Ubuntu Studio is a free and open source operative system, and an official flavor ofUbuntu. 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.
Sequencers and Synthesizers - Ubuntu Studio comes installed with other notable
applications such as:
Audacity – Audio Wave Editor
Qtractor – midi capable DAW
Hydrogen – Drum machine / Sequencer
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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