This list is provided to help you build your own GNU/Linux based A/V production environment. Most of the listed software is packaged for Debian, and should be directly installable with sudo aptitude install softwarename. Software that can be run on other GNU/Linux distributions may also be added to the list. This list focuses on sound, video and live applications.

   Unpackaged
   Non-free/closed source

DAW/Sequencers
Editors
Samplers
Effects/Processing
Instruments
Audio utilities
System utilities
Converters/streaming/transport
Lighting
Video
Signal processing/electronics
Media players
Metapackages
Samples/Resources
Linux Distributions
Unsorted
Links
TODO
LICENSE
CONTRIBUTING

DAW/Sequencers

ardour3 - digital audio workstation (graphical gtk2 interface) (Homepage)
Bitwig | Bitwig Studio - dynamic software for creation and performance of your musical ideas on stage or in the studio. ``
dino - Integrated MIDI piano roll editor and sequencer engine (Homepage)
mixxx - Digital Disc Jockey Interface (Homepage)
muse - Qt4-based audio/MIDI sequencer (Homepage)
qtractor - MIDI/Audio multi-track sequencer application (Homepage)
Radium Editor - Radium is a music editor with a new type of interface. (Source code)
rosegarden - music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer (Homepage)
traverso - Multitrack audio recorder and editor (Homepage)
Tracktion - The musician's DAW ``

Editors

audacity - Éditeur audio rapide multi plate-forme (Homepage)
snd-gtk - Sound file editor (dummy transitional package) (Homepage)

Samplers

hydrogen-drumkits - drumkits for Hydrogen (Homepage)
hydrogen - advanced drum machine/step sequencer (Homepage)
linuxsampler-all - realtime audio sampler (meta)
petri-foo - MIDI controllable audio sampler - successor of specimen (Homepage)
qsampler - LinuxSampler GUI frontend based on the Qt toolkit (Homepage)

Effects/Processing

abgate - LV2 noise gate plugin (Homepage)
AF2-10/M - A versatile graphical EQ with a wide range of zero latency analogue modelled filters and realtime FFT display.  
amb-plugins - greffons LADPSA ambisonics (Homepage)
arctican-plugins - Arctican Plugins
artyfx - Arty FX plugin suite
autotalent - pitch correction LADSPA plugin (Homepage)
avw.lv2 - collection of Voltage Controlled LV2 modules (Homepage)
beatslash-lv2 - A set of LV2 plugins to slash, repeat beats.
blop-lv2 - collection of LV2 CV plugins
blop - Bandlimited wavetable-based oscillator plugins for LADSPA hosts
calf-plugins - Calf Studiogear - audio effects and sound generators (Homepage)
caps - C* Audio Plugin Suite (Homepage)
cmt - a collection of LADSPA plugins (Homepage)
deteriorate-lv2 - set of LV2 plugins to deteriorate sound quality
distrho-plugin-ports-lv2 - DISTHRO Plugin Ports (LV2)
distrho-plugin-ports-vst - DISTHRO Plugin Ports (VST)
distrho-plugin-ports - DISTHRO Plugin Ports
drc - digital room correction (Homepage)
eq10q - LV2 equalizer
fil-plugins - parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin (Homepage)
fomp - collection of LV2 audio plugins (Homepage)
foo-plugins - Foo LADSPA plugins
freqtweak - Realtime audio frequency spectral manipulation (Homepage)
g2reverb - reverb LADSPA plugin
glitch - Multi-effects audio plugin with sequencer  
guitarix - Rock guitar amplifier for Jack (Homepage)
invada-studio-plugins-ladspa - Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LADSPA audio plugins (Homepage)
invada-studio-plugins-lv2 - Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LV2 audio plugins (Homepage)
ir.lv2 - LV2 IR reverb (Homepage)
jalv - tool to run LV2 plugins as stand-alone applications (Homepage)
lv2fil - Stereo and mono LV2 plugins, four-band parametric equalisers
lv2vocoder - LV2 vocoder plugin (Homepage)
mcp-plugins - LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth (Homepage)
mda-lv2 - Paul Kellett's MDA plugins ported to LV2 (Homepage)
mda-vst - MDA VST plugins
midimsg-lv2 - set of plugins to transform midi output
omins - collection of LADSPA plugins aimed at modular synthesizers (Homepage)
paulstretch - Extreme sound time-stretch (Homepage* sonic - Simple utility to speed up or slow down speech (Homepage)
phasex - Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis EXperiment (Homepage)
playitslowly - Plays back audio files at a different speed or pitch (Homepage)
radium-compressor - radium's compressor plugin
rakarrack - Simple and easy guitar effects processor for GNU/Linux (Homepage)
rev-plugins - reverb LADSPA plugin (Homepage)
rubberband-ladspa - LADSPA plugin for audio pitch-shifting (Homepage)
soundstretch - Stretches and pitch-shifts sound independently (Homepage)
ste-plugins - stereo LADPSA plugins (Homepage)
swh-plugins - Steve Harris's LADSPA plugins (Homepage)
tap-plugins - Tom's Audio Processing LADSPA plugins (Homepage)
terminatorx - realtime audio synthesizer (Homepage
vco-plugins - LADSPA plugin sporting anti-aliased oscillators (Homepage)
vocproc - LV2 plugin for pitch shifting and vocoding (Homepage)
wah-plugins - auto-wah LADSPA plugin
x42-plugins - Collection of LV2 plugins (Homepage)
zita-at1 - autotuner JACK (Homepage)
zita-rev1 - effet de réverbération pro-audio (Homepage)
holap - Holborn Audio Plugins

audio compressor for JACK (Homepage) auto-wah LADSPA plugin (Homepage) DISTHRO Plugin Ports DISTHRO Plugin Ports (LV2) DISTHRO Plugin Ports (VST)

Instruments

aeolus - synthétiseur émulant un orgue (Homepage)
ams - synthétiseur modulaire en temps réel pour ALSA (Homepage)
amsynth - synthétiseur logiciel à deux oscillateurs (Homepage)
azr3-jack - drawbar organ simulator (Homepage)
bristol - vintage synthesizer emulator (Homepage)
composite - Live performance sequencer (Homepage)
din - digital audio synthesizer (Homepage)
drumgizmo - drum plugin comparable to commercial products
drumkv1 - old-school drum-kit sampler (Homepage)
freebirth-data - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer -- sound samples (Homepage)
freebirth - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer (Homepage)
gmorgan - MIDI rhythm station emulator software (Homepage)
hexter - Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin (Homepage)
horgand - JACK capable organ softsynth (Homepage)
samplv1 - polyphonic sampler synthesizer (Homepage)
setbfree - DSP tonewheel organ (Homepage)
sineshaper - Monophonic synth plugin with two oscillators and waveshapers (Homepage)
synthv1 - old-school polyphonic synthesizer (Homepage)
whysynth - DSSI Soft Synth Interface (Homepage)
xwax - open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux (Homepage)
zynaddsubfx - synthétiseur logiciel en temps réel pour Linux (Homepage)

Audio utilities

arpage - MIDI Arpeggiator w/ JACK Tempo Sync.
ebumeter - Loudness measurement according to EBU-R128 (Homepage)
extace - waveform viewer (Homepage)
fmit - Free Music Instrument Tuner (Homepage)
gigedit - instrument editor for Gigasampler files (Homepage)
gtklick - simple metronome GUI for JACK (Homepage)
gxtuner - Tuner for Jack (Homepage)
jaaa - audio signal generator and spectrum analyser (Homepage)
jack-keyboard - Virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI (Homepage)
jackmeter - a basic command line meter for the JACK audio system (Homepage)
jkmeter - vu-mètre horizontal ou vertical pour le kit de connexion audio Jack (Homepage)
lingot - accurate and easy to use musical instrument tuner
meterbridge - Collection of Audio meters for the JACK audio server (Homepage)
qmidiarp - arpégiateur MIDI pour ALSA (Homepage)
Samplecat - a program for cataloguing and auditioning audio samples.  
showq - MIDI controllable audio player (Homepage)
siggen - Waveform generation tools (Homepage)
silan - commandline tool to detect silence in audio-files
silentjack - silence detector for the JACK audio system (Homepage)
spek - acoustic spectrum analyser
vmpk - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (Homepage)

System utilities

a2jmidid - démon pour lier des applications obsolètes ALSA MIDI dans des systèmes JACK MIDI (Homepage)
aconnectgui - gestionnaire graphique de connexion au séquenceur ALSA
aj-snapshot - fait des captures des connexions JACK (Homepage)
alsa-utils - utilitaires pour utiliser et configurer ALSA (Homepage)
cadence - JACK audio toolbox
carla-lv2 - audio plugin host (LV2 plugin)
carla - audio plugin host
catia - extended JACK patchbay
claudia - extended ladish frontend
dssi-vst - Adapter for VST an VSTi audio plugins (Homepage)
festige - GUI for fst and dssi-vst
ffado-mixer-qt4 - FFADO D-Bus mixer applets (QT4) (Homepage)
gladish - graphical interface for LADI Session Handler (Homepage)
jack-capture - program for recording soundfiles with jack (Homepage)
jack-mixer - JACK Audio Mixer (Homepage)
jack-rack - LADSPA effects "rack" for JACK (Homepage)
jack-tools - various JACK tools: dl, record, scope, osc, plumbing, udp, play, transport (Homepage)
jackd2-firewire - JACK Audio Connection Kit (FFADO and FreeBoB backends) (Homepage)
jackd2 - Kit de connection audio JACK (serveur et exemples de clients) (Homepage)
laditools - Linux Audio Desktop Integration Tools (Homepage)
linux-image-rt-686-pae - Linux for modern PCs (meta-package), PREEMPT_RT
patchage - Baie modulaire pour l'audio Jack et Alsa Midi (Homepage)
qjackctl - User interface for controlling the JACK sound server (Homepage) * jackeq - routes and manipulates audio from/to multiple sources (Homepage)
qjackrcd - Qt4 application to record JACK server outputs (Homepage)
realtimeconfigquickscan - Linux configuration checker for systems to be used for real-time audio 
rtkit - politique de temps réel et démon de surveillance (Homepage)
simple-sysexxer - GUI tool to create backups of the memory contents of MIDI devices 
zita-ajbridge - pont alsa vers jack (Homepage)
zita-mu1 - organise le suivi stéréo pour le kit de connexion audio Jack (Homepage)

Converters/streaming/transport

Airtime - With open source Sourcefabric Airtime, online radio has never been easier. 
ambdec - Ambisonic decoder for first and second order (Homepage)
darkice - Live audio streamer (Homepage)
darksnow - simple graphical user interface to darkice (Homepage)
ezstream - easy media streaming client over icecast servers (Homepage)
icecast2 - streaming media server (Homepage)
idjc - graphical shoutcast/icecast client (Homepage)
landell - audio and video streams manager (Homepage)
oggfwd - basic icecast source client for audio and video streaming (Homepage)
ogmrip - Application for ripping and encoding DVD (Homepage)
qmidinet - MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast (Homepage)
rotter - JACK client for transmission recording and audio logging (Homepage)
sound-juicer - GNOME CD Ripper (Homepage)
vlc-nox - multimedia player and streamer (without X support) (Homepage)
vlc - multimedia player and streamer (Homepage)
winff-qt - Qt variant of winff (Homepage)
winff - graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg or avconv (Homepage)
zita-bls1 - convertisseur de signaux stéréo binauraux (Homepage)
zita-njbridge - Jack clients to transmit multichannel audio over a local IP network (Homepage)

Lighting

Q Light Controller+ (QLC+) - a free and cross-platform software to control DMX or analog lighting systems like moving heads, dimmers, scanners etc. 

Video

CHDK - Canon Hack Development Kit
devede - simple application to create Video DVDs (Homepage)
dvswitch - basic video mixer for live DV streams (Homepage)
lives - Video Editing system allowing users to edit and create video (Homepage)
Magic Lantern Firmware - a software enhancement that offers increased functionality to the excellent Canon DSLR cameras.
synaesthesia - Program for representing sounds visually
xjadeo - Video player with JACK sync (Homepage)
frei0r-plugins - minimalistic plugin API for video effects, plugins collection (Homepage)
openshot - Create and edit videos and movies (Homepage)

Signal processing/electronics

hyperion - An opensource 'AmbiLight' implementation controlled using the RaspBerry Pi 
lcd4linux - Grabs information and displays it on an external lcd (Homepage)
lcdproc - LCD display driver daemon and clients (Homepage)
lirc - infra-red remote control support (Homepage)
puredata - realtime computer music and graphics system (Homepage)
Room EQ Wizard -room acoustics analysis software for measuring and analysing room and loudspeaker responses. 

Media players

amarok - easy to use media player based on the KDE Platform (Homepage)
ario - GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) (Homepage)
audacious - small and fast audio player which supports lots of formats (Homepage)
banshee - Media Management and Playback application (Homepage)
cantata - KDE client for the music player daemon (MPD) (Homepage)
clementine - modern music player and library organizer (Homepage)
exaile - flexible, full-featured audio player (Homepage)
gmusicbrowser - graphical jukebox for large music collections (Homepage)
gnome-music - Music is the new GNOME music playing application (Homepage)
gpodder - podcast client and feed aggregator (Homepage)
Groove Basin - Music player server with a web-based user interface (Homepage)
guayadeque - lightweight music player (Homepage)
moc - ncurses based console audio player (Homepage)
mplayer2 - next generation movie player for Unix-like systems (Homepage)
musique - Simple but sophisticated graphical music player (Homepage)
quodlibet - audio library manager and player for GTK3 (Homepage)
rhythmbox - music player and organizer for GNOME (Homepage)
sonata - GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) (Homepage)
vlc - multimedia player and streamer (Homepage)

Metapackages

multimedia-ambisonics - Packages for working with ambisonics (3D surround sound)
multimedia-audio-plugins - Audio processing plugins, synths and virtual instruments
multimedia-devel - Extra packages for developers and package compiling
multimedia-djing - DJ packages.
multimedia-drums - Packages for drums & beats
multimedia-firewire - Packages for your firewire audiocard / interface
multimedia-graphics - Packages for making and editing artwork
multimedia-guitar - Packages for playing with your (virtual) guitar gear
multimedia-jack - JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit) and ALSA related packages
multimedia-ladi - LADI, Linuxaudio session management, packages
multimedia-looping - Packages for looping music and audio
multimedia-midi - MIDI related packages
multimedia-mixing - Packages for mixing and mastering your music
multimedia-musiciantools - Packages for musicians
multimedia-players - Packages which makes your multimedia tools complete
multimedia-recording - Packages for audio recording
multimedia-samplers - Software samplers
multimedia-soundsynthesis - Packages for sound synthesis
multimedia-tasks - Debian Multimedia tasks for tasksel
multimedia-timestretching - Packages for stretching music and audio
multimedia-video - Video packages

Samples/Resources

SFZ Drum kits

Linux Distributions

Unsorted

abcmidi - Convertit les fichiers ABC au format MIDI et inversement
aubio-tools - Bibliothèque pour la segmentation sonore - utilitaires
denemo - frontal gtk+ pour GNU Lilypond (Homepage)
ecasound - multitrack-capable audio recorder and effect processor (Homepage)
fluid-soundfont-gm - Fluid (R3) General MIDI SoundFont (GM)
fluidsynth - Logiciel de synthèse MIDI en temps réel (Homepage)
freewheeling - live looping musical instrument (Homepage)
gjacktransport - access to the JACK's transport mechanism as touchable slider (Homepage)
gmidimonitor - GTK+ application that shows MIDI events (Homepage)
jamin - Audio mastering from a mixed down multitrack source with JACK (Homepage)
japa - JACK and ALSA Perceptual Analyser (Homepage)
jokosher - simple and easy to use audio multi-tracker (Homepage)
kluppe - a loop-player and recorder designed for live use (Homepage)
libgroove - streaming audio processing library (Homepage)
libsox-fmt-all - All SoX format libraries (Homepage)
lmms - studio multimedia pour Linux (Homepage)
mhwaveedit - Simple and fast GTK2 sound editor (Homepage)
mididings - MIDI router and processor based on Python (Homepage)
milkytracker - music creation tool inspired by Fast Tracker 2 (Homepage)
qsynth - Interface graphique pour le synthétiseur MIDI fluidsynth (Homepage)
qtractor - Séquenceur Audio/MIDI multi-pistes (Homepage)
rezound -
schism - Clone de ImpulseTracker (même interface, même comportement) (Homepage)
seq24 - Séquenceur MIDI temps réel (Homepage)
sonic-visualiser - View and analyse the contents of music audio files (Homepage)
sooperlooper - échantilloneur de boucle (Homepage)
soundconverter - Application GNOME pour convertir des fichiers audio d'un format à un autre (Homepage)
sox - outils complets pour le traitement des sons (Homepage)
stretchplayer - Audio file player with time stretch and pitch shifting (Homepage
swami - éditeur d'instruments MIDI (Homepage)
timemachine - enregistreur audio JACK pour une utilisation spontanée et de conservation (Homepage)
yoshimi - software synthesizer based on ZynAddSubFX (Homepage)
http://www.kvraudio.com/news/discodsp-updates-vertigo-additive-synth-to-r3-5-including-linux-support-29997
http://www.kvraudio.com/?t[]=linux
http://www.kvraudio.com/news/discodsp-updates-discovery-pro-va-and-wave-synth-to-6-4-5-29782

TODO

list packages in kxstudio repos
split utilities between audio and system utilities
sort the following list
provide configuration scripts for debian systems
centralize resources (samples, presets...) somewhere if license allows it
re-run dwlink -mb with LANG=C to get packages descriptions in english
add links from http://linux-sound.org/
Package all unpackaged software  for Debian
Find dead links, link kxstudio packages to kxstudio package pages

LICENSE

16  nodiscc <nodiscc@gmail.com>
 1  Andrew Kelley <superjoe30@gmail.com>

CONTRIBUTING

Please edit the README file (using the Markdown syntax) and send your patch as a Pull Request. https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/
Entries should be sorted alphabetically inside categories.
Please label unpackaged and non-free  Unpackaged  Non-free/closed source
Exceptionally high-quality software may be marked as bold.
If there is a debian package available, the link syntax is: [softwarename](https://packages.debian.org/sid/packagename) - package description ([Homepage](http://url.to/project/homepage) (try ./dwlink -mb packagename | xclip -selection c)
If there is no debian package: the syntax is [Software name](http://url.to/project/homepage)
Linking to useful websites or howtos can be done at the end of the file in the relevant section. Here is a bookmarklet to generate a markdown link for the current page URL and title: javascript:void(prompt("","["+document.title+"]("+location.href+")"));
Contributors list can be updated with git shortlog -sne

README.md

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