terça-feira, janeiro 06, 2009

Ubuntu Studio 8.10

Imagine baixar um estúdio completo de animação de graça! Isso é o que promete o Linux Ubuntu Studio, uma versão modificada do Ubuntu Linux tradicional com todos os programas grátis que existem por ai para computação gráfica já instalados, configurados e prontos para usar. A vantagem é que ele anda de mãos dadas com as atualizações do Linux Ubuntu original que no momento está na versão 8.10.

O pacote segue cheio de programas de som e com menos programas de animação. Acredito que isso aconteça porque os programas de animação são maiores e normalmente fazem todo o trabalho, enquanto os de som são mais simples e dividem o trabalho entre si, dai existem mais programas de som desenvolvidos do que de animação. Mas fiquem tranqüilos porque parece que todos os softwares importantes de animação estão lá, prontos para usar.

Segue a lista de programas que acompanham o pacote:

Audio Softwares:

  • 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

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.

Video editing apps.
  • 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

Graphic Softwares:
  • 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
Tudo bem, tem mais software do que dá para aprender mas pelo menos você não vai mais precisar reclamar que está sem ferramentas para trabalhar... digo, quase nunca. Eu sinto falta de um bom software de animação 2D, ainda não existe nenhum que dê conta do recado. O pacote vem com o Synfig Studio mas ele ainda não faz o trabalho como o Flash, O Toonboom, o TvPaint etc... Também sinto falta de um software poderoso de composição como o After, mas acredito que dê para fazer bastante coisa com os softwares que temos aqui.

Eu acabo de baixar a minha versão do Ubuntu Studio para começar a me acostumar com as ferramentas. Vou brincar com ele no meu laptop e posto revisões assim que tiver alguma opinião.

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