Open source power and cost effectiveness blended with a feature base second to none.

Real time recording capabilities blended with a full suite of professional sound production utilities to aid every aspect of sound production from recording and manipulation utilities, effects and processing to scoring and MIDI based playback.

As far as the musician and pro audio user is concerned, there are four key components of a Linux system. The kernel — the actual Linux core — can be customized for very low latency, which is essential for any kind of multi tracking or synchronization. The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture or ALSA provides drivers for pro and consumer sound cards. JACK is the internal audio system that connects applications at a low level, while LADSPA stands for the Linux Audio Developers Simple Plug-in Architecture. LADSPA is a bit like Steinberg's VST plug-in system, but in an open source style, many VST plug-ins, available to download from the Internet at no cost do not generally include source code.

Some of the key software components to LSP's Professional Sound Production Work Station are: -

*   Audio at a kernel level - ALSA
*   The professional sound server for Linux – Jack.
*   Audio Linux Developers Simple Plugin Architecture - LADSPA
*   A robust suite of software applications to suit all needs.

The hardware requirements vary depending on the production environment needs. For a small model a mid-range desktop PC with a professional, multi-input sound card will suffice. For larger, more complex work a multi-processor, raid 5 workstation would be required. As with all sound production environments, memory and disk space are a premium component.