Recording software

[WindMusician81]

I'm planning on starting to make a CD of myself. I've played around with CoolEdit, and like it, but I'd prefer to use a Linux Redhat system. Does anyone know of any good recording/editing programs for linux?

Thanks.

[Frank D]

That's going to be a tough one. Most of us here are in either the Windows or Mac worlds, at least as far as personal apps go.

[WindMusician81]

Just looking for ideas. I currently have a working windows setup, but will switch over to a linux box if I can find the software to make it worthwhile.

[Bill Mecca]

Ironic, I have a friend, a former poster to this board, who is a Linux guy, builds networks etc, He wound up going to Windows to do audio.

As a video editor (Avid) I would love a nice stable platform, but the software is just not there on the Linux side.

My favorites for audio on the PC, Wavelab3 (or 4) GoldWave, Soundforge, Cool Edit has some nice multitrack features but I never really got into it, I use the montage function in Wavelab, Cakewalk works as well, or it's latest incarnation as Sonar.

[irontable12]

:D I use Cakewalk music creator, and for just starting out I am amazed at my recordings and fo 30 bucks I am satisfied!!!!

[timobrien]

Audacity and Ardour are two big Linux apps. Go to google.com and do some searching. (Audacity will work on PC, Linux or Mac. http://audacity.sourceforge.net )

On my PC I recording using N-Track Studio (great program www.fasoft.com ), Soundforge, ACID and Fruityloops.

[Bubba924]

Ironic, I have a friend, a former poster to this board, who is a Linux guy, builds networks etc, He wound up going to Windows to do audio.

As a video editor (Avid) I would love a nice stable platform, but the software is just not there on the Linux side.

My favorites for audio on the PC, Wavelab3 (or 4) GoldWave, Soundforge, Cool Edit has some nice multitrack features but I never really got into it, I use the montage function in Wavelab, Cakewalk works as well, or it's latest incarnation as Sonar.

Funny because both shrek and shrek 2 were made using linux and NOT apple or windows lol.

[Bill Mecca]

and what was the cost?

there are a few very very high end animation packages that work on Linux, some have been using Unix systems for years. But for the mere mortals among us, unless we won the lottery good luck, and you would also need a pretty large render farm as well otherwise you could retire before one scene would be rendered on a single pc.

[Bubba924]

I know :D I was just saying linux is cool and that it is used for stuff like that. I like windows because of all the "free" :twisted: software out there. Plus it has better file management than linux, not to be confused with disk management (something windows sucks at).