Ardour: ardour.org

JAMin: jamin.sourceforge.net

LADSPA: www.ladspa.org, plugin.org.uk (Steve Harris's collection) and tap-plugins.sourceforge.net (a collection from Tom Szilagyi)

ALSA: www.alsa-project.org

Rosegarden: www.rosegardenmusic.com

Quick Toots Series: www.djcj.org

Audio-optimized Linux distributions and packages:

AGNULA (Debian): www.agnula.org

Planet CCRMA (Red Hat/Fedora): ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software

AudioSlack (SlackWare): www.audioslack.com

Thac's RPMs (Mandrake): rpm.nyvalls.se

SuSE (not necessarily audio-optimized, but has good out-of-box audio support): www.suse.com/us/index.html

Listen to the original song recorded for this article on the author's site at: linux-sound.org/ardour-music.html