Making Music(Beats) on Linux/Ubuntu with Hydrogen. I am going to review a couple of Music Making Softwares for Linux and am starting with the simplest and one of the best!
HYDROGEN. Hydrogen basically is a pattern based drum programming software which in layman terms means, it allows you to make your own beats.And in case you aren't much into music, you might be wondering “what the hell will i do with this piece of software”...well here is a word from my friends who've tried this: “Its pretty fun playing with this software, n even without knowing much, you could actually MAKE SUM MUSIC!!!” About the software:(technical:from the software's website itself!) General Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 3. Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats. This is how HYDROGEN looks Installation: To install Hydrogen issue the following command in the terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) sudo apt-get install hydrogen Some more drum loops:
Recording in Ubuntu Linux (aka Free and Open Source Digital Audio Workstation) Editors Most of these toolbar buttons should be familiar to anyone that uses multitrack and sequencing programs, but the editors deserve a little extra explanation.
Editors The matrix and percussion editors are your standard sequencer style editors. Rosegarden also has a standard, western music notation editor that you can print to pdf or postscript. In the event editor you can go into finer control of MIDI data as well as add indicators, clef/key/tempo changes and a few other things I don't understand yet! Rosegarden allows you very fine control of sequencing in multiple formats, which is mainly what I use it for at the moment.
EDIT: Thanks to Gunhild Anderson and the Rosegarden Mailing List I now know that you can configure your own keyboard shortcuts under Settings >> Configure Shortcuts. Ardour - the digital audio workstation. Making music in Linux and beyond. You can do a lot with free open-source software, also known as FOSS.
Musicians with a yen for Linux are in luck; the array of choices for creating, editing, producing, and publishing music using nothing but FOSS software is staggering. One way to get your hands on a plethora of audio tools is to run the Ubuntu Studio distro, which comes preconfigured for real-time audio processing and includes every studio tool under the sun. Failing that, there are the ubuntustudio-audio and ubuntustudio-audio-plugins virtual packages in Ubuntu, which will install 54 and 18 specialized packages, respectively. Other alternatives include the Musix distribution and the low-end hardware distro dyne:bolic, but Ubuntu Studio has the largest toolkit in the genre and enjoys the widest support as well. Pick your favorite multimedia distro and go nuts, or just install the applications you want to try out, one RPM or DEB package at a time. You still don't know JACK Working with Ardour and Audacity.