LivLUG 2009 - An Introduction to JACK

Slides

Here are the Impress slides.

• an-introduction-to-jack.tar.gz [26k] - Tarball containing presentation and image files
• an-introduction-to-jack/ - Directory containing the same

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Links

Here are some links to software used in the demonstration and other things.

Software used in demonstration

• JACK, obviously :-)
• QJackCtl - The graphical frontend to jackd
• Patchage - The graphical patchbay
• amSynth - The synthesiser
• Hydrogen - The drum machine
• JACK Rack - The LADSPA effects processor
• LADSPA - The plugin system, with links to sets of plugins
• vkeybd - The on-screen virtual keyboard. There are better ones available, such as JACK Keyboard which supports JACK MIDI available in the latest versions of JACK
• Rosegarden - The MIDI sequencer
• RT patches - Kernel patches for Real-Time Linux

Other useful things

• Ardour - The hard-disk recording application/DAW developed by Paul Davis
• LASH - The session management system
• netjack - For connecting JACK over a network, useful in building a LASH/JACK rendering farm utopia
• FFADO - An implementation of IEC61883 (aka, firewire audio), also useful for rendering farm utopia purposes
• LV2 - The successor to the LADSPA plugin format; supports softsynths
• Flash Piano - A virtual piano Flash object

Distributions

• Planet CCRMA - Well maintained Fedora-based distribution by the Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford
• 64 Studio - British studio distribution
• Ubuntu Studio - An offshoot of That Distribution