The main problem with sound software for linux is there is too much of it. Here are some keywords: ecasound, ardour, snd. See also Dave Phillips' famous linux audio page, and the linux-audio-user mailing list. Now that computer music professors have had to throw out their old NeXt cubes and replace them with PC's, there is a tremendous, vast, huge, massive amount of sound-related code being written for the linux/i386 platform.
Having said that, I'm not sure if any of it is SoundForge, exactly. Ardour might be it. This stuff keeps getting better every day. I use ecasound myself, which is a brilliant command-line tool written by a CS undergrad / guitar player in Finland. Think of it as the Perl of sound editing. (Or maybe that's snd? hmm..) The command-line-ness of it is a bit of a pain in the ass for those of us used to graphical stuff, but there are GUI's for ecasound as well. There are actually several different, competing GUI's! Some people have too much time.. -chris > Since there now is a "multimedia"-Debian distri, I start getting hope > again: is there SOME reasonable sound editor for Linux ? I am > searching since my Linux start (2.0.??) for something as powerful as > Cool Edit but everything I get is MixViews which is just horrible to > use :( > > Can you point me to something ? > Thanks !
