Free audio software

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.

Table of contents

1 JACK Audio Connection Kit 2 Trackers 3 Programming languages 4 Modular systems 5 Diverse 6 External links

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

Modular systems

• SpiralSynthModular
• pure data
• jMax

Diverse

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

External links

• Dave Phillips' Sound & MIDI Software For Linux