The Linux Audio Conference 2026 will take place from 18 to 20 June 2026 at Maynooth University in Ireland!
Very much looking forward to it already! This will be the second time the LAC will be held in Maynooth, first time was in 2011. Great memories of that LAC!
More info soon!
Rui Nuno Capela (Qtractor, QjackCtl) has uploaded some photos of #lLAC2025.
To get an idea of how the current version of Zita-AT1 sounds like, I did a live performance with it at LAC2017 in Saint Etienne.
https://youtu.be/jRBnf7WTi6w?list=PLpEMKw8jHgdRA3ydjZvt73q4Nc4W0jvuz&t=1264
Fons did mention that Zita-AT2 probably has somewhat higher latency.
Can't wait for Zita-AT2 to come out! The demos were just very impressive. Fons used Will Godfrey's isolated voice from one of his songs and ran it through Zita-AT2 to showcase its possibilities. For this version Fons used a completely different approach because he wanted to release a version that maintains formants.
https://youtu.be/jOhiVQ-RCWA?t=5163
Let's see if I can find the original score somewhere.
For the record, #LAC2025 is NOT sponsored by VLC even though it might look like it.
"The usual suspects will turn this into a LV2 plugin"
Quote of the day by Fons Adriaensen regarding his tape emulation project as an answer to the question if any samples were available.
So would it be an idea to have the L refer to Libre instead of Linux? So a Libre Audio Conference, open to everyone who wants to submit a talk, presentation, workshop or performance about or created with open source audio software?
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Yesterday we had a small discussion about the future of the Linux Audio Conference. Two main questions arose:
- Anybody willing to organize any possible next edition?
- Should we impose any restrictions on what could be submitted?
Especially the second question spurred some debate because it touches a broader underlying sentiment: should the L in LAC represent more than just Linux?
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During Giso Grimm's talk about OVBox¹ he mentioned that he had similar issues when using a newer kernel on a Raspberry Pi 4 and a Focusrite USB interface. Maybe enabling implicit feedback would help in his case too so hopefully we can take a look at that some time during the conference.
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One thing that changed throughout the kernel development cycle is the way USB audio interfaces are being handled. Somewhere along the line an esoteric setting called implicit feedback was introduced and by default it's disabled. I ran into issues myself (see https://autostatic.com/tag/ideapad/), I couldn't do proper low latency stuff. But when I enabled implicit feedback the dropouts were gone and now I can go as low as 32 frames.
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Jeremy Jongepier