How to create music with GNU/Linux
Emmanuel Saracco
Copyright © 2005-2009 Emmanuel Saracco
How to create music with GNU/Linux
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Dedication
This howto is dedicated to all GNU/Linux users that refuse to use proprietary software to work with audio.
Many thanks to all Free developers and Free composers that help us day-by-day to make this possible.
- Table of Contents
- Forword
- 1. System settings and tuning
- 1.1. My Studio
- 1.2. File system
- 1.3. Linux Kernel
- 1.3.1. Realtime Preemption patch
- 1.3.2. Configuration
- 1.3.3. Installation
- 1.4. Obtaining Reatime privileges
- 1.4.1. Realtime LSM
- 1.4.2. Using set_rlimits
- 1.4.3. Using PAM
- 1.5. PCI latency
- 1.6. ALSA
- 2. Hardware
- 2.1. RME Hammerfall HDSP 9632
- 2.1.1. Firmware
- 2.1.2. Linux Kernel
- 2.1.3. HDSP utilities
- 3. Building required audio software
- 3.1. Jack Audio Connection Kit
- 3.2. Qjackctl
- 3.3. LADSPA
- 3.3.1. LADSPA plugins
- 3.4. DSSI
- 3.5. Hydrogen
- 3.6. QSynth
- 3.7. SpiralSynthModular
- 3.8. ZynAddSubFX
- 3.9. Rosegarden
- 3.10. LMMS - Linux Multimedia Studio
- 3.11. Ardour
- 3.12. JAMin
- 3.13. Jack Timemachine
- 3.14. Rezound
- 3.15. Lame
- 4. Soundfonts
- 4.1. Getting soundfonts
- 4.2. Using soundfonts
- 4.2.1. With Soundblaster soundcard
- 4.2.2. With other soundcards
- 4.2.2.1. Testing with DSSI plugins
- 4.2.2.2. Testing with QSynth
- 5. Create music
- 5.1. Execute Jack at first
- 5.2. Playing with ZynAddSubFX
- 5.3. Playing with Hydrogen
- 5.4. Playing with Rosegarden
- 5.4.1. Rosegarden settings
- 5.4.2. Using soft synthetizers
- 5.4.3. Recording audio tracks
- 5.5. Playing with Ardour
- 5.6. Playing with JAMin
- 6. Capturing and encoding
- 6.1. Playing with Timemachine
- 6.2. Playing with Rezound
- 6.3. Share your work
- A. Useful Audio Links
- A.1. Mailing-lists
- A.2. Web sites
- A.3. Soundfonts
- A.4. Sound effects
- B. My work
- Colophon
- List of Tables
- 1-1. My Studio
- List of Figures
- 1-1. ALSA configuration
- 1-2. alsamixer
- 2-1. hdspconf main window
- 2-2. hdspmixer main window
- 4-1. Fluidsynth DSSI plugin graphic interface
- 4-2. QSynth graphic interface
- 5-1. Jack server main setup window
- 5-2. Jack server main window
- 5-3. ZynAddSubFX main window
- 5-4. Jack connection manager/ZynAddSubFX client
- 5-5. ZynAddSubFX virtual keyboard
- 5-6. ZynAddSubFX multitracks mixer
- 5-7. Hydrogen main window
- 5-8. Rosegarden General settings
- 5-9. Rosegarden synth plugins manager
- 5-10. Ardour main window
- 5-11. JAMin main window
- 6-1. Jack connection manager/Timemachine client
- 6-2. Timemachine
- 6-3. Rezound main window
- 6-4. Rezound Gain Control window
- 6-5. Rezound Curved Gain window
- 6-6. Rezound save window
- List of Examples
- 6-1. Music genre's list for OGG and MP3 encoding