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 using your package manager. Software that can be run on other GNU/Linux distributions may also be added to the list. This list focuses on sound, video, lighting and live applications.

   Unpackaged
▒   Only in KXStudio repositories
   Non-free/closed source

DAW/Sequencers
Audio Editors
Samplers
Effects/Processing
Instruments
Audio utilities
- MIDI Utilities
System utilities
Transcoding/streaming/transport
- Transcoding
- Network streaming
Lighting
Video
- 3D Modeling/CGI
- Authoring
Signal processing/electronics
Score Editors
Media players
Metapackages
Linux Distributions
Resources/Samples
Unsorted
DOCUMENTATION
- General doc/software/forums
- Howtos
GLOSSARY
TODO
LICENSE
CONTRIBUTING

DAW/Sequencers

ardour3 - digital audio workstation (graphical gtk2 interface) (Homepage)
Bitwig Studio - dynamic software for creation and performance of your musical ideas on stage or in the studio. ``
Harrison Mixbus - the first full-featured DAW with true analog style mixing. ``
Renoise - a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) using a tracker-based approach. ``
dino - Integrated MIDI piano roll editor and sequencer engine (Homepage)
jokosher - simple and easy to use audio multi-tracker (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)
Tracktion - The musician's DAW ``
traverso - Multitrack audio recorder and editor (Homepage)
jackbeat - Jackbeat is an audio sequencer for musicians and sound artists 

Audio Editors

audacity - Éditeur audio rapide multi plate-forme (Homepage)
kwave - sound editor for KDE (Homepage)
mhwaveedit - Simple and fast GTK2 sound editor (Homepage)
smasher - Cross-platform audio loop slicer designed to create sliced loops from WAV, MP3, FLAC or AIFF files in seconds without a sequencer
snd-gtk - Sound file editor (dummy transitional package) (Homepage)
sweep - Audio editor and live playback tool (Homepage)
wavesurfer - Sound Manipulation Program (Homepage)

Samplers

hydrogen - advanced drum machine/step sequencer (Homepage)
freewheeling - live looping musical instrument (Homepage)
gigedit - instrument editor for Gigasampler files (Homepage)
hydrogen-drumkits - drumkits for Hydrogen (Homepage)
kluppe - a loop-player and recorder designed for live use (Homepage)
linuxsampler-all - realtime audio sampler (meta)
ls16 - LinuxSampler DSSI plugin GUI
luppp - luppp music creation tool
petri-foo - MIDI controllable audio sampler - successor of specimen (Homepage)
qsampler - LinuxSampler GUI frontend based on the Qt toolkit (Homepage)
Redux - a sample-based instrument, combined with a powerful phrase sequencer. ``
Samplecat - a program for cataloguing and auditioning audio samples. 
sooperlooper - Looping Sampler (Homepage)

Effects/Processing

calf-plugins - Calf Studiogear - audio effects and sound generators (Homepage)
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-git - Calf Studiogear - audio effects and sound generators ▒
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 - DISTHRO Plugin Ports ▒
dpf-plugins - audio plugin collection from DISTRHO ▒
drc - digital room correction (Homepage)
drowaudio-plugins - dRowAudio Plugins ▒
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)
gxvoxtonebender - Fuzz Tonebender LV2 plugin ▒
holap - Holborn Audio Plugins ▒
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
invada-studio-plugins-lv2 - Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LV2 audio plugins (Homepage)
ir.lv2-1.2 - LV2 IR reverb (1.2 version) ▒
ir.lv2 - LV2 IR reverb (Homepage)
jalv - tool to run LV2 plugins as stand-alone applications (Homepage)
juced-plugins - Juced Plugins ▒
klangfalter - convolution audio plugin ▒
leet-plugins - LEET LADSPA plugins ▒
luftikus - analog modeled equalizer ▒
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
mod-distortion - analog distortion emulation plugin ▒
mod-pitchshifter - pitch shifter audio plugins ▒
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)
pitcheddelay - pitch-shifting delay ▒
playitslowly - Plays back audio files at a different speed or pitch (Homepage)
radium-compressor - audio compressor for JACK (Homepage)
rakarrack - Simple and easy guitar effects processor for GNU/Linux (Homepage)
rev-plugins - reverb LADSPA plugin (Homepage)
rkrlv2 - Rakarrack LV2 Plugin Ports ▒
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)
tal-plugins - Togu Audio Line Plugins ▒
tap-plugins - Tom's Audio Processing LADSPA plugins (Homepage)
teragonaudio-plugins - audio plugins from Teragon Audio ▒
terminatorx - realtime audio synthesizer (Homepage
vcf-plugins - VCF LADSPA plugins ▒
vco-plugins - LADSPA plugin sporting anti-aliased oscillators (Homepage)
vocoder-ladspa - LADSPA Vocoder Plugin ▒
vocproc - LV2 plugin for pitch shifting and vocoding (Homepage)
wah-plugins - auto-wah LADSPA plugin (Homepage)
wasp-ladspa - WASP LADSPA plugin ▒
x42-plugins - Collection of LV2 plugins (Homepage)
zam-plugins - Collection of LV2, LADSPA, LINUX-VST and JACK plugins
zita-at1 - autotuner JACK (Homepage)
zita-rev1 - effet de réverbération pro-audio (Homepage)
creox - a real-time sound/effects processor. 

Instruments

drumgizmo - drum plugin comparable to commercial products
zynaddsubfx - Realtime software synthesizer for Linux (Homepage)
add64 - additive synthesizer for JACK ▒
aeolus - synthétiseur émulant un orgue (Homepage)
ams-lv2 - set of Voltage Controlled LV2 modules for Ingen ▒
ams - synthétiseur modulaire en temps réel pour ALSA (Homepage)
amsynth - two oscillator software synthesizer (Homepage)
argotlunar - Realtime granulator LV2/VST plugin ▒
azr3-jack - drawbar organ simulator (Homepage)
blepvco - LADSPA, minBLEP-based, hard-sync-capable oscillator plugins (Homepage)
bristol - vintage synthesizer emulator (Homepage)
composite - Live performance sequencer (Homepage)
cursynth - desc ▒
dexed - FM Plugin Synth ▒
din - digital audio synthesizer (Homepage)
Discovery Pro - Virtual Analog synthesizer + sampler  
drmr - drmr ▒
drumgizmo - drum plugin comparable to commercial products ▒
drumkv1 - old-school drum-kit sampler (Homepage)
fabla - Fabla drum sampler plugin instrument ▒
freebirth-data - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer -- sound samples (Homepage)
freebirth - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer (Homepage)
gmorgan - MIDI rhythm station emulator software (Homepage)
helm - polyphonic synthesizer ▒
hexter - Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin (Homepage)
horgand - JACK capable organ softsynth (Homepage)
monobristol - simple GUI for Bristol (Homepage)
newtonator - LV2 synth that produces unpredictable sounds ▒
obxd - ob-x emulation plugin ▒
samplv1 - polyphonic sampler synthesizer (Homepage)
setbfree - DSP tonewheel organ (Homepage)
sineshaper - Monophonic synth plugin with two oscillators and waveshapers (Homepage)
sooperlooper-lv2 - looping sampler plugin ▒
sorcer - Sorcer polyphonic wavetable synth LV2 plugin ▒
spiralsynthmodular - object orientated music studio ▒
Sunvox - a small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker)  
synthv1 - old-school polyphonic synthesizer (Homepage)
triceratops-lv2 - polyphonic additive software synthesizer plugin ▒
whysynth - DSSI Soft Synth Interface (Homepage)
wolpertinger - Subtractive synth with a sharp bandpass filter ▒
wsynth-dssi - hack on Xsynth-DSSI to allow wavetable synthesis (Homepage)
xwax - open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux (Homepage)
zynaddsubfx-dssi-git - dssi plugin of zynaddsubfx ▒
zynaddsubfx-dssi - dssi plugin of zynaddsubfx (Homepage)
zynaddsubfx-git - Realtime software synthesizer for Linux ▒
BEAST - music composition and modular synthesis application 
amsynth - two oscillator software synthesizer two oscillator software synthesizer (Homepage)
blop - Bandlimited wavetable-based plugins for LADSPA hosts

Audio utilities

Linux Show Player a free cue player designed for sound-playback in stage production. The goal of the project is to provide a complete playback software for musical plays, theater shows and similar. 
brp-pacu - audio analysis tool (Homepage)
ebumeter - Loudness measurement according to EBU-R128 (Homepage)
extace - waveform viewer (Homepage)
fmit - Free Music Instrument Tuner (Homepage)
gtklick - simple metronome GUI for JACK (Homepage)
gtick - Metronome application (Homepage)
gxtuner - Tuner for Jack (Homepage)
jaaa - audio signal generator and spectrum analyser (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)
bitmeter - diagnosis tool for JACK audio software (Homepage)
xoscope - digital oscilloscope (Homepage)
lingot - accurate and easy to use musical instrument tuner
meterbridge - Collection of Audio meters for the JACK audio server (Homepage)
QLoud - tool to measure loudspeaker frequency and step responses and distortions 
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
sonic-visualiser - View and analyse the contents of music audio files (Homepage)
easyssp - audio visualization plugin ▒

MIDI Utilities

abcmidi - Convertit les fichiers ABC au format MIDI et inversement
arpage - MIDI Arpeggiator w/ JACK Tempo Sync. ▒
gmidimonitor - GTK+ application that shows MIDI events (Homepage
jack-keyboard - Virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI (Homepage)
kmidimon - MIDI monitor using ALSA sequencer and KDE user interface (Homepage)
midimsg-lv2 - set of plugins to transform midi output
midisox - a SoX-like workalike, for handling MIDI files 
qmidiarp - arpégiateur MIDI pour ALSA (Homepage)
qmidinet - MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast (Homepage)
vmpk - Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (Homepage)

System utilities

jackd2 - Kit de connection audio JACK (serveur et exemples de clients) (Homepage)
qjackctl - User interface for controlling the JACK sound server (Homepage)
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 ▒
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)
ingen - modular host for LV2 plugins.
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)
jackeq - routes and manipulates audio from/to multiple sources (Homepage)
laditools - Linux Audio Desktop Integration Tools (Homepage)
linux-image-rt-686-pae - Linux for modern PCs (meta-package), PREEMPT_RT
mediainfo-gui - graphical utility for reading information from audio/video files (Homepage)
mediainfo - command-line utility for reading information from audio/video files (Homepage)
patchage - Baie modulaire pour l'audio Jack et Alsa Midi (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)
alsa-tools - Console based ALSA utilities for specific hardware (Homepage)
alsa-tools-gui - GUI based ALSA utilities for specific hardware (Homepage)
rotter - JACK client for transmission recording and audio logging (Homepage)

Pulseaudio

padevchooser - PulseAudio Device Chooser (Homepage)
paman - PulseAudio Manager (Homepage)
paprefs - PulseAudio Preferences (Homepage)
pavucontrol - PulseAudio Volume Control (Homepage)
pavumeter - PulseAudio Volume Meter (Homepage)
pulseaudio-module-jack - jackd modules for PulseAudio sound server (Homepage)
pulseaudio-module-lirc - lirc module for PulseAudio sound server (Homepage)
pulseaudio-module-x11 - X11 module for PulseAudio sound server (Homepage)
pulseaudio-utils - Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server (Homepage)
pulseaudio - PulseAudio sound server (Homepage)

Transcoding/streaming/transport

Transcoding

handbrake - versatile DVD ripper and video transcoder (GTK+ GUI) (Homepage)
winff-qt - Qt variant of winff (Homepage)
ambdec - Ambisonic decoder for first and second order (Homepage)
hydro2sf2 - a tool which allows you to convert a Hydrogen drumkit into a SF2 soundfont 
ogmrip - Application for ripping and encoding DVD (Homepage)
winff - graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg or avconv (Homepage)
zita-bls1 - convertisseur de signaux stéréo binauraux (Homepage)

Network streaming

Airtime - With open source Sourcefabric Airtime, online radio has never been easier. 
autoradio - radio automation software (Homepage)
darkice - Live audio streamer (Homepage)
darksnow - simple graphical user interface to darkice (Homepage)
gpac - GPAC Project on Advanced Content - utilities (Homepage)
icecast2 - streaming media server (Homepage)
ezstream - easy media streaming client over icecast servers (Homepage)
idjc - graphical shoutcast/icecast client (Homepage)
landell - audio and video streams manager (Homepage)
sound-juicer - GNOME CD Ripper (Homepage)
vlc-nox - multimedia player and streamer (without X support) (Homepage)
vlc - multimedia player and streamer (Homepage)
xdmx - distributed multihead X server
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. 
hyperion - An opensource 'AmbiLight' implementation controlled using the RaspBerry Pi 
D::Light - mobile, flexible solution to control modern lighting/performance technology.  

Video

Cinelerra - Cinema Production Software 
Lightworks - professional Non-Linear Editing (NLE) software supporting resolutions up to 4K.  
openshot - Create and edit videos and movies (Homepage)
CHDK - Canon Hack Development Kit
delvj - a cyborg video jockey extension for pure data processing
dvswitch - basic video mixer for live DV streams (Homepage)
ffdiaporama - Movie creator from photos and video clips (Homepage)
FreeJ - a video mixer: an instrument for realtime video manipulation 
freemix - live video performance software 
frei0r-plugins - minimalistic plugin API for video effects, plugins collection (Homepage)
Gephex - modular video jockey software 
glmixer - Graphic Live Mixer 
kdenlive - non-linear video editor (Homepage)
kino - Non-linear editor for Digital Video data (Homepage)
lives - Video Editing system allowing users to edit and create video (Homepage)
Luz Studio - A live motion graphics editor and performer. 
Magic Lantern Firmware - a software enhancement that offers increased functionality to the excellent Canon DSLR cameras.
Natron - free open-source, cross-platform compositing software. It aims to produce visual effects. 
pitivi - non-linear audio/video editor using GStreamer (Homepage)
Shotcut - a free, open source, cross-platform video editor 
synaesthesia - Program for representing sounds visually
Veejay - realtime video sequencer and effects processor 
xjadeo - Video player with JACK sync (Homepage)
ZS4 - advanced video editing and compositing software with over 150 built-in video effects.  

3D Modeling/CGI

blender - Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer (Homepage)
aqsis - 3D rendering solution adhering to the RenderMan(R) standard, binaries (Homepage)
Ayam - a free 3D modelling environment for the RenderMan interface. 
EQUINOX-3D - The 3D modeler with the fastest, fully integrated ray-tracer.  
evolvotron - Generator of textures through interactive evolution (Homepage)
fractalnow - Fast, advanced fractal generator (Homepage)
fraqtive - draws Mandelbrot and Julia fractals (Homepage)
geomview - interactive geometry viewing program (Homepage)
javamorph - Java morphing film-make program for pixel picture-input (Homepage)
k3d - 3D modeling and animation system, binary files (Homepage)
makehuman - Modelling of 3-Dimensional humanoid characters (Homepage)
mandelbulber - 3D fractal renderer and animator (Homepage)
meshlab - System for processing and editing triangular meshes (Homepage)
sunflow - rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis (GUI) (Homepage)
sweethome3d-furniture-editor - Sweet Home 3D Furniture Library Editor (Homepage)
sweethome3d-furniture-nonfree - Interior 2D design application with 3D preview (additional non-free furniture) (Homepage)
sweethome3d-furniture - Interior 2D design application with 3D preview (additional furniture) (Homepage)
sweethome3d-textures-editor - Sweet Home 3D Textures Library Editor (Homepage)
sweethome3d - Interior 2D design application with 3D preview (Homepage)
VSXu Artiste - create stunning open GL based audio reactive visuals.
VSXu Player - program that creates inspiring, beautiful pictures to your sound and music 
wings3d - Nendo-inspired 3D polygon mesh modeller (Homepage)
yaprm - a free-as-in-freedom modeller to graphicaly design 3d scenes and generate POV-Ray-files for them.
fluxus - A 3D game engine for livecoding worlds into existence. 

Authoring

aegisub - advanced subtitle editor (Homepage)
devede - simple application to create Video DVDs (Homepage)
gnome-subtitles - Subtitle editor for the GNOME Desktop environment (Homepage)
subtitlecomposer - Subtitles editor for KDE (Homepage)
subtitleeditor - Graphical subtitle editor with sound waves representation (Homepage)
vlc-plugin-vlsub - VLC extension to download subtitles from opensubtitles.org (Homepage)

Signal processing/electronics

cabbage-plugins - csound development toolkit plugins ▒
cabbage-plugins-extra - csound development toolkit plugins (Extra) ▒
clam-networkeditor-examples - CLAM Network Editor, examples (Homepage)
clam-networkeditor - CLAM Network Editor, prototyping tool for CLAM (Homepage)
csladspa - LADSPA plugin for Csound (Homepage)
csound-data - data files used by the csound library (Homepage)
csound-utils - miscellaneous utilities for the Csound system (Homepage)
csound - powerful and versatile sound synthesis software (Homepage)
csoundqt - frontend for the csound sound processor (Homepage)
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)
nyquist - language for music composition and sound synthesis (Homepage)
pd-csound - Csound external for PureData (Homepage)
Psychosynth - an interactive modular soft-synth inspired by the ideas of the Reactable 
puredata - realtime computer music and graphics system (Homepage)
Room EQ Wizard -room acoustics analysis software for measuring and analysing room and loudspeaker responses. 
Soundpipe - A library of high quality music DSP algorithms. 
supercollider-supernova - real time audio synthesis server (multiprocessor version) (Homepage)
supercollider - real time audio synthesis programming language (Homepage)

Score Editors

denemo - GTK+ front end to GNU Lilypond (Homepage)
lilypond - program for typesetting sheet music (Homepage)
nted - Musical score editor (Homepage)
musescore popular professional level WYIWYG music score editor (Homepage)

Media players

rhythmbox - music player and organizer for GNOME (Homepage)
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)
mpv - video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2 (Homepage)
musique - Simple but sophisticated graphical music player (Homepage)
quodlibet - audio library manager and player for GTK3 (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

Linux Distributions

KXStudio - KXStudio is a collection of applications and plugins for professional audio production. KXStudio provides Debian and Ubuntu compatible repositories and its own Linux Distribution currently based on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS.
Tango Studio
Ubuntu Studio
Dynebolic 
AVLinux
ArtistX
DidJiX

Resources/Samples

Musical Artifacts
Drumgizmo: DRSKit, MuldjordKit
Gigasampler: FlameStudios
SF2: Airfont, Fluidr3, MDK Bass Snare, MDK Cymbals, MDK Hihat, MDK Kit, BlackPearl4pc, Blackpearl4pcAlt, Blackpearl5pc, RedZeppelin4pc, RedZeppelin5pc
SFZ: Balafon, Clayton3 Udu, Detuned piano, Plucked Piano strings, Salamander Drumkit, Salamander Grand Piano, SFZTest, Skerrat London Piano, Open Source Drumkit, Transition FX, 60s_organ, AVL_Drumkits, Black_Pearl_Drumkits, LittleLizardPiano, SalamanderDrumkit, SoftBells, StereoWurly, acousbass, altosax, analog_bass, b3_organ, banjo, bass_bow, bass_sect, bassoon_sect, blocks, brightbass, brushkit, cello, cellos, chimes, claps, clarinet, clarinet_sect, clavinet, contents.txt, cowbell, deepbass, dx7_piano, fatsynthbass, fender_bass, fenderbass, flute, flute_sect, french_horn_sect, fretless_bass, glock, gmkit, gretch_bass, harmonica, harpsichord, hihats, hpiano, ibanez_bass, jazzbass, jg_violins, jgkit, kicks, kit, marimba, melodica, moog_bass, nsa, nylon, oboe_sect, picked1, realbanjo, recorder, rhodes, ride, ride2, sax_sect, shaker, sleighbell, snares, solobassoon, soloviolin, sonatina, steelgtr, stereo_lespaul, stereo_rhodes, synth_bass, synth_strings, synthbrass, tabla, tenorsax, timbales, timpani, toms, trombone_sect, trumpet, trumpet_mute, trumpet_sect, vibes, warmpad, warmpad2, wurt, yamahagtr,
Hydrogen: Blackpearl4pc, BlackPearl4pcAlt, BlackPearl5pc, RedZeppelin4pc, RedZeppelin5pc, Gimme a Hand
Samples: AVL Sample Pack

Unsorted

aubio-tools - Bibliothèque pour la segmentation sonore - utilitaires
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)
gjacktransport - access to the JACK's transport mechanism as touchable slider (Homepage)
jamin - Audio mastering from a mixed down multitrack source with JACK (Homepage)
japa - JACK and ALSA Perceptual Analyser (Homepage)
libgroove - streaming audio processing library (Homepage)
libsox-fmt-all - All SoX format libraries (Homepage)
lmms - studio multimedia pour Linux (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)
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)
transmageddon - video transcoder for Linux and Unix systems built using GStreamer (Homepage)
yoshimi - software synthesizer based on ZynAddSubFX (Homepage)

DOCUMENTATION

General doc/software/forums

/r/linuxaudio - Music and Audio on the Linux platform
Linux Audio Blogs/Planet
Linux Audio Tutorials
Linux Audio Users Guide
Linux Audio Wiki
Linux Audio Users - mailing list for linux audio users
KXStudio Manual - a good introduction to Linux Audio in general.
Introduction to Linux & Audio
KXStudio : Repositories : Applications
KXStudio : Repositories : Plugins
Linux MAO Wiki (fr)
Linux Software on KVR Audio
Linuxaudio.org - consortium of libre software projects, artists, companies, institutions, organizations, and hardware vendors using Linux/Free Software based systems for professional audio work.
LinuxMusicians Forum • Index page
audio4linux Forum (de)
Libre Music Production - News, articles, tutorials, interviews, tools, resources...
http://linuxaudio.org/resources
http://www.linux-sound.org/
Pro Audio - ArchLinux Wiki
OpenSourceMusician Wiki/Podcast
#lad, #lau, ##linuxaudio, and #opensourcemusicians IRC channels on the Freenode Network
Freepats project - Free and open instrument sets, samples, sound synthesis, music...
Linux Audio Developers - Linux audio developers mailing list.
Linux Audio Tuning - mailing list is to help GNU/Linux distribution maintainers and other interested users to share information on system performance tuning matters, especially with regard to real-time Linux kernels.
Linux Audio Announces - email list to publish announcements.
Gentoo Pro-Audio Overlay - Pro-audio support for Gentoo users

Howtos

Read System Setup for system related topics.

GLOSSARY

LADSPA - an (API) standard for handling audio filters and audio signal processing effects.
DSSI - a virtual instrument (software synthesizer) plugin architecture for use by music sequencer applications.
LV2 - (LADSPA version 2) an open standard for Audio plug-ins and matching host applications.
Comparison of audio coding formats, List of codecs, Lossy compression, Lossless compression

TODO

Backup sourceforge projects somewhere else (code, doc, issues) egrep --only-matching 'https?://[0-9a-Z]*\.s(ource)?f(orge)?\.net.*' README.md
Sort and add http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/start?do=index (wiki cleanup and migration progress at migration.md)
add software from http://jackaudio.org/applications/
add software from kxstudio repos (https://gist.github.com/nodiscc/f8ef6744199ec9f26044)
sort unsorted links
provide configuration scripts/guides for debian systems? See System Setup
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
Add software from http://www.kvraudio.com/plugins/linux/newest
add xmms
http://www.kvraudio.com/news/discodsp-updates-vertigo-additive-synth-to-r3-5-including-linux-support-29997
http://www.kvraudio.com/news/discodsp-updates-discovery-pro-va-and-wave-synth-to-6-4-5-29782
Package scripts from http://www.pjb.com.au/midi/
Group and package scripts from http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/script_midi2hydrogen, http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/script_lscp2rgd, http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/scripts_wav2specimen, http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/scripts_and_tools
add software from http://bandshed.net/avlinux6-debs/

LICENSE

52  nodiscc <nodiscc@gmail.com>
 1  Aaron Wolf <wolftune@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/editing-files-in-another-user-s-repository/, https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/. (Please base your patches on the latest master)
Check existing issue reports, or report new ones.
Entries should be sorted alphabetically inside categories.
Please label unpackaged and non-free software: : 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) - description ``

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+")")); (or use dwlink -ub http://url.to/copy)

Contributors list can be updated with git shortlog -sne

README.md Unescape Escape

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