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Hi - my name is Graham and I live in Sheffield, UK. I've been interested in music for as long as I can remember and am a vinyl junkie and occasional DJ. I'm also interested in moving away from Windows and just relying on Linux for all my computing needs, but need to replicate the music apps/capability I have in Windows under Linux. I'm sure I've come to the right place for that...

At present I just use Sound Forge to record vinyl onto disk and then tweak the output. From a quick scan, it looks as if Audacity would be an obvious alternative in the Linux world. My computer hardware is an old Terratec DMX6Fire with the ICE1712 audio chip. It does what I need at present, but under Linux (I use Ubuntu/Kubuntu) I can't get any sound out of it. However I realise this is not the place for that query - I'll raise that in the Hardware section.

Anyway - glad to be here!

mangocrazy wrote:but need to replicate the music apps/capability I have in Windows under Linux.

There's a plenty of alternatives for Windows software in the world of Linux. If you're not satisfied with native Linux application, there's Reaper which is officially (!) supported under Wine. Also, I've heard that Reaper's gonna come to Linux natively.

mangocrazy wrote:At present I just use Sound Forge to record vinyl onto disk and then tweak the output. From a quick scan, it looks as if Audacity would be an obvious alternative in the Linux world.

If you need just noise removal, take a look at gwc (Gnome Wave Cleaner). It works even better than some commercial stuff. Really worth a try. If you need realtime (i.e. along with playback) effects controlling, multitracking, automation and advanced mixing capabilities, then Ardour is obviously your choice. Remember that Ardour doesn't have an internal wave editor, so if you need some processing which can't be done in RT, do it before you import your tracks to Ardour.

mangocrazy wrote:Hi - my name is Graham and I live in Sheffield, UK. I've been interested in music for as long as I can remember and am a vinyl junkie and occasional DJ. I'm also interested in moving away from Windows and just relying on Linux for all my computing needs, but need to replicate the music apps/capability I have in Windows under Linux. I'm sure I've come to the right place for that...

At present I just use Sound Forge to record vinyl onto disk and then tweak the output. From a quick scan, it looks as if Audacity would be an obvious alternative in the Linux world. My computer hardware is an old Terratec DMX6Fire with the ICE1712 audio chip. It does what I need at present, but under Linux (I use Ubuntu/Kubuntu) I can't get any sound out of it. However I realise this is not the place for that query - I'll raise that in the Hardware section.

Anyway - glad to be here!

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