Installing KXStudio:included and recommended apps.

Listed below are recommended audio, video and productivity apps for GNU/Linux complete with a short description.

Many of these apps are, or will be, included on the KXStudio DVD. Those not included are easily installed from the repositories in most cases.

• Amarok Feature-packed music player with support for syncing with ipods (up to 4th gen)

• Ardour The original Linux DAW

• Audacious Uncomplicated music player with good JACK support

• Audacity Popular cross-platform sound editor but with poor JACK support

• Avidemux Simple video editing and conversion tool ala Virtualdub

• Blender 3D Powerful 3D modelling, animation, rendering and compositing

• Cadence Controls and monitors various Linux sound systems

• cadence-jackmeter Cadence-JackMeter is a digital peak meter for JACK

• cadence-xycontroller Cadence-XY Controller is a simple XY widget that sends and receives data from Jack MIDI

• Carla Audio plugin host (LADSPA, LV2, VST etc)

• Catia Catia is a JACK Patchbay, with some neat features like A2J bridge support and JACK Transport

• cinepaint HDR, High bit-depth movie still editor

• Claudia Claudia is a LADISH frontend; it's just like Catia, but focused on session management through LADISH

• darktable Virtual lighttable and darkroom

• DeVeDe Creates DVD video and (S)VCD discs from movie files

• DIN (Din Is Noise) Advanced fluid microtonal synthesis with drones and melodic effects, oriented toward Indian classical music

• Dolphin The default KDE file manager

• Firefox The original and best web browser

• FileZilla (s)FTP client (and server)

• GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program - Photoshop alternative

• gnumeric A superior spreadsheet to the one included in LibreOffice or OpenOffice

• Guitarix JACK virtual guitar amplifier

• Handbrake Cross-platform DVD ripping and video transcoding

• Hydrogen JACK drum machine and sequencer, note: many additional drum-kits are available by installing the package “hydrogen-drumkits”

• IDJC Internet DJ Console is for live, web radio production. Features voip integration

• Inkscape Leading open source vector graphics editor

• JAmin JACK stereo audio mastering tool

• k3b CD, DVD and BD burning

• Kdenlive KDE video editor, similar to Sony Vegas

• ksnapshot Take screenshots of windows or desktops

• LibreOffice MS Office-compatible word processor, spreadsheet and presentation suite

• LightWorks Professional, high-end video editor used in Hollywood productions (currently beta and 64-bit only)

• Lincoder Java/mencoder based batch video conversion tool

• Lingot Instrument tuner

• LMMS FruityLoops-esque sequencer w/ integrated synths

• mhwaveedit Lightweight sound editor with good JACK support

• Mixxx DJ mixing software

• MusE DAW with good MIDI editing features and some integrated plugins

• Musescore Professional quality music notation and scoring

• Mypaint Bitmap paint program that can simulate real painting techniques

• Okular PDF and document viewer

• Paulstretch Ambient sound generation via stretched sound recordings, extreme stretch lenghts and many controls over the sound

• QDVDauthor DVD menu authoring

• Qsynth Allows use of SoundFont files

• Qsampler Allows use of sfz and gigasampler sample sets

• Qtractor Fast, lightweight DAW

• REAPER Powerful Windows-based DAW, officially supported under Wine

• Recorditnow Record your desktop to a video file

• Rakarrack JACK Guitar FX processor

• Rosegarden MIDI sequencer with integrated notation

• samplv1 Simple sampler available as LV2 plugin and JACK app

• scribus Professional layout and publishing software

• setBfree Great sounding DSP B3 Hammond organ emulator LV2 plugin

• smplayer Excellent audio and video playback app

• Soundkonverter batch audio file conversion

• Sooperlooper live looping sampler

• sunvox Advanced module tracker with integrated synths, samplers and JACK support

• Swami SoundFont editor

• synfig Powerful 2D vector animation software

• TAL-Noisemaker Superb sounding, fully automatable softsynth plugin

• Triceratops Triple oscillator LV2 synth

• VLC The famous VLC media player

• VMPK Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard

• Wine Wine allows most MS Windows software to run under GNU/Linux

• XCFA Another sound conversion tool with more options than soundkonverter

• XJadeo X JACK video monitor plays video in sync with a external time source (eg Ardour)

• Zynaddsubfx JACK synthesizer

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