Let's see; on my way to find something else I bumped into something called GNUGuitarINUX - it's just about everything I ever dreamed of having for multitrac recording and much more. You can run it on a thumbdrive or off a CD.
Playing with it I decided I wanted it to save my settings separately in say the drum machine (Hydrogen), Ardour, Rosegarden, etc.
So I proceeded to build it myself as there was no other method found. I installed Debian using net install mentioned in this article, then I compared the GNUGuitar to my new debian install using the synaptic package manager.
Pulled it off really without a hitch.
I mentioned it to an old friend who told me he's still holding hope to start using Cakewalk, (that's a windows exclusive, non-free, proprietary software gig - just the type I've sworn off).
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.
Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.
Do it!