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 * '''digital audio workstation (DAW)''' - an application that usually offers a multitude of features, including sequencing, recording, mixing, editing and mastering.

Freedesktop Categories

One of the main features of Ubuntu Studio is how we categorize software. Currently (2013) we are doing this in a custom fashion in our XFCE menu, but that doesn't help the rest of the Linux multimedia community, as not everyone are on XFCE, or even on Ubuntu. So, the answer to that problem is that we work on creating new standards for multimedia specific categories in the freedesktop registered categories http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html.

Categories to add

  • software instrument - a plugin, or a standalone instrument that can be controlled with midi, or similar, and is either a synthesizer or a sampler.

  • plugin - when combined with a main category, audio, video, graphics, etc, or with a format like LADSPA, LV2, or even an application like GIMP or Ardour, it makes it easier to find software of this sort, that is not standalone, but used as a processing tool inside other applications.

  • digital audio workstation (DAW) - an application that usually offers a multitude of features, including sequencing, recording, mixing, editing and mastering.

UbuntuStudio/FreedesktopCategories (last edited 2015-06-27 12:07:46 by h-141-65)