Fervent Software has released version 1.50 of their music creation suite Studio to Go! This software is a bit unusual: it runs off a bootable CD, so you can carry the CD around and use it anywhere, without installing it. It only runs on Windows PCs, but it actually boots into Linux, and all the software (I think) is open source.

A lot of software is included on the CD; the website has the full list. Here are some of the highlights.

• Rosegarden 1.2 (Fervent build) audio and MIDI sequencer and score editor, including audio multitracking
• LilyPond score typesetter for creating notation output
• JACK Audio infrastructure
• Mixers: QAMix, HDSPMixer, envy24control
• Audacity audio editor (Fervent build with JACK support)
• Rezound audio file editor
• Sweep (plus jackasyn for JACK support)
• Ardour hard disk recorder
• JACK Time Machine
• K3b CD/DVD burning
• KAudioCreator
• Effects boxes – Creox, JACK Rack, FreqTweak, QMidiArp
• Softsynths, FluidSynth-DSSI, QSynth, TiMidity++
• Hydrogen — drum machine
• Hexter DX7 Modeling Synth
• Sound drivers
• Lots of effects
• Hundreds of plugins

I knew there is a lot of decent music software in the Linux world. Interesting how this package brings this software to the PC world. I haven’t really used much of this software (except Audacity), so it would be interesting to try it out.