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There is free audio software available for Windows and MacOS, but the largest quantity of the free audio software only runs on GNU/Linux.

1 Audio Recording and Editing

• Ardour
• Audacity [1]
• Ecasound [2]
• MusE [3] (not to be confused with MuSE; see below.)
• Rosegarden [4]
• Sweep [5]

2 JACK Audio Connection Kit

• JACK is a daemonThe term Daemon has several meanings: Daemon (mythology) Daemon (computer software) Daemon (His Dark Materials) in the Philip Pullman trilogy of novels His Dark Materials The Daemons is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who' that provides low latencyLow latency allows human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output providing real time characteristics. connections between JACKified applications. Currently it needs ALSAscreenshot of alsamixer ALSA (an acronym for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is a Linux kernel module that replaces several different kernel drivers for sound cards with a single device driver which handles the diversity of sound cards internally. It re.

3 TrackerTracker is the generic term for a class of software music sequencers which, in their purest form, allow the user to arrange sound samples stepwise on a timeline across several monophonic channels. A tracker's interface is primarily numeric; notes are entes

• Cheesetracker is an Impulse TrackerImpulse Tracker is a multi-track digital sound sequencer which proliferated on the DOS platform. It was authored by Jeffrey Lim and discontinued after version 2. It was available as freeware, though the author supplied extra features (like saving stereo W clone
• Soundtracker [6]
• Rosegarden [7]

4 Programming languages

• CsoundCsound is a computer programming language for dealing with sound. It is called Csound because it is written in the C programming language, as opposed to some of its predecessors. Csound was written at MIT by Barry Vercoe, based on an earlier language call has recently been released under the LGPL.
• SuperCollider
• ChucK is a new concurrent, on-the-fly audio programming language, (just released!) [8]
• see computer music programming languages