There are lots of applications under Linux to make music. Thanks to Jack, the connectivity is without limit but not your time 😉 When you spent several minutes or hours to configure all your instruments and applications how to save your configuration ?
The answer is ladish.
You can see the whole description here: http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/all/ladish
By default, here are my different use cases:
- Guitar playing with a sampler/looper
- SooperLooper + MIDI foot controller
- Guitar improvisations with drum machine + MIDI synth
- Hydrogen used as drum machine + step sequencer
- FluidSynth to load sound founts