This is the page for users to contribute feature request ideas to Ubuntu Studio. The page will continually be updated. We will comment on things as much as possible. Give ideas a Yes/No vote.

Ideas

• please check at https://launchpad.net/projects/ and register projects/packages there as well.

• Jigdo download so users don't have to get the whole image, just the bits missing from a "regular" feisty image.
  • This will happen for Hardy. -C.Kontros
• A Specific "team" for each part of ubuntu-studio i.e. Audio team, Video Team, and Graphics team. This way, users with the same interests can get together and work to develop specific parts of ubuntu-studio

  • I'm not sure what benefit this would provide. Please take this idea to the ML. -C.Kontros

• Wiki pages for getting started, tutorials, best practices, walk-throughs, troubleshooting, etc. I think the biggest stumbling block is how to get started for new users. There should be detailed info about jack, how jack connects to ardour, how to use ladspa plugins, how to use soft instruments with ardour, etc....

  • There is already a place for this. HERE It's up to everyone to develop the documentation. -C.Kontros

• Simplicity, but with options: The default-out-of-the-box install should not have too much duplication in packages for a given function. Clearly some packages will offer features that others do not, and so would be complimentary, but too many options on the screen & menus can be a little paralyzing, distracting at least, even for experienced users. Make it easy to acquire the "secondary" set of packages but be choosy about the default set. As a cut-off criteria, packages that are still in beta, or are not feature-complete (by their own description), or do not have a "stable" rating (on a site such as freshmeat.net) should be omitted from the default install. -JW

Package Wishlist

Audio:

• Aldrin (http://trac.zeitherrschaft.org/zzub/wiki/Aldrin) - open source modular music sequencer/tracker

• AlsaModularSynth aka ams (http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/) - realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor

• alsamixergui (http://www.iua.upf.es/~mdeboer/projects/alsamixergui/) - The original ALSA mixer GUI

• amSynth (http://amsynthe.sourceforge.net/amSynth/) - Minimoog/Roland Juno style analogue synth

• Arcangel (http://www.dis-dot-dat.net/index.cgi?item=/code/arcangel/) - guitar effect dsp processor

• Clavier (http://helgo.net/simon/clavier/) - clavier is a GTK based virtual MIDI keyboard, offering more octaves and more contemporary interface than vkeybd

• Ecamegapedal (http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecamegapedal/) - guitar effect dsp processor

• Ele (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mslutsky/elepage/index.html) - guitar effect dsp processor

• ExEf (http://exef.xko.cz/) - guitar effect dsp processor

• Freecycle (http://freecycle.redsteamrecords.com) - beat slicer running on GNU/Linux platform using the QT toolkit

• FST (http://www.joebutton.co.uk/fst/) -> please notice that for license purpose, it will be hard to get it in Ubuntu. ttoine.

• FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) - Free Lossless Audio Codec - needed by Rosegarden amongst others - very popular format

• Fmit (http://home.gna.org/fmit/) - Free Musical Instrument Tuner

• Gigedit (http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html) - An instrument editor for .gig sampler files

• Goattracker (http://packages.debian.org/goattracker) - sid tracker

• Glame (http://glame.sourceforge.net/) - Non-linear audio editor

• Gnuitar (http://www.gnuitar.com/) - guitar effect dsp processor

• GTKgep (http://gtkgep.prv.pl/) - guitar effect dsp processor

• jack-keyboard (http://pin.if.uz.zgora.pl/~trasz/jack-keyboard/) jack-keyboard is a GTK based virtual MIDI keyboard with a really contemporary interface

• Jesusonic (http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php) - guitar effect dsp processor

• K3B (http://www.k3b.org/) - Most powerful CD and DVD mastering program for Linux

• Lack of Invention (http://ava.wz.cz/loi.html) - guitar effect dsp processor

• Rivendell (http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/) - Radio broadcast automation solution

• RTSynth (http://linux-sound.org/rtsynth/) - Realtime physical modeling synthesis of 'real' instruments

• Schism Tracker (http://packages.debian.org/schism) - module tracker

• Specimen (http://zhevny.com/specimen/) - MIDI controllable audio sampler

• Stompboxes (http://mrbook.org/stompboxes/) - guitar effect dsp processor

• tclabc (http://moinejf.free.fr/) - the most stable and complete graphical environment for the typesetting of music currently available under Linux

• MuseScore - (http://mscore.sourceforge.net/index.php) - WYSIWYG music score typesetter for Linux

• Jackmix (http://www.arnoldarts.de/drupal/?q=JackMix%3Aintro) - a mixer app for jack that looks exactly like the mixer you would use if you had to connect your analog equipment

• SND ( htt ) (http://www.google.com/search?q=snd) - ?????

• Splitter (for zynaddsubfx) (http://www.google.com/search?q=splitter) - ?????

• Sonic Visualiser (http://sonicvisualiser.org) - application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files

• Beatforce ( http://www.beatforce.org/ ) - DJ system tool

• Campcaster (http://www.campware.org) - takes a regular PC and turns it into a tool for managing a radio station broadcast

• Chibitracker (http://chibitracker.berlios.de/) - The most fully-featured FOSS music tracker program available

• darkIce (http://darkice.tyrell.hu) - a live audio streamer

• darkSnow (http://darksnow.radiolivre.org/) - a simple graphic interface for darkIce

• Icecast (http://www.icecast.org) - A GPL streaming media server project

• jackdmp (http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jackdmp.html) - a multiprocessor jack version (we're planning on this for Hardy)

• LMMS (http://lmms.sourceforge.net/) - open-source FruityLoops-like music production tool

• Gnome Wave Cleaner[GWC] (http://gwc.sourceforge.net/) - Dehiss and declick vinyl/LP/78/45 captures to digital.

• MMA ("Musical MIDI Accompaniment") (http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/) - Accompaniment generator: creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform over from a user supplied file containing chords and MMA directives.

• Netjack (http://netjack.sourceforge.net/) - allows jack connections through ethernet. Also has tools to allow extra cards to be connected to jackd. Slated to be included in jack 1.0 but perhaps should be packaged until then...

• GCDMASTER (http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/gcdmaster/index.html) - Easy and Powerful CD Mastering.

• Qtractor (http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/qtractor-index.html) - An Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer

• nautilus-script-audio-convert (http://www.arakhne.org/nautilus-audio-convert/) - Easy audio conversion under Nautilus

• Traverso (http://traverso-daw.org/) - A lightweight multitrack audio recording and editing tool, with a very powerfull yet easy and clear to use Interface

• Tuxguitar (http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/) - open-source tablature editor

• Wavbreaker (http://wavbreaker.sourceforge.net/) - a wave file splitter with burn capabilities. It makes a clean break at the correct position to burn the files to an audio cd without any dead air between the tracks.

• XWAX (http://www.xwax.co.uk) - software that lets you control playback of digital files via multiple record players.

Video:

• cinelerra (http://www.cinelerra.org/) - Cinelerra is a video capture, non-linear video editor and compositor.

• xdtv (http://xawdecode.sourceforge.net/) - XdTV aka xawdecode is the best analogue (and DVB) video capture tool for Linux and the only one I'm aware of capable of capturing at DVD resolution w/ rt preview that actually works (hint- use mjpeg avi to capture)

• Kdenlive (http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net) - Kdenlive is a (very promising!) non linear video editor for the KDE environment running on Linux. It is based on the MLT video framework which relies on the FFMPEG project.

• 'Q' DVD-Author (http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/) - GUI frontend for dvdauthor and other related tools.

• vlc (http://www.videolan.org/) - VideoLAN is a very popular media player/streamer which also features a very handy GUI video transcoding wizard.

• gephex (http://www.gephex.org/) - modular video jockey software

• freej (http://freej.dyne.org/) - vision mixer: an instrument for realtime video manipulation used in the fields of dance teather, veejaying, medical visualisation and TV

• gtk-recordmydesktop (http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/) - gtk frontend for the recordmydesktop video capturing tool

• theorur (http://theorur.tvlivre.org/) - GUI for Ogg/Theora streaming (icecast2 system), written using gtk2, under GLPv2 (site appears down as of March 12, 2007) (site up at 19:45 GMT, April 19, 2007)

• xaos (http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/xaos/doku.php) - ?????

• pd-pdp (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/pd-pdp) - ?????

• pd-Gem (http://gem.iem.at)

• pd-pidip (http://www.google.com/search?q=pd-pidip) - ?????

• delvj (http://delcorp.org/delvj/index.php/English_Frontpage) - ?????

• lives (http://lives.sourceforge.net) - ?????

• dvdstyler (http://www.dvdstyler.de/) - cross-platform DVD authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create professional-looking DVDs.

• gsubedit (http://gsubedit.sourceforge.net/) - GNOME Subtitle Editor

• gtranscode (http://fuzzymonkey.net/software/gtranscode/) - Transcode GTK frontend

• myrtille animation (http://lamenagerie.com/boite/soft/myrtille/) - (French language site)

• gv4l (http://gv4l.sourceforge.net/) - GUI frontend for the V4L (Video For Linux) functions of transcode

• gscanbus (http://gscanbus.berlios.de/) - little bus scanning, testing and topology visualizing tool for the Linux IEEE1394 subsystem

• kmediagrab (http://freshmeat.net/projects/kmediagrab/) - media grabber and encoder built on top of mplayer/mencoder

• matroska gui (http://www.google.com/search?q=matroska+gui) - ?????

• open movie editor (http://openmovieeditor.sourceforge.net) An easy to use non-linear video editor

• spumux (http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/doc/spumux.html) - mpeg2 subtitle multiplexer and generator

• subtitleeditor (http://kitone.free.fr/subtitleeditor/) - GTK+2 tool to edit subtitles

• veejay (http://veejay.dyne.org/) a visual instrument and real-time video sampler

• video-studio (linux video studio) (http://ronald.bitfreak.net/lvs/) - video editor that captures from analog devices

• videotrans (http://videotrans.sourceforge.net/) - set of scripts that allow its user to reformat existing movies into the VOB format that is used on DVDs

• Vivia (http://vivia-video.org/) - A video editing program for Linux.

• xmrm (http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~xmrm/) - multi-resolution image morphing

• coriander - (http://damien.douxchamps.net/ieee1394/coriander/index.php) - Linux graphical user interface (GUI) for controlling a Digital Camera through the IEEE1394 bus (now in the repository)

• dvr (http://www.pierrox.net/dvr/) - Digital Video Recorder for Linux (now in the repository)

• istanbul (http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul) - Desktop session recorder (now in the repository)

Graphics:

• xaralx (http://www.xaraxtreme.org/) supports both CMYK(!) and pdf export (as bitmap)

• Krita (http://www.koffice.org/krita/) - Best FOSS bitmap editor with CMYK support, dev versions of this do some great natural-media simulation (it is available in the normal repositories so wish should be more like "install it per default please".. +1 from me, CMYK support is viable for the print sector, GIMP is only usable for nonprint image editing)

• anim2000 (http://anim2000.sourceforge.net/) - professional pre-production stages (story-board, layout & posing) software for 2D animation production

• UIRA (http://uira.sourceforge.net/) vector animation Authoring Environment (SWF/SVG)

• Art of Illusion (http://artofillusion.org/) 3D modelling and rendering studio

• Wings3D (http://www.wings3d.com/) subdivision 3D modeler

• Denim (http://dub.washington.edu/projects/denim/) - simple html sketch editor for helping a webpage map development, which can generate working results

• JPatch (http://www.jpatch.com/) - 3d mesh editor (very useful for working with Blender and alike)

• Misfit Model 3D (http://packages.debian.org/mm3d) - 3d mesh editor (very useful for working with Blender and alike)

• PSPI (http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/pspi.html) - GIMP plugin to run photoshop plugins

• Resynthesizer (http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer) - texture synthesis

• GREYCstoration (http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstoration/) - image restoration

• XMP Manager (http://grigio.org/xmp_manager) - XMP support for Nautilus

• LightZone (http://www-old.lightcrafts.com/linux/) - RAW converter

• Qtpfsgui (http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/) - tone mapping

• xcalib (http://www.etg.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de/web/doe/xcalib/) - Program to load ICC profiles for X-Window which is a requirement for color management. It can load ICC profiles from calibraten hardware like ColorSpyder 2

• GIMPShop (http://www.google.com/search?q=gimpshop) - Gimp re-arranged to resemble layout of Photoshop.

• dbp (http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html) - Dave's batch processing plug-in for The GIMP

Multimedia Programming:

• proce55ing (http://processing.org/) - java applet graphic automata programming

• sdlBasic (http://sdlbasic.sf.net/) - multimedia sdl ansi-basic programming

• Shoebot (http://tinkerhouse.net/shoebot/) - a Python graphics robot, which takes a Python script as input, describes a drawing process, and outputs a graphic in a common open standard format (SVG, PDF, PostScript, or PNG).

• fluxus (http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/) - a rapid prototyping, livecoding and playing/learning environment for 3D graphics and games.

DTP (Desktop Publishing):

this should be a own section, don't delete it please.. all software related to press, prepress, layout and other stuff around the printing and designing area could be placed here..

• Scribus (the open-source reference in DTP - with PDF X/3 support, color management etc.)

• LyX (the WYSIWYM for the LaTeX environment - for high quality typesetting - which OpenOffice or other text processing software you don't get the quality of typesetting you have in a book for example.

Appearance:

• Aurora gtk2 engine http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Aurora+Gtk+Engine?content=56438

• Compiz Config Settings Manager