Re: [school-discuss] Wednesday, July 2 at NECC

[Marilyn Hagle <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Daniel!  I will definitely forward this to Jason.  He is an open source
newbie, but very enthusiastic!

I have not played with the new Ubuntu Studio, but I installed it on all of the
computers in my lab at the end of the school year.  We used the fiesty version
last year and it seems like this latest flavor has great updates.  

I am happy to hear that you are endorsing it.

marilyn


Quoting Daniel Howard <dhhoward@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

>  > Marilyn Hagle wrote:
>  > I guess someone pulled my name out of a hat last week because at the 
> last minute I was invited to man one of the stations at the music 
> playground on Wednesday, July 2 at NECC.  I am going to demonstrate the 
> Musix Live CD.  The music playground is managed by Jason Hubbard, a 
> choral director from Louisiana.  He will be demonstrating Rosegarden on 
> Ubuntu.
> 
> Marilyn, you might tell Jason to see if he can get a bunch of Ubuntu 
> Studio alternate install DVDs to hand out to folks, it's a version of 
> Ubuntu specifically for audio, graphics, and video production that 
> includes Rosegarden4 as well as tons of other packages.  Make sure to 
> tell folks to do all the updates (esp. security) after install first 
> thing before using it.  Best, Daniel
> 
> http://ubuntustudio.org/
> 
> And here's a package list:
> 
> Basic infrastructure
>      alsa-tools - Console based ALSA utilities for specific hardware
>      alsa-tools-gui - GUI based ALSA utilities for specific hardware
>      linux-image-rt - Low latency kernel
>      qamix - Configurable mixer for ALSA
> 
> JACK and JACK Utilities
>      jackd - JACK Audio Connection Kit (server and example clients)
>      qjackctl - User interface for controlling the JACK sound server
>      bitscope - diagnosis tool for JACK audio software
>      jdelay - A small command line JACK app you can use to measure the 
> latency of your sound card.
>      meterbridge - A collection of Audio meters for the JACK audio server
>      patchage - modular patch bay for Jack audio and Alsa Midi
>      jack-tools - various JACK tools: plumbing, play, udp, ctl, scope, clock
> 
> Sound editing and recording
>      audacity - Swiss army audio editor
>      timemachine - JACK audio recorder for spontaneous and conservatory use
> 
> Audio playback
>      xmms - Versatile X audio player
>      xmms-jackasyn - JACK Output plugin for xmms
>      xmms-modplug - ModPlug plugin for XMMS
> 
> Digital Audio Workstation software
>      ardour - Digital audio workstation (graphical gtk interface)
>      beast - music synthesis and composition framework
> 
> Synthesizers
>      fluidsynth - Real-time MIDI software synthesizer
>      bristol - vintage synthesizer emulator
>      freebirth - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer similar to Rebirth
>      qsynth - fluidsynth MIDI sound synthesiser front-end
>      zynaddsubfx - Realtime software synthesizer for Linux
>      csound - powerful and versatile sound synthesis software
>      swami - SoundFont editor
> 
> Sampling
>      linuxsampler - software audio sampler
>      sooperlooper - Looping Sampler LADSPA plugin
> 
> Sequencing
>      aconnectgui - graphical ALSA sequencer connection manager
>      rosegarden4 - music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer
>      hydrogen - Simple drum machine/step sequencer
>      seq24 - Real time MIDI sequencer
>      jackbeat - audio sequencer
>      muse - Qt-based midi/audio sequencer
>      tk707 - drum sequencer for a sound card or MIDI device
>      shaketracker - MIDI sequencer with tracker GUI
> 
> Effects and signal processing
>      jack-rack - LADSPA effects "rack" for JACK
>      tapiir - A tool for real time audio delay and feedback effects
>      freqtweak - Realtime audio frequency spectral manipulation
>      jamin - Audio mastering from a mixed down multitrack source with JACK
>      creox - real-time guitar effects
>      jackeq - routes and manipulates audio from/to multiple sources
> 
> DJ tools
>      terminatorx - A realtime audio synthesizer
>      mixxx - A digital DJ interface (for beat-mixing)
> 
> MIDI Utilities
>      timidity - Software sound renderer (MIDI sequencer, MOD player)
>      vkeybd - Virtual Keyboard program
> 
> Musical typesetting
>      denemo - A gtk+ frontend to GNU Lilypond
>      lilypond-data - LilyPond music typesetter (data files)
>      lilypond - A program for typesetting sheet music
> 
> Miscellaneous / uncategorized
>      gtick - Metronome application
>      puredata - realtime computer music and graphics system
>      audatious -
> 
> A plug-ins package.
> Package list:
>      aeolus - Aeolus is a synthesized (i.e. not sampled) pipe organ emulator
>      blop - Bandlimited wavetable-based oscillator plugins for LADSPA hosts.
>      caps - A collection of refined LADSPA plugins.
>      cmt - (Computer Music Toolkit) A collection of LADSPA compatible 
> plugins.
>      fil-plugins - Parametric equalizer LADSPA plugin.
>      hexter - Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin
>      ladspa-sdk - Sample tools for linux-audio-dev plugin architecture.
>      mcp-plugins - LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth.
>      omins - Collection of LADSPA plugins geared at modular synthesizers.
>      swh-plugins - Steve Harris's LADSPA plugins.
>      tap-plugins - Tom's Audio Processing LADSPA plugins.
>      vcf - Audio EQ biquad filter LADSPA plugins.
>      dssi-example-plugins - Example DSSI plugins.
>      dssi-host-jack - An example DSSI host.
>      fluidsynth-dssi - Soundfont player/synth for DSSI.
>      xsynth-dssi - A classic-analog style softsynth DSSI plugin.
>      dssi-utils - Command-line utilities for sending commands to DSSI 
> plugins.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Howard
> President and CEO
> Georgia Open Source Education Foundation
> 


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