Software Map

Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files.

Sound-Rec-Ed provides simple GUIs to record and
edit sound files, similar to operating a
tape-deck. Buttons start and stop recording or
break incoming audio into separate files. It can
cut sections from audio files or join files. It
saves files in WAV, OGG, or MP3 format.

erec is a tool program for recording raw audio
stream from the soundcard. Multiple instances of
erec can be running at the same time sharing the
same audio device. It works as a frontend to the
audio device for programs wishing to listen at the
same time.

klick is an advanced JACK-based metronome,
supporting tempo changes, meter changes, and more.
It allows you to define complex tempo maps for
entire songs or performances.

PD (Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max (Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.).

The Snack sound extension adds commands for sound play/record and sound visualization, e.g. waveforms and spectrograms. It supports in- memory sound objects, file based audio, streaming audio, WAV, AU, AIFF, and MP3 file formats, synchronous and asynchronous playback. The visualization canvas item types update in real-time and can output postscript. New commands and file formats can be added using the Snack C-API.

TSE3 (Trax Sequencer Engine v3) is a powerful open source sequencer engine written in C++. It is a sequencer engine because it provides the actual driving force elements of a sequencer but provides no form of user interface.

TCDR is a dialog-based console frontend for mkisofs, cdrecord, cdrdao, mkzftree, cdparanoia, cdda2wav, bladeenc, lame, oggenc, ogg123, mpg123, and sox written in bash.

MP3do is an "all in one" bash script. It is useful for decoding and mastering audio files. It can decode a list of MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files to WAV or CD-R, auto-convert poor quality MP3s to 44100Hz stereo, check whether all files fit on a CD, normalize all WAV files (adjust the volume to a standard volume level), and burn a CD.

DAP is a comprehensive audio sample editing and processing suite. It currently supports AIFF and AIFF-C audio files, 8 or 16 bit resolution, and 1, 2 or 4 channels of audio data. The package offers comprehensive editing, playback, and recording facilities including full time stretch resampling, manual data editing, and a reasonably complete DSP processing suite.

TOEJAM is a telephone answering machine. It uses a
voice modem as the base of an IVR system, and
sends its results via email. Only the US Robotics
56K Pro Msg is currently supported, though the USR
Sportster may work.

GNoise is a GTK+ based wave file editor. It uses a display cache and a double-buffered display for maximum speed with large files. It supports common editing functions such as cut, copy, paste, fade in/out, normalize, and more, with unlimited undo.

ReZound is graphical audio file editor primarily for (but not limited to) the Linux operating system.

Frinika is a free, complete music workstation
program for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X Tiger, and
other operating systems running Java 1.5
(J2SE5.0). It features a sequencer, soft-synths,
real-time effects, and audio recording.