editing recorded music program

[niksfree]

Hi my brothers and sisters can anyone advise me of a suitable program that will enable me to transfer the music i record from plants on a zoom H2 recorder, to my computer so i can edit it and then create a music CD or DVD as required. my system is Ubuntu 8-10.Thanking you in advance.
It needs to be simple to operate.

[niksfree]

So how do Linux users edit and produce their cds from recordings surely someone must do it.

[reed9]

I'm not entirely clear what you're asking for, but regarding music/audio production on linux:

Create Digital Music Linux Music Workflow: Switching from Mac OS X to Ubuntu with Kim Cascone

Articles - Audio Production Tools for Linux

Free, Professional Music Production: A Linux Introduction

Using Linux For Recording & Mastering

[niksfree]

Thank you for your quick reply and info. what i am actually trying to learn and do is this.
I take a hand held digital recorder into the countryside and record nature, this is put on a sd card in the hand held recorder.
I then wish to put this in a Linux music files and use a program to clean it up by removing unnecessary noises and to cut it to a reasonable time such as 10 12 minutes after creating six such tracks for example i want to then put them on a CD. the second thing is to be also able to make a DVD where the sound tracks are married up to a video or just clean up and produce a live video recording of say birds in a tree singing. hope this makes it clearer as this is all new ground for me in the digital/computer world.

[reed9]

I've never done any audio production on linux, and only some very basic video editing.

That said, what you want shouldn't be too complicated. If you have an SD slot, just plug the card into your computer and transfer the file over. If you don't, then get one, or get a USB SD card adapter.

For editing, the links above provide info on sound editing software in linux. Ardour I believe is considered one of the best.

For video editing, avidemux is probably one of the most powerful tools, though not always the easiest to use.

Top 5 Linux Video Editor Software

[D-cat]

Sorry, I've been busy ripping MIDI files to CD.

The best audio editor in Linux bar none is Audacity. It handles almost unlimited simultaneous tracks and exports to many common formats including WAV, OGG, and MP3 (providing you have the LAME library installed).

It's functionality rivals SoundForge, but some of the effects controls are lacking the flexibility of other similar commercial products (though you can expand the effects list with Nyquist plugins). None the less, for a FOSS product, I don't think there's anything better.

Audacity should be installable from the repositories (via Synaptic in Ubuntu).

[niksfree]

Thank you everyone for your help it has educated me further and having downloaded the various programs i can now practice and find what is right for me to run with. The new add and remove programme function on Ubuntu is fantastic to say the least. I am very happy to have persevered with it, thanks to forums such as this one, thank you again my brothers and sisters.