Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu. Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional. The project aims to provide a suite of the best open-source applications available for multimedia creation.
The Kernel which is included in Ubuntu Studio is modified for intensive multimedia and graphic work. It allows the scheduler to gain immediate access to the cpu time, which can reduce audio latency to a large extent. Ubuntu Studio can be download here
The Packages which are included in Ubuntu Studio are:
Audio
Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who is also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit. Ardour’s intention is to provide digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use.
Audacity is a digital audio editor application. Audacity is cross-platform, using the wxWidgets software library to provide a similar graphical user interface on several different operating systems. It is currently used in the OCR National Level 2 ICT course for the sound creation unit.
Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine created by Alessandro Cominu, an Italian programmer who goes by the pseudonym Comix. Its main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.
The JACK Audio Connection Kit or JACK is a sound server daemon that provides low latency connections between so-called jackified applications, for both audio and MIDI data.
JAMin is the JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK) Audio Mastering interface. JAMin is an open source application designed to perform professional audio mastering of stereo input streams. It uses LADSPA for digital signal processing (DSP).
JAMin features:
* Linear filters
* JACK I/O
* 30 band graphic EQ
* 1023 band hand drawn EQ with parametric controls
* Spectrum analyser
* 3 band peak compressor
* Lookahead brickwall limiter
* Multiband stereo processing
* Presets and scenes
* Loudness maximiser
GNU LilyPond is a free software program for engraving sheet music that is available for all common operating systems; it is written in C++ and assembled by a Scheme library (GNU Guile) which allows for user customization and extension[1]. It uses a simple text notation for music, which is then compiled into PDF (via PostScript), SVG or other formats. LilyPond can also automatically generate MIDI files from music specified in the LilyPond format.
Mixxx is open source digital DJ’ing software that allows an individual to mix music together using a personal computer, as a DJ would with a pair of physical turntables.
PiTiViMusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities written by Werner Schweer. MusE aims to be a complete multitrack virtual studio for Linux: it currently has no support under other platforms, due to its reliance on JACK and ALSA.
Rosegarden is a free software digital audio workstation program developed for Linux with ALSA and KDE. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool. It is intended to be a free replacement for such applications as Cubase.
Rosegarden does not provide a built-in software synthesizer, so it requires a hardware MIDI synthesizer, a soft synthesizer such as FluidSynth or TiMidity++, or a synthesizer plugin in order to make any sound from MIDI compositions. Recent versions of Rosegarden support the DSSI software synthesizer plugin interface, and can use some Windows VST plugins through an adapter.
TiMidity++, originally and still frequently informally titled TiMidity, is a software synthesizer that is able to convert from MIDI to various formats, and some other file types as well, to PCM audio, either rendering to soundcard in real time or storing it to file (for example, .wav file).
Video
PiTiVi is a piece of free video editing software. It allows users to easily edit audio/video projects based on the GStreamer framework: Capture audio and video; mix, resize, cut, apply effects to audio/video sources; Render/Save the projects to any format supported by the GStreamer framework. PiTiVi is still in a very early stage of development, and contributions are much welcome. PiTiVi can:
* capture and encode video
* crop, trim, add video effects, enhance audio, etc
Kino is a free software, GTK+-based non-linear digital video editor. Its vision is: “Easy and reliable DV editing for the Linux desktop with export to many usable formats.” The program supports many basic video editing and assembling tasks.
Kino can import raw AVI and DV files, as well as capture footage from digital camcorders using the raw1394 and dv1394 libraries, and export to camcorders using the ieee1394 or video1394 libraries. Kino does not support Linux 2.6.22’s new firewire stack.
Stopmotion is a free application for creating stop-motion animation movies. The users will be able to create stop-motions from pictures imported from a camera or from the harddrive, add sound effects and export the animation to different video formats such as mpeg or avi.
VLC media player is a free software media player written by the VideoLAN project.
It is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various different formats. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but that meaning is now deprecated.
Graphics
Agave is a very simple application for the GNOME desktop that allows you to generate a variety of colorschemes from a single starting color.
Features
* Generate 6 different types of color schemes: Complements, Split Complements, Triads, Tetrads, Analogous, and Monochromatic
* Select a color that’s displayed anywhere on the screen (“dropper” tool)
* Easily change the lightness or saturation of a colorscheme with a toolbar button
* Copy the hexstring (e.g. “#336699″) of a color to the clipboard for use in CSS and HTML files
* Save your favorite colors to a ‘Favorites’ list for easy reference and export your favorites as a Gimp Palette file
* Navigate back and forward through history of previously selected colors
* Choose colors from a palette of pre-defined “web-safe” colors (more palettes to come soon)
* Drag and Drop between Agave and the Gimp, as well as many other programs
* Generate a random colorscheme if you’re stuck and need some inspiration.
* User interface translated into English, Dutch (nl), German (de), Spanish (es_ES), Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR), Russian (ru), Czech (cs), and Bulgarian (bg).
Blender is a 3D animation program released as free software. It can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications.
Enblend overlays multiple TIFF images so as to make the seam invisible. It works with 8, 16 or 32 bit (HDR floating point) per channel images. Enblend can work as a plug-in for PTGui, Hugin, PTMac or PTAssembler or standalone from the command line or by Enblend Front End.
FontForge (formerly known as PfaEdit) is a typeface (font) editor program developed by George Williams. It supports several font formats like TrueType, PostScript, OpenType, CID-keyed, multi-master, CFF, SVG, BDF, Datafork TrueType, etc.
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colours, combining multiple images, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats.[2] GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in GIF format. It is often used as a free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop, the most widely used bitmap editor in the printing and graphics industries; however, it is not designed to be a Photoshop clone.
Inkscape is a vector graphics editor application. Its stated goal is to become a powerful graphic tool while being fully compliant with the XML, SVG and CSS standards.
Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application. Native versions are available for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows. It is known for its broad feature set of page layout features comparable to leading commercial applications such as Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign.
Scribus is designed for flexible layout and typesetting, and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. Example uses include writing small newspapers, brochures, newsletters, posters and books.
Synfig is a free and open source 2D vector graphics and animation program created by Robert Quattlebaum.
This computer animation software, which was originally a closed source application of VoriaStudio, was released 2005 under the GPL-license.
The goal of the developers is to create a program that is capable of producing “feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.” The program offers an alternative to manual tweening so that the animator doesn’t have to draw each and every frame.
