Topic: Any one use Ubuntu, are there any good programs for it to edit with?

[vegeta_ban]

I recently made did a dual boot, with xp and ubuntu and was wondering if there were any good programs for the linux os. I use audacity, cd wav, gold wav , and nero on Xp.
Thanks

[H₂O]

Audacity is avail for Ubuntu:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=136615

Great program for playback is flac VLC

[live2496]

I recently made did a dual boot, with xp and ubuntu and was wondering if there were any good programs for the linux os. I use audacity, cd wav, gold wav , and nero on Xp.
Thanks

A friend uses an application called Traktor on Kubuntu. He says it is like an older version of Samplitude.

You might find this interesting (about running Reaper on Ubuntu using Wine).
http://www.davehayes.org/2007/04/27/howto-reaper-on-ubuntu-linux-with-wineasio

You might get some ideas from the comments there. I run windows mostly, so I'm no expert on linux gui apps.

[pigiron]

wavbreaker - for creating track splits... they included my 24 bit patch in version 0.10
http://wavbreaker.sourceforge.net/

shntool - to check for those SBE's (use the command line Luke
http://www.etree.org/shnutils/shntool/

ssrc - is a high quality dither/resample program
http://shibatch.sourceforge.net/

baudline - is a good FFT spectrum analysis program
http://www.baudline.com/

I *really* like moc as a player for our kind of stuff (but I'm ol' skool)... works great for concert playback, just use the arrow keys to get to the directory of interest and simply mash Enter... seamless playback ta boot
http://moc.daper.net/

and here's a script I made to convert a whole directory of wav files to flac

Code: [Select]

#!/bin/sh
#
# Convert WAV audio files to "flac" compression


# workify - performs the work
# Does *very* rudimentary error checking.
workify()
{
   local dofile=$1
   printf "\nConverting:  `basename \"$dofile\"`\n"
   flac --best --verify "`basename "$dofile"`"
   return ;
}

# Work on the current directory if no arguments were passed
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
   set .
fi

for file
do
   if [ -f "$file" ]; then
      workify "$file"
   elif [ -d "$file" ]; then
       find $dir -type f -iname "*.wav" -print | \
       while read x
       do
         workify "$x"
       done
   fi
done
There's more, depending on what you wanna do... have fun!

[SmokinJoe]

Seconded on Audacity, shntool, ssrc... this are my mainstays... and a lot of my own scripts.

[Roving Sign]

Posting from my first Ubuntu box - very impressed...

A friend pointed me this way...

http://ubuntustudio.org/

Anyone using this variant?

[SmokinJoe]

Sox and ecasound are incredibly useful too if you are into scripting.

I have made scripts to do things like "take this whole directory full of files and invert the right channel", or take this sample.wav and make me a bunch of different mid/side mixes at 30/70, 40/60, 50/50, 60/40, 70/30.  Go get a cup off coffee, and when you come back it's done. If you were doing that in a GUI it would take you a half hour of tedious clicking.

By the way, I use Debian, which is the basis for Ubuntu.  I should try Ubuntu, but I've been running Debian for years, and haven't had to build a new box from scratch in a while.

[flipp]

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By the way, I use Debian, which is the basis for Ubuntu.  I should try Ubuntu, but I've been running Debian for years, and haven't had to build a new box from scratch in a while.

No need to build a new box to try it. Download a .iso live image file, burn it and boot from it. Try out Ubuntu without making any changes to your box. Or you can order a disc from Ubuntu/Launchpad and they will ship one free, but it will take a month to six weeks for you to receive it.

[vegeta_ban]

Posting from my first Ubuntu box - very impressed...

A friend pointed me this way...

http://ubuntustudio.org/

Anyone using this variant?

using this now version 9.04, like it and the ardour program

[nickee]

Dont forget that a lot of windows software runs perfectly in Linux using wine. I use Wavelab 5 in Linux (the waves vst plug ins works as well).

[if_then_else]

Posting from my first Ubuntu box - very impressed...

A friend pointed me this way...

http://ubuntustudio.org/

Anyone using this variant?

using this now version 9.04, like it and the ardour program

Are there still issues (e.g. importing wav files) with Ardour in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04)? In previous versions of Ubuntu you had to download Ardour from the project website as the official deb packages for Ubuntu were broken.

Also you might want to try out the following applications

• mp3splt-gtk (+ snackAmp) - for editing ogg/mp3 files losslessly
• ProjectX - fow demuxing sat broadcasts / mpeg files
• mplayer (CLI version) - for streaming / downloading webcasts

Morover, there are some more alternatives to Ardour and Audacity, e.g. Rezound (similar to early versions of Cooledit), Sweep and ProTux. Also you might be interested in Rosegarden - a great audio and MIDI sequencer.

[vegeta_ban]

thx i'll give anything a try

[db]

on the topic of ubuntu: has anyone been successful getting a m-audio audiophile/usb to be recognized by it?  i've been banging my head against the wall for a while regarding this issue....

[Simp-Dawg]

on the topic of ubuntu: has anyone been successful getting a m-audio audiophile/usb to be recognized by it?  i've been banging my head against the wall for a while regarding this issue....

similarly - an ESI U24 usb soundcard...i blew linux away after i realized i had no clue what i needed to do with some scripts or whatever i found for gettng this device to work.  but have reverted to the standard xp home (blech!) install for this laptop and hate it, it's buggy as hell.  i'm gonna go back to win2k and ubuntu i think.

anyone got some good resource to point a total n00b to?

[if_then_else]

on the topic of ubuntu: has anyone been successful getting a m-audio audiophile/usb to be recognized by it?  i've been banging my head against the wall for a while regarding this issue....

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt

[db]

on the topic of ubuntu: has anyone been successful getting a m-audio audiophile/usb to be recognized by it?  i've been banging my head against the wall for a while regarding this issue....

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt

thanks, i saw this and was scared off by the last line: "441   I had no success in testing this for now, if you have any success with this kind of setup, please drop me an email."