Furthermore, users of the Professional Edition benefit from the following expanded features: the sound font synthesizer iiwusynth provides wavetable sound in software, i.e. wavetables in sound font format can be used with any sound card. The modular synthesizer and effect processor AlsaModularSynth was substantially expanded. Both programs are compatible with the JACK audio connection kit. JACK assists in sending audio data across the machine in various ways. For example, you can play an audio CD with alsaplayer, accompany the playback with vkeybd and iiwusynth, and - depending on the performance of the machine - add effects with AlsaModularSynth. The patchbay QJackConnect helps you to keep in control of the audio connections.

MainActor - Video Editing for Linux

Exclusively in SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional: MainActor.

MainActor is an easy-to-use video editing program. Save your recordings from analog or digital cameras on your hard disk and process them with filters, slow motion, cross fading, and comfortable text insertion tools.

Record Your CDs

Apart from a selection of special programs for ripping audio CDs, this task can also be performed easily with Konqueror - in WAV or Ogg Vorbis format. Simply insert the CD, enter the address "audiocd:/" in Konqueror, and all tracks in various formats will be displayed. The titles are retrieved automatically from a CDDB server on the Internet. Writing CDs is equally facile in Linux. k3b is one of the programs that can be used for creating CDs.

Audacity - Your Recording Studio

Audacity 1.1 is a recording studio with a wide function scope ranging from recording to editing. MP3 and Ogg Vorbis can be imported directly. The application enables noise removal and a host of other features.

The Ogg Vorbis audio compression was the winner of a blind test with 3000 test listeners that was conducted recently by the publisher Heise (C'T 19/2002). SuSE Linux 8.2 includes an encoder for Ogg Vorbis and a large number of programs that support this trend-setting audio format.

XMMS - The Soundplayer

XMMS is THE sound player for Linux. It is easy to use and is able to play a wide variety of formats, including your audio CDs. Try out the many interesting visualization plugins or download your favorite XMMS skins from the Internet.

AlsaModularSynth - The Modular Synthesizer

AlsaModularSynth offers you the inexhaustible sound spectrum of a modular synthesizer for magnificent bass sound or vibrant techno music. The wealth of enclosed example patches will prove to be helpful for your first sound experiments. Using the capture module, AlsaModularSynth can also be utilized as an effect processor. The built-in LADSPA browser provides a quick overview of the many effect plugins.

Composing with NoteEdit

NoteEdit enables you to use the PC for composing speedily and intuitively. Apart from guitar chords and text, even complex polyphonic structures can be set in a single note line. Using the MusiXTeX system, which is also included in SuSE Linux, you can print your compositions in a professional quality. NoteEdit can also handle MIDI files. Quantization functions facilitate the conversion of MIDI files to legible sheet music. When exporting MIDI, you can save your entire arrangement including the orchestration and the stereo panorama.

Movies, TV, and Radio

If you have a TV card, you, you can watch TV with kwintv, listen to the radio with kradio, read teletext with alevt, and browse the electronic program guide nxtvepg. SuSE Linux offers (at least) one program for your needs! Furthermore, you can watch DVDs with programs such as mplayer or xine.