Greetings: Don't forget these amazing tools: Csound, at http://www.csounds.com (synthesis & composition) Common Music, at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/cm/doc/cm.html (composition environment) Common Lisp Music, at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/ (synthesis) Best, dp Julien Claassen wrote: >Hi! > There are a few nice tools, depending on what kind of music you wish to >record. I, personally - record more popular music, in contrast to computer or >experimental music/soundscapes. The tools I use are: > Ecasound for harddisk recording, effects-processing. I use this in >connection with ladspa effects. For more computerish music there is csound and >clm (common lisp music), which is based on emacs-lisp. There are also a few >trackers, as I know, but I didn't try them. Besides that, there's fluidsynth a >software synthesizer based on soundfonts, there's also a nice place where you >can find some really good soundfonts for free. Also the linuxsampler project, >still in earlier stages of development can be helpful. It works with >gigastudio sampling-format. > The best place to find most of the mentioned tools is: > http://linux-sound.org > Ecasound: www.eca.cx/ecasound > Fluidsynth: www.fluidsynth.org > Linuxamler: www.linuxsampler.org > Ladspa basics: www.ladspa.org > See Dave's plugin page for Steve Harris's swh-plugins and fons Adriaensen's >mcv and stereo reverb plugin. They are all ladspa. > Note Dave's page uses Frames, but with lynx, that's no problem, also w3m is >ok, about other browswers I don't know, but expect they're fine, too. > Fro more questions mail me directly or take a first look at my site: > http://ltsb.sf.net > There are also mentioned good tools for playback of too many formats to >mention here including: midi, audio, video. All those tools work in >text-mode!!! > Kindest regards > Julien > >-------- >Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) > >======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== >http://ltsb.sourceforge.net - the Linux TextBased Studio guide > > >