The sun, a weak, watery orb, struggled to pierce the perpetual gloom of the junkyard. Its rays, filtered through the grimy haze of industrial decay and the skeletal remains of rusted cars, cast long, distorted shadows that danced with the shuffling figures of the undead. This was their sanctuary, a chaotic landscape of twisted metal, shattered glass, and the lingering stench of decay – their home. #Horror #Series #Dystopian #Apocalyptic
snd-ls is a distribution of Bill Schottstaedt’s sound editor SND. Its target are people that don’t know scheme very well, and don’t want to spend too much time configuring Snd.
Swami is an advanced instrument editor for MIDI music composition and a software synthesizer frontend.
Control Applications
Aj-snapshot is a small program that can be used to make snapshots of the connections made between JACK and/or ALSA clients. It is also capable of running in the background, restoring connections while clients and ports appear.
ALSA Patch Bay is a graphical patch bay for the ALSA sequencer API and the JACK audio API. It can use FLTK or GTKmm for the interface and take advantage LASH session management.
gjacktransport is a standalone application that provides access to the JACK transport mechanism via a dynamic graphical slider.
DSSI is an API for audio processing plugins, particularly useful for software synthesis plugins with user interfaces.
freqtweak a frequency domain FX box. This is one of the coolest FX boxes you may ever use.
Guitarix is a simple Linux amplifier with one input and two outputs.
IEM Plug-in Suite is a set of VST-plugins (with a DAW independent standalone-mode) for Ambisonics sound field encoding, analysis, processing and decoding.
Giada is a free, minimal, hardcore audio tool for djs and live performers.
Loopcenter is an easy-to-use live looper with functionality similar to the Boss LoopStation pedal. You can record and overdub at user-set tempos and meters.
SooperLooper a live looping sampler capable of immediate loop recording, overdubbing, multiplying, reversing and more.
Media Players
AlsaPlayer a “new type of pcm player”. Can play mp3s, oggs, cds, among other audio file formats. Thanks go to Andy Lo-A-Foe for releasing the first application with support for Jack!
Aqualung It plays audio files from your filesystem and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks
Data Jockey is a digital disc jockey tool which leverages audio meta-data (both computed and manually added by the user) in order to allow for new approaches in content selection and juxtaposition.
kluppe a gtk-based loop player for files and live-input.
MadJack is an MPEG Audio Deck with an OSC based control interface.
MOC Music On Console is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX, designed to be powerful and easy to use.
VLC is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Baudline is a time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain.
Brianalyze is a pretty simple JACK-connected spectrum analyzer
BRP-PACU is a dual channel FFT based acoustic analysis tool to help engineers configure professional sound systems by using the transfer function.
Ebumeter provides level metering according to the EBU R-128 recommendation. The current release implements all features required by the EBU document except the oversampled peak level monitoring. This will be added in a future release.
Jaaa an audio signal generator and spectrum analyser.
JACK demolition a very simple jack client that connects to every input port and squirts undesirable numbers (denomals, HUGE, NaN, Inf etc.) to it.
Jack Meter is a basic console based DPM (Digital Peak Meter).
japa is a ‘perceptual’ or ‘psychoacoustic’ audio spectrum analyser.
meterbridge a nice VU-style meter to watch signal levels on arbitrary JACK ports.
Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.
Tap Reverb Editor an interactive tool for room acoustics simulation.
Mixers
jack_mixer is a GTK+JACK audio mixer app with a look similar to its hardware counterpart. It has lots of useful features, apart from being able to mix multiple JACKaudio streams.
JackMiniMix is a simple mixer with an OSC based control interface.
LinuxBand is a GUI front-end for MMA (Musical MIDI Accompaniment). Type in the chords, choose the groove and LinuxBand will play a musical accompaniment for you.
LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer.
MusE a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities.
OpenOctaveMidi is a linux-based classic midi/audio sequencer with a look and feel, users will find in commercial equivalents.
Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit.
quincer is a sequencer for composed music with text-editable input.
Renoise is a contemporary digital audio workstation (DAW) based upon the heritage and development of tracker software. Its primary use is the composition of music using sound samples, soft synths, and effects plug-ins. It is also able to interface with MIDI equipment.
Rosegarden a sophisticated MIDI (and audio) sequencer and notation editor
The Non DAW is a powerful, reliable and fast modular Digital Audio Workstation system.
The Non Sequencer is a powerful real-time, pattern-based MIDI sequencer for Linux.
Traverso is a GPL licensed, cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite, with an innovative and easy to master User Interface. It’s suited for both the professional and home user, who needs a robust and solid DAW.
Bitwig Studio Bitwig Studio is dynamic software for creation and performance of your musical ideas on stage or in the studio.
Zrythm a digital audio workstation designed to be featureful and easy to use.
Music Notation Editors
Denemo is a music notation editor that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. You can compose, transcribe, arrange, listen to the music and much more.
MuseScore lets you notate and compose music easily with your keyboard, your mouse, or a MIDI keyboard.
jackspa is a small utility which will host a LADSPA plugin, providing JACK ports for its audio inputs and outputs.
jost is a host for native linux vst plugins (jack / alsa_seq).
ng-jackspa is a set of simple user interfaces that host a LADSPA plugin, providing JACK ports for its audio inputs and outputs, and dynamic setting of its control inputs. Additionally, the plugin controls can be exported to or controlled by control voltages on standard JACK audio ports.
Soundtank a midi controlled host for softsynths made out of LADSPA plugins.
Synthpod is a lightweight non-linear plugin container.
Clam is a multiplatform software framework for research and application development for the Audio and Music domains.
FAUST is a compiled language for real-time audio signal processing.
GTKIOStream provides allows easy use of JACK within GTK apps and has many other tools for DSP, Audio Masking, FFTs and plotting data.
jackcpp is a C++ class wrapping most of the jack client functionality, a “blocking” interface for jack and a template class wrapping the jack ring buffer.
libjackasyn is a library that allows to access the jack audio server in asynchronous mode.
libjackmm is a C++ interface to the jack audio connection kit.
Praxis Live is an hybrid visual live programming for creatives, for programmers, for students, for tinkerers.
Pure Data is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing.
Qjack allows you to connect Jack to QT very easily.
RtAudio is a set of C++ classes that provide a common API (Application Programming Interface) for realtime audio input/output.
Wine an application that lets you run and recompile Windows applications under Linux.
admin-srb Administration and radioautomation of public radiostations
ARAS is an open source radio automation system, it has been designed to be highly configurable and easy to manage. It uses JACK through GStreamer library, in both playback and recording.
Internet DJ Console is an Internet radio app for making a live radio show or podcast.
Rivendell an audio automation system aimed at professional radio broadcasters.
Simple Recorders
jack_capture is a small program to capture whatever sound is going out to your speakers into a file.
JACK Timemachine an application that constantly records signals coming in on its inputs, waiting for you to press record. When you do it writes the last ten seconds to disk and keeps recording.
meterec is a console based multi-track monitoring and recording tool. Focus on your instrument, not on the software!
QARecord a simple but multithreaded stereo recording tool.
QJackRcd is a simple stereo recorder for Jack with few features as silence processing for automatic pause, file splitting, background file post-processing.
Sound Generators
AlsaModularSynth a realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor. You will need version 1.5.3c or above.
ClockLoop a very simple JACK application for playing back audio loops.
CodeSounding is a java sonification library: the sound produced running a .class (or .jar) is a function of how was structured its source code before compilation. You can therefore produce computer-generated music.
Csound5 is a sound and music synthesis system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms.
din is a software musical instrument and audio synthesizer.
energyXT2 is a complete music studio. Commercial product with a free demo available.
fastbreeder is an experimental genetic programming synthesiser.
FluidSynth a real-time software synthesizer based on the Soundfont2 specifications.
gAlan a modular synthesiser, drum-machine, sequencer and effects-unit. Version 0.3.0-test1 or above.
Midi Player Pro is the software you need to be able to play any kind of music in seconds with your fingertips. It uses libumidi20, which also uses Jack.
Mx44 is a polyphonic multichannel midi realtime software synthesizer.
Pianoteq is a high-class virtual piano software offering superb dynamics, natural resonances and unique physical parameters. This is a commercial product.
QMIDICurves lets you change the velocity response of any MIDI device (like a MIDI keyboard for instance).
reMID uses the reSID emulation library to provide a virtual SID based synthesizer, controllable in real-time via MIDI. SID was the sound chip used in the Commodore 64 computer.
rtsynth a reliable, if plain, multi-oscillator synthesizer
Sampson is a small, lightweight, no-frills software sampler focusing on drums and percussion.
Simple Sysexxer is a small tool to load, send, receive, save and request sysex data. It can be used to do backups of the memory contents of MIDI devices like synthesizers, MIDI controllers or effects processors.
slat allows you to use your mouse to adjust pitch and volume by waving the pointer over the interface.
SoundPatty is an efficient and fast sound (i.e. record) recognition software.
Synthclone is a Qt-based application that can “clone” your MIDI-capable instruments. It does this by sending out MIDI data that instructs an instrument to emit sounds for a series of notes, velocities, controls, and aftertouch values. It then saves this data as a sample-based instrument that can be loaded by sampler software.
Video Applications
KSubtile is a KDE program which provides an easy to use interface to edit subtitles in the SRT format. It supports moving, stretching and individual editing of subtitles in a file. To help you synchronize with a particular movie we provide GUI con
LiVES is a Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features.
Shotcut is a free and open-source cross-platform video editing application for FreeBSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.
VideoJack a tool that reads video and audio signals from its jack inputs.
xjadeo is a very simple video player that is synchronized to jack transport.
Open Movie Editor is designed to be a simple tool, that provides basic movie making capabilities.
VOIP
Asterisk is the world’s leading open source telephony engine and tool kit. Offering flexibility unheard of in the world of proprietary communications, Asterisk empowers developers and integrators to create advanced communication solutions…for free.
I Hear U is a Voice over IP (VoIP) application that creates an audio stream between two computers easily and with the minimal network traffic.
VST
fst is a program by which uses Wine, Jack and Steinberg’s VST Audio Plug-Ins SDK to enable the use of many VST audio plugins under Gnu/Linux.
The Nation 01 Series: The Nation, Book 1 by Dell Sweet:
Bear squatted and peered down at the girl and the boy for a few moments before he spoke again. “What do you think of her hand?” Beth squatted beside him and looked down at the girl. She stood and shook her head. “I can’t tell. It looks like she’s turning. Turns black, you know, but just under the skin… like… like a spiderweb flowing out under their skin. Bad description, I know,” she finished. #Horror #Series #Dystopian #Apocalyptic
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 2 ratings There were three books written that were then discarded. All of the collected OutRunner books in one place. #Dystopian #ApocalypticFiction #Horror #ZombieFiction #Series
Earth’s Survivors Collection Two contains the complete text from books three and four of the Earth’s Survivors series, The Nation and Home In The Valley. #Dystopian #ApocalypticFiction #Horror #ZombieFiction #Series
Formation: Dire Straits was formed in London, England in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and guitar), his brother David Knopfler (guitar and keyboards), John Illsley (bass guitar), and Pick Withers (drums).
Band Members:
Mark Knopfler: Lead vocals, guitar, songwriter
David Knopfler: Guitar, keyboards (left in 1980)
John Illsley: Bass guitar
Pick Withers: Drums (left in 1982)
Other notable members:
Hal Lindes: Guitar (joined in 1980)
Alan Clark: Keyboards (joined in 1980)
Terry Williams: Drums (joined in 1982)
The Guitar Story
Mark Knopfler’s Guitar: Mark Knopfler did indeed build a guitar from a wooden plank, but it’s not entirely clear if it was a bedpost. The guitar was a Telecaster-style body made from a piece of wood from a local carpenter’s workshop.
Mark Knopfler’s Style
Influences: Mark Knopfler’s playing style was influenced by various artists, including:
Country and blues musicians: Chet Atkins, B.B. King, and Eric Clapton
Rock and folk musicians: Bob Dylan, J.J. Cale, and The Beatles
Learning to Play: Mark Knopfler learned to play guitar at a young age, and his unique fingerpicking style developed over time through practice and experimentation.
Top Songs
Some of Dire Straits’ most popular songs:
“Sultans of Swing”
“Money for Nothing” (feat. Sting)
“Romeo and Juliet”
“Private Investigations”
“Brothers in Arms”
“Walk of Life”
David Knopfler’s Departure
Creative Differences: David Knopfler left the band in 1980 due to creative differences and personal tensions. He went on to pursue a solo career.
Biggest Hit
“Brothers in Arms”: Released in 1985, “Brothers in Arms” was a massive hit and one of the band’s most iconic songs. The song’s themes of war and loss resonated with audiences worldwide.
Legacy
Dire Straits has sold over 120 million records worldwide and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The band’s music often explores themes of love, relationships, and social commentary, with Mark Knopfler’s distinctive vocals and guitar work being a key part of their sound.
Contains the complete text from the first two Earth’s Survivors books, Apocalypse and Rising From The Ashes. #Dystopian #ApocalypticFiction #Horror #ZombieFiction #Series
by Dell Sweet (Author) The idea had been Mike’s, a well-timed proposal during a particularly grueling quarterly review. “We’re losing it,” he’d declared, his voice cutting through the drone of economic forecasts. “We’re soft. This city… it’s made us soft. We need to remember what it means to be men, to rely on ourselves, not on algorithms and assistants.” The consensus had been swift, almost too swift, as if each man had been waiting for the permission, the justification, to escape. The destination: the Southern Tier of Upstate New York, far from the manicured trails and well-trodden paths of more popular wilderness areas. Mike had painted a picture of untamed forests, pristine lakes, and a silence so profound it would be deafening after the ceaseless roar of the city. #Thriller #Drama #KU #Adventure #Survival
Elton John, born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on March 25, 1947, in Pinner, Middlesex, England, is a music legend known for his captivating stage presence and timeless hits. Here’s a brief overview of his background and history:
Early Life and Career
Elton John’s musical journey began at age three when he started playing the piano. He attended the Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship and later formed a band called Bluesology. In 1967, Elton John met Bernie Taupin after responding to an ad in the New Musical Express. They began writing songs together, starting a lifelong partnership that would produce some of the most iconic hits in music history.
Rise to Fame
Elton John’s breakthrough came with his second album, “Elton John,” released in 1970, which featured the hit single “Your Song.” This was followed by a string of successful albums, including “Tumbleweed Connection,” “Honky Château,” and “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.” Some of his most notable hits include ² ³:
“Rocket Man”
“Crocodile Rock”
“Tiny Dancer”
“Philadelphia Freedom”
“Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” (with Kiki Dee)
“Candle in the Wind 1997” (rewritten in dedication to Diana, Princess of Wales)
Biggest Hits
“Candle in the Wind 1997” is Elton John’s biggest hit, selling over 33 million copies worldwide. This song was rewritten in tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, and its success marked a significant moment in Elton John’s career.
Collaboration with Bernie Taupin
Elton John and Bernie Taupin continue to work together, despite occasional breaks. They’ve collaborated on numerous projects over the years, including the musical “The Lion King” and the song “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” for the biopic “Rocketman.” Their partnership remains one of the most successful songwriting collaborations in music history .
Meeting Ozzy Osbourne
There’s no direct evidence of a significant meeting or collaboration between Elton John and Ozzy Osbourne. However, they may have crossed paths at music industry events or award shows.
Legacy and Philanthropy
Elton John is not only a music icon but also a dedicated philanthropist. He founded the Elton John AIDS Foundation in 1992, which has raised over $400 million for HIV/AIDS research and support. He has also been recognized for his contributions to the music industry, including being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Zombie: Book 3. Mission Zero. The Core of the Zombie Killer crew is forming. They leave New York for good, looking for other survivors, looking for the dead… #Zombie #Apocalyptic #Horror #Kindle #Paperback #Readers #BookLovers
