Linux has made great strides forward in the provision of professional applications for the creation, manipulation, and recording of audio and music. It is now possible to create a professional level Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) using only
Free Software. For a number of years audio applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Core have been packaged by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano in the
Planet CCRMA repository; recently a Fedora Extras SIG has been created for audio.
Christoph plans to cover:
- a high-level overview of the projects & goals
- an evaluation of the competitive (proprietary & OSS) landscape
- trends and industry standards
- high level overview of MIDI
- high level overview of firewire & audio
- summary of installation & configuration
- demonstration of Rosegraden (midi-sequencing)
- demonstration of Ardour is likely, not guaranteed