ubuntustudio linux for creative humans Feature Tour Ubuntu Studio is a Linux-based operating system designed as a free, open, and powerful platform for creative people to create their art. Ubuntu Studio is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), which means it is free to download and use. You can get the source code, study it and modify it. You can redistribute Ubuntu Studio and can even redistribute your modified version. Read more about these freedoms at GNU.org’s Free Software page.As an officially recognized derivative of Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio is supported by Canonical Ltd. and an amazing and continually increasing community. Ubuntu Studio is released every six months, but a long term release (LTS) version is released only every 2 years. AUDIO ----- Ubuntu Studio makes available some of the most popular and recently updated audio software in the Linux world. The low-latency kernel allows for near real-time processing, and with it's plethora of tools the limit for your creations is set by your imagination. ----- JACK Jack is a low latency capable audio and midi server, designed for pro audio use. It enables all Jack capable applications to connect to each other. A common program for controlling the jack server is Qjackctl (shown in the picture below). - Provides low latencies (less than 5msecs with the right hardware) - Provides completely flexible connections - Palso acts as transport for jack-aware applications Ardour Ardour is a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), suitable for recording, mixing and mastering. Some of its features include: - Unlimited audio tracks and buses - Non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo - Anything-to-anywhere signal routing - Unlimited pre- and post-fader plugins - 32 bit floating point audio path - Automatic track delay compensation - Sample accurate automation - Standard file formats (BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF, CAF & more …) - More than 200 LADSPA & LV2 plugins freely available - MIDI CC control with 1 click - Level 2 MIDI Machine Control - MIDI Timecode (MTC) Master or Slave - Full integration with all JACK applications - Video-synced playback, pull up/pull down Sequencers and Synthesizers Ubuntu Studio comes installed with other notable applications such as: - Audacity – Audio Wave Editor - Qtractor – midi capable DAW - Hydrogen – Drum machine / Sequencer - Yoshimi – Software Synthesizer - Calf Plugins - Effects and virtual instruments Virtual Guitar Amps Rakarrack (preinstalled) and Guitarix are two popular guitar amp simulators. Jack Session Gladish will enable you to start applications, make connections between them, and save the whole configuration to file. Gladish is also an alternative to Qjackctl. Audio Programming There are numerous easy to use audio programming environments available to Ubuntu Studio, such as the preinstalled puredata. Others are installable, such as supercollider, csound and chuck. VIDEO ----- From music-videos for web-platforms to feature-film on DVD, Ubuntu Studio can assist experts and beginners alike with video production by including tools to handle the majority of industry-standard formats and various Video Seuquence Editors. ----- Blender Blender includes a powerful video editor. It has a stable and proficient Sequencer and a large suit of tools for: - Manipulation of greenscreen video - Compositing. - Motion-tracking. - Object-tracking - Stabilisation of shaky video - Color correction Kdenlive Kdenlive is an advanced video editor for Linux. Add videos, photos and music and mix them together to create movies, short youtube clips, documentaries or anything your creative ambition is motivating you to do. - Simple and clean UI - Intuitive use - Format support based on ffmpeg Pitivi and Openshot These two apps allows anyone to create videos with a simple and clean UI. They include the basic tools to cut together your footage with audio. FFMPEG FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation. It contains libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample which can be used by applications. As well as ffmpeg, ffserver, ffplay and ffprobe which can be used by end users for transcoding, streaming and playing. DevedeNG Use DevedeNG to create custom, professional looking DVD’s. - User-friendly interface with support of drag & drop - Design your own DVD menu or select a template - Create a photo slide show - support of AVI, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGG, WMV and other file formats - support of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, AC-3 and other audio and video formats GRAPHICS -------- From digital painting to photography via Printed design, Ubuntu Studio got your back. Your catalogues, your flyers or illustrations are just a few clicks away within the wide range of Vector and pixel based tools installed. -------- Scribus Professional layout is possible in Scribus. Capable of rendering industry standard PDFs scribus also support CMYK and ICC profiles. - Character and Paragraph Style. - Color management with CMYK support - Imports files from most design software - Export to PDF, EPS, XPS or SVG - Table of Contents - Hypenation - Scripting. Inkscape Inkscape is a superb vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Krita Krita is a digital painting tool, designed to work with graphic tablets. It comes with a large collection of brushes, including ink and charcoal. - Designed for pressure sensitive graphics tablets - Simple and minimalistic user interface - Extensive brush creation and configuration options - Unlimited canvas (you never have to resize) - Advanced layer support - Color management with CMYK support GIMP GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program, and is a similar to Photoshop. Font Manager Manage your font collections, use font manager to compare and select the perfect font for your project. Activate or deactivate entire font families to to easily find the right font in your graphic software's font-menu speed up its load-time. Darktable Manage your photo library, develop your RAW photos, correct the lens-distortion, the whitebalance and the exposure. Once your photos are perfect you can export them to your favourite social-network bring them to a printer or integrate them to your project with the professional look it diserve. Blender Blender is a full fledged 3D content creation suite. You can create 3D models and animate scenes. Blender also has its’ own game engine and is vastly expandable with addons. -3D Solids and character modeling -Scene animation -Physics and particle functions -Shading -Game engine (create a whole game using only Blender) -Imaging and compositing -Highly extensible