- Constraints
- Stay as close as possible to a default Debian or Ubuntu installation.
- Use as much libre software as practical.
- Target audience
- People who have some technical knowledge and are willing to work.
- We are using Ubuntu 14.04, but in 2019 we might switch to Debian 9.
- Alternative: Ditch plain Debian/Ubuntu
and just use KXStudio.
- I am using
- MuseScore 2, music typesetting program.
Doesn’t come with Ubuntu 14.04, but has an AppImage
downloadable from the MuseScore website.
- Things that come with Ubuntu 14.04
- ALSA
- PulseAudio
- Totem media player
- I use sometimes
- Things that come with Ubuntu 14.04 (probably very outdated)
- Audacity (2014 version).
It often hangs when I click the pause button.
Don’t use to record live.
- vkeybd, for testing MIDI connections
- JACK Rack, for stacking parametric equalizers
- ZynAddSubFX generates nice warm rich pads
- Hydrogen drum machine, Qt 5, GPL, Hydrogen source code
- Rosegarden, MIDI sequencer
- LilyPond, music typesetting language
- I have stopped using because I have found a libre replacement
- Sibelius
- Cakewalk Pro Audio
- I haven’t tried
- Qtractor, audio/MIDI multitrack sequencer
- Ardour, digital audio workstation, combine MIDI and audio recording, and mixing
- Guitarix, guitar amplifier simulator, JACK
- Paul’s extreme sound stretch, GPL2
- Euterpea, Haskell
- http://www.midish.org/, BSD, record MIDI from command line
- arecordmidi
- gbevin/sendmidi
- Cmidi, MIDI sequencer for command line, alpha
- Music transcription software
- https://www.musical-u.com/learn/whats-the-best-program-to-transcribe-music/
- http://scorecloud.com/
- https://www.lunaverus.com/
- https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/4514/is-there-a-computer-program-to-transcribe-songs-to-sheet-music