Browsing Freshmeat tonight, the premier online Linux software repository, I came across to these two great (and brand new) applications,
ReBorn and
ReZound. Reborn, a Rebirth clone that will soon become open source according to the developer, provides a software emulation of three of Roland's most famous electronic musical instruments. It got me thinking as to how much more viable Linux is today as a professional (or semi-professional) audio platform than it used to be two years ago.
Update: On a related multimedia notice,
WinAMP 3.0 for Windows was released yesterday.
The shaketracker program provides a similar interface to cheesetracker (in fact, they're both written by the same developer), but outputs MIDI files.
Unfortunatly, they don't seem to be standard MIDI files, and Windows Media Player doesn't like them. TiMIDIty renders them perfectly, though.