rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

Systems and applications programmer, analyst, technical consultant and specialist in IT systems since 1986. Officially certified as a Database Administrator (DBA) in IBM DB2 OS/390 (z/OS, mainframe) since 1995 and lately, IBM DB2 UDB for Linux, Unix and Windows (LUW) since 2001, this being the main current position.

Moderately active and enthusiastic participant in the open source and free software community, with particular interest in developing audio and MIDI software applications on the GNU/Linux platform.

Primary author and developer of qjackctl [1], qsynth [2], qsampler/liblscp [3], qtractor [4], qxgedit [5], qmidictl [6], qmidinet [7], synthv1 [8], samplv1 [9], drumkv1 [10], padthv1 [11] and qpwgraph [12]; former active cooperation in projects like the JACK Audio Connection Kit [13], LinuxSampler [14] and punctuated on the initiatives of the Real-time Linux kernel [15] and Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) [16].

[1] QjackCtl - A JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface
https://qjackctl.sourceforge.io

[2] Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface
https://qsynth.sourceforge.io

[3] Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
https://qsampler.sourceforge.io

[4] QXGEdit - A Qt XG Editor
https://qxgedit.sourceforge.io

[5] QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast
https://qmidictl.sourceforge.io

[6] QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast
https://qmidinet.sourceforge.io

[7] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
https://qtractor.org
https://qtractor.sourceforge.io

[8] synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer
https://synthv1.sourceforge.io

[9] samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler
https://samplv1.sourceforge.io

[10] drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler
https://drumkv1.sourceforge.io

[11] padthv1 - an old-school polyphonic additive synthesizer
https://padthv1.sourceforge.io

[12] qpwgraph - A PipeWire Graph Qt GUI Interface
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/rncbc/qpwgraph

[13] JACK Audio Connection Kit
https://jackaudio.org

[14] LinuxSampler - The Linux Sampler Project
A modular, streaming capable, realtime audio sampler
https://www.linuxsampler.org

[15] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
https://www.alsa-project.org

[16] Real-time Linux Kernel (PREEMPT_RT)
https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime