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Linux Audio Conference 2013

robin — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:02:09 +0000

We are happy to announce the next issue of the Linux Audio Conference (LAC), May 9-12, 2013 @ IEM, the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, in Graz, Austria.

http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2013/

This year's conference is hosted by IEM, Graz, in cooperation with local artists and FLOSS enthusiasts.
The Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz is considered Austria's leading institution in computer music, acoustics and audio engineering and has gained international reputation for its research on spatial audio and its artistic production and research.
IEM has been embracing Linux audio as a production and research environment since the mid-1990s, and has contributed to FLOSS/Linux projects, amongst others by providing drivers for multichannel audio interfaces and hosting the Pure Data community portal and mailing lists.

Linux Audio Conference 2012

robin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:40:41 +0000

The Linux Audio Conference is the international conference about Open Source Software for music, sound and other media with Linux as the main platform.

2012 marks the 10th anniversary of the event and it is the first time the LAC takes place in the United States.

The Linux Audio Conference is an international conference that
brings together musicians, sound artists, software developers and
researchers, working with Linux as an open, stable, professional
platform for audio and media research and music production. LAC includes
paper sessions, workshops, and a diverse program of electronic music.

The upcoming 2012 conference will be hosted at CCRMA, Stanford
University, on April 12-15. The Center for Computer Research in Music
and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University is a multi-disciplinary
facility where composers and researchers work together using
computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research
tool. CCRMA has been using and developing Linux as an audio platform
since 1997.

Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #8 - June 2011

Jeremy — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:55:45 +0000

Skipped a couple of months in order to get ready for LAC2011. But now that LAC2011 is over I can pick up the monthly round-ups again. I'm not going to cover the months that I skipped so I'll move on with what happened last month, the month of May.

Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #8 - June 2011

Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #7 - February 2011

Jeremy — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:43:49 +0000

More than a month overdue... It's getting busier at work (we're in the middle of a reorganization) and also I've spent quite some time on making music. And LAC2011 is coming closer, I'm going to do two workshops so I had to prepare my abstracts. Hope you have a nice read anyway, next time I'll try to publish the round-up a bit earlier (well, have to hurry up then already...).

Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #7 - February 2011

Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #6 - January 2011

Jeremy — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:28:51 +0000

The holiday season is over and I actually took advantage of it by not working on the Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #6 but by making music. With the help of Leigh Dyer's outstanding seq24 tutorials I'm trying to master seq24 and so far I'm really enthusiastic about this sequencer. I've started remixing an older track of mine and seq24 has already proven itself a very valuable tool.

But I did read up on relevant mailinglists and forums to keep in pace with the developments in Linux Audio Land. And December did yield some interesting topics, like the RT_GROUP_SCHED option (cgroups) discussion on the Jack-Devel mailinglist and the refutation that CPU frequency scaling has no use for low-latency real-time audio, and then there was the sheer amount of music made with Linux of course!

Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #5 – December 2010

Jeremy — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:37:52 +0000

A bit late because of the Holidays here in the Netherlands, but it's here nonetheless, the Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #5. Again I had some really positive feedback which is very gratifying of course and it powers the drive to continue writing these round-ups. Back to business, what was November all about?

Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #4 – November 2010

Jeremy — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:52:47 +0000

Here it is, Round-Up #4, with thanks to all the people that provided feedback and made it happening last month. And special thanks yet again to the people of LinuxMAO. If there would only exist a decent translator from French to English then everyone could benefit from their massive and impressive work.

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat released

Jeremy — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:14:51 +0000

For those who use a real-time kernel and up to date applications from PPA's (Personal Package Archives) installing or upgrading to Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat might not be such a good option. There are no official real-time -rt kernel packages available and most multimedia PPA's do not package for Maverick so a lot of applications are simply not available for Maverick. For the moment it's better to stick with 10.04 Lucid Lynx and wait for 11.04 Natty Narwhal. There are plans to set up a dedicated Ubuntu Studio PPA for Natty Narwhal, and hopefully by that time the maintenance of the -rt kernel packages will be picked up again too because for now they are not being maintained anymore.

Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #3 – October 2010

Jeremy — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:36:51 +0000

Actually I wanted to attempt to mix a new track from my band tonight when I realised that I really had to write the Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #3. A bit of a bummer because I wanted to do the mixing with the shiny new Qtractor 0.4.7 Furious Desertrix release. With the Furious Desertrix I can now use more than 16 tracks on my Behringer BCF2000 with the new Track Offset MIDI functionality and I really wanted to play around with the MIDI learn functionality for plugins. Bummer, bummer.

Mixxx 1.8.0

Jeremy — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:47:02 +0000

Not sure if Mixxx announces through LAA so I'll put it up here:

The Mixxx team is proud to announce the final release of Mixxx 1.8.0!

Mixxx is free, open source software for performing live DJ mixes. Developed by a diverse community of DJs, Mixxx is a complete replacement for a conventional "turntables and mixer" DJ setup, and is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

This new release includes a year's worth of contributions from over 30 developers and artists, and is our most exciting release to date. Mixxx 1.8.0 includes much anticipated features such as looping, hot cues, support for multiple MIDI devices, and a brand new database-powered library.

http://mixxx.org/