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GNU Solfege

Solfege is an open-source software for music education. You can use it to practice your listening skills for rhythm, chords, note scales and note intervals. It helps musicians, music/sound engineers and music enthusiasts to remember and recognize notes to let them play better. Solfege is a great alternative for ear training and for conducting tests for ear training classes.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a free drum machine for Linux/GNU. Its features allow you to make your drum beats professionally, but without having to pay for them. The easy-to-use graphical user interface allows users to intuitively make their beats. Hydrogen has a built-in sequencer and mixer, allowing you to layer up to sixteen samples for each instrument. And with a wide array of supported files, you can easily be your own DJ with Hydrogen.

Tux Paint – free drawing program for kids and kids at heart

Tux Paint is a free art and drawing computer software especially designed for children. It has a lot of fun sound effects, an easy-to-use graphic interface, and a cute penguin to help the kids as they go along using Tux Paint. It is also available for Mac OSX, Linux, Windows and other operating systems. Softpedia has rated it as excellent, and we guess it's because kids and kids at heart surely love its features as Tux Paint helps them to be more creative.

Cinelerra – capture, compose and edit high quality video

Video editing and capturing can get quite expensive - especially if you decided to purchase the most popular commercial grade software to produce high quality videos, films and movies. Cinelerra is a free video editing suite for GNU/Linux which lets you capture, compose and edit videos. It also has a video compositing engine which allows you to do operations like matting and keying.

MuseScore – make music sheets in an instant

For some musicians making a music sheets by hand is quite a horror. How else can you perfectly draw those lines & notes, and then manage to understand it all afterward? We've found just the perfect software for you. MuseScore allows you to input notes using mouse, keyboard or through a MIDI sequencer, and gives you the perfect looking music sheets each time. Best part for most musicians - it is a user-friendly, open-source and a FREE.

Luminance HDR Qtpfsgui – cross platform HDR tonemapping software

Luminance HDR is an open source software designed specifically for HDR Imaging tone mapping. It supports JPEG, TIFF and even RAW files straight from most digital SLR cameras and other high-end point-and-shoot cameras. HDR Imaging, or high dynamic range imaging, is the process of allowing a wider range of luminances between the darkest and brightest areas of a certain picture to display a more accurate representation of intensity levels in real life.

RoseGarden – a free midi sequencer for Linux

Remember drawing those squiggly lines and circles on 5 lines when you were in music class? You draw them then read them afterward and realize that you do not understand anything you have drawn because they were in weird places between and after the lines. Do not be scared of making the same mistake now. Rose Garden is ready to help you create the best music sheets and midi sequences possible, allowing you unleash the professional musician inside you.

Eraser – erase your digital files without any traces

Simply deleting your digital files does not always mean that they are completely deleted. Deleting your files does not always completely erase them from your hard drive (which explains why most file deletions can be recovered!). If you are that careful person who wants to take extra precautions with your digital files and make sure they are never gone, or you need to ensure your privacy and be certain they are completely deleted, then Eraser has got your back covered.

StepMania – turn your computer into a dance machine

Remember those Japanese dance games way back at the beginning of all rhythm games? If you badly want to dance once again without going back to PlayStation, XBox, or going to video game arcades, then here's the perfect game for you - StepMania! StepMania is a free dance game for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. It is also free & open-source, don't have to worry about paying for it - just dance your night away.