[LAD] [ANN] JAD 1.0 officially released

Forwarded, sorry for the cross-posting: The JackLab Project announces its first public release Promotion association planned The technical manager of the JackLab of project, Oliver Bengs, released the final 1.0 version of the JackLab Audio Distribution (JAD) today after development period of over eight months. JAD 1.0 is based upon OpenSUSE 10.2 with the addition of a real time Linux kernel for fast audio processing with the professional audio server JACK. JackLab 1.0 includes one of the most comprehensive selections of open source audio and multimedia software to date. The Enlightenment D17 window manager (with 'KDE-lite' tweaks) is used by default, with the option of using the full KDE 3.5.7 instead. JAD 1.0 aims to lower the Linux entry barriers, making things as easy as possible for musicians and multimedia content creators, and it offers complete compatibility with openSUSE 10.2. The Smart package manager is included for quickly and easily updating or adding new software and the YaST system tool is included for easy graphical system administration. The system is immediately operational after installation for tasks such as multi-track recording with Ardour 2, real time audio synthesis with ZynAddSubFX , MIDI sequencing with Rosegarden, video editing with KDEnlive, and graphics manipulation with programs such as Inkscape and Gimp. Unlike most other existing Linux audio distributions JAD 1.0 offers complete support for ASIO. Thanks to WINE you can useWindows VST host programs such as Reaper or EnergyXT2 with a very large number of VST plugins, with latency as good as native Linux JACK audio applications. Simply add the wineasio driver to the WINE registry and these applications can then be used as easily as if from native Windows. This is all easily done and well-documented on the JackLab wiki. In addition, native VST for Linux is supported by JOST, a powerful modular host. Some native Linux VST plugins are included with the distribution but there are more that can't be included for legal reasons. JOST also supports LADSPA, the native Linux Audio Developer plugin format. JackLab comes with over 300 LADSPA plugins. JAD 1.0 is the result of a collaboration of musicians and free software developers and enthusiasts. This community was started by musician and media producer Michael Bohle in order to improve and promote the development of pro-audio under Linux. OpenSUSE was selected as the basis of JAD because it is a very user-friendly version of Linux. The project is independent from OpenSUSE but intends to give back to the community by improving SUSE's support for pro-audio and multimedia creation. In order to safeguard JAD and its future development, a registered promotion association [JackLab e.V.] is planned. JackLab e.V. will sponsor activities of the JackLab community such as workshops, participating in shows, and holding developer conferences. Hopefully it will also fund the development of exciting open source audio projects. The project would like to thank all the testers and early adopters for their assistance in creating JAD 1.0, along with all the good discussions in blogs, forums and magazines. The overwhelmingly positive response from musicians was very encouraging. We received feedback from the whole world, where JAD 1.0 is now used in recording studios, schools, workshops and youth centers. Michael Bohle, project-leader www.jacklab.org Screenshots: http://jacklab.net/jacklaborg/english/?JAD_1.0_Screenshots