Chapter 5. Audio production

Play, record edit and stream your audio

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Play
Perform
Record and edit
Stream
Play, record edit and stream your audio

This distribution is full with audio software to do all kind of things: electronic music, sound processing, voice effects, interviews and more. And there is one important thing that makes this system superior to any other commercial solution: there is no competition :)

Most of the audio applications in dyne:bolic can be connected together, input to output, in order to form a chain of tools processing the sound: this is done thanks to a technologies like JACK and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Instead of keeping separated the tasks of every single application, now it is possible to take advantage of the great variety of approaches that a GNU/Linux system like dyne:bolic has to offer.

This revolutionary approach will surely pay you back the effort to be introduced to its use, a good starting point is the Spot perspective on technology at http://spot.river-styx.com/viewarticle.php?id=14 and http://spot.river-styx.com/viewarticle.php?id=17.

Play

This operating systems provides players for many audio formats available around out of the box: WAV, MIDI, MP3, OGG / VORBIS, MOD, XM, FLAC, SPEEX and even more can be played out or re-encoded, switching between formats.

The Xmms player is a practical audio player with a minimal and intuitive playlist manager, can play online radio streams and local files and can be skinned or customized with plugins as you like.

Amarok is a fully featured personal jukebox, handling the collection of your audio and downloading automatically printable lables and lyrics of your favourite music. Let it explore your collection of audio so that it will let you search for keywords, memorize your preferences and guess playlists out of your favourite music. It makes it a perfect interface for a jukebox station!

Timidity is a midi synthetizers using GUS patches to render your MIDI files into audio files, as well make you listen to MIDI partitures.

MikMod is a tracker module player (file extensions as MOD, XM, S3M etc.) which can let you listen to demo-scene prods, video game music and what's commony called "chip tunes".