How to produce music with Linux/FLOSS professionally

Real penguins do not need apples to make music...

A case study on how an entirely Linux/FLOSS based production chain can be a viable alternative to the proprietary/paid one(s). I will concentrate on the production of a pop song, from the draft to the full-fledged, platform-ready master.

Many topics will be briefly discussed here: hardware, tools, practices, objectives, comparisons and interoperability and whatever; all you need to know to get the job done, professionally.

Here are some links related to this talk:

• “Oh Nena”, the finished song
• Ardour, a DAW
• Hydrogen, a drum machine
• JACK Audio Connection Kit, low latency audio backend
• Fedora Linux, the underlying OS