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Ubuntu Studio Documentation

These are the programs that are included in Ubuntu Studio. It’s possible to do a Google search on each of the programs to see if there are any tutorials available.

Audio

  • Ardour – a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application
  • Audacity – a digital audio editor application
  • Hydrogen – an advanced drum machine
  • JACK Audio Connection Kit – a sound server daemon that provides low latency connections between applications for both audio and MIDI data
  • JAMin – the JACK Audio Connection Kit Audio Mastering interface
  • LilyPond – a program for engraving sheet music
  • Mixxx – a digital DJ-style mixing program
  • MusE – a MIDI/Audio sequencer using JACK and ALSA
  • Rosegarden – a digital audio workstation program
  • TiMidity++ – a software synthesizer that is able to convert from MIDI to various formats

Video

  • PiTiVi – a video editing program
  • Kino – a non-linear digital video editor
  • Stopmotion – a stop-motion animation movie creator
  • VLC media player – a free software media player

Graphics

  • Agave – a color scheme generator
  • Blender – a 3D animation program
  • Enblend – an image compositing program
  • FontForge – a typeface (font) editor program
  • GIMP – a raster graphics editor used as an alternative for Adobe Photoshop
  • Inkscape – a vector graphics editor
  • Scribus – a desktop publishing application
  • Synfig – a 2D vector graphics and timeline-based animation program

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Studio)

http://www.ubustu.com : This is a fairly helpful blog on Ubuntu Studio news and tutorials. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVy_EDDe_-0&feature=related : This is a YouTube tutorial on Gimp that gives the basics on manipulating photographs.