Music Production

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This page is meant as a starting point for using Gentoo for music production.

Setting up Jack Audio Connection Kit

• media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit
• media-sound/qjackctl
• media-sound/patchage

Avoid using PulseAudio, as it cannot offer the needed low latency.

• TODO: add info about kernel configuration

Digital Audio Workstation applications

• media-sound/ardour
• media-sound/lmms
• media-sound/qtractor

Synthesizer applications

• media-sound/ams
• media-sound/amsynth
• media-sound/helm
• media-sound/qsynth
• media-sound/yoshimi

Sampler applications

• media-sound/linuxsampler
• media-sound/qsampler
• media-sound/sooperlooper
• media-sound/specimen

Plugins

• media-plugins/ams-lv2
• media-plugins/calf
• media-plugins/hexter
• media-plugins/ir_lv2
• media-plugins/mda-lv2
• media-plugins/swh-lv2
• media-plugins/tap-plugins

• TODO: add descriptions of usage, and strengths and weaknesses