quote]Alexander,
I'm familiar with almost all of the programs you've referenced, and they are great for playing and ripping music, but I don't know that they meet Tormod's requirement of music composition...[/quote]
xmms, rythmox and gstreamer you might be referring to, but not audacity or aurdor.
Ok, Ardour allows you to do crazy stuff with up to crazy professional sound cards. It is made for professional audio edditing, mixing and everything.
Hydrogen drum machine, Wired, actually wired is incredible, rosegarden has been getting a lot of talk also.
ok, music soft worth taking a look at for linux; synthesisers, mixers, editors, creators, virtual keyboards and anything in between
aceqview, audio-entropyd (its really cool as it generates audio from entropy devices), brutefir, cm, cmix, creox, ctrlxmms, DBMix, dirtoogg, easytag, ecasound, erec, ermixer, fluidsynth, freebirth, galan, glmix, gamix, gmorgan, gramofile, hearnet (allows you to listen to your network), lilycomp, lilypond, mixxx, multimux, museseq (might as well check out muse, musepack-tools and musescore), normalize, noteedit, opmixer, pd, positron, protux, qsynth, rawrec, rcenter, rexima, rezsound, shorten, snd, sox, spiralmodular, ssrc, sulu, supercollider, sweep, synaesthesia, tapiir, terminatorx, trommler, vkeyboard, vlevel, wavsplit, zynaddsubfx.
Linux is cool with Audio
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