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

Thu Sep 30 10:38:33 UTC 2021

A pleasure :)

I'm in favour too of doing another multi-LUG event, it's good to connect
across the ponds and meet new people!

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Tai Kedzierski

@taikedz

On Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 10:09, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:

> Thanks Nic & Tai for speaking!
>
> People were talking at the end of the meeting about doing more such joint
> events - although probably not with Mozilla Hubs! If anyone has any topics
> they'd like to see in this format, please do speak up. :-)
>
> Thomas
>
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, at 22:14, Nic wrote:
>
> 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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