[kwlug-disc] Monday May 2 presentation details

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> From: R. Brent Clements <rbclemen at gmail.com>
>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> 
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>Subject: [kwlug-disc] Monday May 2 presentation details
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>I will be spending a bit of time talking about ALSA and pulse configuration in greater detail in the first part of the talk--covering some special configurations that may be useful for certain tasks.  I am working on a bit of a theatrical presentation that integrates intros to some useful apps from the open source world, and of course a few neat demos as well.
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>Just have to take a quick listen to my last talk to remind myself how far I got last time :-)



Hi Brent.

http://kwlug.org/ notes: R. Brent Clements will continue his discussions and demonstrations of sound tools in Linux, including audio recording for music.

Particularly given today's distros, wouldn't you take it as a given that all apps and tools are correctly installed and configured already? Isn't the question not one of configuration, but rather, now that the tools are present ... what does one do / how do they go about 'it'?

[Even if an individual has a particular setup or hardware, a quick google will let them individually cross their hurdle to get to a point of working apps configured sufficiently well? Allowing you to focus on the general case within a working environment, rather than the much smaller subset of particular unique configuration oddities?]

Presumably the newcomer, app in hand but unfamiliar with sound manipulation, is looking to better understand the nature of dealing with the beastie (sound), and what sorts of things one can do?

e.g. I expect a typical use case will be, say, an 'interview', and one would like to 'crop' the audio and eliminate background. Perhaps chopping it up into segments, and overlaying pieces over music acquired (to hand) from elsewhere at different points. Or perhaps, since even smartphones can record movies, overlaying some audio (narration?) on top of it? (I get that video is a superset of audio, but I expect one could extrapolate the audio tools and concepts you could explain to video tools when the user gets that far.)

I would guess the first hurdle a typical newcomer would have is the terminology, let alone what tools do what (once one knows what to call 'what') - not configuration.

Perhaps, though, I'm missing something?