Original documentation and/or help pages for included application packages:

• ALSA - the latest, greatest audio API for Linux
• Alsaplayer - a very nice player with some added functionality for visualization and playlisting.
• Ardour - Paul Barton Davis' hardisk recorder/mixer, currently in a state of heavy development.
• Audacity - a fast multi-platform editor with some great features, including mutlitrack capabilities.
• Cecilia - more than just a graphical front end to the csound engine...a rich sound manipulation environment.
• Ceres - Oyvind Hammer's original app on linux.
• Ceres3 - the latest, greatest incarnation of the ceres spectral editor by.
• Csound - a central audio package at ECMC, richly expanded with dozens of scripts and templates.
• DAP - Richard Kent's port of the classic SGI version. Has some nice dsp functions as well.
• Ecasound - an amazingly deep hard-disk recording and playing/routing app from Kai Vehmanen.
• gMetronome - a simple graphical metronome (no audio)
• Hdparm - utility for optimizing IDE hard drive and CDROM parameters/options
• JACK - the jack audio connection kit for professional level audio under Linux
• LADSPA - a plugins package, including the CMT set, and a number of others.
• Mammut - a tidy and fun analysis/resynthesis tool with limited features but often suprising results.
• Mix - the NoTAM 9 channel mixer we all grew up with, with some welcome additions.
• MixMagic - a GNOME mixing application with some useful features.
• MiXViews - a powerful editor from Doug Scott, includes editing tools for PVC and LPC analysis data.
• ngen - Mikel Kuehn's new event preprocessor for Csound.
• PVC - Paul Koonce's phase vocoding package, extended through a set of Allan Schindler's scripts.
• Normalize - a utility for batch normalization of levels in a soundfile
• RipperX - cd ripping and file encoding (mp3, ogg) front end for cdparanoia, lame and others
• Rt - Paul Lansky's scripted mixer, ported by Doug Scott.
• RTCmix - The Columbia/Princeton extension of its Cmix music composition "language".
• RTMix - Ivica Ico Bukvik's exciting performance/real-time tool.
• Score11 - Alec Brinkman's very flexible Csound score preprocessor, plus a handy Score11 quickstart.
• Shorten - a program for lossless audio compression.
• Snd - Bill Schottstaedt's everything editor. Includes support for 24bit/96K and so much more.
• Sweep - an amazing editor (with "Scrubby" inside) from Conrad Parker.
• Wavesurfer - one of the cleanest, fastest editors for linux, from Kåre Sjölander and Jonas Beskow
• xplay - very handy, can open in multiple instances for quick test mixes (with the ECMC "players" script).
• xsox - a graphical front end for the ubiquitous audio conversion utility "sox".