Re: [linux-audio-user] Searching for music composition tools

From: Dave Phillips <dlphillips@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Feb 21 2005 - 19:08:44 EET

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
>
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>
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>
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