Re: [PLUG] Need recommendations for USB sound card

["K.S. Bhaskar" <bhaskar@bhaskars.com>]

Isaac, thank you for the advice and encouragement.

Gavin, thanks for the advice. To me, FOSS is a matter of philosophy - it is about freedom. Non-FOSS software is like chemical dependency - once you're hooked, it's hard to break the habit. As an ex-smoker in my youth, I have been there and don't care to go there again.

Here's what my research came up with:

Available through the Ubuntu package manager
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/
http://www.ardour.org/
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
http://www.muse-sequencer.org/

http://www.hydrogen-music.org/
http://www.jokosher.org/
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://terminatorx.org/
http://csounds.com/about (csounds has a GUI called cecilia)
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnusound/

http://mixxx.org/
http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/
http://www.fluidsynth.org
http://qsynth.sourceforge.net/qsynth-index.html
http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/
http://kguitar.sourceforge.net/
http://kmidimon.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/

Distributions
http://ubuntustudio.org/ - Ubuntu distribution with packages - see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/PackageList

http://www.artistx.org/site2/

Pages worth reading / scanning
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb04/articles/mirrorimage.htm

http://www.64studio.com/

Regards
-- Bhaskar

-- 
Windows does to computers what smoking does to humans

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