The Colorado Springs Open Source Software Meetup Group Monthly Meetup

PLEASE NOTE:

THIS MEETING IS ON A WEDNESDAY

AGENDA
6:00 - 6:30 PM - Food, Drinks & Networking
6:30 - 6:35 PM - Announcements
6:35 - 7:15 PM - Basic Concepts
7:15 - 7:20 PM - Break
7:20 - 8:40 PM - Main Speaker
8:40 - 8:55 PM - Door Prize Drawings

MAIN TOPIC ABSTRACT
Night of Music and Linux

This month we'll be using the whole night to be a "show and tell" of several of the various music production and performance tools that Linux has to offer. We'll have a chance to stay away from slide-ware (for the most part) and you'll see and hear first-hand what a guitar/mic, a midi controller and a laptop with Ubuntu Studio is capable of...and we'll just be scratching the surface. For Basic Concepts, we'll cover the basics of the Jack audio system as it is the foundation of most of the audio tools that Linux has to offer. We'll then demo a few of the live performance audio software tools including Sooper Looper and a couple of guitar amp emulators as well as show some of the very helpful Jack configuration tools that are available to manage the complexity. For the Main Topic portion, we'll transition to the audio recording and production tools. We'll briefly touch on Audacity and Linux Multimedia Studio and then go through a real recording project using Ardour, Linux's most powerful hard disk recording solution. Finally, we'll look at mastering an audio production with Jamin. While we won't go deep or overly technical in any one piece of software, I'll hopefully be able to spark your imagination and demonstrate the power of open source software while having some fun and jammin' along the way.

MAIN SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Kevin Werner

Kevin Werner is a software engineer with CA Technologies. He has been using opensource software for many years in many aspects and is always excited to share his experience with others. Aside from work and family life, he enjoys outdoor and athletic endeavors and playing around with free and opensource multimedia projects of all sorts (and distributing them under CC licensing, of course).

OUR SPONSORS
Website Sponsor: Homeland Security Careers (https://www.meetup.com/csopensource/)
Food Sponsor: New Horizons Computer Learning Center (http://www.newhorizons.com/LocalWeb/Default.aspx?TemplateId=14&GroupId=338)
Door Prize Sponsors: Jetbrains (http://www.jetbrains.com) - Software license (Several products to choose from)
Book Sponsor: OReilly Publishing (http://www.oreilly.com) - Technical books