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Linux Audio Developers Conference

Posted by michael on from the ear-candy dept.

paulbd writes "This weekend sees the first Linux audio developers conference at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. Gathering together many members of the Linux Audio Developers mailing list and others, the conference will feature 2 days of in-depth technical presentations and demonstrations of many cutting edge Linux audio and MIDI applications." Desktoplinux.com has a related story about using Linux in a professional recording studio.

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  1. Re: Wait Until Mac is #3?? by Black-Man · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If that's what you are waiting on for more drivers... good luck. Apple's purchase of EMagic shows they are serious about pro-audio dominance to continue on the Mac.

  2. Professional sound? What about desktop sound? by jagripino · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most comments here are discussing the lack of quality professional sound apps for Linux.

    Well fuck that. I just want to be able to listen to my MP3s and still be able to know when I get an e-mail or IM like I did when I was in Win2k.

    OK, I CAN do that right now, using ESD, but it's a kludge that I'd like to see going away.

    I'm looking forward to see the kind of sound quality we'll have at kernel level on 2.6.

    Yes, I'm a happy user of a desktop Linux, after years using it on servers. But boy did I have lots of trouble trying to get the same desktop experience I had with Win2k...

  3. Re:could be big by Otter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The biggest problem for desktop users, IMHO:

    Conflicts between sound servers. Under Windows and MacOS, I have no idea what the counterparts to Arts, OSS and ESD are, no idea whether there's a single one or if different servers can easily be run concurrently. And there's no reason why I should have to have any idea.

    It's absurd that there should be work involved if I want to play MP3's or streams with xmms AND CD's with the KDE player.

    No doubt someone is going to tell me that if I don't know the fine points of sound servers, I don't deserve to have sound on my computer. Let me save you same time and preemptively reject that notion.

    --
    What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
  4. Re: Wait Until Mac is #3?? by clifyt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Great -- I love when I preview something and it comes out formatted differently than in my original statement :-(

    No only the purchase of Emagic, but the development of CoreAudio and CoreMidi at the kernal levels augmented by a simple to develop for interface in the form of AudioUnits, means Apple's OS is more than ready for pro-audio dominance.

    Hell I was bitching about this over on my forum just today --

    Sonikmatter Emagic Forums

    I love Linux and I run a box in my own studio, but it won't be running ANY audio applications for a LONG time. Right now, its a file server to pass info between Studio A and B (ok, Studio B just happens to be my bedroom -- but since I remodeled my bathroom and put in marble flooring in there, its been a perfect vocal or acoustic guitar booth for mixing without synth effects :-)

    Linux has a ways to go before anyone is using any of these applications from a standard musicians perspective. I know a lot of geeks that can grok this stuff, but not standard musicians. That and my time ain't worthless...I'd rather spend 3 minutes doing something on my Mac or PC and get the job done efficiently than to waste an hour getting something configured to do what it is supposed to do and loose all musicial motivation (if you are simply a music TECH then this doesn't really matter, now does it).

    Clif Marsiglio
    Sonikmatter.com