Re: [linux-audio-user] Searching for music composition tools

Hi! There are a few nice tools, depending on what kind of music you wish to record. I, personally - record more popular music, in contrast to computer or experimental music/soundscapes. The tools I use are: Ecasound for harddisk recording, effects-processing. I use this in connection with ladspa effects. For more computerish music there is csound and clm (common lisp music), which is based on emacs-lisp. There are also a few trackers, as I know, but I didn't try them. Besides that, there's fluidsynth a software synthesizer based on soundfonts, there's also a nice place where you can find some really good soundfonts for free. Also the linuxsampler project, still in earlier stages of development can be helpful. It works with gigastudio sampling-format. The best place to find most of the mentioned tools is: http://linux-sound.org Ecasound: www.eca.cx/ecasound Fluidsynth: www.fluidsynth.org Linuxamler: www.linuxsampler.org Ladspa basics: www.ladspa.org See Dave's plugin page for Steve Harris's swh-plugins and fons Adriaensen's mcv and stereo reverb plugin. They are all ladspa. Note Dave's page uses Frames, but with lynx, that's no problem, also w3m is ok, about other browswers I don't know, but expect they're fine, too. Fro more questions mail me directly or take a first look at my site: http://ltsb.sf.net There are also mentioned good tools for playback of too many formats to mention here including: midi, audio, video. All those tools work in text-mode!!! Kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net - the Linux TextBased Studio guide