Ubuntu Studio is a
free
and open source operative system, and an official flavor
of
Ubuntu. Ubuntu Studio is the most
widely used multimedia orientated
GNU/Linuxdistribution
in the world. It comes preinstalled with a selection of the most
common
freemultimedia
applications available, and is configured for best performance for
the Ubuntu Studio defined
workflows:
Audio,
Graphics,
Video,
Photography and
Publishing.
Ubuntu Studio is a community effort, created by volunteers,
targeted towards all skill levels, from beginner to pro, and aims to
be easy to install and easy to use, as well as provide all the tools
nessecary for any type of media content creation.
AUDIO:
Ubuntu Studio makes available some of the most popular and
recently updated audio software in the Linux world.
JACK - is a low latency capable audio and midi server, designed
for pro audio use. It enables all Jack capable applications to
connect to each other. A common program for controlling the jack
server is Qjackctl (shown in the picture below).
ARDOUR - Audio and MIDI Multi-Track Recording and Editing. Any number of tracks and busses. Non-linear editing.
Non-destructive (and destructive!) recording. Any bit depth, any
sample rate. Dozens of file formats.
VIRTUAL GUITAR AMPS - Rakarrack (preinstalled) and Guitarix are
two popular guitar amp simulators.
JACK SESSION - Gladish will enable you to start applications, make
connections between them, and save the whole configuration to file.
Gladish is also an alternative to Qjackctl.
AUDIO PROGRAMMING - There are numerous easy to use audio
programming environments available to Ubuntu Studio, such as the
preinstalled puredata. Others are installable, such as supercollider,
csound and chuck.
GRAPHICS:
BLENDER - is a full fledged 3D content creation suite. You can
create 3D models and animate scenes. Blender also has its’ own game
engine and is vastly expandable with addons.
INKSCAPE - is a superb vector graphics editor, with capabilities
similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
GIMP - stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program, and is a similar
to Photoshop.
MyPaint - is a digital painting tool, designed to work with
graphic tablets. It comes with a large collection of brushes,
including ink and charcoal.
VIDEO:
OPENSHOT - is a simple video editor for Linux. Add videos, photos
and music to create DVD’s, youtube clips and a range of other
formats.
FFMPEG - is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode,
encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much
anything that humans and machines have created.
DVDStyler - to create custom, professional looking DVD’s.
PHOTOGRAPHY:
DARKTABLE - is a photography workflow application and RAW developer.
A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers.
SHOTWELL - to organize your library of photos.
PUBLISHING:
CALIBRE - is a popular program that makes things easy for new
users by providing excellent templates for common formats, such as
kindle, various types of tablets and other hardware readers, and a
lot more.
SCRIBUS - which will let you creat professional PDF publications.
There are some nice templates for posters, business cards, brochures
and more.
LibreOffice Writer - you can create the text, and save in any
format you like. Including MS Office formats, as well as export to
PDF.
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