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A complete audio production workflow with Muse and Ardour

Updated: Fri, 2016-06-03 07:36

Audio production with Muse and Ardour is a 6 part video tutorial showing a complete workflow using FLOSS audio tools.

In this tutorial you will learn how to import, clean up and edit a MIDI file using MusE. It then goes on to show how to import the MIDI file into Ardour and setting up instruments to play the song.

On to guitar recording and audio editing in Ardour, selecting sounds and editing the takes.

The tutorial continues with vocal recording and editing, mixing and mastering the song.

Ardour 4.7 released

Updated: Sat, 2016-03-26 20:52

Ardour 4.7 is now available, including a variety of improvements and minor bug fixes. The two most significant changes are:

Read more about Ardour 4.7 released

Qtractor 0.7.5 (hazy photon) is out!

Updated: Sat, 2016-03-26 20:07

Qtractor, the audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer, has reached the 0.7.5 milestone!!

Highlights for this dot/beta release:

Read more about Qtractor 0.7.5 (hazy photon) is out!

TuxGuitar 1.3.0 released

Updated: Thu, 2016-02-04 00:53

After over six years without a release, TuxGuitar 1.3.0 is now available with lots of fixes and new features. Here's a list of changes from TuxGuitar website:

AVL Drumkits updated to version 1.0

Updated: Wed, 2016-06-08 04:40

Glen MacArthur, maintainer of AVLinux, has just announced version 1.0 of his AVL Drumkit samples, which come in both Hydrogen and SFZ formats.

Yoshimi LV2 plugin

Updated: Mon, 2015-12-14 19:37

Yoshimi, the ZynAddSubFX fork is now available not only as a standalone application, but also as an LV2 plugin.

It has not yet been released as a package, but according to developer Will Godfrey, should make it for the next Ubuntu release.

Introduction

Qtractor can handle your MIDI and Audio tracks with sample-perfect precision, present you with a state of the art, industry standard mixer, complete with complex routing and effects, and allow you to record, mix and master your song all the way to the final bounce to a standard stereo recording tool. But this is not what we are going to do today.

Arduino and MIDI in

Updated: Wed, 2017-01-11 23:24

In this second installment of our Arduino tutorial series, we will learn to use the Arduino micro-controller as a tool to control electronics by reading MIDI, in this case turning on the Arduino's built in LED when it receives MIDI note on messages. If you haven't already read our first Arduino tutorial on MIDI out, we suggest you at least give it a quick glance.