Open Source Musician Podcast

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Thu, 16 July 2009

Open Source Musicians Podcast Episode #19 - Vocals, Mixing and LMMS

Intro:

Software Releases:

Ardour 2.8. 1:

This is primarily a bug-fix release. However, the bugs that it fixes are important enough that it advised that all users, especially those on OS X, will choose to upgrade. Crashes when deleting AudioUnit plugins, and a very important potential data loss issue with session cleanup are now fixed. 2.8.1 also has a builtin "Chat" option to connect (via your web browser) to our IRC channel. To download, visit the download page at

Link:

http://ardour.org/download

Jacktrip 1.05:

Jacktrip is a system for high quality audio network performance over the internet. This is a different project from netjack and is being developed at CCRMA by the SoundWIRE group.
It supports any number of channels (as many as the computer/network can handle) of bidirectional, high quality, uncompressed audio signal streaming.

Link:

http://code.google.com/p/jacktrip/

Denemo 0.8.6:

Denemo is a music notation program, which is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS (via third-party builds) as source and binaries. Denemos notation-functionality is ready for daily and professional use and aims to be the only tool you ever need for notation and an Open Source alternative to Finale, Sibelius or other unfree software, because the tools for producing art and culture should be free.

Link:

http://www.denemo.org/index.php/Main_Page

Gear:

Behringer UCA202:

Pros:

A cheap beginner USB audio device that works well under linux.
The device is simple and works as advertised.
At the price, there isn't really anything that competes to this device - a great entry level purchase.

Cons:

Steve had to disable on-board sound for Slackware 12.2 Linux kernel 2.6.29 to play nice with this device - you may not have this issue.

Specs:

2 channel RCA in/out USB audio device with built in headphone monitoring (has volume control on device) and optical out.
48 kHz A/D and D/A converters for high-end audio quality.

Conclusion:
Decent entry level device at a very affordable price.

Link:
http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCA202.aspx

Indamixx Laptop:

Pros: