Best Sound Design Software for Linux

Free, open source, cross-platform audio software. Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Developed by a group of volunteers as open source. Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from other media. Import, edit, and combine sound files. Export your recordings in many different file formats, including multiple files at once. Supports 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit. Sample rates and formats are converted using high-quality resampling and dithering. Support for LADSPA, LV2, Nyquist, VST and Audio Unit effect plug-ins. Nyquist effects can be easily modified in a text editor – or you can even write your own plug-in. Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete. Also unlimited sequential Undo (and Redo) in the session to go back any number of steps. Real-time preview of LADSPA, LV2, VST and Audio Unit (macOS) effects. Plug-in Manager handles plug-in installation.

Cecilia is an audio signal processing environment aimed at sound designers. Cecilia mangles sound in ways unheard of. Cecilia lets you create your own GUI using a simple syntax. Cecilia comes with many original built-in modules and presets for sound effects and synthesis. This version mainly fixes Windows 64-bit version that crashes when trying the open a MIDI device. Cecilia uses the pyo audio engine created for the Python programming language. Pyo allows a powerful integration of the audio engine to the graphical interface. Since it’s a standard python module, there is no need to use an API to communicate with the interface. In the MIDI tab, the user can choose a MIDI driver and a MIDI controller for input. The user can choose a sound file player (or audio sequencer), a sound file editor and a text editor to be used with Cecilia5. The Speaker tab offers different options related to the audio parameters of Cecilia5.