Performous Is Like Rock Band for Your Linux PC

[A Guy]

Linux only (for now): If you love karaoke or really get into music-based games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, then you'll love Performous. It's an open-source band game that's perfect for your next party or get-together.

Performous is a free computer-based game for one or more players. Players compete against each other to see who can score the most points with the game system as your judge. It's got a practice mode so you can secretly get a head start on your friends before you get together to play, and auto-detects and works with Rock Band or Guitar Hero instruments you hook up.

Performous is more than just a game, though. It's also a teaching tool you can use anytime to help improve your singing voice. It accurately detects your pitch even in noisy surroundings so you know when you're hitting the right notes and displays musical notes onscreen to help keep you on track.

You can pick up several free songs from the web site, or you can add your own MP3s, along with song text and video files. So go snag the game, add some music, and get your groove on this weekend (without ponying up for a gaming console or a new game). Performous is a free, open-source download, currently Linux only. The download page points out that Windows and Mac versions are in the works, so keep your fingers crossed.

http://lifehacker.com/5419099/performous-is-like-rock-band-for-your-linux-pc

A major new release that not only contains improvements to the singing game you all love but more importantly extends the game into a full-fledged band game. Since the pre-release at Assembly Summer 2009 demo party, a large amount of improvements have been done, improving both the gameplay and the graphics. It is not perfect yet, but this certainly is a good time to make a release. Changes since 0.3.2 include:
Guitar, bass and drums
Uses songs in Frets on Fire / FoFiX format
All tracks (including vocals) are supported
Autodetection of any connected Guitar Hero and Rock Band instruments
Support for using a keyboard as guitar controller (FoF style)
Better hammer-on/pull-off support than in other games
Engine tries to figure out player's intention instead of picking the nearest chord
Multiplayer for as many players as you have instruments for
Full 3D note visualization
Initial hiscore support (press End in song browser)
Textual feedback for singers after each line
Guessing background/cover images and videos by filenames (if not specified in song files)
SVG graphics and fail samples from Frets on Fire (GPL for the win!)
Major changes in the internals, including a completely new audio mixer
Configuration system improvements, now properly supports system and user conf
Always use desktop resolution for full screen mode (instead of mode switching)
Many minor bugs fixed
Build/install changes and cleanup
Installs only minimal amount of cruft
Increased version requirements for Boost, CMake, etc.
Various small bugs fixed

http://performous.org/

A Guy

[Amature Programmer]

Sounds great for all Linux users.

[hellnoire]

Just so people know, there is also Frets on Fire, but it's Windows/Mac/Linux instead.