PackageList
This page is a basic overview of what makes up Ubuntu Studio.
This is just a brief catalog; UbuntuStudio/Applications in the community documentation has some more information about many of these packages.
ubuntustudio-desktop
DEPENDS: acpi acpi-support acpid alacarte alsa-base alsa-utils anacron apmd powersaved avahi-autoipd avahi-daemon bc ca-certificates cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gutenprint dc desktop-file-utils doc-base eog file-roller foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters gcalctool gconf-editor gdebi gdm gedit genisoimage ghostscript-x gnome-about gnome-app-install gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-icon-theme gnome-media gnome-menus gnome-netstatus-applet gnome-nettool gnome-panel gnome-pilot-conduits gnome-power-manager gnome-session gnome-spell gnome-system-monitor gnome-system-tools gnome-terminal gnome-themes gnome-utils gnome-volume-manager gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-murrine gucharmap hal hotkey-setup hwtest-gtk language-selector lftp libgl1-mesa-glx libglut3 freeglut3 libgnome2-perl libgnomevfs2-bin libgnomevfs2-extra libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l2 libsasl2-modules libxp6 metacity nautilus nautilus-cd-burner nautilus-sendto notification-daemon openprinting-ppds pnm2ppa powermanagement-interface pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat readahead rss-glx screen scrollkeeper rarian-compat seahorse smbclient software-properties-gtk ssh-askpass-gnome synaptic system-config-printer-gnome tango-icon-theme tango-icon-theme-common ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu-core ttf-freefont ubuntustudio-default-settings ubuntustudio-look ubuntustudio-menu ubuntustudio-screensaver unzip update-notifier usplash usplash-theme-ubuntustudio x-ttcidfont-conf xkb-data xorg xscreensaver-data xscreensaver-gl xterm yelp zenity zip
RECOMMENDS: apport-gtk bluez-cups bluez-utils bogofilter brasero bug-buddy cdparanoia compiz cups-pdf displayconfig-gtk dvd+rw-tools evince firefox firefox-gnome-support foo2zjs foomatic-db-hpijs fortune-mod gcc gnome-user-guide hplip im-switch jockey-gtk landscape-client laptop-detect libgl1-mesa-dri libnss-mdns linux-headers-rt make min12xxw nautilus-share onboard padevchooser paman paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter pidgin pidgin-otr powernowd powersaved pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio module-hal pulseaudio-module-x11 pxljr scim scim-bridge-agent scim-bridge-client-gtk scim-gtk2-immodule scim-tables-additional splix totem totem-mozilla ttf-arabeyes ttf-arphic-uming ttf-indic-fonts-core ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-gothic-naga10 ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-kochi-mincho-naga10 ttf-lao ttf-malayalam-fonts ttf-thai-tlwg ttf-unfonts-core ubuntu-docs vino wodim wvdial xcursor-themes xdg-utils
ubuntustudio-audio
All applications deemed necessary to provide a working PC studio environment. This is the package most users of other derivatives will be interested in, so they don't get forced into a different desktop environment with a new theme and such.
Package list:
aconnectgui alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui audacity audacious audacious-plugins-extra ardour beast bitscope creox denemo timemachine gtick hydrogen jackbeat jackd jackeq jack-rack jack-tools jamin jdelay lilypond lilypond-data meterbridge muse patchage qamix vkeybd qjackctl puredata rosegarden timidity seq24 shaketracker sooperlooper swami csound tapiir freqtweak mixxx terminatorx zynaddsubfx fluidsynth bristol freebirth qsynth tk707
RECOMMENDS: linux-rt ubuntustudio-controls
Description:
Basic infrastructure
- alsa-tools - Console based ALSA utilities for specific hardware
- alsa-tools-gui - GUI based ALSA utilities for specific hardware
- qamix - Configurable mixer for ALSA
JACK and JACK Utilities
- jackd - JACK Audio Connection Kit (server and example clients)
- qjackctl - User interface for controlling the JACK sound server
- bitscope - diagnosis tool for JACK audio software
- jdelay - A small command line JACK app you can use to measure the latency of your sound card.
- meterbridge - A collection of Audio meters for the JACK audio server
- patchage - modular patch bay for Jack audio and Alsa Midi
- jack-tools - various JACK tools: plumbing, play, udp, ctl, scope, clock
Sound editing and recording
- audacity - Swiss army audio editor
- timemachine - JACK audio recorder for spontaneous and conservatory use
Audio playback
- audacious - Versatile lightweight audio player.
- audacious-plugins-extra - Plugin pack for Audacious.
Digital Audio Workstation software
- ardour - Digital audio workstation (graphical gtk interface)
- beast - music synthesis and composition framework
Synthesizers
- fluidsynth - Real-time MIDI software synthesizer
- bristol - vintage synthesizer emulator
- freebirth - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer similar to Rebirth
- qsynth - fluidsynth MIDI sound synthesiser front-end
- zynaddsubfx - Realtime software synthesizer for Linux
- csound - powerful and versatile sound synthesis software
swami - SoundFont editor
Sampling
- sooperlooper - Looping Sampler LADSPA plugin
Sequencing
- aconnectgui - graphical ALSA sequencer connection manager
- rosegarden - music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer
- hydrogen - Simple drum machine/step sequencer
- seq24 - Real time MIDI sequencer
- jackbeat - audio sequencer
- muse - Qt-based midi/audio sequencer
- tk707 - drum sequencer for a sound card or MIDI device
- shaketracker - MIDI sequencer with tracker GUI
Effects and signal processing
- jack-rack - LADSPA effects "rack" for JACK
- tapiir - A tool for real time audio delay and feedback effects
- freqtweak - Realtime audio frequency spectral manipulation
- jamin - Audio mastering from a mixed down multitrack source with JACK
- creox - real-time guitar effects
- jackeq - routes and manipulates audio from/to multiple sources
DJ tools
- terminatorx - A realtime audio synthesizer
- mixxx - A digital DJ interface (for beat-mixing)
MIDI Utilities
- timidity - Software sound renderer (MIDI sequencer, MOD player)
- vkeybd - Virtual Keyboard program
Musical typesetting
- denemo - A gtk+ frontend to GNU Lilypond
lilypond-data - LilyPond music typesetter (data files)
- lilypond - A program for typesetting sheet music
Miscellaneous / uncategorized
- gtick - Metronome application
- puredata - realtime computer music and graphics system
fluid-soundfont-gm - This is a GM SoundFont, for use with any modern MIDI synthesiser: hardware (like the emu10k1 sound card), or software (like FluidSynth).
The categories here were more or less copied from JacobCreedon's division at http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/Audio
ubuntustudio-audio-plugins
An audio plug-ins package.
Package list:
aeolus blop caps cmt hexter fil-plugins ladspa-sdk mcp-plugins omins swh-plugins tap-plugins vcf dssi-example-plugins dssi-host-jack fluidsynth-dssi xsynth-dssi dssi-utils
Description:
- aeolus - Aeolus is a synthesized (i.e. not sampled) pipe organ emulator
- blop - Bandlimited wavetable-based oscillator plugins for LADSPA hosts.
- caps - A collection of refined LADSPA plugins.
- cmt - (Computer Music Toolkit) A collection of LADSPA compatible plugins.
- fil-plugins - Parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin.
- hexter - Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin
- ladspa-sdk - Sample tools for linux-audio-dev plugin architecture.
- mcp-plugins - LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth.
- omins - Collection of LADSPA plugins geared at modular synthesizers.
- swh-plugins - Steve Harris's LADSPA plugins.
- tap-plugins - Tom's Audio Processing LADSPA plugins.
- vcf - Audio EQ biquad filter LADSPA plugins.
- dssi-example-plugins - Example DSSI plugins.
- dssi-host-jack - An example DSSI host.
- fluidsynth-dssi - Soundfont player/synth for DSSI.
- xsynth-dssi - A classic-analog style softsynth DSSI plugin.
- dssi-utils - Command-line utilities for sending commands to DSSI plugins.
ubuntustudio-video
Video editing apps.
Package list:
openmovieeditor ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora kino stopmotion dvgrab
Description:
- openmovieeditor - Video editor
- ffmpeg - Multimedia player, server and encoder
- ffmpeg2theora - Theora video encoder using ffmpeg
- kino - A non-linear editor for Digital Video data
- stopmotion - A program for creating stop motion animation.
- dvgrab - Grab digital video data via IEEE1394 links
ubuntustudio-graphics
A current, complete set of 2D/3D manipulation applications. ie: Inkscape, GIMP, Blender, and so on.
Package list:
inkscape blender gimp gimp-data-extras gimp-gap gimp-ufraw gimp-plugin-registry f-spot scribus fontforge gnome-raw-thumbnailer xsane wacom-tools hugin agave yafray synfigstudio
Description:
- inkscape - A vector-based drawing program.
- blender - A very fast and versatile 3D suite for modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.
- gimp - A raster-based drawing program.
- gimp-data-extras - This package contains extra brushes, palettes, and gradients for extra GIMPy artistic enjoyment.
- gimp-gap - GAP is a collection of plug-ins to extend the GIMP with capabilities to edit and create animations and movies as sequences of single frames.
gimp-gnomevfs - This package includes a plugin for GIMP which will open URIs (e.g. ftp:, http:, smb:, and sftp:) using protocol handlers from GNOME-VFS.
- gimp-ufraw - A plug-in to import RAW images.
- gimp-plugin-registry - A collection of GIMP plugins.
- f-spot - A personal photo management application.
- scribus - A open source desktop page layout program.
fontforge - Font Editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts.
- gnome-raw-thumbnailer - a thumbnailer for GNOME that will make thumbnails for camera RAW files.
- xsane - GTK+-based X11 frontend for SANE. (Scanner Access Now Easy)
- wacom-tools - Software for you Wacom drawing pad.
- hugin - An easy to use cross-platform GUI for Panorama Tools.
- synfigstudio - A vector 2D based animation package (GUI)
- agave - Colorscheme generator.
- enblend - A tool for compositing images.
- yafray - A modern, xml-speaking raytracing-based rendering system
- nautilus-image-converter - nautilus extension to mass resize images