Making Music With Linux

Making Music With Linux

Learning music with Linux? Can we?

Sure can. There are so many multimedia software that can run on Linux. And most of the fun of free, alias we can use freely, without having to pay to those who make software.

There is a multimedia software called LMMS (Linux Multimedia Studio) we can use to learn to create their own music. This software allows you to make the composition of a particular song or melody in your desktop computer.

LMMS is a cross-platform software, meaning that can run on many operating systems. On their site, you can download for Windows 2000/XP/Vista LMMS, Ubuntu 8.04/8.10, openSUSE, and pardus 2008. If you want you can even tamper with the software because its source code available as well.

Now, if already so we can save the song with a variety of formats, among other things:

* WAV - Microsoft's WAV format
* AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format
* AU - Audio file format
* FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Compression
* RAW PCM
* Ogg - Open wavelet compression format
* MP3 - MPEG Layer 3 audio encoding
* Speex - An Ogg subformat for speech compression
* VOC - files created using the Creative Labs SoundBlaster cards
* DrumSynth