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List of Linux audio software

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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..."