Openstudio Project
Summary
The Openstudio Pure Blend contains 201 packages which are grouped by metapackages. Each metapackage will cause the installation of packages for a specific topic. The following table lists the metapackages of Openstudio

Tasks page

This is a list of the Tasks Openstudio is made of:

Table of contents

Openstudiopro-admin - Extra packages for some admin tasks.

This metapackage will install additional admin software.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Htop
interactive processes viewer
Nautilus-open-terminal
nautilus plugin for opening terminals in arbitrary paths
Sysv-rc-conf
SysV init runlevel configuration tool for the terminal
Wget
retrieves files from the web
Xterm
X terminal emulator

Openstudiopro-ambisonics - Packages for installing packages you need for working with ambisonics (3D surround sound) in Debian/ Ubuntu.

This metapackage will install packages you need when working with ambisonics.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Aliki
Measurement tool for Impulse Responses
Amb-plugins
ambisonics LADSPA plugins
Ambdec
Ambisonic decoder for first and second order
Ardour
the digital audio workstation
Drc
digital room correction
Jackd
JACK Audio Connection Kit (default server package)
Japa
JACK and ALSA Perceptual Analyser
Jconvolver
Convolution reverb Engine for JACK
Jconvolver-config-files
Demo config files for jconvolver
Qjackctl
User interface for controlling the JACK sound server
Zita-rev1
pro-audio reverb effect

Openstudiopro-composing - Packages which might be useful when composing music.

Metapackage which installs packages for composing music.

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Mma
Musical MIDI Accompaniment Generator

Openstudiopro-desktop - Extra packages which makes the Desktop more useful or more easy to use.

This metapackage will install additional Desktop software.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Gtk-recordmydesktop
Graphical frontend for recordMyDesktop screencast tool
Pidgin
graphical multi-protocol instant messaging client for X
Pidgin-otr
Off-the-Record Messaging plugin for Pidgin
Shutter
feature-rich screenshot program
Xchat
IRC client for X similar to AmIRC

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Epiphany-browser
Intuitive GNOME web browser

Openstudiopro-devel - Extra packages for developers and package compiling.

This metapackage will install additional software to compile audio software.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Automake
Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
Build-essential
Informational list of build-essential packages
Cmake
cross-platform, open-source make system
Cmake-curses-gui
curses based user interface for CMake (ccmake)
Cvs
Concurrent Versions System
Dssi-dev
Header file for compiling DSSI plugins and hosts
Fluid
Fast Light Toolkit - user interface designer
Git-core
fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (obsolete)
Libasound2-dev
shared library for ALSA applications -- development files
Libfftw3-dev
Library for computing Fast Fourier Transforms - development
Libjack-dev
JACK Audio Connection Kit (development files)
Liblircclient-dev
infra-red remote control support - client library development files
Liblo-dev
Lightweight OSC library -- development files
Liblrdf0-dev
liblrdf0 development files
Libmxml-dev
small XML parsing library (development)
Libqt4-dev
Qt 4 development files
Libsamplerate0-dev
Development files for audio sample rate conversion
Libsndfile1-dev
Development files for libsndfile; a library for reading/writing audio files
Libxml++2.6-dev
C++ interface to the GNOME XML library (libxml2)
Subversion
Advanced version control system
Xutils-dev
X Window System utility programs for development
Zlib1g-dev
compression library - development

Openstudiopro-djing - Openstudiopro DJ packages.

This metapackage will install packages for djing.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Mixxx
Digital Disc Jockey Interface
Xwax
open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Jackeq
routes and manipulates audio from/to multiple sources
Terminatorx
realtime audio synthesizer

Openstudiopro-beat - Packages for drums & beats.

Metapackage which installs packages for making drums and beats.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Hydrogen
advanced drum machine/step sequencer
Hydrogen-drumkits
drumkits for Hydrogen

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Lmms
Linux Multimedia Studio
Puredata
realtime computer music and graphics system
Seq24
Real time MIDI sequencer
Specimen
MIDI controllable audio sampler for GNU/Linux systems

Openstudiopro-firewire - Packages for your firewire (ffado supported) audiocard / interface.

This metapackage will install packages to configure your ffado supported firewire audio card.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

A2jmidid
Daemon for exposing legacy ALSA MIDI in JACK MIDI systems
Ffado-dbus-server
FFADO D-Bus server
Ffado-mixer-qt4
FFADO D-Bus mixer applets (QT4)
Ffado-tools
FFADO debugging and firmware tools
Jackd
JACK Audio Connection Kit (default server package)
Libffado2
FFADO API
Patchage
modular patch bay for Jack audio and Alsa Midi

Fluxbox - Openstudio metapackage for installing Fluxbox Window Manager.

This metapackage will install fluxbox WM and filebrowser thunar. If you don't want to have thunar, don't install this package and do 'sudo apt-get install fluxbox'.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Conky
highly configurable system monitor (transitional package)
Dwm-tools
simple commands for minimalistic window managers (transitional package)
Fbdesk
desktop icons for window managers
Fluxbox
Highly configurable and low resource X11 Window manager
Gtk-theme-switch
GTK+ theme switching utility
Idesk
program to show icons on the desktop
Menu
generates programs menu for all menu-aware applications
Nitrogen
wallpaper browser and changing utility for X
Thunar
File Manager for Xfce
Wmctrl
control an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager
Xfce4-power-manager
power manager for Xfce desktop

Openstudiopro-graphics - Packages for making and editing artwork.

This metapackage will install packages for making and editing artwork.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Gimp
The GNU Image Manipulation Program
Gimp-data
Data files for GIMP
Gimp-data-extras
Extra brushes and patterns for GIMP
Gimp-gap
animation package for the GIMP
Gimp-plugin-registry
repository of optional extensions for GIMP
Gimp-ufraw
gimp importer for raw camera images
Shutter
feature-rich screenshot program

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Agave
colorscheme designer for the GNOME desktop
Blender
Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer
Enblend
image blending tool
F-spot
personal photo management application
Fontforge
font editor
Fontmatrix
featureful personal font manager
Hugin
panorama photo stitcher - GUI tools
Inkscape
vector-based drawing program
Nautilus-image-converter
nautilus extension to mass resize or rotate images
Pstoedit
PostScript and PDF files to editable vector graphics converter
Scribus
Open Source Desktop Page Layout - stable branch
Xsane
featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
Yafray
a modern, xml-speaking raytracing-based rendering system

Openstudiopro-guitar - Packages for playing with your (virtual) guitar gear.

Packages which might be useful when playing guitar, adding guitar effects to your audio streams and / or editing notation and tablature for your guitar music.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Guitarix
Rock guitar amplifier for Jack
Jack-capture
program for recording soundfiles with jack
Jconvolver
Convolution reverb Engine for JACK
Jconvolver-config-files
Demo config files for jconvolver
Rakarrack
Simple and easy guitar effects processor for GNU/Linux

Openstudiopro-jack - JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit) and ALSA related packages

This metapackage will install pro audio JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit) and ALSA related packages.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

A2jmidid
Daemon for exposing legacy ALSA MIDI in JACK MIDI systems
Aj-snapshot
make snapshots of JACK connections
Alsa-tools
Console based ALSA utilities for specific hardware
Alsa-tools-gui
GUI based ALSA utilities for specific hardware
Alsa-utils
Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
Jack-tools
various JACK tools: dl, record, scope, osc, plumbing, udp, play, transport
Jackd
JACK Audio Connection Kit (default server package)
Mudita24
ALSA GUI control tool for Envy24 (ice1712) soundcards
Patchage
modular patch bay for Jack audio and Alsa Midi
Qjackctl
User interface for controlling the JACK sound server
Vorbis-tools
several Ogg Vorbis tools

Debian packages in contrib or non-free

Midisport-firmware
Firmware loader for M-Audio's MidiSport devices

Openstudio-ladi - Openstudiopro LADI, Linuxaudio session management, packages.

This metapackage will install packages for ladish.org.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

A2jmidid
Daemon for exposing legacy ALSA MIDI in JACK MIDI systems
Jackd
JACK Audio Connection Kit (default server package)
Ladish
session management system for JACK applications
Laditools
Linux Audio Desktop Integration Tools

Openstudiopro-looping - Packages for looping music and audio.

Metapackage which installs packages with the aim to loop your audio (and midi).

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Sooperlooper
Looping Sampler

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Ardour
the digital audio workstation
Freewheeling
live looping musical instrument
Kluppe
loop-player and recorder designed for live use
Rosegarden
music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer
Seq24
Real time MIDI sequencer

Openstudiopro-midi - Openstudio pro audio MIDI related packages

This metapackage will install pro audio MIDI related packages for openstudio.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

A2jmidid
Daemon for exposing legacy ALSA MIDI in JACK MIDI systems
Jack-keyboard
Virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI
Qtractor
MIDI/Audio multi-track sequencer application

Openstudiopro-mixing - Packages for mixing and mastering your music.

This metapackage will install software to do mixing and mastering.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Aubio-tools
library for audio segmentation -- utilities
Audacity
fast, cross-platform audio editor
Gcdmaster
GNOME GUI for cdrdao
Japa
JACK and ALSA Perceptual Analyser
Jkmeter
horizontal or vertical bargraph audio level meter for Jack Audio Connection Kit
Meterbridge
Collection of Audio meters for the JACK audio server

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Jamin
Audio mastering from a mixed down multitrack source with JACK

Openstudiopro-multimedia - Packages which makes your multimedia tools complete...

This metapackage will install additional 'consumer' multimedia software.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Moc
ncurses based console audio player
Smplayer
Complete front-end for MPlayer, MPlayer2 and mpv
Vlc
multimedia player and streamer
Vlc-plugin-jack
Jack audio plugins for VLC

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Aqualung
Gapless Gtk-based audio player

Openstudiopro-muse2build - Extra packages for developers and package compiling.

This metapackage will install additional software to compile muse2 (oom branch) from source (www.openoctave.org).

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Cmake
cross-platform, open-source make system
Doxygen
Documentation system for C, C++, Java, Python and other languages
Subversion
Advanced version control system

Openstudiopro-musician - Packages for musicians: theory, metronome, instrumenttuner etc.

Packages for musicians: theory, metronome, instrumenttuner etc.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Gtklick
simple metronome GUI for JACK
Klick
advanced metronome for JACK
Solfege
Ear training software

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Fmit
Free Music Instrument Tuner
Stretchplayer
Audio file player with time stretch and pitch shifting

Openstudiopro-muscicnotation - Packages for editing music score.

Packages for editing music score.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Lilypond
program for typesetting sheet music
Lilypond-data
LilyPond music typesetter (data files)
Musescore
Free music composition and notation software

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Denemo
GTK+ front end to GNU Lilypond
Frescobaldi
Qt4 LilyPond sheet music editor
Nted
Musical score editor
Rosegarden
music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer

Openstudiopro-plugins-dssi - DSSI plugins, synths and virtual instruments.

This metapackage will install proaudio DSSI plugins packages.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Dssi-host-jack
Example of DSSI host
Dssi-utils
Command-line utilities for sending commands to DSSI plugins
Fluidsynth-dssi
DSSI wrapper for the FluidSynth SoundFont-playing synthesizer
Ghostess
A graphical DSSI plugin host
Hexter
Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin
Whysynth
DSSI Soft Synth Interface
Xsynth-dssi
classic-analog (VCOs-VCF-VCA) style software synthesizer
Zynaddsubfx-dssi
dssi plugin of zynaddsubfx

Openstudiopro-plugins-fst - fst plugins, synths and virtual instruments.

This metapackage will install proaudio fst plugins packages.

Debian packages in contrib or non-free

Dssi-vst
Adapter for VST an VSTi audio plugins

Packaging has started and developers might try the packaging code in VCS

Fst
JACK-based host to use VST plugins on GNU/Linux
Wineasio
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Openstudiopro-plugins-ladspa - Packages for installing LADSPA plugins.

This metapackage will install proaudio LADSPA plugins.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Amb-plugins
ambisonics LADSPA plugins
Ambdec
Ambisonic decoder for first and second order
Ams
Realtime modular synthesizer for ALSA
Autotalent
pitch correction LADSPA plugin
Blepvco
LADSPA, minBLEP-based, hard-sync-capable oscillator plugins
Blop
Bandlimited wavetable-based oscillator plugins for LADSPA hosts
Caps
C* Audio Plugin Suite
Csladspa
LADSPA plugin for Csound
Fil-plugins
parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin
Invada-studio-plugins-ladspa
Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LADSPA audio plugins
Jack-rack
LADSPA effects "rack" for JACK
Jconvolver
Convolution reverb Engine for JACK
Jconvolver-config-files
Demo config files for jconvolver
Ladspa-sdk
sample tools for linux-audio-dev plugin architecture
Mcp-plugins
LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth
Omins
collection of LADSPA plugins aimed at modular synthesizers
Rev-plugins
reverb LADSPA plugin
Rubberband-ladspa
LADSPA plugin for audio pitch-shifting
Swh-plugins
Steve Harris's LADSPA plugins
Tap-plugins
Tom's Audio Processing LADSPA plugins
Vco-plugins
LADSPA plugin sporting anti-aliased oscillators
Wah-plugins
auto-wah LADSPA plugin
Zita-at1
JACK autotuner

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Jcgui
a simple Host wrap around jconvolver/jconv
Zita-rev1
pro-audio reverb effect

Openstudiopro-plugins-lv2 - LV2 plugins, synths and virtual instruments.

This metapackage will install proaudio LV2 plugins packages.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Calf-plugins
Calf Studiogear - audio effects and sound generators
Invada-studio-plugins-lv2
Invada Studio Plugins - a set of LV2 audio plugins
Ir.lv2
LV2 IR reverb
Liblv2dynparamhost1-1
LV2 plugin interface extension - host
Liblv2dynparamplugin1-0
LV2 plugin interface extension - plugin
Libslv2-9
library for simple use of LV2 plugins
Libslv2-dev
Development files (headers) for SLV2 library
Lv2-c++-tools
library and tools for LV2 plugins
Lv2-c++-tools-doc
lv2-c++-tools documentation
Lv2core
LV2 audio plugin specification (dummy package)
Lv2fil
Stereo and mono LV2 plugins, four-band parametric equalisers
Lv2vocoder
LV2 vocoder plugin
Slv2-doc
Documentation for SLV2
Slv2-jack
Jack support for LV2 plugins
Swh-lv2
Steve Harris's SWH plugins ported to LV2
Zynjacku
JACK based host for LV2 synths and LV2 plugins

Openstudiopro-realtime - This packages installs a realtime kernel for low latency.

This metapackage will install a realtime kernel for low latency.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Rtirq-init
startup script for realtime-preempt enabled kernels

Openstudiopro-recording - Packages for recording music, sounds, audio.

Packages for recording music, sounds, audio.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Ardour
the digital audio workstation
Jack-capture
program for recording soundfiles with jack
Jackd
JACK Audio Connection Kit (default server package)
Meterbridge
Collection of Audio meters for the JACK audio server
Qjackctl
User interface for controlling the JACK sound server
Qtractor
MIDI/Audio multi-track sequencer application
Timemachine
JACK audio recorder for spontaneous and conservatory use
Xjadeo
Video player with JACK sync

Openstudiopro-soundsynthesis - Packages for sound synthesis.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Gem
Graphics Environment for Multimedia - Pure Data library
Libsox-fmt-all
All SoX format libraries
Mmm-mode
Multiple Major Mode for Emacs
W3m-el
simple Emacs interface of w3m

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Chuck
Concurrent, On-the-fly Audio Programming Language

Openstudiopro-synths - Metapackage with virtual instruments and synths.

This metapackage will install synths and virtual instruments.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Ams
Realtime modular synthesizer for ALSA
Bristol
vintage synthesizer emulator
Phasex
Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis EXperiment
Puredata
realtime computer music and graphics system
Yoshimi
software synthesizer based on ZynAddSubFX

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Aeolus
Synthesised pipe organ emulator
Amsynth
two oscillator software synthesizer
Azr3-jack
drawbar organ simulator
Foo-yc20
YC-20 organ emulation
Monobristol
simple GUI for Bristol
Qsampler
LinuxSampler GUI frontend based on the Qt toolkit
Zynaddsubfx
Realtime software synthesizer for Linux

Packaging has started and developers might try the packaging code in VCS

Linuxsampler
realtime audio sampler

Openstudiopro-timestretching - Packages for stretching music and audio.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Paulstretch
Extreme sound time-stretch
Rubberband-cli
audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting utility
Rubberband-ladspa
LADSPA plugin for audio pitch-shifting
Rubberband-vamp
Vamp plugins using Rubber Band
Stretchplayer
Audio file player with time stretch and pitch shifting

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Ardour
the digital audio workstation
Qtractor
MIDI/Audio multi-track sequencer application
Rosegarden
music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer

Openstudiopro-trackers - Vertical MIDI sequencers, or Trackers if you want.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Milkytracker
music creation tool inspired by Fast Tracker 2

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Schism
ImpulseTracker clone aiming at providing the same look&feel

Openstudiopro-video - Openstudio Video packages

This metapackage will install Video software. Some are especially usefull to combine video and sound.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Xjadeo
Video player with JACK sync