This week's entry looks at a unique new audio editor, some important updates, and a very cool programming environment for graphics (and much more). As always, some tasty treats are cooking in the ...

Using a fully functional digital audio workstation, or DAW, is a computing necessity only for hard-core audiophiles, musicians and those who package audio and video content. If you fit one of those ...

Linux audio has a reputation for being confusing at best and downright broken at worst. Between PulseAudio, ALSA, and JACK, the experience has often depended on trial and error, along with a lot of ...

Wound up with Windows? Not too ’appy with Apple? An alternative exists, and it promises to be a potential paradise for all things music production. Let’s investigate… When you purchase through links ...

Two months ago, I began what I thought would be a two-part summary of MIDI software for Linux. That plan has changed somewhat, and this installment actually is Part 2 of what will be at least a ...

AV Linux MX Edition is available for download now and won't cost you a penny to use. With tons of audio software and extremely low-latency, this OS is ideal for audio creators. Video creation is still ...

When it comes to music production tools, there are plenty to choose from for Linux users. Ars rounds up and runs down some of the best music production tools for open source devotees. No one ever got ...

As a sound server for Linux, Pipewire 1.4 addresses music production requirements with an extended JACK API and MIDI 2 and contains new codecs. The new version of the ...

Raise your hand if you remember when PulseAudio was famous for breaking audio on Linux for everyone. For quite a few years, the standard answer for any audio problem on Linux was to uninstall ...

And again, XP was dead simple. Shit either worked, or you needed to install drivers. Vista and forward, drivers are installed, but fuck you, no audio input. I think this eventually got fixed at some ...