[EdLUG] Joint LUG event: Lightning talks on Linux audio

[Nic]

Hi all,

Thanks a lot for organizing this Thomas, was really fun i really enjoyed it
although my first experience with Mozilla hub has been shocking (not in a
negative sense) :)

Here the txt file extracted from my talk is anyone interested for your
reference:

EDLUG - Audio mini talk - make/record a song with Jack, Ardour and Hydrogen
in "live" mode examples

- Equipment (photo description)
  SoundCard Behringer UMC404HD (Full supported by Linux/ALSA)
  Amplifier/Guitar/Effects
  Headphones - no sound in the room

- GNU/Linux OS - Audio ready to go distro
  KXStudio (Ubuntu based but repo available for Debian 10 as well)
  AVLinux (MXLinux/Debian based)
  Ubuntu Studio
  OpenSUSE (+ GeekosDAW repo)

- Kernel
  RT Kernel (Best result for live performance with Jack)
  Optimised Kernel (Lowlatency, PREEMPT)
  Kernel Generic/Default

- OS Audio Configuration/Optimisation guide tip
  (USB bus/IRQ conflicts) Sound card has to sit on its own usb bus to avoid
conflicts
    lsusb
    cat /proc/interrupts
    sudo /etc/init.d/rtirq status

- JACK overview
  Qjackctl frontend
  Settings (Sample rate, Frames period/Buffer)
  Graph/Connections

- Hydrogen (Drum machine sequencer)
  Drumkits
  Settings - Stereo or per channels output - Jack transport
  Define Song Metronome/BPM
  Program the drum using either patterns/song

- Ardour (Digital Audio Workstation)
  Jack transport
  Add drum tracks and connect inputs (Stereo or per Hydrogen channels)
  add voice and guitar lead channels
  arm/record
  Overdubbing arrangements
  add midi synth or track effects
  Editing/Mixing


Users support:
https://linuxmusicians.com/index.php

Guides/Docs
LinuxMusicians audio system_configuration:
https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/system_configuration
Jack docs: https://github.com/jackaudio/jackaudio.github.com/wiki
Ardour docs: https://manual.ardour.org/welcome-to-ardour/

Tutorials:
Libre Music Production:
https://www.youtube.com/c/LibreMusicProduction/playlists
Unfa: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYKj_peyESIMDp5LtHlH2A

Attached also picture of my setup!

Cheers

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 7:48 PM Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:

> For anyone present or wanting to be present: we're having some trouble
> with Hubs, and we're going to switch over to our usual BBB server:
> https://links.taikedz.net/?id=bbb-edlug
>
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, at 17:07, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> > Another brief email to see if anyone else might be interested in doing
> > a talk for this. They only need to be 5-10 minutes, which is hardly any
> > time at all when you're talking. So if you know about any aspect of
> > Linux audio - whether that's technical or practical - you can probably
> > tell people about it. :-)
> >
> > See you all on Wednesday,
> > Thomas
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, at 15:04, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> >> The Multi-LUG event on Linux audio is going ahead on Wednesday 29th
> >> September (a week tomorrow), 6.30 - 8.30 pm.
> >>
> >> You can register to attend on meetup.com, under the Belfast LUG group:
> >> https://www.meetup.com/belfast-lug/events/280903885/
> >>
> >> More talks are still welcome if anyone else would like to give one -
> >> they'll be about 10 minutes each, and we've got 5 likely talks so far.
> >>
> >> We're going to be trying out Mozilla Hubs (https://hubs.mozilla.com/ )
> >> for this event. It's a bit more complex than BBB or Jitsi, as there's a
> >> 3D virtual room that you can move around in, so you might want to have
> >> a play around with it before the event to make sure it's working.
> >>
> >> See you there,
> >> Thomas
> >>
> >> On Tue, 17 Aug 2021, at 20:24, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> >>> Exciting news! Belfast LUG have invited us to have a joint event with
> a
> >>> series of short talks around the theme of Linux audio. This is likely
> >>> to be in late September - I'll announce it here when the date and time
> >>> are finalised.
> >>>
> >>> Is anyone interested in doing a talk for this? These will be shorter
> >>> than our usual talks, probably just 5-10 minutes, so we can hear
> >>> several in one evening. Maybe you have a fun story of debugging a
> sound
> >>> problem? Could you provide an introduction to something like GStreamer
> >>> or JACK? Maybe someone could go even deeper into how sound in
> computers
> >>> works in general? Do you have a favourite media player you can show
> >>> off? Or can you explain how to play music on a bunch of old floppy
> >>> drives [1]?
> >>>
> >>> For inspiration, Belfast LUG have so far proposed talks on: Home
> office
> >>> & OBS, Ardour for Classical Synth, and Pipewire & Flatpak. I hope we
> >>> can add a couple of talks from EdLUG!
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Thomas
> >>>
> >>> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oym7B7YidKs
> >>>
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