New roundup of Linux audio-editing tools

in linux on 2014-07-15 12:23 (#3QS)

Linux is not exactly the heavyweight OS for audiophiles and musicians. Apple still holds the crown on that one, and the real professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software packages target Windows as well. But things are looking up. Tech Republic just published this round-up of open source tools for musicians, and some of this software is looking pretty good indeed. Have a look at:

Audacity
Ardour
Traverso
QTractor, and
Linux Multimedia Studio

I've been using Audacity since about 14 years ago, and it's truly come a long, long way. Now if we can just sort out the PulseAudio/ALSA mess, we'll be able to make some sweet music indeed.

But What About Video? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-16 17:24 (#2HA)

I like Audacity but it has or had a fatal flaw in that all of its work files seem to be completely uncompressed. It's very easy to run out of room. (A little 40 MB MP3 can turn into one or more 1 GB files/directories.)

I hope one day they use a compressed working file format by default.

I'd really rather have a full featured video editor and let that take care of audio editing "for free". There are lots of projects in various states of development. OpenShot seemed to be the choice for the nonprofessional crowd. It's... okay. Still doesn't compare to the ease of use of Windows editors.