A guide covering applications, tools, and techniques that will make you a better and more efficient Podcaster.
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Online Podcasting Classes from Skillshare
Audacity Podcast Production Course: Audio Editing for Podcasters
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The Best Podcast Equipment for Professional Podcast Studio Setup
Live Streaming and Elgato Game Capture HD
Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) streaming with Elgato Game Capture HD
What is Amazon Interactive Video Service?
Fireside provides every podcast with a free SSL (https) certificate for both subdomains and your own custom domain name, ensuring your website and all of its content is delivered to your audience securely.
Anchor is an all-in-one platform where you can create, distribute, and monetize your podcast from any device, for free.
Wavve is a tool to create shareable audio clips for social media.
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is a managed live streaming solution that is quick and easy to set up, and ideal for creating interactive video experiences. Send your live streams to Amazon IVS using streaming software and the service does everything you need to make low-latency(under 5 seconds) live video available to any viewer around the world, letting you focus on building interactive experiences alongside the live video.
Streamlabs is the most popular cloud-based streaming platform for Twitch(70% usage), YouTube, Mixer and Facebook. Easily grow your coomunity with Streamlabs Open Broadcast Software (OBS), alerts, 1000+ overlays, analytics, chatbot, tipping, merch and more. Available on Windows and MacOS.
OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
Opencast is a flexible, scalable and reliable video capture, management, and distribution system for academic institutions. Opencast is built by a growing community of developers from leading universities and organizations worldwide. Also checkout Opencast Studio.
Audio-visualizer-python is a little GUI tool which creates an audio visualization video from an input audio. You can also give it a background image and set a title text.
Bitwig Studio is a digital audio workstation that has linear and non-linear workflows for sound design, recording, live performance, and more. Along with 90+ instruments, effects, and other creative tools. It is supported Windows, macOS, and Linux.
LBRY is a blockchain-based digital content protocol and community-controlled content wonderland containing a digital library with millions of pieces of content, such as videos, music, games.
SoundCaster connects your digital audio devices and broadcasts multi-channel audio to your phones and tablets.
Soundboard Studio is a fast and versatile cartwall app for iOS. Perfect for for pads, music beds, voiceovers, sound effects, soundbites and much more.
UniversalSoundboard is a customizable soundboard for your Windows 10 device. Add your sounds or music and sort them in categories. You can also add images to your favourite sounds.
CastersoundBoard is an open source soundboard for hot-keying and playing back sounds for podcasting.
REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset. REAPER supports a vast range of hardware, digital formats and plugins, and can be comprehensively extended, scripted and modified.
SonoBus is an easy to use application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.
Avid Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation for mixing Dolby Atmos or other 3D audio for film or TV, working in a large mixing stage or a small editing suite.
Adobe Audition is a digital audio workstation with tools for color, audio, and graphics, Premiere Pro works seamlessly with other apps and services, including After Effects, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Stock.
Image-Line FL Studio is a digital audio workstation for mixing audio and music sequencing developed by Image-Line.
Propellerhead Reason is a digital audio workstation with tools you need for creative music production, recording, sequencing and mixing.
Cockos Reaper is a full, flexible feature set digital audio workstation with tools used for commercial/home studios, broadcast, location recording, education, science/research, sound design, game development, and more.
PreSonus Studio One is a digital audio workstation application, used to create, record, mix and master music and other audio.
Steinberg Cubase is a digital audio workstation developed by Steinberg for music/MIDI recording and arranging/editing of audio.
Digital Performer is a digital audio workstation and music sequencer software package. It's can recording, editing, arranging, mixing, mastering, MIDI, and more. Digital Performer will take your music to its highest level, thanks to sophisticated features like Stretch Audio (powered by Zynaptiq’s ZTX PRO technology), live triggering and looping.
Sonic Visualiser is a free, open-source application for Windows, Linux, and Mac, designed to be the first program you reach for when want to study a music recording closely.
JACK2 is a C++ version of the JACK low-latency audio server for multi-processor machines. It is a new implementation of the JACK server core features that aims at removing some limitations of the JACK1 design. The activation system has been changed for a data flow model and lock-free programming techniques for graph access have been used to have a more dynamic and robust system.
JACK Audio Connection Kit AKA JACK is a professional sound server daemon that provides real-time, low-latency connections for both audio and MIDI data between applications that implement its API. JACK can be configured to send audio data over a network to a main machine, which then outputs the audio to a physical device. This can be useful to mix audio from a number of linked computers without requiring additional cables or hardware mixers, and keeping the audio path digital for as long as possible.
PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia pipelines.It provides a low-latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both pulseaudio and JACK. PipeWire was designed with a powerful security model that makes interacting with audio and video devices from containerized applications easy. Nodes in the graph can be implemented as separate processes, communicating with sockets and exchanging multimedia content using fd passing.
Ardour is an open source, collaborative effort of a worldwide team including musicians, programmers, and professional recording engineers. Development is transparent — anyone can watch our work as it happens. Like a good piece of vintage hardware, you can open the box and look inside.
LMMS is an open source digital audio workstation application program. When LMMS is pairedr with appropriate computer hardware, it allows music to be produced by arranging samples, synthesizing sounds, playing on a MIDI keyboard, and combining the features of trackers and sequencers. Developed by Paul Giblock and Tobias Junghans, this program stands for "Linux MultiMedia Studio" and supports handy plugins that enables it to work on different operating systems.
Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Developed by a group of volunteers as open source and offered free of charge. Amazing support community.
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