• 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    • Things that come with Ubuntu 14.04 (probably very outdated)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