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At the Sounding Edge: Introducing seq24
by Dave Phillips
posted 2005-05-11

In this month’s column, we look at the seq24 MIDI sequencer to see how you can use it in a Linux-based MIDI music production system. Given working ALSA and JACK installations, this system is easy to set up and use, great fun and a valuable production tool. Feel free to follow along while I walk through some of the program’s basic techniques and introduce some not-so-basic procedures before taking my leave…

Professional Sound Editing with Audacity
by Howard Wen
posted 2005-04-14

Need to do sound recording or editing, but find most audio software daunting due to complicated interfaces or price? Then take a look at Audacity: it’s free, open source, and packs a bunch of professional-level sound editing features, all under a very intuitive, friendly user interface. By design, Audacity is a user-friendly but still powerful alternative to other sound editors that tend to be complicated to use. What’s more, it comes in Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows versions…

At the Sounding Edge: What's Going On with Csound?
by Dave Phillips
posted 2005-04-14

A look at what’s changed and what’s new in Csound5, the major overhaul to the long-standing Csound software sound synthesis language…

At the Sounding Edge: Introducing KeyKit
by Dave Phillips
posted 2005-03-10

At the end of last month’s column, I promised we’d look at some GUI-based tools for algorithmic and experimental MIDI music composition. Due to the vagaries of obsolete dependencies and software development time, I can focus on only KeyKit in this article. I hope you’ll agree that this focus is well deserved…

At the Sounding Edge: Introducing Ardour
by Dave Phillips
posted 2005-01-26

The heart of your Linux recording studio is the hard disk recorder. Get started with Ardour, which brings pro recording features to open source…

Linux MIDI: a Brief Survey, Part 4
by Dave Phillips
posted 2005-01-19

In this installment of our tour of Linux MIDI software, we look at some experimental MIDI music-making environments. I’ve divided this class of software into command-line and GUI-based applications. Regardless of interface, the user is expected to employ a more than average amount of brainpower to get the best results from this software. With that warning in mind, let’s first look at some language-based environments designed for the experimental MIDI musician…

Linux Music Blossoms with Rosegarden
by Howard Wen
posted 2004-12-16

When it comes to producing music with Linux on a professional level, Rosegarden includes the basic features that you would expect to find in a commercial music sequencer and scoring package: MIDI and audio recording and sequencing, sound effects and synth plugins, and a score editor. The array of additional stuff this free program offers is staggering when one considers that it is, as of this writing, on the eve of its version 1.0 release…

Linux MIDI: a Brief Survey, Part 3
by Dave Phillips
posted 2004-12-14

In this installment of my survey of Linux MIDI software, I profile various MIDI utilities, some of which have become indispensable components in my own Linux MIDI studio…