https://gentoostudio.org/ Search for: [ ] [Search] Gentoo Studio Gentoo Studio A Gentoo Linux Professional Audio Workstation * Home * Installation * Linux Audio Info * Technical Details * Troubleshooting * Updating About Gentoo Studio Gentoo Studio is an actively maintained, source-based, 64-bit desktop real-time Linux audio production system based on Gentoo Linux. It is designed to allow users to have a broad range of audio applications out-of-the-box, and to allow a high level of customization not generally available to other Linux audio distributions - or to Windows or Mac, for that matter. An advantage of having Gentoo as the base for this distro is its package manager, Portage, which has a system of enabling/disabling compile-time options for applications. This means application binaries can be tailored to the user's computer hardware and the user's needs. This in turn means more efficient use of the computer's resources, which is always helpful to running real-time audio applications. While Gentoo Studio is not a commercial product - it is free - it is absolutely intended to be a full-fledged, professional audio production system for musicians, composers, audio engineers, computer music programmers, and anyone else needing an audio production system. There is a sticky in the Multimedia section of forums.gentoo.org. (FGO.) Please post there if you need help or have any questions. Before beginning an install, please make sure you are using a machine that does not contain any data you wish to keep, and that meets the following criteria: * 64-bit architecture. 32-bit installs are not supported by Gentoo Studio. * A modern, multi-core processor. * High-capacity hard disks with a rotation speed of at least 7200 RPM and/or solid-state drives. * As much RAM as you can manage. Gentoo Studio comes with the following audio applications: a2jmidid A daemon for exposing legacy ALSA MIDI applications to JACK2 ALSA Plugins Extra ALSA plugins ALSA Tools Extra ALSA tools and loaders ALSA Utils ALSA utilities such as alsactl and alsamixer Ardour High-end digital audio workstation Audacity Cross-platform audio editor Cadence JACK control software Calf Plugins Set of open-source instruments and effects Carla Audio plugin host from KXStudio ChucK Strongly-timed, concurrent, on-the-fly audio programming language Distrho Ports Linux ports of Distrho plugins DPF Plugins Collection of Delphi Plugin Framework-based plug-ins Drumgizmo Open-source cross-platform drum plug-in and standalone application DSSI-VST DSSI wrapper plug-in for Windows VSTs (vsthost) EQ10Q LV2 parametric equalizer Multimedia framework able to decode, encode, transcode, FFMPEG mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything Fluidsynth Software real-time synth based on Soundfont2 specs Frescobaldi Sheet music editor Hydrogen Software stand-alone drum machine IDJC Streaming audio client JACK 2 Jack Audio Connection Kit, the audio subsystem around which Gentoo Studio revolves. Jack Rack Effects rack for JACK Jamin JACK mastering interface JAPA Perceptual analyzer for JACK and ALSA Linux Sampler Software audio sampler engine LMMS Music production software MuseScore WYSIWYG music score typesetter PureData Real-time music/multimedia environment Qjackctl Qt application to control JACK Qsampler GUI front-end for Linux Sampler Qtractor Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer Rosegarden Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer and notation editor Sequencer64 Minimal, loop-based MIDI sequencer SMPlayer Linux media player with graphical front-end SuperCollider Environment and programming language for real-time audio synthesis SWH Plugins Collection of LADSPA audio plug-ins and effects VLC Audio/video player and streamer The system and desktop are built with: Lightdm Lightweight display manager rt-sources Linux kernel with patches for running audio applications at high priorities in real time. USBUtils Provides lsusb, a utility needed to identify USB devices in a terminal. Xfce4 Desktop environment. Some of the Xfce utilities are included, such as power manager and terminal. Not supported by Gentoo Studio: 32-bit Only 64-bit architectures are supported by Gentoo installs Studio. Gnome/KDE Monolithic desktops are resource hogs. JACK1 Does not support multi-processor machines. Pulseaudio Gentoo Studio's audio system centers around ALSA and JACK. Use Pulseaudio at your own risk. Screensavers interrupt sessions and consume resources. Screensavers If you need to leave your session unattended for a while, manually turn off the video monitor if you are concerned about it. Streaming Running a server of any kind is beyond the scope of servers/radio Gentoo Studio. stations Systemd Gentoo Studio uses OpenRC. Virtual Running a digital audio workstation in a VM is not a machines good idea. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gentoo Studio is the brainchild of Damien J. Moody (a.k.a. audiodef), who owns the site and spends untold hours tweaking and refining this project out of love for Gentoo, music and audio. All of his personal works of music are done using Gentoo Studio. Gentoo Studio has existed in and evolved into various forms since 2007. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fine Print Gentoo Studio is not an official project of the Gentoo Foundation, of which I am a member. This site is maintained by me, Damien Moody, a.k.a. Audiodef. The Gentoo Foundation bears no responsibility for the content of this site. The Gentoo logo and Gentoo name are used according to the licensing guidelines set forth by the Gentoo Foundation. The name "Gentoo" and the "g" logo are currently trademarks of the Gentoo Foundation, Inc.The "g" logo in the background is a variant of the "Ripples Gentoo" logo found at http:// www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/artwork/artwork.xml. 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