The March Manchester FSFE Fellowship meeting will take place on Thursday 29th at 19.00 in MadLab.
Bob Ham, GNU/Linux audio developer and coordinator of Liverpool Linux User Group, will introduce and explain the JACK Audio Connection Kit - a professional Free Software sound server for audio recording, mixing, editing, and more.
JACK is at the cutting edge of professional media software, and powers the most powerful Free Software applications in the field, including:
- Ardour: http://ardour.org/ - Hydrogen: http://www.hydrogen-music.org - Blender: http://www.blender.org/ - VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - PureData: http://puredata.info/
JACK does things that the most expensive proprietary software cannot, as was originally funded and still developed by British programmer Paul Davis.
Bob's description:
A short history and discussion of the JACK Audio Connection Kit, its operating principles, design and implementation
- A short history of JACK
- Some sound card basics
- The JACK system
- Demonstration
The talk is a bit technical and contains phrases like "sound card buffer" and "callback".
There will also be discussion about recent news from the politics of Free Software, and a report from Document Freedom Day, which takes place the day before. Please bring your own topics for discussion with you, and present them to the group.
How to find MadLab: http://madlab.org.uk/contact/
See you there!
Sam.