DSSI expands Rosegarden's support for software synthesizers, but its potential as a "LADSPA for instruments" plugin interface hopefully will appeal to other Linux audio application developers. Under ...

Chris Cannam's Disposable Soft-Synth Interface (DSSI) was also designed for virtual instruments. While there have been few notable recent releases for its plugin interface the system is supported by ...

Audio editing is also greatly helped by compatible hardware, which can give a more intuitive user interface and better performance.

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture – ALSA for short – is the base level audio system built into the Linux kernel. It is ALSA’s job to communicate with the sound hardware, to which end it provides ...

Raise your hand if you remember when PulseAudio was famous for breaking audio on Linux for everyone. For quite a few years, the standard answer for any audio problem on Linux was to uninstall ...

If you're a content creator with a focus on audio, AV Linux MX Edition 23.1 has everything you need, and much more.

Hi, (apologies if this has been answered before; I must have missed the thread!) I use a SoundBlaster Play! 3 to record from an external analog (mono) audio source. This interface can sample in 24 ...

Here's a quick tour of a Linux distribution built specifically for those who create audio and video content.

Ardour is a free and open source digital audio workstation which can be used to record and mix music, podcasts, or just about anything else. The software has been available for Linux and Mac for ...

Anish Kumar plays a key role in open-source software, particularly in the Linux kernel. Because of his expertise in this area, much progress has been produced.

As a sound server for Linux, Pipewire 1.4 addresses music production requirements with an extended JACK API and MIDI 2 and contains new codecs.