LAC 2007 Tutorial
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JAD Tutorial for the LAC @ TU Berlin, Germany 22-25 March 2007 [1]
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openSUSE JAD - Tutorials for installation and producing music
Michael Bohle
(for the JackLab Team: Edgar Aichinger, Oliver Bengs, Daniel Sammut )
Vieländer Weg 8
D-27572 Bremerhaven
laney at gmx dot ch
Technical setup
- Projector with XVGA input (resolution 1024x768)
- studio monitoring speaker setup
Our human/technical setup
- AudioDAW, Notebook
- Microphones and instruments
- JackLab Team
Length
About 4 hours.
Summary
openSUSE JAD – how does it work? A user friendly installation with YaST and other tutorials from the Community with the JackLab Team,
-How to upgrade a standard openSUSE 10.2 installation to a fully functional professional Digital Audio Workstation in 3 easy steps using various sources including the JAD repository.
-A tutorial to show the advancement of linux audio and how to workaround things that are still problematical, for example the limited ability to use VST plug-ins or missing "total recall".
-We will implement a virtual music production environment with real instruments, software-based realtime effects and tone generators.
-Basics of the following software will be covered: Jack, Ardour2VST (and how to compile Ardour2 with VST support), energy XT2, Rosegarden, various VST plugins and how to get them working in Linux.
-The following will be covered in more detail: advanced Jack transport and routing, using several synced software applications at the same time.
Keywords
JackLab, openSUSE JAD – Installation, use, problems, music production with Linux audio, deal with VST on Linux, advanced professional use of applications.

