Fedora Jam Audio Spin

Unleash your inner musician

Fedora jam is for audio enthusiasts and musicians who want to create, edit and produce audio and music. It comes with Jack, ALSA and Pulseaudio by default including a suite of programs to tailor your studio. It also includes all of the biggest audio applications, including Ardour, Audacity, Qtractor, Musescore, Frescobaldi, all the latest LADSPA/LV2 plugins and many more.

You can download the spin from here

Customizing Your Jam

There are a number of things you might like to do to make the most of your session. These include:

• disable KDE Desktop Effects
  • According to Martin Gräßlin's blog post (N.B., he is the lead developer of KWin), we should recommend users leave "desktop effects" enabled, but disable every effect individually.
• configure and enable rtirq (prioritize your realtime softirq audio threads). Instructions here.
• configure JACK

Support

• irc: #fedora-audio
• mailing list: music@list.fedoraproject.org

Contributing

The Jam spin is a project developed by the Audio Creation Special Interest Group (SIG). Joining the Audio SIG is as simple as being part of Fedora and having a love for music and sound. Once you are a contributor to Fedora, you can join the SIG by adding your name above and communicating with the rest of the team in the usual Fedora channels .

If you have no idea how to contribute here are some proposals where we need help:

• Packagers: There are always new and interesting packages that are not yet packaged for Fedora. Package it to improve the user experience.
• Reviewers: Only a few persons are doing the audio-related reviews. Help us reviewing so that more packages could be included.
• Testers: Testers can help out by trying out the nightlies development ISOs or testing new packages in the updates-testing repository and report bugs, bugs, bugs, request enhancements or features.
• Bugs: Become a BugZapper and help us with audio-related bugs.
• Documentation writers: We always welcome contributors to the http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Musicians_Guide/ .
• Wiki: Maintain this wiki and keep it updated with end user information.
• Artists: To provide a desktop themes / wallpapers for each upcoming release

Package Index

The following packages have been included in the released Live ISO.

JACK

• jack-audio-connection-kit (jack2)
• jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus
• qjackctl
• jackctlmmc

Pulseaudio

• pulseaudio-module-jack
• pavucontrol

MIDI

• qsynth
• fluidsynth
• fluid-soundfont-gm
• fluidsynth-dssi
• timidity++
• qmidiarp
• vmpk
• harmonyseq
• a2jmidid

Synthesis

• hydrogen
• bristol
• monobristol
• zynaddsubfx
• yoshimi
• swami
• Add64
• synthv1
• samplv1
• drumkv1
• ams

Guitar

• rakarrack
• guitarix
• tuxguitar

Recording and DAW's

• audacity
• ardour
• rosegarden4
• seq24
• muse
• qtractor
• non-session-manager

Audio Plugins / Utilities

• calf
• jack-rack
• ladspa
• zita-at1
• zita-rev1
• sooperlooper

• ladspa-amb-plugins
• ladspa-autotalent-plugins
• ladspa-blop-plugins
• ladspa-cmt-plugins
• ladspa-fil-plugins
• ladspa-mcp-plugins
• ladspa-rev-plugins
• ladspa-swh-plugins
• ladspa-tap-plugins
• ladspa-vco-plugins

• lv2-avw-plugins
• lv2-fil-plugins
• lv2-invada-plugins
• lv2-kn0ck0ut
• lv2-ll-plugins
• lv2-swh-plugins
• lv2-vocoder-plugins
• lv2-zynadd-plugins
• lv2dynparam
• lv2-abGate
• lv2-c++-tools
• lv2-samplv1
• lv2-synthv1
• lv2-drumkv1

• nekobee-dssi
• whysynth-dssi
• xsynth-dssi
• hexter-dssi
• zynjacku

• jamin
• lash
• jack_capture
• jaaa
• japa
• jmeters
• qastools
• arpage
• realTimeConfigQuickScan
• rtirq

Writing & Publishing

• emacs
• emacs-color-theme
• vim
• nano
• mscore
• lilypond
• frescobaldi

Streaming

• idjc