Take it easy 
Later this week, let me have a go with 1) setting a specific installed kernel to boot by default and 2) The GRUB2 Bootloader – Installation and Configuration.
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@ycollet Writing Day Atlantic 2024 (Audinux) proposal has been accepted. Writing Day Coordinators (Rose and Andrea) loves the project and goals. 
See this link to PR for you to review. Once you and I review the PR and they apply the final edits, the Coordinators will get it live on the WTD site.
They advised me two sessions (morning and afternoon in time zones of Europe and East Coast of US) instead of one.
When: Sunday 22 September 2024
The first session can be a bit slower than the second session; I’m more likely to accomplish the majority of goals by hosting the whole day. I’ll be signing off midway through the second session.
Intended audience would be creative people, who create music using Linux desktop and want to improve audio in video content.
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Thanks a lot for this effort.
I will make me available 22th of September to be able to review PRs quickly.
On my side, I am rebuiling missing package. I will add a new tag in the spec to indicate if the spec is alive or not. Some package don’t build anymore …
So, this will show up in the search engine …
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I hope you’ve sorted it out.
Writing Day Project ‘Audinux’ went live. It will be a fun day!
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I really want to see what it will be like.
Thanks a lot managing all this
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I’ll be onboarding new participants on virtual conference platform offered by WTD on the day.
Session 1 onboarding guide is documented as below.
You might expect PR request between 14:30 UTC and 17:00 UTC, but you don’t necessarily review them on the day. Main goals are to raise awareness on audio tools offered by Fedora JAM Lab and Audinux.
Video recording of sessions will be uploaded to YT within a week from the event.
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Thanks a lot. I will make me available on this period.
If you have some questions, fell free to send a message, I will try to answer ASAP.
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Ready for tomorrow ?
Yes, I’m ready for interactive session with video tool with participants. You’ll get notification when they leave comments in audinux repo.
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That’s a very nerdy order. 
How about creative (practice first) order instead? 
- Rack and patchbay
- Vocal chains
- Adding audio to video
- LiveStreaming with OBS
- Recording and making records better
- Making sound louder
- Compression vs normalization
- Noise removal
- Plugins, packages, hardware to get creative
- Make it better, do it with others
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I would actually very appreciate nerdy intro into sound and audio with Linux.
The thing I liked about being in the field doing interactive installations with architects, graphic designers, urbanists and musicians is that we all appreciate the beauty of touching things on a very very low direct level.
The problem with Linux sound is that there is no connection between low level that we experience as humans, and the API we use. Jack, ALSA, Pipewire, OSS - they don’t tell you how your voice gets from the mic into digits. How these digits get into computer memory and then to the disk. And how they get from disk into computer memory and then sent to your speakers. Why there is delay, and how to see this delay, how to measure it and make as short as possible. How to connect mic to speakers with really really low latency. Why bluetooth mic overheats the notebook and how to see it in action? These kind of questions.
Some tools give you a good visual description of the flow of “sound” between applications.
For example with Ray Session:
You have everything represented, from the sound card inputs to the sound card outputs via tuxguitar / guitarix / non-mixer-xt and more if you want …
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I like this sequence. Better practise oriented I think …
That looks like some advanced hardware is involved. Are programs able to detect the hardware themselves? Or you need to add it manually?
Also, it won’t be able to detect my Bluetooth headset, right? And also if the codecs it uses are hardware of software (I suspect they are software and that’s why laptop overheating occurs).
Not everything is detected, but on my side, no problems with USD audio card, no problems with MIIDI devices.
From time to time, I use demucs to perform some audio separation and this tool works fine with the NVidia graphic card.
For headset If you are lucky, everything will be transparent.
And for the webcams I have 2 here and they work without problems.
There are certainly devices which doesn’t work nicely under Linux, but this list is shorted every year
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Also, when I don’t have guitar, but I can “beatbox” the rhyme, it would be really really nice to, you know, put that directly into an audio program, so it can match the beat sound with the best instrument (or tune one), and give me track that sounds good with minimal effort.
And extra bonus point if there is a way to record tensor tympani movement with any device and put that on the bass track.
The motive/structure of creating new documentation pages within the ‘User Guide’ templates was documented in this issue ticket.
We don’t need to re-tell user guide of individual packages such as Ardour, Carla-rack.
During the writing day session, target audience of Audinux was questioned by two participants. One of them was an experienced musician.
I attempted to encourage new users of Linux producing music with Audinux. In retrospect, most of packages you need for tracking, mixing and editing are in RPM. To me, Audinux seems extra packages that advanced users might need.
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Ir"s not beat boxing but, this song:
Is made using only the voice. I recorded the voice using a mike + USD audio interface and then the audio signal was sent to Cardinal where I put 2 cascaded echose and a special reverb. I connected a MIDI control surface (AkaI LPD8) to Cardinal and controled feedback + delay via the Akai knobs.
Quite happy with the result …
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Hi everyone,
Just wanted to share that I’ve published a compact Getting Started guide for Audinux after several months of testing, comparison with other tools, and real-world use. Although I initially thought it would be quicker, it took nearly a year to get it right — mainly to ensure the content is not redundant, well-tested, and genuinely helpful for new users.
Special thanks to Yann Collette for being a great sounding board (no pun intended) throughout this process — your insights were incredibly helpful.
In particular, I found Carla, JACK routing, and LSP analyzer plugins to be powerful and versatile tools when setting up an audio workflow. I highlighted these in the guide and hope others will find them just as useful.
I hope this guide helps more people discover and adopt Audinux. Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate, or advanced musician, I believe we can all benefit by sharing our own setups, workflows, and lessons learned. Let’s keep building and evolving together.
Wishing Audinux continued growth and success!
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