Hi! Of course there is! That's mainly, why I'm VERY FOND of my Linux. :-) As for MIDI-sequencing: midish, cuse and mondrian (programming language only). Deficits of midish and cuse: no ALSA or JACK MIDI backends. Only rawmidi. For audio: ecasound (recording, processing, mixing, LADSPA support). As for softsynths and samplers: ZynAddSubFX has a very small commandline interface (Loading only), fluidsynth (shell-like), LinuxSampler (via simple telnet, working on something nicer shell-like myself), csound and clm (both with programming language), I think also supercollider can be used via simple text-files, though I'm not sure. Oh and I'm sorry: aeolus OF COURSE, with it's shell-interface. Beatrix has an interactive curses-interface (no JACK and ALSA at all, you'll have to patch it up yorself with bio2jack and even then it may be problematic...). Tapeutape is an XML-based sampler in the making. Nice start, promising, but still lacking a bit. there's the sndfile-suite for small conversion tasks. There's sox for other simple tasks. You can use TiMidity live for playing. There's tranches a looping software (MIDI pattern player). Last but not least there's jconv (former jace) for realtime IR-based reverb effects (convolution). All these can make u-p a very formidable environment. Real drawback is in fact only the MIDI angle. Midish has a lot of good features and is - as far as I've seen - very cleanly programmed, cuse has a nice interface and a few very cunning features (use special key-combinations on your midi-keyboard to perform some function). But they all don't have ALSA MIDI sequencer and no way to have real JACK transport. I tried hacking midish to have VERY BASIC JACK transport control support. But the result is not satisfactory. I hope I'll get back to it and then do a few tests. I guess I should first do a few more experiments with JACK though. Sorry for the long winded answer. 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 ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de

Julien Claassen wrote: thanks. There is also some info for Blind Audacity Users: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Audacity_for_blind_users http://users.northlc.com/sberry/

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