Hi! For a DAW to record: Try audacity (it's rather simple). I said rather. It means it is worthy to work with. For the big time work: go for ardour. There is a debian package for it, and I believe there should be a ubuntu package for it. For sample-playback: If you don't have sampling libraries yet or if you want to go for others: there is linuxsampler, which can read gigasample version2 sounds. There is hydrogen for drum-sounds, which has its own libraries and lets you create new drum-libraries. there is alsofluidsynth (and qsynth for the graphical interface). Fluidsynth (qsynth respectively) read soundfonts. There are some very ok drum-libraries in SF2 format. That's just completing to makr Knecht's message, not an either-or alternative. 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 ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user