I'll be hosting 2 more presentations about DAW on Linux this month (slides attached).

May 15th @ Greater New Hampshire LUG
May 21st @ Boston Linux & UNIX

The updated slides are attached. I just need to figure out how to make attachments publicly accessible...

SoundWIRE research group at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics), Stanford University is concerned with the use of Internet networks as an extension to computer music performance, composition and research. Research areas include:

* Professional-Quality Multi-Channel Audio Streaming
* Internet Physical Models and Virtual Acoustics
* Sonification of Network Reliability
* Human factor (psychoacoustics) in Network Performance
* Internet/Computer/Acoustic Music Performance Practice

Also trying to install $SUBJECT. Read on for more details...

Note (June 2008): This story was originally for Fedora 8, but I recently replaced the harddrives with faster/bigger ones. Then I loaded fedora 9 i386 (32bit). Everything now reflects the current state.

So recently I engaged myself in finding a new personal laptop for purposes of editing video (NLVE w/ Cinelerra) while on the road traveling for business & for use as a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) using RoseGarden. My goals were: large screen size, bright display, lots of memory and storage space. I tested a Toshiba P205D-S7802, a HP Pavillion dv9715nr, and finally a HP Pavillion dv9730nr. Mainly for reasons of Linux driver compatability, graphics performance, memory capacity and ample disk storage... I wound up with the HP Pavillion dv9730nr. As an added accessory, I also hooked up a Wacom Intuos3 8x6 tablet (configs attached). Read on for more...

I've begun assembling research & notes for an informal presentation on Linux Audio (CCRMA) to be given in March 2008 at BLU. I'veboard also had a great deal of success constructing Rosegarden MIDI configs for a Boss DR-880 drum machine & a Yamaha s90es key. So if you care to monitor/inspect my progress.

Update: the PDF slides from the presentation are attached... click "Read more"!

I've been trouble shooting some problems my kids have reported with Fedora 8, Firefox and Flash. The symptom is that they visit sites like webkinz.com or clubpenguin.com, and the resulting flash page is a blank white screen. Although not definitive, read on for my attempt to work around this...