Comparison of free software for audio

Free audio software is free software that can be used to listen to, modify, create and/or author audio signals and music. There is free audio software available for Windows and MacOS, but the largest quantity of the free audio software only runs on GNU/Linux.

Planet CCRMA and AGNULA are GNU/Linux distributions designed for musicians and/or audio engineers.

Audio Recording and Editing

• Ardour
• Audacity
• Ecasound

JACK Audio Connection Kit

• JACK is a daemon that provides low latency connections between JACKified applications. Currently it needs ALSA.

Trackers

• Cheesetracker is an Impulse Tracker clone
• Soundtracker

Programming languages

• CSound has recently been released under the LGPL.
• SuperCollider
• ChucK is a concurrent, on-the-fly audio programming language, (not yet released).
• see computer music programming languages

Modular systems

• SpiralSynthModular
• Pure data
• jMax
• SynFactory

Diverse

• MuSE is for mixing, encoding, and streaming of encoded audio.

External links

• Dave Phillips' Sound & MIDI Software For Linux
• Audacity is an excellent free audio editor