Interested in using Linux to create a recording studio? Then having Linux at your side could be an answer for you. Since the Linux OS has so many great apps that will allow you to make all of your recording dreams a reality, the next step is to look at the hardware side of things.

Whether you like it or not, you need to have a PC that can handle the chore of working with sounds in a real time format. Personally, I believe that anything 1GHz or above ought to do the job quite nicely.

Building a home recording studio isn’t hard, nor does it require a great deal of technical knowledge. The biggest problems musicians face in building a home recording studio stem from all the myths and pseudo-truths that have developed around the art of recording. But with a little bit of elbow grease and a great selection of open source software, you can build an adequate recording studio. Making it perfect? Well, let’s worry about that another day.

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start with basic selections of hardware and software. The software part is easy: I will dictate it to you. The hardware part requires some discussion, but in order to discuss the hardware we need to first talk about the software we’ll be using.

To record basic tracks, we’ll be using Ecasound, a popular command-line sound recorder and processor. Ecasound supports everything under the sun, but we’ll be using it only to record and to play back tracks. More specifically, we’ll be using it to play back tracks already recorded while recording new tracks, and we’ll be recording the tracks one at a time.