OpenAV suite for musicians

Vladimir Koletic, 123RF

Vladimir Koletic, 123RF

Soft Music

The OpenAV suite of software allows musicians to create music on the Linux platform. It's made up of digital effects and software instruments, giving the user high-quality audio effects and instruments to create, mix, and master.

The OpenAV suite [1] is made up of several programs. The ArtyFX suite of plugins contains a variety of commonly used audio effects: reverb, delay, equalizers, filters, distortions, and beat smashers: They're all there!

Fabla and Sorcer are instrument plugins. You use them to create audio from MIDI notes. Fabla loads samples and plays the samples back to create rhythms and beats. Sorcer is a wavetable synth, designed especially to create dirty basslines.

Fabla, Sorcer, and the ArtyFX plugins are all LV2 plugins [2], so they can be used in your favorite digital audio workstation (DAW), such as Ardour or Qtractor (Figures 1-3).

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