[tech talk] Turnkey Linux audio package

[Derek Holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>]

forgive the software talk, but i just got wind of this, which could be quite 
nice until the DeMuDi distro gets released.... this one is not a standalone 
distro, however, but requires a working Mandrake OS installation first.

http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/explore.html

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Listed below are the individual apps and utilities included in the Turn-Key 
Linux Audio install package. 

Complete installation instructions are available on the documentation page, 
along with an FAQ.

Editors *

Audacity - a fast multi-platform editor, includes multi-track capabilities.  
DAP - Richard Kent's port of the classic SGI version.  
MiXViews - a powerful editor from Doug Scott, includes editing tools for 
analysis data.  
Snd - Bill Schottstaedt's wonderful everything editor.  
Sweep - an amazing editor (with "Scrubby" inside) from Conrad Parker.  
Wavesufer - one of the best editors for Linux, from Kåre Sjölander and Jonas 
Beskow. 
 
Analysis/Resynthesis and DSP *

Ceres3 - the latest, greatest incarnation of the ceres spectral editor.  
Cecilia - more than just a graphical front end to the csound engine...a rich 
sound manipulation environment.  
LADSPA - a plugins package, including the CMT set, and a number of others.  
Mammut - a fun and useful analysis/resythesis tool with limited features but 
often suprising results.  
PVC - Paul Koonce's phase vocoding tools with ECMC templates/scripts/docs.  
SMS - Xavier Serra's Linux incarnation of his Spectral Modeling Sythesis 
application.  
Vspace - an excellent tool for ambisonic encoding/decoding and soundscape 
creation.  

Sythnesis/Composition *

Csound - the composition app, richly expanded with dozens of scripts and 
templates.  
ngen - Michael Kuehn's powerful new event preprocessor for Csound.  
PD - The venerable MAX-like tool from Max''s own author Miller Pucket.  
RTCmix - The Columbia/Princeton extension of its Cmix music 
composition "language".  
RTMix - Ivica Ico Bukvik's exciting performance/real-time tool.  
Score11 - Alec Binkman's very flexible Csound score preprocessor, powerful and 
easy to use.  
TKLA includes a library of Score11 macros, templates, and examples 

Players/Recorders *

Alsaplayer - a very nice player with some added functionality for visualization 
and playlisting.  
Real Player (downloaded at install time) - a widely used streaming audio app, 
now for Linux. 
xplay - very handy, very simple, no frills player.  

Mixing *

Ardour  - Paul Barton Davis' impressive hard disk recorder/mixer.  
Mix - the venerable NoTAM 9 channel mixer, with some welcome additions.  
Ecasound - a rather deep hard-disk recording and playing/routing tool from Kai 
Vehmanen.  
MixMagic - a GNOME mixing application with some useful features.  
Rt - Paul Lansky's scripted mixer, ported and updated for Linux by Doug Scott.
  
Utilities/Other *

ALSA - An advanced audio API for Linux with support for the venerable OSS in 
emulation.  
JACK - the Jack audio connection kit for professional audio under Linux.  
xsox (old version)- a graphical front end for the ubiquitous audio conversion 
utility "sox".  
Shorten - a program for lossless compression of audio files.  
Normalize - a command line utility for batch production of normalized levels.  
RipperX - a nice GUI front end to cdparanoia for ripping CD tracks to 
audiofiles.  
ECMC scripts, utilities, macros, templates and examples * (downloads as a 
complete set)  

[...and so on...]

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