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 where we are concentrating on getting more audio related packages into 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 Contributors. The plan is that Fedora contributors go through CCRMA packages spec files to make them fully compliant to 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 when 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.

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, that is 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	Appl	Lib	Notation	Drums	Piano	Strings	Other	Audio	MIDI	Mixer	Sampler
CheeseTracker	software sampler & step-based sequencer	GPL?		✘							✘
chibitracker	Impulse Tracker clone	GPL		✘							✘
Ecasound	multitrack audio processing	GPL+LGPL		✘	✘						✘		✘
Mustajuuri	audio signal processing	GPL/LGPL		✘							✘	✘		✘
Non sequencer	Pattern-based MIDI sequencer	GPLv2+		✘								✘
Qtractor	Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer	GPLv2		✘							✘	✘	✘	✘
ReZound	graphical audio file editor	GPL?		✘							✘
terminatorX	realtime audio synthesizer	GPLv2?		✘							✘	✘		✘
Traverso	multitrack audio recording and editing	GPL?		✘							✘		✘
Wired	music production and creation	GPL?		✘							✘	✘	✘

Audio Creation related software submitted for review

Information				Software			Instrument				Type
Package	Summary	License	Bugzilla	Appl	Lib	Notation	Drums	Piano	Strings	Other	Audio	MIDI	Mixer	Sampler
Frinika	music workstation	GPLv2+...	492203	✘		✘					✘	✘	✘	✘
guitarix	Mono amplifier to JACK	GPL+	499975	✘					✘		✘	✘
jconv	Jack Convolution Engine	GPLv2+	499306		✘						✘

Orphaned Packages Needing Maintainers

No Currently Orphaned Audio Creation packages

Packages Accepted into Fedora

Information				Software			Instrument				Type
Package	Summary	License	pkgdb	Appl	Lib	Notation	Drums	Piano	Strings	Other	Audio	MIDI	Mixer	Sampler	Notes
Aldrin	Modular music sequencer/tracker	GPLv2+	[2]	✘							✘		✘	✘
Ardour	Multichannel Digital Audio Workstation	GPLv2+	[3]	✘							✘		✘
armstrong	Powerful music sequencing library	GPLv2+...	[4]		✘								✘	✘
Audacity	Multitrack audio editor	GPLv2	[5]	✘							✘		✘
bio2jack	lib for porting blocked io apps to jack	LGPLv2+...	[6]		✘						✘
creox	Real-time Sound Processor	GPLv2	[7]	✘					✘		✘
Csound	sound synthesis language and lib	LGPL	[8]	✘	✘						✘	✘	✘
FAUST	real-time audio signal processing language.	GPLv2+...	[9]								✘
FluidR3 soundfont	Pro-quality GM/GS soundfont	MIT	[10]									✘
FluidSynth	Real-time software synthesizer	LGPLv2+	[11]	✘	✘							✘
Frescobaldi	LilyPond sheet music editor for KDE4	GPLv2+...	[12]	✘		✘						✘
Gnome Guitar	small suite of apps for the guitarist	GPLv3+	[13]	✘					✘
Hydrogen	advanced drum machine	GPLv2+	[14]	✘			✘				✘	✘
JACK	The Jack Audio Connection Kit	GPLv2&LGPLv2	[15]		✘						✘
Jack_capture	Record sound files with JACK	GPLv2+...	[16]	✘							✘
jack-keyboard	Virtual keyboard for JACK MIDI	BSD	[17]	✘								✘
JAMin	JACK Audio Mastering interface	GPLv2+	[18]	✘							✘		✘
k3guitune	Guitar and other instruments tuner	GPLv2+	[19]	✘				✘	✘	✘	✘
KGuitar	Guitar Tabulature Music Editor	GPLv2+	[20]	✘		✘			✘		✘	✘
liblrdf	lib for manipulating LADSPA RDF files	GPLv2+	[21]		✘						✘
LMMS	music production	GPLv2+ ...	[22]	✘							✘	✘	✘	✘
meterbridge	Meter Bridge for JACK	GPL+	[23]	✘							✘
Minicomputer	Software synthesizer	GPLv3	[24]	✘							✘
MusE	Midi/Audio Music Sequencer	GPL+...	[25]	✘							✘	✘	✘	✘
MuseScore	music composition & notation software	GPLv2...	[26]	✘		✘		✘			✘	✘
nted	Musical score editor	GPLv2+...	[27]	✘		✘						✘
MusixTeX	Sophisticated music typesetting	GPLv2+	[28]			✘
PortMidi	Real-time Midi I/O Library	MIT	[29]		✘							✘
Qjackctl	JACK control application	GPLv2+	[30]	✘							✘
Qsynth	Qt based Fluidsynth frontend	GPLv2+	[31]	✘								✘
Rakarrack	guitar effects processor	GPLv2	[32]	✘					✘		✘
Rosegarden4	MIDI, audio and notation editor	GPLv2+	[33]	✘		✘					✘	✘		✘
rtaudio	Real-time Audio I/O Library	MIT	[34]		✘						✘
rumor	Really Unintelligent Music transcriptOR	GPLv2	[35]	✘		✘						✘
Seq24	Real-time midi sequencer	GPLv2+	[36]	✘								✘
Sooperlooper	Realtime software looping sampler	GPLv2+	[37]	✘							✘			✘
SoundTracker	Sound module composer/player	GPLv2+	[38]	✘							✘	✘	✘
Swami	Sampled Waveforms And Musical Instruments	GPLv2+	[39]	✘								✘
Sweep	audio editor & live playback tool	GPLv2+	[40]	✘							✘
TSE3	MIDI Sequencer Engine	GPL+	[41]		✘							✘
TuxGuitar	multitrack tablature editor	LGPLv2+	[42]	✘		✘	✘		✘		✘	✘
ZynAddSubFX	Real-time software synthesizer	GPLv2	[43]	✘							✘	✘

• 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.

Audio Plugins

DSSI, LADSPA and LV2 plugins allow usage of wide range of audio processors and effects in many audio synthesis and recording software (Ardour, Audacity, Muse, Rosegarden,...). Fedora currently offers a list of most popular ones of these plugins. There are still many more to package:

Audio Plugins Wishlist

Plugin	Summary	License	Assignee	Notes
ladspa-mcp-plugins	Chorus and Phaser	GPLv2+
ladspa-vcf-plugins	EQ biquad filters	LGPL?
ladspa-vlevel-plugins	Look-ahead compressor	GPL?

Audio Plugins Submitted for Review

Plugin	Summary	License	Bugzilla	Notes
dssi-vst	DSSI plugin wrapper for VST plugins	GPLv2	492221

Accepted Audio Plugins

Plugin	Summary	License	pkgdb	Notes
calf	Audio plugins pack	GPLv2+...	[44]
DSSI	Soft Synth Interface	MIT	[45]
JACK Rack	LADSPA effects rack	GPLv2+	[46]
LADSPA	Audio Plugins	LGPLv2+	[47]
ladspa-amb-plugins	Ambisonics LADSPA plugins	GPLv2+	[48]
ladspa-blop-plugins	Bandlimited LADSPA Oscillator Plugins	GPLv2+	[49]
ladspa-caps-plugins	The C* Audio Plugin Suite	GPLv2+	[50]
ladspa-cmt-plugins	A collection of LADSPA plugins	GPLv2+	[51]
ladspa-fil-plugins	LADSPA Filter plugins	GPLv2+	[52]
ladspa-rev-plugins	A reverberation plugin for LADSPA	GPLv2+	[53]
ladspa-swh-plugins	A set of audio plugins for LADSPA	GPLv2+	[54]
ladspa-tap-plugins	Tom's Audio Processing plugin	GPLv2+	[55]
ladspa-vco-plugins	Anti-aliased pulse and sawtooth oscillators	GPLv2+	[56]
lv2core	Audio Plugin Standard	LGPLv2+...	[57]
lv2dynparam	LV2 dynamic parameters extension	GPLv2	[58]
lv2-swh-plugins	LV2 version of swh plugins	GPLv2+	[59]
lv2-vocoder-plugins	robotic effect to vocals	GPLv2	[60]
lv2-zynadd-plugins	LV2 port of ZynAddSubFX	GPLv2	[61]
slv2	LV2 host library	GPLv2+	[62]
zynjacku	LV2 synths and plugins host	GPLv2...	[63]

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
• Marco Rhodes
• Jeff Sandys

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

• A long and classified list of audio software available for Linux: http://linux-sound.org/
• 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/