Audio Creation

Fedora Audio Creation Special Interest Group

Mission

Goal: to make Fedora the best Free software and open source platform it can be for computer based music production, audio mastering and audio editing.

We aim to accomplish this goal through a variety of activities:

• Creating high quality packages of music / audio applications, tools and libraries.

The first step here will be integration of CCRMA's packages into Fedora, we are in contact with Fernando Lopez-Lezcano from CCRMA about this, here is his description of planet CCRMA and the renewed integration effort:

Planet CCRMA is a third party repository that specializes since 2001 in transforming a stock Fedora (originally Red Hat) workstation into a low latency audio machine. It includes a low latency patched kernel, assorted utilities to get everything working without manual configuration and a fairly complete collection of up to date open source sound, midi and music applications geared towards musical content creation. Most applications use the Jack sound server to communicate with the sound card and each other.

Over time some packages from Planet CCRMA have migrated to Fedora, this is a second push to integrate more of the core Planet CCRMA packages into Fedora.

• Providing a forum where users and developers can discuss issues related to music production, audio mastering and audio editing.
• Seeking publicity for Audio Creation in and with Fedora
• Actively review each other's audio packages to shorten the time it takes to get them approved and imported into Fedora Package Collection
• Design additional guidelines on top of the Fedora Packaging guidelines that are specific to audio packages (as needed)
• Help each other fix bugs that have been filed against audio packages
• Alerting each other about orphaned and soon-to-be orphaned audio packages so that we can prevent their removal

Jackd system integration:

• provide a seamless jackd/pulseaudio setup. (no workarounds like [1])

Audio Spin:

• Create a Fedora Jacklab like spin

Process

The Audio Creation SIG is currently in a phase were we are concentrating on getting more audio related packages in to Fedora and specifically concentrating on getting CCRMA packages integrated into Fedora.

Since Fernando's time is almost fully occupied with maintaining CCRMA and keeping it up to date, the effort of the integration of CCRMA packages into Fedora will be mostly done by other Fedora Contributers. The plan is that Fedora contributers go through CCRMA packages spec files to make them fully match the Fedora Packaging Guidelines and then submit them for review and make any necessary changes to pass review. Fernando will be put in the CC of the review, and will be made co-maintainer of packages want the are imported into the Fedora Package Collection. This way the packaging expertise and manpower of the Fedora Community can be combined with the vast Audio Creation experience of Fernando. This effort will be spearheaded by Hans de Goede (HansdeGoede).

A list of audio packages needing a reviewer will be kept here on the wiki, so that people who want to help can easily find them. If you want to create, submit and maintain packages yourself, thats very good too, be sure to check that they are not already under review, and add them to the list of packages needing review here to get a review from a SIG member.

Communication

As our work currently mainly consists of packaging, communication is mainly done through bugzilla review tickets (a list of active ones is below). We also have a mailing list for general discussions surrounding audio / music creation: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-music-list

• #fedora-audio on the freenode IRC network
• Mailing list: Fedora Music List

Wishlist

Enter any Audio Creation related software you want to see packaged here:

Information				Software			Instrument				Type
Package	Summary	License	Assignee	Application	Library	Notation	Drums	Piano	Strings	Other	Audio	MIDI	Mixer	Sampler
FAUST	real-time audio signal processing language.	GPL?
Frescobaldi	LilyPond sheet music editor for KDE4	GPLv2?		✘		✘						✘
Gnome Guitar	small suite of apps for the guitarist	GPL?		✘					✘
k3guitune	Guitar and other instruments tuner	?		✘					✘
Minicomputer	Software synthesizer	GPLv3		✘							✘
MuseScore	music composition & notation software	GPL?		✘		✘						✘
Non sequencer	Pattern-based MIDI sequencer	GPLv2+		✘								✘
Qtractor	Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer	GPLv2		✘							✘	✘	✘	✘
Traverso	multitrack audio recording and editing	GPL?		✘							✘		✘

Audio Creation related software submitted for review

Information				Software			Instrument				Type
Package	Summary	License	Bugzilla	Application	Library	Notation	Drums	Piano	Strings	Other	Audio	MIDI	Mixer	Sampler
KGuitar	Guitar Tabulature Music Editor	GPLv2+	480887	✘		✘			✘		✘	✘
LMMS	music production	GPLv2+ +?	443771	✘							✘	✘	✘	✘
MusE	Midi/Audio Music Sequencer	GPL+...	483301	✘							✘	✘	✘	✘
MusixTeX	Sophisticated music typesetting	GPLv2+	481071			✘

Orphaned Packages Needing Maintainers

No Currently Orphaned Audio Creation packages

Packages Accepted into Fedora

Information				Software			Instrument				Type
Package	Summary	License	pkgdb	Application	Library	Notation	Drums	Piano	Strings	Other	Audio	MIDI	Mixer	Sampler	Notes
Ardour	Multichannel Digital Audio Workstation	GPLv2+	[2]	✘							✘		✘
Audacity	Multitrack audio editor	GPLv2	[3]	✘							✘		✘
Hydrogen	advanced drum machine	GPLv2+	[4]	✘			✘				✘	✘			Update?
PortMidi	Real-time Midi I/O Library	MIT	[5]		✘							✘
Rakarrack	guitar effects processor	GPLv2	[6]	✘					✘		✘
Rosegarden4	MIDI, audio and notation editor	GPLv2+	[7]	✘		✘					✘	✘		✘	Needs update
Sooperlooper	Realtime software looping sampler	GPLv2+	[8]	✘							✘			✘
TSE3	MIDI Sequencer Engine	GPL+	[9]		✘							✘
TuxGuitar	multitrack tablature editor	LGPLv2+	[10]	✘		✘	✘		✘		✘	✘

• Please add others that have already made the jump into Fedora, so that we can show that the SIG is making positive progress ;-)
• The above table is made for ease of classification. Feel free to tailor it.

Packagers/Reviewers/People interested

• Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
• AnthonyGreen
• Greg de Koenigsberg
• HansdeGoede
• MarioTorre
• DominikMierzejewski
• JoaoFelipeSantos
• Harald Hoyer
• Clint Savage
• Dave Maley
• Renich Bon Ciric
• David Timms
• Orcan Ogetbil

Common Non-fedora-conforming issues in CCRMA packages

Given that Planet CCRMA has a lot of tools that might be packaged for Fedora, it's possible that recurring items will stick out - and we could mention a standard approach to resolve them.

• don't know yet.

Audio Creation Links

• An article about music creation under Fedora: http://www.passback.org.uk/music/fedora-music-intro/
• Planet CCRMA: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
• Planet CCRMA SRPMS: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/all/linux/SRPMS/