From: Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabrbedd(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [LAD] Suggestion for diving into audio development? To: linux-audio-dev(a)lists.linuxaudio.org Cc: "Kris Calabio" <cpczk(a)yahoo.com> Date: Tuesday, 26 October, 2010, 8:46 PM Hi Kris, On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 05:24:59 pm Kris Calabio wrote: introduce Welcome!! of source 1. Watch this movie:    http://wiki.xiph.org/A_Digital_Media_Primer_For_Geeks_(episode_1) 2. You said you know C and C++... so, you're all    set there. :-) 3. Read through jack docs and examples in the source    code for jack. 4. Another good tutorial/resource is Paul Davis's tutorial    on using the ALSA API:    http://www.equalarea.com/paul/alsa-audio.html 5. Pick an app that you like, and start squashing bugs.    It'll be slow and tedious and confusing at first.    But that stuff pays off big-time later.  Not only    will you have massive debugging chops, but you'll    have some good trial-and-error opportunities to    learn what you do/don't like doing.  Not everyone    likes nasty DSP algorithms, but some guys can't    get enough.  Not everyone likes picking the perfect    pixel size for a custom widget... but other guys    really enjoy that. Are I'm also Gordon suggested playing with plugins... and I think that's an excellent suggestion. Fons Adriaensen writes very clean, well-designed code, with many small apps, plugins and libraries. http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/downloads/index.html Except for his DSP algorithms (which use terse mathematical notation), I find his code easy to follow. -gabriel