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System Tasks
- Understanding Sound Cards
- What Is a "Sound Card?"
- How Do I Find Information about my audio interface? (optional)
- How Do I Find Information about my MIDI interface? (optional)
- How Do I Know Which Input/Output Port to Use?
- Understanding Sound Servers
- What a Sound Server Is
- Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)
- What ALSA Is, and Why It Exists
- PulseAudio
- JACK Audio Connection Kit
- Phonon
- What Phonon Is, and Why It Exists
- Knowing When to Use Phonon
- Planet CCRMA at Home
- What Planet CCRMA Is, and Why It Exists
- Knowing Whether You Should Use Planet CCRMA (including risks & benefits of third-party repositories)
- Using Planet CCRMA Software
- Optimizing the Linux Kernel for Audio Applications (optional, but highly desired - at least CCRMA)
- What Is a Realtime Kernel? (including "What is processor scheduling?")
- Using a Pre-built Realtime Kernel from Planet CCRMA (including "Planet CCRMA's kernels may be older than Fedora's")
- Building Your Own Audio-Optimized Kernel (of course, with appropriate disclaimers)
- Other Possible Optimizations (this will primarily be the removal of unused device drivers)
Audio Tasks
- Simple Recording
- Audacity
- Audacity
- Digital Audio Workstations
- Knowing Which DAW to Use
- Common Features
- Ardour
- Qtractor
- Rosegarden
- Synthesizers
- Typesetting
- Aural Skills Training