Open Source Linux Digital Audio Workstations (DAW)

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Firefox web browser, the LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice office suites and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu

"ISO Unix Linux OS Distribution This distribution comes with all the optimizations, customizations, and exclusive configurations already in place, allowing you to use it right out of the box. You'll have everything you need to work immediately, without complicated setups, and with the best professional software already installed and optimized. It's built for a complete desktop experience, ideal for professionals and advanced enthusiasts such as musicians, graphic designers, and video makers. You won't have to search for or configure anything; all the best tools available are already present and ready for you to start producing."

Sneedacity (formerly Audacity) is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Sneedacity aims to provide a telemetry-free experience while otherwise being up-to-date with Audacity's original codebase, with minor improvements being added as (s)needed by contributors and volunteers like you at large. Sneedacity is free software licensed under GPL, version 2. Macros for chaining commands and batch processing. Scripting in Python, Perl, or any language that supports named pipes. Nyquist Very powerful built-in scripting language that may also be used to create plug-ins. Editing multi-track editing with sample accuracy and arbitrary sample rates. Accessibility for VI users. Analysis and visualization tools to analyze audio or other signal data.

Tone.js is an open source Web Audio framework for creating interactive music in the browser. It has advanced scheduling capabilities, synths, effects and more. Tone.js is built to be useful and familiar to both musicians and audio programmers. It has common DAW (digital audio workstation) features for those looking to schedule events and tinker with pre-built synths and effects. There’s also a great selection of high-performance building blocks for signal-processing programmers familiar with languages like Max/MSP. With Tone.js they can create their own synthesizers, effects, and complex control signals.

Frinika is a free, complete music workstation software for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX and other operating systems running Java. It features sequencer, soft-synths, realtime effects and audio recording.

CtrlrX based editor for Roland SUPER JD SYNTHESIZER MODULE JD-990

Linux Musa 32 & 64 bit, music production Os and graphic arts, is based on Chromixium 1.5, Ubuntu 14.04 trusty tahr, Debian 8 jessie - For additional drivers and packages >> http://releases.ubuntu.com/trusty/ - https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/index.it.html (please consider donate to its developers and related software developers too) Install instruction: Username: Musa Maledetta password root : musamaledetta password x administrator = administrator info: http://www.musamaledetta.it/linuxmusa.html recommended filesystem : ext4 minimum recommended requirements for optimal performance : proc. 1000mhz, ram 1gb, swap partition 1 gb. Installation takes 12 GB for 32bit version and 8 GB for 64 bit version. It can be started from live CD, or with the MobaLiveCd virtual emulator directly from the ISO. It can be installed both alone or together other operating systems with multiboot. It can be installed in usb devices also with Unetbootin.

This Update to the first release comes with the latest Low Latency kernel pre-installed as well as the Generic kernel and by many requests the MixBus DAW is back in place of Ardour. Minor bugs were fixed as well as software added. Here is whats new. 1) Mixbus 8 (Fully Functioning Demo) 2) Tuner Added 3) Pearl Extras Installer. Great for Producers coming from a Windows system using VST's. The script will install all packages needed to start using those plugins with searching google on 4-5 how to before accually getting to work. Works flawlessly with Carla. 4) Easily control Samba Network Shares with our updated GUI + Much More :-) This release based on Ubuntu 22.04 as its base, is made for all musicians that want commercial quality recording at home. Very stable and has the look and feel of not only OS x but Windows 10 as well. Included is everything you need to create your own music as well as import tracks to create your own mixes.

MiriamStudio is a DAW intended to be as big as an Operating System

Tom's Audio Processing plugins is a selection of LADSPA plugins for audio engineering on the Linux platform. Intended for use in a professional DAW environment such as Ardour, it includes high quality reverberation, echo, eq, limiter & more.

This is an interface specification for DAW application. It will help to divide user interface implementation and DAW data processing engine. This project goal is discuss about it and implement interface library to DAW application vendor and developers. Please join this project if you have interest it!