List of Linux audio software
Appearance
This is an overview of recent Linux audio software.
- aRts the well-known sound server for 'KDE
- EsounD the Enlightened Sound Daemon, "can mix several audio streams into one device"
- JEsd a Java implementation of EsounD
- JACK Audio Connection Kit
- NAS the Network Audio System (Another descriptive page is located here)
- MAS the Multimedia Audio Server, a network audio server for X, from Shiman Associates
- NMM Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware
- polypaudio a sound server intended as an improved drop-in replacement for the Enlightened Sound Daemon (esd)
Graphical Programming / Max/MSP-like
- pure data or Pd, a language from Miller Puckette
- jMax MAX for Linux and Java, from François Déchelle's team at IRCAM
- OpenSoundWorld Amar Chaudhary's "...scalable, extensible programming environment that allows sound designers and musicians to process sound in response to expressive real-time control..."