Digital Artists’ Handbook
The Digital Artists Handbook is an up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces you to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art.
The goal of the Handbook is to be a signpost, a source of practical information and content that bridges the gap between new users and the platforms and resources that are available, but not always very accessible. The Handbook will be slowly filled with articles written by invited artists and specialists, talking about their tools and ways of working. Some articles are introductions to tools, others are descriptions of methodologies, concepts and technologies.
When discussing software, the focus of this Handbook is on Free/Libre Open Source Software. The Handbook aims to give artists information about the available tools but also about the practicalities related to Free Software and Open Content, such as collaborative development and licenses. All this to facilitate exchange between artists, to take away some of the fears when it comes to open content licenses, sharing code, and to give a perspective on various ways of working and collaborating.
On sound:
http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org/sound
And a list of software, mostly free …
http://ardour.org
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
http://www.baudline.com
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software
http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu
http://www.csounds.com
https://devel.goto10.org/puredyne
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat
http://freesoftware.ircam.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=14
http://www.ladspa.org
http://lilypond.org
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtfft
http://puredata.info
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com
http://64studio.com
http://www.sonicvisualiser.org
http://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/sndpeek
http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/index.html
http://supercollider.sourceforge.net
http://taps.cs.princeton.edu
http://ubuntustudio.org
http://www.vorbis.com