If you follow the news on Slashdot you may be familiar with the issues regarding MP3 music files, legal and other. The recording industry response has been predictably reactive/protective. More interestingly, a search on the Net finds many unique MP3 sites: promos for bands of every stripe, theme sites, "serious" composition pages, and even a site devoted to Gregorian chants. MP3 manages good audio quality at a 10:1 or better compression ratio (from WAV to MP3) and gigabyte storage is cheap these days, so it's easy to see why the industry is concerned. With the advent of inexpensive hardware MP3 players such as the Rio and Saehan MP4 along with support software such as the managers from The Snowblind Alliance, it is now possible for you to create, edit, and maintain custom playlists of MP3 files, loading them to and from your player using the computer's parallel port.
Michael Hammel's Graphics Muse column appears regularly in the excellent Linux Gazette. His book on the GIMP is now available, and I recommend it to anyone using that program. The GIMP is indispensable to Linux music/sound people wishing to create and manipulate images for Web page design, CD cover art, performance announcements, et cetera, and Michael has now made available his set of Graphics Muse Tools, which includes a utility for creating business cards. If you're in need of better graphics, you need to try the GIMP. And remember to check out Michael's column in the Gazette !

Damien Miller recently announced that the Csound UNIX/Linux Developers group now has a bug-tracking system based on the JitterBug software. Use of this facility is not restricted to CUD members, but is open to users of both the official and unofficial versions of Csound for Linux. It should help streamline the process of reporting, locating, and eliminating bugs and other anomalies hiding out in the sources. The CGI page for reports is located here.

My apologies to the creators of RaWrapper: I inadvertently left out their URL in the last edition of this page. It has been added in this edition and can be found under the Network Audio header in the Other Sound Stuff section.

Dave Topper's RTcmix 2.0 has arrived at last. This release is something of a beta package, so get it, check it out, let Dave know what's going on with it. He's also updated the info page, be sure to read it for the latest RTcmix news.

I have added a new Game Things heading to the Other Sound Stuff section. Two subheadings are present, one for listing interesting Linux games with sound support, and one for development software kits and other packages. Please let me know of any relevant software you might like to see linked there, I'll gladly add it to the list.
And speaking of game-related items: If you have a SoundBlaster Live card or are interested in purchasing one, you have probably already discovered that it lacks Linux support. Take heart though, and read this message from Jon Taylor. Creative has recently hired Jon as their Linux drivers programmer, which means we will soon see drivers for all of Creative's sound and video cards. No, it's not necessarily an open-source project, but it's good news all the same.

New Additions, February 4 1999:

• A Cellular Approach for Modeling Room Acoustics a paper from Navdeep S. Dhillon
• Direct SB Patch runs Sound Blaster compatible devices from DOSemu, from Valery Shchedrin (*)
• Impulse Tracker 3 not yet available, but a Linux version is planned: encourage them ! (*)
• Open Source Portable Real-time Audio I/O Library "...an initiative of the music-dsp mailing list. The proposal is being coordinated by Ross Bencina." (*)
• PSL the Portable Sound Library project from Andrew Clausen (*)
• RioGeo loads MP3 files to and from the Rio player; also not yet for Linux, but a version is planned (*)
• SHOUTcast streaming audio system, requires Winamp (*)
• Whygee's SHARCPAGE "The purpose of this page is to host or point to FREE SHARC resources, like assemblers, useful information, project descriptions or applications and their sources." (*)
• cdsetspd sets the reading speed of Plextor CDROMs (*)
• icecast is an MP3 audio broadcasting system (*)
• mod2text and text2mod "Tools to convert Protracker modules to and from a readable text -- turn Emacs into a tracker!" (*)
• mpg123 excellent MP3 decoder (*)
• nsListen Perl script to handle SHOUTcast and icecast streaming MP3 links (*)
• /pub/systems/Linux/snd is a Linux soundapps repository at Ocean FTP
• xhippo a generic playlist manager for a variety of UNIX sound players and formats (*)
• Updated:
• DrumPatterns reaches version 0.5 (*)
• RTcmix version 2.0 has arrived
• TiMidity++ attains 1.3.0 status (*)
• X11Amp prerelease beta 0.9 is now available
• eMusic has arrived at version 0.8 (*)

Software Sound Synthesis & Music Composition Languages

• Cmix is from Paul Lansky and the Princeton Sound Kitchen
• Common LISP Music comes from Bill Schottstaedt at CCRMA (*)
• Common Music is maintained by Rick Taube, also at CCRMA (*)
• Csound comes from Barry Vercoe at the MIT Media Lab
• Folly a "text to MIDI" program written in Perl/Tk (*)
• Fugue is by Roger Dannenberg at CMU
• Music4C is from James Beauchamp at UIUC
• Nyquist for Linux is a patch for the UNIX Nyquist source package by Roger Dannenberg
• On-line Manuals and Documentation:
• CLMS Manuals useful on-line material for various SWSS languages, MIDI software & hardware, and synthesis methods
• Cmix
• Common LISP Music
• Csound (tarred & gzipped here)
• Digital Soundshapes: Einfuehrung in die Theorie und Praxis der Klangsynthese an excellent online introduction to the theory and practice of digital sound synthesis (mostly in German but with some sections in English)
• Nyquist
• RTcmix Documentation an updated collection from Luke Dubois, includes new tutorials and examples
• PD is a new MAX-like language from Miller Puckette, Linux version by Guenter Geiger
• The PLUM Page Tim Thompson's on-line list of programming languages used for music
• Quasimodo "a modular, extensible, real-time synth for Linux and related operating systems", an ambitious project from Paul Barton-Davis
• (RT)cmix is a version of Cmix maintained by Dave Topper
• Rusty is a design spec for "a comprehensive computer system for musical composition" which will include a GUI similar to a modular synth (*)
• SAOL is the MPEG-4 Structured Audio Orchestra Language from Eric Scheirer
• Sapphire is by Jim Finnis; a Sapphire FAQ is available here
• SMS comes from Xavier Serra; a very cool on-line GUI is located here
• Software Synthesizers and Samplers:
• 3MU a TB303 bassline emulator
• AUBE is "...a system for realtime sound generation and processing"
• Delfin a realtime software sampler
• RTSynth an excellent realtime synthesizer for X
• SYRE "a 303-style sequencer/synth"
• aRts is the newest incarnation of KSynth (*)
• freestyle a project to create a DJ varispeed sampler (*)
• gsyn "...an extensible, modular synthesizer...the interface and current codebase present a simple Roland TB-303 emulator...programmed using fasttracker-style note entry"
• Sonic is a digital audio programming language from Don Cross (*)
• STK 2.0 Perry Cook's Synthesis Toolkit 2.0 now supports Linux
• StkLinux a Linux port of Perry Cook's Synthesis Toolkit 1.0, from Tim Stilson
• sieve makes music (?) from the Sieve of Eratosthenes

Soundfile Editors

• Audiotechque Project building a better soundfile editor with the Gtk
• DAP excellent digital audio editor/processor with XForms GUI
• GWave a soundfile editor project for the Gnome desktop (*)
• JaWavedit a very nice WAV file editor written in Java
• MiXViews soundfile editor + analysis/synthesis engine (an alternate site is located here)
• Snd powerful editor, interfaces with CLM
• Studio Tk-based soundfile editor
• WaveTools a suite of small command-line programs for working with WAV-format soundfiles
• XWave very good basic editor ; a patch to add looping can be found at the same site
• XWave2 Juhana Kouhia's enhanced version of XWave (*)
• anoi wavelet-based noise remover for WAV files
• basef utility for manipulating parameters found in AIFF soundfile header
• ksoundsys a tool to manipulate soundfiles for KDE by Tobias Wollgam
• kwav a WAV editor for KDE from Guenter Schwann
• kwave a very good soundfile editor for KDE by Martin Wilz
• wavedit old, very basic and limited editor, console-mode only
• xwave Will Fish's buggy crash-prone soundfile editor with some very unique tools

Music Notation Editors

• Common Music Notation creates and displays traditional Western music scores (*)
• GUIDO a music notation formatting system (*)
• LilyPond music typesetter, outputs TeX and MIDI (*)
• MidiScore is a MIDI-to-score notation utility with Tk GUI from Jan Wuerthner
• Mup music publication shareware from Arkkra Enterprises
• An on-line review can be found here.
• MusiXTeX full-featured music typesetting via TeX (This page is also the main resource for other TeX-related notation packages) (*)
• Rosegarden score creation from MIDI input and MIDI sequencer, also exports Csound score file
• TinyMOODS demo of a very interesting music notation medium (*)
• Vivace renders score to soundfile
• XCircuit a drawing package for X which includes some very nice music typography and outputs Postscript files
• abc is "...a language designed to notate tunes in an ascii format" (This page is the main resource for abc-related packages) (*)
• tab a lute tablature typesetting system, from Wayne Cripps (*)

MIDI Software

• ALSA Sequencer Core is a MIDI multiplexer project (and much more) from Frank van de Pol
• CMT Carnegie-Mellon MIDI Toolkit (includes the adagio language)
• G-seq a MIDI sequencer project (*)
• Grammidity "...uses a kind of genetic algorithm based on user feedback to generate 'music'...in the form of a MIDI file", requires Java JDK 1.1
• IMG is a MIDI music composition system with pre-defined "styles"
• JAZZ an excellent MIDI sequencer, and JAZZ++, the first integrated MIDI/audio sequencer for Linux
• KeyKit
• KeyKit excellent experimental MIDI composition environment
• KeyKit Tools some new KeyKit stuff from Tim Thompson (*)
• pmc is Steve Falco's polyrhythmic music compiler, which creates arbitrarily complex scores in Standard MIDI File and KeyKit formats, and Steve's pmc_music is a collection of scores for the compiler.
• KMid a MIDIfile & karaoke player for KDE (*)
• Linux MIDI Demonstration excellent descriptive pages from George Hansper
• MIDI Utilities C++ code for UNIX and DOS/Windows from Guenter Nagler
• MIDI-Perl "...a suite of Perl modules that allows you to read, compose, modify, and write MIDI files" (*)
• Midiplay MIDIfile and soundfile player from Keith Packard (*)
• MidiShare now has an open-source project (*)
• MMidi describes tools for MIDI over the MBONE multicast network (*)
• NetMIDI an interesting proposal from David Slomin for using TCP/IP as a basis for a MIDI network protocol
• Random Phase Generator Reichian fun from Tak-Shing Chan
• SoftWerk a MIDI sequencer from Paul Barton-Davis, based on the design of the Doepfer Schaltwerk analog sequencer
• STed2 MIDI music composition environment from Daisuke Nagano (Is this a port of an old program for the Atari ST computers ?)
• Super Groove Master a unique composition program for AWE32/64, OPL3 FM synth, or external MIDI
• Tclmidi adds MIDI extensions to Tcl, also home to the tkseq MIDI sequencer
• TiMidity
• KMidi provides a very nice GUI for TiMidity
• TiMidity the original, renders MIDIfile to WAV soundfile
• TiMidity++ greatly extended and enhanced version of TiMidity from Masanao Izumo
• gTiMidity has a Gtk+ interface, thanks to Glenn Trigg (*)
• UMP UNIX MIDI plug-in for Netscape
• WaoN is a WAV-to-MID converter from Ichiki Kengo
• Widi MIDI player for external MIDI devices only, from Isaku Yamahata (*)
• X MIDI software a suite of programs utilizing the Direct MIDI interface of the 4Front commercial OSS driver
• cantor is a MIDI sequencer/editor project in development
• clavier more from Simon Kågedal: a software MIDI keyboard for controlling external synths (needs the Gtk+) (*)
• fmplay a program for playing a SoundBlaster16 with an external MIDI keyboard, from Antoine Lefebvre (It works with my PAS16 as well.)
• glib generic editor/librarian for synthesizer patches
• kooBase a MIDI sequencer/notator based on the design of the popular Cubase software
• midichan "dispatches MIDI events to different streams depending on the MIDI channel", from Simon Kågedal (*)
• midikb uses QWERTY keyboard for testing Csound instruments or for output to /dev/midi
• playmidi
• eplaymidi an enhanced version of playmidi from Satoshi Kuramochi (*)
• fXPlayMidi an X front-end for playmidi
• playmidi the original, a command-line MIDIfile player with optional X, Gtk, or ncurses interface
• sparcOmatic renders a MIDIfile to /dev/audio
• srgplay MIDI file player supporting a variety of formats, from K. Sakai (*)
• xphat user-configurable software MIDI "slider-box" from Paul Barton-Davis

Hard-disk Recording and Mixing Systems

• Broadcast full-duplex hard-disk recording with mix automation
• CERES SoundStudio excellent commercial 16-track recorder/editor (demo available) (Link is dead as of September 1998)
• Mix a 9-channel mixer from NoTAM with effects processing and some very interesting tools
• MixW same as Mix but supports only WAV-format soundfiles
• Multitrack excellent hard-disk recorder for SVGA and X, from Boris Nagels
• Nomrom Communications news page for the Broadcast 2000 system (*)
• Rt by Paul Lansky is available for Linux in a beta version by Guenter Geiger
• Rt another port of Paul Lansky's mixer, by Michael Petersen
• SLab full-featured hard-disk recorder, will record up to 64 tracks (beta version 2.30 is available here)
• A fine introductory/installation text (in French) can be found at the Mandala Conseil site.

Speech Synthesis & Analysis Software

• EARS a speech-recognition system (*)
• Emacspeak a speech output system for Emacs (*)
• Emu "...a collection of software for the creation, manipulation and analysis of speech databases"
• Festival speech synthesis system (*)
• Kalman Filtering and Speech Enhancement software and a diploma thesis by Jan Kybic (*)
• KPE80 Klatt speech synthesis GUI
• KVoiceControl speech recognition system for KDE from Daniel Kiecza (*)
• MBROLA easy-to-use CLI speech synthesis project
• OGI Speech Tools toolkit for speech data manipulation, includes X interface, file conversion utilities, and LPC tools
• Screader a software/hardware screen-reader for the visually impaired (*)
• SFS Speech Filing System, excellent set of X-based and command-line tools
• Speakup allows a blind user to hear all output directed to the console, currently supports only the Double Talk internal synthesizer (*)
• Speech Links a formidable collection of speech-related WWW, ftp, and newsgroup links
• VoiceControl speech recognition software (*)
• comp.speech very informative Web page with FAQ

Signal Analysis/Processing Software

• About This Reverberation Business an excellent page, includes this link to a collection of impulse response files
• AFsp audio-file signal processing from TSP Labs, includes LPC analysis/synthesis package (*)
• AIFF_DSP a framework for user-defined DSP plugins to process AIFF soundfiles
• Analog Devices
• AD g21xx Compiler another compiler (*)
• ADi2106x Assembler and GNU Binutils sources for programming the SHARC DSP (*)
• Analog Devices GNU C Compiler source code, for their 21k, 21csp, and 21xxx DSPs (*)
• GNU C Compiler for Analog Devices DSPs version 3.3.1 from Egil Kvaleberg (*)
• Whygee's SHARCPAGE "The purpose of this page is to host or point to FREE SHARC resources, like assemblers, useful information, project descriptions or applications and their sources." (*)
• FFTW C subroutine library for the "Fastest Fourier Transform in the West" (*)
• MAAS the "modular accelerated audio system", DSP development from Winfried Ritsch (*)
• Motorola
• 56K Algorithm Development a DSP software development kit for the Turtle Beach Fiji/Pinnacle cards, from Robert Bristow-Johnson (*)
• Linux For 680x0-based VME Boards supports Motorola MVME162, 166, and 167 boards (*)
• Macroassembler AS "a portable macro cross assembler for a variety of microprocessors and controllers", supports DSP processors from Motorola and Texas Instruments (*)
• Motorola 56K Debugger stuff for 56002 EVM board with support for DSP56K OnCE (On-Circuit Emulator), from Jeff Dionne (*)
• Motorola DSP56301ADM Linux Kernel Module development tools for the Motorola DSP board, includes XForms interface (*)
• Multisound DSP Programming all about getting into the 56001... (*)
• NoTAM FFT/phase vocoder packages with X GUI now available for Linux:
• Bio multiple graphic representations of soundfile
• Ceres fascinating spectral editor
• Ceres2 Johnathan Lee's wonderfully enhanced version
• Mammut treats entire sound as single spectral analysis window
• Pitchtracker locates fundamental frequency of AIFF soundfile and writes Postscript graph file
• Sono generates Postscript sonogram/oscillogram from AIFF soundfile
• some of these Linux versions are also available from the NoTAM ftp site
• ObjectProDSP an X window GUI for DSP design and implementation
• PipeWave DSP and "auditory modelling" programs using UNIX pipes (*)
• Poles and Zeros a demonstration applet, requires a Java-enabled browser
• POWERpv spectral manipulation package
• Ptolemy homepage for the Ptolemy Project of the DSP Design Group at UCB (*)
• PVC an extensive set of phase vocoder tools and utilities from Paul Koonce (The SGI package will compile under Linux with only minimal editing of sources and Makefile.)
• Remez exchange FIR filter calculations with GNUplot support
• Room Acoustics Modeling a paper from Philip Edelbrock
• SANTIS signal analysis and time series processing with excellent GUI
• Scilab a large package of mathematics & signal processing functions with excellent graphic displays (*)
• Sculptor a very nice suite of realtime FFT tools
• Sig++ "music signal processing in C++", from Craig Stuart Sapp (*)
• SNDAN signal analysis, graphics, modification, and synthesis
• Sonic Flow designs/simulates audio signal processing networks (*)
• Sound Processing Kit C++ class library for audio signal processing
• Space spatializes soundfiles
• Texas Instruments
• DSP simulator for the TMS320C50 digital signal processor (*)
• DSP/Veclib commercial DSP libraries for the TMS320C3/4x, available for Linux (*)
• GNU Assembler for TI TMS320C30 a port of GNU Binutils 2.8.1 for the popular Texas Instruments DSP (*)
• Macroassembler AS "a portable macro cross assembler for a variety of microprocessors and controllers", supports DSP processors from Motorola and Texas Instruments (*)
• TI C3x DSK for Linux/FreeBSD and TMS320ASM useful code from Rafael Peregrino de Silva (*)
• TMS320C30 Assembler from Ted Rossin (*)
• TMS320C30 Compiler a C compiler from Dave Walker and Ivo Oesch (*)
• TMS320C30 Compiler a port of GCC (and the binary utilities gas, ar, ld, nm, size, objdump, etc.) for the Texas Instrument TMS320C[34]x DSP family (This material is being relocated here.) (*)
• TSP Lab software now includes DSP and filtering packages (*)
• X-pole filter design program with Tcl/Tk GUI (*)
• XMANA a data display program with FFT and other transforms, uses XMAD data acquisition files
• Yorick another mathematics package with signal processing and data visualization tools (*)
• dsplab Xforms-based DSP visualization and manipulation software
• lprev low-pass reverberator from the cmusic package
• pV phase vocoder processors from Christopher Penrose
• siggen signal generation package for generating accurate waveforms via /dev/dsp (*)
• utility functions for DSP at GA Tech
• Some interesting Web pages on DSP:
• Automatic Audio Morphing a paper describing the technique...
• A Cellular Approach for Modeling Room Acoustics a paper from Navdeep S. Dhillon
• FFT Tutorial exposition and code by Don Cross
• FIR Digital Filtering a lesson from Billy Donahue (*)
• Formant Correction In Pitch Shifting from Stephan Sprenger at Prosoniq
• Introduction to DSP an on-line tutorial from BORES Signal Processing
• Life, Lansky, and LPC a fascinating essay on the use of linear predictive coding in the work of Paul Lansky
• LPC Tutorial from Will Howitt at Otolith
• Pattern Playback from 1950 to 1995 a very interesting paper describing techniques for converting spectrograms, cochleagrams, and correlograms to sound
• SBC Tutorial an on-line tutorial on sub-band coding (MPEG), also from Otolith
• Malcolm Slaney's Page of Publications an interesting page from the author of "Pattern Playback from 1950 to 1995"
• Time/Pitch Scaling FAQ also from Prosoniq

Scopes & Realtime Visualizers

• Bomb an interactive a-life "visual-musical" instrument
• Cthugha "an oscilloscope on acid..."
• Freq51 realtime spectrum analyzer, and a patch which indicates frequencies as musical note-names
• JXSpectrum and XSpectrum two more frequency analyzers (*)
• Spectrogram samples data from soundcard, displays FFT spectrogram in realtime
• Synaesthesia is a lightshow calculated from FFT and stereo positioning information
• WMscope audio display applet for Window Maker or Afterstep (*)
• XPortShot RT a Gtk-based oscilloscope simulator for Linux
• oscope digital oscilloscope for SVGA or X
• qScopezzz cool audio scope built with Qt, from Kimmo Veijalainen
• xanalyser realtime frequency spectrum analyser for X, from Arvin Schnell
• xsr oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer, output to root window (*)

File Conversion Utilities

• G-Sox Gnome front-end for SoX (*)
• PWscripts some useful file conversion and Mix/MixW scripts from Paul Winkler (Some of these scripts require the SoX-12.14 package.)
• SoX the soundfile format converter
• SoX-12.14 most recent version of SoX for Linux, from Chris Bagwell
• xsox Xforms GUI front-end for SoX

Some Csound Helpers

• ACCCI John Gather's Amsterdam Catalog of Csound Computer Instruments
• Adsyn a graphic editor for hetro analysis files
• Ambisonics an implementation for Csound
• BashFest virtual drum machine (*)
• Cecilia powerful GUI and composition environment
• Ceres will create Csound score from granulation of soundfile
• Chaosynth GUI for creating chaos-based Csound scores
• CSFE a Tcl/Tk Csound front-end from Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu 
• HPKComposer a unique Java application, mixes features from CMask with a GUI for Csound
• MIDI2CS MIDIfile to Csound score conversion
• Pscore a module for composing Csound scores directly in Perl, from Paul Winkler (*)
• PVTool manipulates Csound phase vocoder files
• Silence for Java can now run under Linux
• SoundSpace a Java GUI for Richard Karpen's space Csound opcode
• Tk-score a neat graphic utility for combining soundfiles and/or Csound scores into a single mega-score
• Tuning by Ratios intonation research using Csound
• Websynth an on-line Csound orcfile generator
• XPatchWork well-known GUI for instrument design (orchestra file) now available for Linux
• drumachine a score generator for percussion tracks
• orchestra parser for Csound from Nicola Bernardini at AIMI
• rain is a Tcl/Tk script to convert GIF images to sound or to a Csound score
• vu a very useful command-line VU-meter from Toby Shepard
• xmusic very basic GUI front-end for instrument design
• Some Csound Documentation:
• Csound Front Page a new version from Richard Boulanger and Jacob Joaquin, updates and replaces the Leeds Csound Front Page
• Csound Magazine Hans Mikelson's excellent ezine is officially on-line
• Csound Primer a new page in-progress
• Linux Csound updated and revised page from yours truly
• Notes on LPC in Csound a paper discussing the basic use of the LPC UGs in Csound

Some Cmix Helpers

• BashFest the Cmix version (*)
• Sean's Easy Bins reverbs, filters and more...
• TooSkini Minc for Perry Cook's SKINI protocol (*)
• eriCMIX tools and extensions in Objective-C

Other Neat Sound Stuff

• Audio Players & Recorders:
• Linux Sound and Video a brief report on formats and players
• Mediatool an ambitious multimedia player for the KDE (*)
• MultiMedia Panel ncurses-based media player and audio mixer for Linux consoles (*)
• Radio Jockey Andy Jalics' "super playlist" for MP3, MOD, WAV, AU, image and other files (*)
• Rasca an audiofile player for MPEG2, MPEG3, and WAV formats (*)
• Relief an ncurses-based front-end for command-line sound players, from Frode Måløy (*)
• Sound Recorder simple utility for recording from soundcard (*)
• WavPlay homepage for the GNUwav/WavPlay project
• bplay a buffered player for various soundfiles (*)
• eMusic MOD/MP3/CD player with X interface (*)
• esdplay player for EsounD, requires the Audio File Library (*)
• krecord simple WAV recorder/player for KDE from Gerd Knorr
• paudio reads/saves copy of audio data played through soundcard (*)
• tplay threaded & buffering audio player (RIFF/WAV, AU, raw PCM) (*)
• xanim the venerable xanim plays a wide variety of sound & video formats
• xhippo a generic playlist manager for a variety of UNIX sound players and formats (*)
• yarec yet another recorder/player, supports WAV and AIFF formats (*)
• CD Technology & Linux:
• BurnIT JAVA front-end for mkisofs and cdrecord (*)
• CD Builder generates cue sheets and subcodes for CD-R (*)
• CD Building Project for UNIX developing portable CD burning tools for UNIX/Linux (*)
• CDM CD mirror/authoring project (*)
• Cdrecord CD recording for Linux, from Joerg Schilling (*)
• Dynamic unique concept of synthesis from CD audio (*)
• GramoFile a program to clean gramophone recordings for transfer to CD (*)
• GRip "...a Gtk-based front-end for CD-rippers such as cdparanoia and cdda2wav" (*)
• Groovy CD Player ncurses-based player (*)
• Kinetic CD^3 is a very interesting hardware/software project for a CD3 player (*)
• Kover simple KDE utility for creating inserts for CD jewel boxes (*)
• Krabber audio CD grabber/compressor for KDE (*)
• Mp3Make "a program that glues together...cd-to-mp3 rippers and encoders and...a cddb database" (*)
• Ripenc Bourne-shell script for ripping from CD tracks and encoding to MP3 (*)
• X-CD-Roast CD writer from Thomas Niederreiter (*)
• Xmcd and CDA CD players for X/Motif or the command-line
• cdcd full-featured command-line CD player (*)
• cdda2wav Heiko Eissfeldt's "...sampling utility for cdrom drives that are capable of sending audio cd data in digital form to your host. Data can be dumped into WAV or Sun format sound files." (*)
• cdloop a utility to loop passages playing from an audio CD (*)
• cdparanoia an improved version of the cdda2wav CD audio grabber (*)
• cdr "Create/Duplicate/Rip" front-end for ripping and encoding audio from CD (*)
• cdrdao "writes audio CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode" (*)
• cdsetspd sets the reading speed of Plextor CDROMs (*)
• cdwrite CD writing software; a hardware compatibility list can be found here (*)
• dagrab audio grabber, CD to WAV (*)
• gcdplay GNU CD player (*)
• jt a template for LaTeX to design CD jewel-case inserts (*)
• ripperX GUI to cdparanoia and 8Hz-MP3 (*)
• wav2cdr conversion utility to prepare WAV files for CD recording (*)
• Drumming:
• DrumPatterns a tool for learning drum rudiments and other patterns (*)
• Groovit a matrix-style drum-pattern composer (*)
• Trommler an X11 drum machine built with the Gtk
• Web DSP Drum Machine an on-line drum machine generator from Eric Lyon
• Xdrum a user-configurable software drum-machine for X and the Athena widget set
• xdrum Tcl/Tk software drum machine, requires tclm MIDI extensions (*)
• File Compression Software:
• SoftSound Ltd high-quality audio and speech coders Shorten and ATELP (*)
• Split16 lossless audiofile compression utility (*)
• bzip2 an improved general file-compression utility (*)
• Game Things:
• Linux Games With Sound
• Descent with GGI for graphics and GSI for sound (*)
• Doom FAQ page for the Linux version
• Heretic now supports ambient SFX-Sound (*)
• Maelstrom Linux version of classic Asteroids game (*)
• Quake if Doom isn't enough for you... (*)
• SpaceBoom includes digitized sounds and MIDI soundtrack (*)
• XGalaga arcade game with sound effects (*)
• SDK Packages
• ClanLib a platform-independent game SDK with sound support (*)
• GSI the General Sound Interface, an API with stereo sample play, 3D, Doppler fx, etc. (*)
• PenguinPlay an ambitious game SDK for Linux, with a Sound Team led by Sherman F. Mui
• SL Sound & Mixer Libraries libs for sound effects in games and other apps requiring low CPU usage and low latency, from Steve Baker (*)
• XwinAllegro game programming library, includes sound support (*)
• For Guitarists Only:
• Chord 3.5 tool for guitarists, produces sheet music from a text file (*)
• Dr Fermi Tabulator converts ASCII tablature to a standard MIDI file (*)
• Gtune guitar tuner (console-only) by Harold Baur (*)
• PStab "a system for typesetting guitar tablature" (*)
• Tab'n'Fret tablature and fretboard generators for X (*)
• fretboard generates 1-octave fretboard diagram of any fretted instrument (*)
• gTune provides a Gtk+ interface to Gtune (*)
• vtuner a multi-instrument tuner from Andras Radnai (This site is in Hungarian) (*)
• Java Applets, Applications, and Tools:
• Ambient Automat automatic ambience, synthesis, and more from Double Muffled Dolphin and Java
• Big Ears an on-line ear-training utility, requires a Java-enabled browser
• Internet Synth Henry Lowengard's contribution to sound on the Web (source available by request)
• JARS Music/Sound a large list of Java applets from the JARS Automatic Resource Listing
• Java Audio Information Page Greg Sandell's excellent resource
• Java Sound API useful information from Sun Microsystems
• Java Sound for Linux Netscape making it work...
• MikMod for Java is now available from Shlomi Fish (*)
• Temperaments generates scales in user-selected temperaments
• Tunings & Temperaments demonstrates tunings and temperaments
• Zerius Synth GUI software synthesizer
• Zerius Vocoder C and Java source for software channel vocoder
• jMax MAX for Java, from IRCAM (This URL is information-only for now) (*)
• vOICe Sonification Applet is Peter Meijer's very cool synthesizer; George Dillon's Sound to Graph to Sound is an exploration of The_vOICe
• Mixers:
• XAMixer a Gtk-based mixer, requires ALSA (*)
• aumix excellent command-line mixer, up-to-date with latest Linux kernel sound support
• xmmixer soundcard audio mixer by Ti Kan; I like it, I use it...
• See the collection at metalab for a full list of mixers.
• MOD Trackers & Players:
• Falcon Module Player plays MOD/S3M/XM and other formats (*)
• FunktrackerGOLD a MOD tracker from Jason Nunn (*)
• Gtk MikMod the popular MOD player goes Gtk (*)
• Impulse Tracker 3 not yet available, but a Linux version is planned: encourage them ! (*)
• Keg Tracker a tracker from Pete Ryland (*)
• KMikMod a version of mikmod for KDE, formerly known as XMPlayer (*)
• KModBox KDE module player, supports wide variety of MOD formats (*)
• MikIT player for Impulse Tracker MOD files
• MikMod a MOD player for Linux with curses or X interface (Be sure to check out this page as well !)
• Mod4Xwin player with X interface (*)
• SoundTracker a Gtk-based MOD tracker from Michael Krause (*)
• Xgmod MOD player in X and ncurses versions (*)
• Xsoundtrack tracker for X window system, requires only Xlib graphics
• gmotion a MOD library/player project based on GNOME (*)
• maube tracker/editor for X11 (*)
• mod2text and text2mod "Tools to convert Protracker modules to and from a readable text -- turn Emacs into a tracker!" (*)
• ocsa of pwp providers of ocsatracker and ocsalib (*)
• xmp the Extended Module Player (*)
• MPEG Players & Encoders:
• 8Hz-MP3 a free MPEG audio encoder (*)
• BladeEnc an MP3 encoder from Tord Jansson (*)
• DAM's MP3 Page aims to include everything regarding MPEG3 + Linux, from Damien Morel
• FreeAMP an Open Source digital audio (MP3) player (*)
• Gmp32cinta utility for transferring MP3 CDs to cassette tape (This page is in Spanish) (*)
• GQmpeg front-end for mpg123, supports playlists (*)
• GTKmp3make Gtk front-end for mp3make, includes support for bladenc (*)
• Hannover MPEG encoder free encoder, also does MP3 (*)
• Jukebox is a jukebox-style MP3 player based on mySQL, Apache, and Perl (*)
• Kmp3te program for viewing and editing tags to MP3 files (*)
• MP3 Encoder reads WAV files and encodes to MPEG3, from Andreas Johansson (*)
• MP3 Requester is a request system Web interface for adding files to the end of an MP3 queue file (*)
• MP3 Studio record/playback/edit MP3 files
• MP3ENC MPEG3 audio encoder from Frauenhofer IIS (*)
• MPEG3 Software a resource page with links to many UNIX/Linux MPEG3 players
• Mpm4Linux a utility for file transfer to & from the Saehan MPMan portable MP3 player (*)
• Replay MP3 player with Gtk interface (*)
• Rio
• Rio Express X11 utility for basic management of the Rio MP3 player (*)
• Rio support a Linux utility for uploading MP3 files to the Diamond Rio player (*)
• RioGeo loads MP3 files to and from the Rio player; not yet for Linux, but a version is planned (*)
• Sajber Jukebox is an MP3 player (with Qt interface) which can play files directly from the Net (*)
• Tk3Play a Tk MPEG3 audio player (*)
• VigMeUp "...succeeds in turning a high-powered Linux workstation into a 2 dollar alarm clock", with support for MPEG3 audio (*)
• X11Amp very nice MPEG3 player with X11 GUI
• mpg123 excellent MP3 decoder (*)
• newplayer 1.1 curses-based MP3 player (*)
• playlist creates HTML and plaintext lists of MP3 and other sound & image files (*)
• Network Audio:
• BGM a background music player for PBX systems (*)
• CCFAudio Internet audio conferencing for Linux, check the README for a full description (*)
• Cyber Radio 1 a system for live Internet audio broadcast (*)
• Flash plug-in for Linux Netscape, plays Flash files on Shockwave-enabled Web sites (*)
• LiveMix audio streams mixing program, requires PostgreSQL (*)
• NAS the Network Audio System (A more descriptive page is located here) (*)
• NetStreamer streaming audio over LAN and ISDN networks (*)
• Network Audio Front-end a streaming-audio alternative to RealAudio (*)
• RAP plays RealAudio without X, excellent for the Lynx browser
• RAT the Robust Audio Tool for Internet audio conferences (*)
• RaWrapper controls X11-based streaming-audio (such as RealPlayer) from the command line (*)
• RealAudio the "Real" thing, for Linux too...
• RPlay feature-rich UDP/TCP network audio system (*)
• Sabre Flight Simulator now has a Linux sound server (*)
• SHOUTcast streaming audio system, requires Winamp (*)
• Sound Server Ideas some thoughts from Fredrik Ohrstrom
• Speak Freely Internet telephony for UNIX/Linux (*)
• SpkrPhone enables use of a USR Sportster modem as a speaker phone (*)
• Whisper half-duplex Internet telephony for Linux (*)
• WWR World Wide Radio, a low-bandwidth Internet radio client/server (*)
• X Audio System specifications for "platform-independent, device-independent, network transparent audio services", a development project from The X Consortium
• icecast is an MP3 audio broadcasting system (*)
• Unusually Difficult to Catalog:
• Guinea Pig psychoacoustics research software (*)
• The Humdrum Toolkit software tools for music analysis and research (*)
• Metropro beat generator for "...the composition and interpretation of complex and non-linear tempo..." (*)
• SBaGen a "BinAural Brain Wave Experimenter's Lab" from Jim Peters
• SoundMan a Tcl/Tk soundfile utility, provides GUI for simple file management
• XStick "...a tool for viewing scales, notes, and chords on the Chapman Stick(R)", from Stew Benedict (*)
• audiophile.nu for Linuxen into high-end audio, an unusual page from J. Lucas
• glyric a Perl/Gtk-based lyrics viewer (*)

Other UNIX Audio & MIDI Software

• AIX
• AIX Ultimedia multimedia support for the IBM RS/6000 family
• FreeBSD
• FreeBSD Audio Software a list of ported applications
• MTP Driver for FreeBSD from John Galbraith, a driver for the Midi Express XT from Mark Of The Unicorn (*)
• HP-UX
• HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre search for audio/sound/MIDI applications for Hewlett-Packard systems
• NeXTStep
• Sound and Music Programs for NeXTStep The NeXT lives on ! (But will this software ever run under GNUStep ?)
• Software from the Princeton Sound Kitchen offerings from Paul Lansky and crew
• cmusic for the NeXT is here
• SCO
• Skunkware audio/video applications for SCO's OpenServer & UnixWare
• SGI
• Audio & Music Appications For Silicon Graphics Systems an excellent list now maintained by Doug Scott
• CAST additive synthesis tools for the SGI IRIX operating system
• Csound for SGI an enhanced version 3.482 is now available from Michael A. Thompson
• Inst2MIDI convert monophonic audio input to MIDI data, for SGI machines (*)
• Mi_D a high-level MIDI library for SGI iron, from Tobias Kunze
• MIDAS "Musical Instrument Distributed Array Signal processor" for SGI machines, from the Music Technology group at the University of York
• Software from the Princeton Sound Kitchen offerings from Paul Lansky and crew
• SGI Audio FAQ everything you want to know...
• Strange Software from Tom Benoist, homepage for the Chaos MIDI sequencer and the amazing Theramouse
• Unwinder MIDI solutions for SGI computers
• comp.sys.sgi.audio USEnet newsgroup dedicated to SGI audio/MIDI problems and solutions
• jMax MAX for Java, from IRCAM (Now available in beta for SGI machines) (*)
• Sun
• AMOS homepage for an audio tool for the Sun SPARCstation
• IMG Peter Langston's Incidental Music Generator for the SPARCstation
• Software from the Princeton Sound Kitchen offerings from Paul Lansky and crew
• Sparc Audio information on the Linux/Sparc audio subsystem (*)
• SunPlay C code for threaded sound playback for Solaris, from Tom Erbe
• Stephen Uhler's Homepage home for the original Sun version of SparcOmatic
• cmusic for Sun machines is here
• Various
• RENDERSON "...is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language...to define audio signal processing tasks...[and] can be thought of as the PostScript for the audio domain." (for various UNIX systems, no Linux version)
• UNIX MIDI libraries useful code from John Stone (*)

Sound Cards & Drivers

• 4Front offers commercially available sound drivers for UNIX/Linux
• ALSA advanced Linux sound architecture project (*)
• Analog Devices:
• The Analog Devices AD1815 has a driver available here (*)
• AD1816 soundchip driver now available for TerraTec soundcards (*)
• CreamWare has officially announced Linux support for their high-end Pulsar DSP board (*)
• EsounD the Enlightened Sound Daemon, "can mix several audio streams into one device" (*)
• extace a 3D FFT waveform display plug-in for EsounD (*)
• ESS18n8:
• Bigphysarea a patch to fix DMA buffer problems with the ESS1888 Audio Drive soundcard (*)
• ESS1868 Plug and Play Soundcard Brian Miller's page (*)
• ESS1868 PnP card set-up information from George Dau (follow his "interests" link) (*)
• Gravis Ultrasound:
• Gravis UltraSound mini-HOWTO by Nicolai Langfeldt
• Linux Ultrasound Project dedicated to improved support for the Gravis soundcards
• Linux Drivers for PCI Soundcards from Thomas Sailer, currently supporting the Ensoniq ES1370, the Ashai Kasei AK4531, and the S3 SonicVibes chipsets (*)
• Linux High-end Sound Driver information concerning Guenter Geiger's advanced sound driver project
• Linux Mwave Hack Page describes how to set up the Mwave sound adapter
• Mediatrix Audiotrix 3D/XG and Audiotrix Pro soundcards ship with UNIX/Linux drivers (Thanks to Evan at Tracer Technologies for the note) (*)
• ODC makes serial port MIDI interfaces which should work with any UNIX/Linux machines (*)
• OPTi931:
• Mini-HOWTO from David Rees
• 82C931-based soundcards info from Donald Burns
• OPTi931 + Linux Joshua Yelon's page
• OSS/Free homepage for the kernel sound driver
• The Roland MPU-401 has an alternate driver available here (*)
• SAM9407:
• Dream SAM9407 Driver Project development project for DSP chip used in TerraTec EWS64XL, Guillemot Maxisound, and Hoontech SoundTrack 128 cards (*)
• SAM9407 kernel module from Gerd Rausch (*)
• SoundTrack 128 Ruby a report on a Hoontech card built with the SAM9407 and CS4237B chipsets (*)
• SoundBlaster:
• Direct SB Patch runs Sound Blaster compatible devices from DOSemu, from Valery Shchedrin (*)
• SB16FD a patch for full-duplex operation on a SoundBlaster16 (*)
• SoundBlaster + MIDI mini-HOWTO by Hideki Saito
• SoundBlaster-16 PnP mini-HOWTO by Eric Z. Ayers
• SoundBlaster-AWE32 Driver Page by Takashi Iwai
• SoundBlaster-AWE32/64 mini-HOWTO by Marcus Brinkmann
• SoundBlaster-AWE64 PnP Configuration HOWTO a tutorial by Steve Martin
• Spécial AWE32/64 advanced drivers from Mandala Conseil (This site is currently in French, but it will soon be available in English.) (*)
• SRND Linux driver for the miroMEDIA Surround Dolby Pro Logic decoder, includes KDE and XViews GUIs (*)
• Toshiba Tecra sound a guide for installing Linux on the popular laptop series, with a section on setting up audio support
• Turtle Beach:
• Turtle Beach Linux Drivers for the Monterey, Classic, Pinnacle, Tahiti, and Fiji cards (*)
• Turtle Beach Multisound/Tahiti/Monterey cards are supported by a package from Markus Mummert (*)
• dspctrl provides control for S/PDIF and Surround Sound on Turtle Beach Malibu and other cards based on the CS4237B chip (*)
• Yamaha OPL3-SA:
• OPL3-SAx Configuration a HOWTO for soundcards with the Yamaha chipset
• Yamaha OPL3-SA2 Linux Configuration an extensive and helpful walk-through (*)
• The Zefiro ZA2 has a driver in alpha-stage here (*)
• kernel patches for sound driver in latest experimental kernel, from Alan Cox (*)
• tripleDAT hardware from CreamWare now has an unofficial driver for Linux (*)

Tools To Make Tools...

• Linux audio tools:
• Abstract Audio libaudiostream is an audiofile library project from Umberto Puxeddu and Gianluca Rossi (*)
• Audio File Library an implementation of the SGI libaudiofile from Michael Pruett
• Audio Formats a great resource from Guido van Rossum, now maintained by Chris Bagwell
• Audio Interchange File Format 1.3 an in-depth descriptive page
• Audio Toolbox C++ programs to play/record/process audio files, based on the libwavstream library from Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu
• C++ wrappers for OSS/Free version 3.8 or higher, from Guillaume Laurent (*)
• DATlib library & apps for streaming-tape features (including audio DAT) of SCSI-DDS and Archive Python DDS drives (*)
• DIME the "Digital Integrated Musical Environment" project is seeking interested developers (*)
• Hardware Documentation another useful page for developers from Dan Hollis
• Illustrated Audio system for syncronizing audio/video (*)
• Linux Music Revolution is a page directed to developers of "musical software components", from Leo Reiter (*)
• Linux Sound Hacker's Guide for programming the OSS/Free driver from Hannu Savolainen
• Linux Sound Programming a tutorial page from Eelke Klein
• MIDAS multichannel sound & music system for multimedia applications (*)
• MIDI Eiffel Library from Mike Durian, a rewrite of his tclmidi library, for the Eiffel language (*)
• MIDI Modules for the Python programming language (*)
• MpegTV SDK plays MPEG streams, includes audio support (*)
• Open Source Portable Real-time Audio I/O Library "...an initiative of the music-dsp mailing list. The proposal is being coordinated by Ross Bencina." (*)
• OpenAL Open Audio Library is a project currently in discussion, write to the page owner for details
• Perl audio processing modules just what it says... (*)
• PSL the Portable Sound Library project from Andrew Clausen (*)
• Programmer's Guide To OSS excellent resource for Linux sound & MIDI device programming, from 4Front
• Programming /dev/sequencer and /dev/midi HTML tutorial on the Linux MIDI interface
• QwAudio simple sound for the Qt GUI toolkit (*)
• RTS Tools tools for setting and getting realtime priority (*)
• SBEmu brief description of SoundBlaster emulation in DOSemu
• SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer, a library development project (*)
• SEAL is the Synthetic Audio Library SDK by Carlos Hasan
• Snack a module to add sound I/O and visualization commands to Tcl/Tk
• Snd utils soundfile utilities from the CARL cmusic distribution, revived by Charlie Baker
• Squeak a Smalltalk-80 environment with built-in support for realtime sound synthesis; a description of Linux sound support for Squeak can be found here
• Stdio Musician Tcl/Tk GUI to stdio control of Linux sound interface (*)
• UNIX MIDI libraries useful code from John Stone (*)
• UTIME micro-second resolution timing for Linux (*)
• VU meters & dials widget set for Tcl/Tk 8.0, final release (*)
• WMSound a sound server for WindowMaker (*)
• XAudio "...a fast implementation of an MPEG Audio decoding library to be used by various GUI front-ends" (*)
• sndlib is Bill Schottstaedt's library for the Snd soundfile editor (*)
• soundfile formats a large listing of sound and music file formats
• tichstuff is a collection of headers and libraries needed to port SGI sound apps to Linux
• tkSound is Dan Ellis's Tcl/Tk toolkit for waveform display and manipulation
• Other general tools:
• DDD Data Display Debugger, visual front-end for gdb
• Gtk GIMP ToolKit for GUI creation under X
• LessTif freely-available libs to replace Motif 1.2
• Mesa API-compatible libraries to replace OpenGL
• Qt graphics libs necessary for KDE software
• Tcl/Tk scripting and GUI language, wonderful and free !
• ViewKit a Linux port of an OSF/Motif toolkit originally for SGI machines
• XForms another fine freely-available GUI toolkit for X
• vtcl excellent visual IDE for Tcl/Tk

Repositories

• /pub/systems/Linux/snd at Ocean FTP
• /pub/sci/audio at funet
• /pub/Linux/apps/sound at metalab (formerly sunsite)

Questionables: Has anyone compiled these for Linux ?

• MODE from Stephen Travis Pope should compile and run under any UNIX Smalltalk-80
• cmusic the venerable...(note that the DOS port pcmusic will run under dosemu)

Other Documentation...

• Free Music Homepage a manifesto regarding music as a free commodity a la Linux and the GPL
• GNU Music Project a manifesto from the good folks at LilyPond
• Linux Multimedia Guide a book by Jeff Tranter, published by The O'Reilly Press
• Sound HOWTO by Jeff Tranter
• Sound Playing HOWTO by Yoo C. Chung

Mail Lists & Newsgroups

• Csound Unix Development a mail-list for anyone interested in the development of Linux Csound
• linart is Michael Stutz's discussion group concerned with Linux and artistic issues
• linux-audio-dev is dedicated to "discussion of topics relevant to audio under Linux, with an accent on development issues"
• linux-sound a mail-list for Linux sound topics; an excellent archive is located here
• linux.dev.sound is a newsgroup available from news.fuller.edu and other news hosts

Other Linux Sound + MIDI Pages

• Applications for OSS
• Georgios' Linux Multimedia Page
• Linux Games, Sound, and Multimedia Apps
• Linux Links by Goob another good multimedia listing
• SlinkP's Linux Music & Sound Page offerings from Paul Winkler
• Linux MIDI + Sound Pages
• Mandala Conseil (This site is in French)
• The Shareware Music Machine
• sound.lovebead.com a mirror of this page

And Now For Something Rather Different...

• programs running under dosemu (an MS-DOS emulator)

 

 

• Sequencer Plus Gold and Sideman D/TX from Voyetra (See my dosemu & MIDI page for a brief report on setting up and using those and other DOS MIDI & sound programs.)
• M/pc (a beautiful port of M 2.0), also from Voyetra
• the MIDI programming environment RAVEL by Jim Binkley
• Cool Shoes Software's excellent Drummer 2.0
• MusicBox and other algorithmic MIDI programs from John Dunn
• Temporal Acuity Products' Music Printer Plus 4.1, one of the best notation packages for MS-DOS
• pcmusic is the DOS version of the software sound synthesis language cmusic
• Jesus Villena's Convert 1.4 is an excellent format conversion utility especially good for working with various commercial sampler formats (e.g., Ensoniq ASR, Yamaha TX16W, Kurzweil K2000, etc.)
• programs running under the demo version of Executor (a Macintosh emulator for Linux)

 

 

• CMask Csound score generation environment
• CornBucket granular-synthesis score generator for Csound
• MacMusic II includes a Csound orc/sco generator with GUI
• Phonogramme I think you just have to see this one...(This page is in French)
• Sound Sculptor II a very nice soundfile editor
• SoundHack is Tom Erbe's famed package for soundfile analysis/resynthesis and more...
• Spliner spline-curve drawing utility for Csound GEN functions
• Syd very neat software synthesizer from Jim Bumgardner
• programs running under UAE, an Amiga emulator for UNIX, with support for full stereo sound (4 x 8bit channels)
• Jonas Minnberg reported (Sept 1998) that sound emulation is perfect and that he uses the software to run Delitracker with no problems.
• programs running under STonX an Atari ST emulator with sound support (no MIDI yet, sorry) (*)
• Anyone have any reports on this one ?
• Commodore C64/128 emulators

 

 

• KSidplay KDE front-end for SIDPLAY (*)
• SIDPLAY emulates the soundchip of the Commodore C64 (Hey, it works, what more can I say ?)
• programs running under WINE (a Windows emulator)

 

 

• Cool Edit 1.50 from Syntrillium Software
• PatchWork for Windows GUI for Csound instrument design
• Dr T's original XoR "universal" patch editor/librarian for MIDI synthesizers (XoR is now known as Unisyn, which will not run under WINE)
• The WINE Applications Support page rates an application's success on a scale from 0 to 5, with a higher number indicating greater viability. On March 25 the page listed the following sound and MIDI applications and their ratings:
• Cakewalk 5.0 demo (3)
• Cubase (4)
• Finale (4)
• Sound Forge XP (4)