A software synthesizer, also known as a softsynth, is computer software which creates digital audio. We feature the best free synthesizers.
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Tag: multimedia
20 Best Free and Open Source Audio Analyzers
This article examines audio analyzers. This type of software lets you visualize audio spectrum for real-time signals. Some of the programs also lets you analyze amplitude and phase spectrum as well.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based YouTube Tools
Funky developers have created applications that allow you to bypass the web-only barrier of YouTube. Here’s our recommended terminal-based YouTube tools.
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18 Best Free and Open Source Linux Video Editors
Linux represents an excellent platform for editing video. We recommend the best free and open source video editors.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Drum Machines
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns. We feature our recommended free and open source drum machines.
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23 Best Free and Open Source GUI Internet Radio Software
Here’s our verdict on the finest free and open source GUI internet radio tools.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Audio Converters
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 10 high quality free and open source Linux audio converters.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Audio Samplers
A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument which uses sound recordings (or “samples”) of real instrument sounds.
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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Multimedia
For this part in the series, we investigate the multimedia performance of the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC under Ubuntu.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Speech Synthesis Tools
Speech synthesizers are text-to-speech systems used with computers. We feature the finest free and open source speech synthesizers.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple GarageBand
Apple GarageBand is a digital audio workstation that’s unavailable for Linux. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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Digitize Your Music Collection including Tagging
We go through a simple way to digitize your CD collection using open source software.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – Video and Audio – Week 3
A weekly blog about the AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC. This week examines multimedia on this tiny PC including video, audio, and more.
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17 Best Free Console Based Linux Multimedia Apps
The vast majority of Linux users would never be satisfied without access to a graphical user interface. However, even in 2020 there remain many reasons why console based applications can be extremely desirable. Although console applications are very useful for updating, configuring, and repairing a system, their benefits are not only confined to system administration.
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ncmpy – curses based Music Player Daemon client
ncmpy is a curses based Music Player Daemon client written in the Python programming language. Luke puts the software through its paces with a detailed review.
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odio – free to download radio streaming software
odio is a free (no-charge) radio streaming software with more than 20,000 radio stations from around the world.
Read moreElisa 0.0.81 Released
The Elisa team is happy to announce the second alpha release of the Elisa music player. Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use.
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6 Best Free Linux Media Centers
The majority of Linux distributions come supplied with a wide range of software that lets individuals use their PC to watch movies and television programs, listen to a music collection, and view photos. However, if you are looking for a more harmonious approach, turning your Linux box into a state of the art media center with an integrated easy-to-use interface, media center software will be just the ticket.
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