg library)
• AVI, WMV, Ogg Theora, MPEG video files (with optional ffmpeg library)
• Ogg Vorbis files (with optional Ogg Vorbis libraries)
• FLAC files (with optional libFLAC)
• IRCAM SoundFile files
• NIST SPHERE files
• Turtle beach SampleVision files
• Sounder & Soundtool (DOS) files
• Yamaha TX-16W sampler files
• SoundBlaster .VOC files
• Dialogic/OKI ADPCM files (.VOX)
• Microsoft .WAV files
• WavPack files (with optional libwavpack library)
• Psion (palmtop) A-law WVE files and Record voice notes
• Maxis XA Audio files
• Pseudo formats that allow direct playing/recording from most audio devices
• The "null" pseudo-file that reads and writes from/to nowhere

The audio effects/tools included are as follows:

• Production effects
• Tone/filter effects
• Volume/level effects
• Editing effects
• Mixing effects
• Pitch/tempo effects
• Mastering effects
• Specialised filters/mixers
• Analysis `effects'
• Miscellaneous effects

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TuxGuitar

TuxGuitar is a multitrack guitar tablature editor and player written in Java-SWT, It can open GuitarPro, PowerTab and TablEdit files. With TuxGuitar, you will be able to compose music using the following features

• Tablature editor
• Score Viewer
• Multitrack display
• Autoscroll while playing
• Note duration management
• Various effects (bend, slide, vibrato, hammer-on/pull-off)
• Support for triplets (5,6,7,9,10,11,12)
• Repeat open and close
• Time signature management
• Tempo management
• Imports and exports gp3,gp4 and gp5 files

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AC3Filter

AC3Filter is a high quality free audio decoder and processor filter. It allows media players to playback movies with AC3 and DTS audio tracks. Also it can process any audio track, much of processing options allows to adjust the sound in almost any way. It is possible to upmix any audio source to 6 channels. Filter can do multi-channel and digital (SPDIF) output. It can encode any audio source to AC3 on-the-fly and send it over SPDIF to the receiver.

Playback:

• Watch movies with AC3 and DTS audio tracks
• Listen multi-channel (AC3/DTS) AudioCD
• Playback WAV files with AC3/DTS content, ripped from multi-channel AudioCD without any conversion of these files.
• Playback raw .AC3 and DTS files (with help of AC3File filter)

Process:

• Up-mix any audio track (even plain stereo) up to 6 channels
• Down-mix any audio track to any number of channels (to match your speaker configuration)
• If you have an external Dolby ProLogic decoder, you may use ProLogic down-mix to help DPL decoder to extract surround information
• Watch movies under poor hearing conditions (noisy environment, weak speakers, ...)
• Decrease dynamic range to watch movies at night
• Apply time shift to the audio track to synchronize audio with video.
• Adjust gain of every input/output channel independently to compensate loudness differences
• Adjust time delays for every channel to compensate different distances to loudspeakers.

SPDIF output:

• Passthrough AC3 and DTS over SPDIF without any change to external decoder
• Encode any audio to AC3 and transmit it over SPDIF
• USB sound cards supported

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Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio. Import sound files, edit them, and combine them with other files or new recordings. Export your recordings in several common file formats and more.

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