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Multimedia software in Debian
This is a list of multimedia software to view, edit and create audiovisual content on Debian.
For information on Sound and Video in Debian, see their respective pages.
This list is generated from https://salsa.debian.org/nodiscc2-guest/awesome-linuxaudio which lists even more multimedia/live/audio/video/graphics applications for Linux. Please consider submitting a Merge Request there, so that the list can easily be kept in sync with the wiki. The wiki export can be generated with 'make debianwiki'
Contents
DAW/Sequencers
ardour - the digital audio workstation
dino -
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
Trackers
goattracker - C64 music editor
klystrack - Chiptune tracker
milkytracker - music creation tool inspired by Fast Tracker 2
schism - ?ImpulseTracker clone aiming at providing the same look&feel
Audio Editors
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
Samplers
drumgizmo - Audio sampler plugin and stand-alone app that simulates a real drum kit
giada - Hardcore Loop Machine
hydrogen - advanced drum machine/step sequencer
hydrogen-drumkits - drumkits for Hydrogen
hydrogen-drumkits-effects - effect drumkits for Hydrogen
samplv1 - polyphonic sampler synthesizer - standalone
freewheeling - live looping musical instrument
kluppe - loop-player and recorder designed for live use
luppp -
petri-foo - MIDI controllable audio sampler - successor of specimen
qsampler - ?LinuxSampler GUI frontend based on the Qt toolkit
sooperlooper - Looping Sampler
Effects/Processing
Collections
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
EQ
eq10q - LV2 plugins bundle
fil-plugins - parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin
Other FX
abgate - LV2 noise gate plugin
autotalent - pitch correction LADSPA plugin
blop-lv2 -
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
DJing / Vinyl emulation
Synthesizers
Additive
yoshimi - software synthesizer originally based on ZynAddSubFX2
zynaddsubfx - Realtime software synthesizer for Linux
Subtractive
amsynth - two oscillator software synthesizer
blepvco - LADSPA, minBLEP-based, hard-sync-capable oscillator plugins
bristol - vintage synthesizer emulator
monobristol - simple GUI for Bristol
synthv1 - old-school polyphonic synthesizer - standalone
whysynth - DSSI Soft Synth Interface
FM
hexter - Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin
Wavetable
wsynth-dssi - hack on Xsynth-DSSI to allow wavetable synthesis
Other synths
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-data - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer -- sound samples
freebirth - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer
gmorgan - MIDI rhythm station emulator software
xsynth-dssi - classic-analog (VCOs-VCF-VCA) style software synthesizer
Modular synths
ams - Realtime modular synthesizer for ALSA
mcp-plugins - LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth
omins - collection of LADSPA plugins aimed at modular synthesizers
Organ simulators
aeolus - Synthesised pipe organ emulator
horgand - JACK capable organ softsynth
setbfree - DSP tonewheel organ
Audio utilities
Misc
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
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
Meters & Analysis
bitmeter - diagnosis tool for JACK audio software
brp-pacu - audio analysis tool
ebumeter - loudness measurement according to EBU-R128
extace - waveform viewer
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
Tuners & Metronomes
fmit - Free Music Instrument Tuner
gtick - Metronome application
gtklick - simple metronome GUI for JACK
gxtuner - Tuner for Jack
MIDI Utilities
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
Transcoding
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
gigedit - instrument editor for Gigasampler 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
mplayer2 - transitional dummy package for mpv
sfarkxtc - Converts soundfonts from legacy sfArk v2 file format to sf2
soundconverter - GNOME application to convert audio files into other formats
transmageddon - video transcoder for Linux and Unix systems built using GStreamer
winff - graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg or avconv
zita-bls1 - binaural stereo signals converter
CD/DVD Ripping
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
System utilities
JACK
jackd - JACK Audio Connection Kit (default server package)
qjackctl - User interface for controlling the JACK sound server
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
jack-mixer - JACK Audio Mixer
jack-tools - various JACK tools: dl, record, scope, osc, plumbing, udp, play, transport
jackd2-firewire - JACK Audio Connection Kit (FFADO and FreeBoB backends)
jackeq - routes and manipulates audio from/to multiple sources
laditools - Linux Audio Desktop Integration Tools
patchage - modular patch bay for Jack audio and Alsa Midi
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
ALSA
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
Firewire
ffado-mixer-qt4 - FFADO D-Bus mixer applets
libraw-bin - raw image decoder library (tools)
libraw10 -
libraw1394-11 - library for direct access to IEEE 1394 bus (aka ?FireWire)
libraw1394-tools - library for direct access to IEEE 1394 bus (aka ?FireWire)
Plugin hosts & adapters
Pulseaudio
paman - PulseAudio Manager
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
pulseaudio - PulseAudio sound server
Other system utilities
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
Network streaming/broadcasting
**See <https://github.com/Kickball/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-nox - transitional dummy package
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
ezstream - easy media streaming client over icecast servers
ices2 - Ogg Vorbis streaming source for Icecast 2
idjc - graphical shoutcast/icecast client
liquidsoap - audio streaming language
liguidsoap - control GUI for liquidsoap
liquidsoap-plugin-all - audio streaming language -- all plugins
oggfwd - basic icecast source client for audio and video streaming
Lighting
ola - Open Lighting Architecture
Video
kdenlive - non-linear 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
xjadeo - Video player with JACK sync
3D Modeling/CGI
blender - Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer
aqsis - 3D rendering solution adhering to the ?RenderMan(R) standard, binaries
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
mandelbulber - 3D fractal renderer and animator
meshlab - System for processing and editing triangular meshes
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
Authoring
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
Signal processing/electronics
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
Score Editors
musescore - cross-platform multi-lingual music composition and notation
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)
Media players
Graphical
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
amarok - easy to use media player based on the KDE Platform
ario - GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)
cantata - Qt client for the music player daemon (MPD)
exaile -
gmusicbrowser - graphical jukebox for large music collections
gnome-music - Music is the new GNOME music playing application
gpodder - podcast client and feed aggregator
groovebasin - music player server with a web-based user interface
musique - Simple but sophisticated graphical music player
sonata - GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)
Command-line
moc - ncurses based console audio player
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
mplayer2 - transitional dummy package for mpv
opencubicplayer - UNIX port of Open Cubic Player
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