Editor notes /* The list is generated from https://salsa.debian.org/nodiscc2-guest/awesome-linuxaudio, a list of multimedia/live/audio/video/graphics applications for Linux. Please consider submitting a Merge Request there or at one of the mirrors listed in the README, so that the list can easily be kept in sync with the wiki. The wiki export can be generated with 'make debianwiki' Translation(s): العربية - English - Español - Français - Italiano - Русский - Svenska - 简体中文 Debian Wiki Multimedia portal - This portal covers all aspects of viewing, playing, editing and creating audiovisual content on Debian.
This list is generated from https://salsa.debian.org/nodiscc2-guest/awesome-linuxaudio. Contents
ardour - the digital audio workstation lmms - Linux Multimedia Studio meterec - minimalistic multi track recorder muse - Qt-based audio/MIDI sequencer qtractor - MIDI/Audio multi-track sequencer application rosegarden - music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer seq24 - Real time MIDI sequencer traverso - Multitrack audio recorder and editor
goattracker - C64 music editor bambootracker - YM2608 (OPNA, sound chip of Yamaha) music tracker cheesecutter - SID music editor pt2-clone - Music tracker clone of ?ProTracker 2 for modern computers komposter - lightweight music composing system klystrack - Chiptune tracker milkytracker - music creation tool inspired by Fast Tracker 2 schism - ?ImpulseTracker clone aiming at providing the same look&feel tiatracker - music tracker for making Atari VCS 2600 tutka - tracker style MIDI sequencer zytrax - Easy to use, tracker-inspired music sequencer
audacity - fast, cross-platform audio editor kwave - sound editor for KDE mhwaveedit - Simple and fast GTK2 sound editor sweep - Audio editor and live playback tool
drumgizmo - Audio sampler plugin and stand-alone app that simulates a real drum kit freewheeling - live looping musical instrument giada - Hardcore Loop Machine hydrogen - advanced drum machine/step sequencer hydrogen-drumkits - drumkits for Hydrogen hydrogen-drumkits-effects - effect drumkits for Hydrogen kluppe - loop-player and recorder designed for live use qsampler - ?LinuxSampler GUI frontend based on the Qt toolkit samplv1 - polyphonic sampler synthesizer - standalone sooperlooper - Looping Sampler
calf-plugins - Calf Studio Gear - audio effects and sound generators amb-plugins - ambisonics LADSPA plugins avw.lv2 - collection of Voltage Controlled LV2 modules caps - C* Audio Plugin Suite cmt - LADSPA plugin collection fomp - collection of LV2 audio plugins invada-studio-plugins-ladspa - Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LADSPA audio plugins invada-studio-plugins-lv2 - Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LV2 audio plugins mda-lv2 - Paul Kellett's MDA plugins ported to LV2 ste-plugins - stereo LADSPA plugins swh-lv2 - Steve Harris's SWH plugins ported to LV2 swh-plugins - Steve Harris's LADSPA plugins tap-plugins - Tom's Audio Processing LADSPA plugins vco-plugins - LADSPA plugin sporting anti-aliased oscillators x42-plugins - Collection of LV2 plugins zam-plugins - Collection of LV2, LADSPA, LINUX-VST and JACK plugins
eq10q - LV2 plugins bundle fil-plugins - parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin
abgate - LV2 noise gate plugin autotalent - pitch correction LADSPA plugin blop - Bandlimited wavetable-based oscillator plugins for LADSPA hosts drc - digital room correction guitarix - Rock guitar amplifier for Jack ir.lv2 - LV2 IR reverb lv2vocoder - LV2 vocoder plugin paulstretch - Extreme sound time-stretch phasex - Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis EXperiment playitslowly - Plays back audio files at a different speed or pitch radium-compressor - audio compressor for JACK rakarrack - Simple and easy guitar effects processor for GNU/Linux rev-plugins - reverb LADSPA plugin rubberband-ladspa - LADSPA plugin for audio pitch-shifting sonic - Simple utility to speed up or slow down speech soundstretch - Stretches and pitch-shifts sound independently stretchplayer - Audio file player with time stretch and pitch shifting terminatorx - realtime audio synthesizer vocproc - LV2 plugin for pitch shifting and vocoding wah-plugins - auto-wah LADSPA plugin zita-at1 - JACK autotuner zita-rev1 - pro-audio reverb effect
yoshimi - software synthesizer originally based on ZynAddSubFX2 zynaddsubfx - Realtime software synthesizer for Linux
amsynth - two oscillator software synthesizer blepvco - LADSPA, minBLEP-based, hard-sync-capable oscillator plugins bristol - vintage synthesizer emulator synthv1 - old-school polyphonic synthesizer - standalone whysynth - DSSI Soft Synth Interface
hexter - Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin
wsynth-dssi - hack on Xsynth-DSSI to allow wavetable synthesis
drumkv1 - old-school drum-kit sampler - standalone qsynth - fluidsynth MIDI sound synthesiser front-end din - digital audio synthesizer fluidsynth - Real-time MIDI software synthesizer freebirth - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer freebirth-data - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer -- sound samples
ams - Realtime modular synthesizer for ALSA mcp-plugins - LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth omins - collection of LADSPA plugins aimed at modular synthesizers
aeolus - Synthesised pipe organ emulator horgand - JACK capable organ softsynth setbfree - DSP tonewheel organ
sox - Swiss army knife of sound processing ecasound - multitrack-capable audio recorder and effect processor fadecut - toolset to rip audiostreams, cut, fade in/out and tag the resulting audiofiles gwc - Audio file denoiser libsox-fmt-all - All SoX format libraries linux-show-player - Free cue player designed for sound-playback in stage productions nama - Ecasound-based multitrack recorder/mixer pianobooster - learn the piano just by playing a game showq - MIDI controllable audio player silentjack - silence detector for the JACK audio system taptempo - command line tap tempo timemachine - JACK audio recorder for spontaneous and conservatory use
bitmeter - diagnosis tool for JACK audio software brp-pacu - audio analysis tool ebumeter - loudness measurement according to EBU-R128 jaaa - audio signal generator and spectrum analyser jackmeter - a basic command line meter for the JACK audio system japa - JACK and ALSA Perceptual Analyser jkmeter - horizontal or vertical bargraph audio level meter for Jack Audio Connection Kit meterbridge - Collection of Audio meters for the JACK audio server siggen - Waveform generation tools sonic-visualiser - viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files xoscope - digital oscilloscope
jack-keyboard - Virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI timidity - Software sound renderer (MIDI sequencer, MOD player) abcmidi - converter from ABC to MIDI format and back gmidimonitor - GTK+ application that shows MIDI events kmidimon - MIDI monitor using ALSA sequencer and KDE user interface mididings - MIDI router and processor based on Python qmidiarp - MIDI arpeggiator for ALSA qmidinet - MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast qxgedit - MIDI System Exclusive files editor swami - MIDI instrument editor application vmpk - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard
qwinff - GUI for FFmpeg ambdec - Ambisonic decoder for first and second order audiotools - Collection of audio handling programs for the command line dir2ogg - audio file converter into ogg-vorbis format ffmpeg2theora - Theora video encoder using ffmpeg ffmpeg - Tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files gigtools - command line tools for Gigasampler and DLS Level 1/2 files mediainfo-gui - graphical utility for reading information from audio/video files mediainfo - command-line utility for reading information from audio/video files mp3diags - find issues in MP3 files and help to solve them mp3splt-gtk - split MP3, Ogg Vorbis, or FLAC files without re-encoding mp3val - program for MPEG audio stream validation mplayer - movie player for Unix-like systems sfarkxtc - Converts soundfonts from legacy sfArk v2 file format to sf2 soundconverter - GNOME application to convert audio files into other formats winff - graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg or avconv zita-bls1 - binaural stereo signals converter lame - MP3 encoding library (frontend) vorbis-tools - several Ogg Vorbis tools mp3info - An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor
asunder - graphical audio CD ripper and encoder handbrake - versatile DVD ripper and video transcoder (GTK+ GUI) sound-juicer - GNOME CD Ripper ogmrip - Application for ripping and encoding DVD cdparanoia - audio extraction tool for sampling CDs yaret - console tool to turn CDs into encoded music ripit - Textbased audio CD ripper gramofile - transfer sound from gramophone records to CD ripperx - GTK-based audio CD ripper/encoder abcde - A Better CD Encoder
aj-snapshot - make snapshots of JACK connections gjacktransport - access to the JACK's transport mechanism as touchable slider jack-capture - program for recording soundfiles with jack jackd2-firewire - JACK Audio Connection Kit (FFADO and FreeBoB backends) jackd - JACK Audio Connection Kit (default server package) jackeq - routes and manipulates audio from/to multiple sources * [jack_mixer](https://rdio.space/jackmixer/) - JACK Audio Mixer ([◼](https://packages.debian.org/buster/jack-mixer)) jack-tools - various JACK tools: dl, record, scope, osc, plumbing, udp, play, transport laditools - Linux Audio Desktop Integration Tools patchage - modular patch bay for Jack audio and Alsa Midi qjackctl - User interface for controlling the JACK sound server qjackrcd - Qt4 application to record JACK server outputs rotter - JACK client for transmission recording and audio logging zita-mu1 - organise stereo monitoring for Jack Audio Connection Kit
a2jmidid - Daemon for exposing legacy ALSA MIDI in JACK MIDI systems alsa-tools-gui - GUI based ALSA utilities for specific hardware alsa-tools - Console based ALSA utilities for specific hardware alsa-utils - Utilities for configuring and using ALSA zita-ajbridge - alsa to jack bridge
ffado-mixer-qt4 - FFADO D-Bus mixer applets libraw-bin - raw image decoder library (tools) libraw1394-11 - library for direct access to IEEE 1394 bus (aka ?FireWire) libraw1394-tools - library for direct access to IEEE 1394 bus (aka ?FireWire)
paprefs - PulseAudio Preferences pavucontrol - PulseAudio Volume Control pavumeter - PulseAudio Volume Meter pulseaudio-module-jack - jackd modules for PulseAudio sound server pulseaudio-module-lirc - lirc module for PulseAudio sound server pulseaudio-utils - Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server pulsemixer - command-line mixer for PulseAudio with a curses interface pulseaudio - PulseAudio sound server
jalv - tool to run LV2 plugins as stand-alone applications rtirq-init - startup script for realtime-preempt enabled kernels rtkit - Realtime Policy and Watchdog Daemon
**See <https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted/=media-streaming> for the main list** obs-studio - recorder and streamer for live video content autoradio - radio automation software gpac - GPAC Project on Advanced Content - utilities vlc - multimedia player and streamer zita-njbridge - Jack clients to transmit multichannel audio over a local IP network darkice - Live audio streamer darksnow - simple graphical user interface to darkice ices2 - Ogg Vorbis streaming source for Icecast 2 idjc - graphical shoutcast/icecast client liquidsoap - audio streaming language oggfwd - basic icecast source client for audio and video streaming
ola - Open Lighting Architecture
kdenlive - non-linear video editor flowblade - non-linear video editor olive-editor - Professional open-source NLE video editor dvgrab - grab digital video data via IEEE1394 and USB links ffdiaporama - Movie creator from photos and video clips frei0r-plugins - minimalistic plugin API for video effects, plugins collection lives - Video Editing system allowing users to edit and create video nageru - modern free software video mixer openshot - create and edit videos and movies (transitional package) pitivi - non-linear audio/video editor using GStreamer shotcut - video editor xjadeo - Video player with JACK sync
blender - Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer aqsis - 3D rendering solution adhering to the ?RenderMan(R) standard, binaries cloudcompare - 3D point cloud and mesh processing software evolvotron - Generator of textures through interactive evolution fractalnow - Fast, advanced fractal generator fraqtive - draws Mandelbrot and Julia fractals geomview - interactive geometry viewing program javamorph - Java morphing film-make program for pixel picture-input k3d - 3D modeling and animation system, binary files makehuman - Modelling of 3-Dimensional humanoid characters meshlab - System for processing and editing triangular meshes mm3d - OpenGL based 3D model editor sunflow - rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis (GUI) sweethome3d-furniture-editor - Sweet Home 3D Furniture Library Editor sweethome3d-furniture-nonfree - Interior 2D design application with 3D preview (additional non-free furniture) sweethome3d-furniture - Interior 2D design application with 3D preview (additional furniture) sweethome3d-textures-editor - Sweet Home 3D Textures Library Editor sweethome3d - Interior 2D design application with 3D preview wings3d - Nendo-inspired 3D polygon mesh modeller
aegisub - advanced subtitle editor devede - simple application to create Video DVDs gnome-subtitles - Subtitle editor for the GNOME Desktop environment subtitlecomposer - text-based subtitle editor subtitleeditor - Graphical subtitle editor with sound waves representation vlc-plugin-vlsub - VLC extension to download subtitles from opensubtitles.org
csladspa - LADSPA plugin for Csound csound-data - data files used by the csound library csound-utils - miscellaneous utilities for the Csound system csound - powerful and versatile sound synthesis software csoundqt - frontend for the csound sound processor lcd4linux - Grabs information and displays it on an external lcd lcdproc - LCD display driver daemon and clients lirc - Infra-red remote control support - daemons and utils nyquist - language for music composition and sound synthesis pd-csound - Csound external for Pure Data puredata - realtime computer music and graphics system supercollider-supernova - real time audio synthesis server (multiprocessor version) supercollider - real time audio synthesis programming language aubio-tools - library for audio segmentation -- utilities snd-gtk-jack - Sound file editor (GTK+ user interface - JACK) wavesurfer - Sound Manipulation Program
musescore - cross-platform multi-lingual music composition and notation, v2 denemo - GTK+ front end to GNU Lilypond lilypond - program for typesetting sheet music nted - Musical score editor tuxguitar - Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player (gp3 to gp5)
audacious - small and fast audio player which supports lots of formats clementine - modern music player and library organizer quodlibet - audio library manager and player for GTK3 rhythmbox - music player and organizer for GNOME vlc - multimedia player and streamer ario - GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) cantata - Qt client for the music player daemon (MPD) gmusicbrowser - graphical jukebox for large music collections gnome-music - Music is the new GNOME music playing application gpodder - podcast client and feed aggregator musique - Simple but sophisticated graphical music player sonata - GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)
moc - ncurses based console audio player mpd - Music Player Daemon mpv - video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2 adplug-utils - free ?AdLib sound library (utils) gbsplay - Gameboy sound player modplug-tools - Modplug playing console tools mp3blaster - Full-screen console mp3 and Ogg Vorbis player mpg123 - MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio player opencubicplayer - UNIX port of Open Cubic Player CategoryPortal | CategorySoftware | CategorySound | CategoryVideo 
Multimedia software in Debian
Please consider editing the source file DAW/Sequencers
Trackers
Audio Editors
Samplers
Effects/Processing
Collections
EQ
Other FX
DJing / Vinyl emulation
Synthesizers
Additive
Subtractive
FM
Wavetable
Other synths
Modular synths
Organ simulators
Audio utilities
Misc
Meters & Analysis
Tuners & Metronomes
MIDI Utilities
Transcoding
CD/DVD Ripping
System utilities
JACK
ALSA
Firewire
Pipewire
Plugin hosts & adapters
Pulseaudio
Other system utilities
Network streaming/broadcasting
Lighting
Video
3D Modeling/CGI
Authoring
Signal processing/electronics
Score Editors
Media players
Graphical
Command-line
