DAW/Sequencers

• 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

Trackers

• 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

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

• dgedit - drum kit editor for ?DrumGizmo

• 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

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 - 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

• mixxx - Digital Disc Jockey Interface

• xwax - open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux

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

• 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 - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer

• freebirth-data - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer -- sound samples

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

• 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

Meters & Analysis

• 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

Tuners & Metronomes

• gtick - Metronome application

• gtklick - simple metronome GUI 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

• 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

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

• 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

System utilities

JACK

• 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-rack -

• 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

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)

• libraw1394-11 - library for direct access to IEEE 1394 bus (aka ?FireWire)

• libraw1394-tools - library for direct access to IEEE 1394 bus (aka ?FireWire)

Pipewire

• pipewire - PipeWire multimedia server

Plugin hosts & adapters

Pulseaudio

• 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

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/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

Lighting

• ola - Open Lighting Architecture

Video

• 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

3D Modeling/CGI

• 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

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, 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)

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

• 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)

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

• opencubicplayer - UNIX port of Open Cubic Player