Welcome to Libre Music Production - How to get started
Libre Music Production is a community-driven online resource, focused on promoting musical creation and composition using free and open source (FLOSS) software. By providing hands-on material submitted by the community, such as guides, tutorials, articles and news updates, we want to show not only that there is great FLOSS audio software out there, but also how to practically use that software to make music. Read this to get started!
News and latest content
News
2016-03-27 20:39
When the authors of Petigor's Tale , a game developed using Blend4Web , wanted to record and edit sound effects for their upcoming game, their choice fell on Audacity . Read their detailed blog entry about how the editing and recording was made. Blend4Web is an open source tool for interactive 3D visualization on the Internet and is based on the popular 3D FLOSS tool Blender .Read more
When the authors of Petigor's Tale , a game developed using Blend4Web , wanted to record and edit sound effects for their upcoming game, their choice fell on Audacity . Read their detailed blog entry about how the editing and recording was made. Blend4Web is an open source tool for interactive 3D visualization on the Internet and is based on the popular 3D FLOSS tool Blender .Read more
News
2016-03-26 20:42
ZynAddSubFX 2.5.4 - The "Alambradas" Release FEATURES Add realtime automation for subnote parameters Add FLTK UI for LV2 plugins - (no more requirement for NTK) Add support for '~' in bank paths Fix VST crashes Fix VST loading issues Fix Microtonal copy/paste Fix GCC 5.3.0 build issues Fix autosave disable flag Fix license headers Fix plugin library directory Fix uninitialized filter bug in...Read more
ZynAddSubFX 2.5.4 - The "Alambradas" Release FEATURES Add realtime automation for subnote parameters Add FLTK UI for LV2 plugins - (no more requirement for NTK) Add support for '~' in bank paths Fix VST crashes Fix VST loading issues Fix Microtonal copy/paste Fix GCC 5.3.0 build issues Fix autosave disable flag Fix license headers Fix plugin library directory Fix uninitialized filter bug in...Read more
News
2016-03-26 20:42
DrumGizmo version 0.9.9 is just out! Highlighted changes / fixes: Switch to LGPLv3 Linux VST Embedded UI Prepped for diskstreaming (but not yet implemented in UI) Loads of bug fixes Read the ChangeLog file for the full list of changes Project Page: http://www.drumgizmo.org Download (builds, source, drumkits) IRC: #drumgizmo on freenodeRead more
DrumGizmo version 0.9.9 is just out! Highlighted changes / fixes: Switch to LGPLv3 Linux VST Embedded UI Prepped for diskstreaming (but not yet implemented in UI) Loads of bug fixes Read the ChangeLog file for the full list of changes Project Page: http://www.drumgizmo.org Download (builds, source, drumkits) IRC: #drumgizmo on freenodeRead more
Tool
2017-02-01 08:07
jalv.select is a little (gtkmm2) GUI to select lv2 plugs from a list and run them with jalv. Features include: * search LV2 plugins by regex or by plugin class * select a LV2 plugin from a ascending sorted list * select a preset to load * select the jalv interpreter * run LV2 plugin with selected preset in jalv * reload lilv world to catch new installed plugins and presets, * minimize app to...Read more
jalv.select is a little (gtkmm2) GUI to select lv2 plugs from a list and run them with jalv. Features include: * search LV2 plugins by regex or by plugin class * select a LV2 plugin from a ascending sorted list * select a preset to load * select the jalv interpreter * run LV2 plugin with selected preset in jalv * reload lilv world to catch new installed plugins and presets, * minimize app to...Read more
News
2016-03-26 19:48
With this release, Glen is moving away from the 'everything but the kitchen sink' approach and instead is focusing on providing a very stable base suitable for low latency audio production. While it still comes with the usual set of popular audio production software, the software choice isn't as extensive out of the box as with previous releases. It is however compatible with KXStudio's...Read more
With this release, Glen is moving away from the 'everything but the kitchen sink' approach and instead is focusing on providing a very stable base suitable for low latency audio production. While it still comes with the usual set of popular audio production software, the software choice isn't as extensive out of the box as with previous releases. It is however compatible with KXStudio's...Read more
News
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: A new dialog that shows a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the audio file(s) generated by export. It shows waveform, spectral and level distribution views as well as peak and true peak level information and allows for previewing of the exported files. The development...Read more
Ardour 4.7 is now available , including a variety of improvements and minor bug fixes. The two most significant changes are: A new dialog that shows a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the audio file(s) generated by export. It shows waveform, spectral and level distribution views as well as peak and true peak level information and allows for previewing of the exported files. The development...Read more
News
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: Overlapping clips cross-fade (NEW) MIDI Send/Return and Aux-Send insert plugins (NEW) Generic and custom track icons eye-candy (NEW) You can read the official announcement (and the rest of the changelog) on Rui Nuno Capela's blog , and access the Qtractor ressources on LMP here...Read more
Qtractor , the audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer, has reached the 0.7.5 milestone!! Highlights for this dot/beta release: Overlapping clips cross-fade (NEW) MIDI Send/Return and Aux-Send insert plugins (NEW) Generic and custom track icons eye-candy (NEW) You can read the official announcement (and the rest of the changelog) on Rui Nuno Capela's blog , and access the Qtractor ressources on LMP here...Read more
Tutorial
2016-03-24 01:10
A few months ago we published an introduction to the audio programming language SuperCollider here on LMP. With the recent announcement that SuperCollider had reached 3.7.0, we Debian Linux users suddenly find ourselves behind-the-times regarding our SuperCollider packages which are likely to be at 3.6.6 for some time. If you want 3.7.0 now (or any bleeding edge version in the future) you have no...Read more
A few months ago we published an introduction to the audio programming language SuperCollider here on LMP. With the recent announcement that SuperCollider had reached 3.7.0, we Debian Linux users suddenly find ourselves behind-the-times regarding our SuperCollider packages which are likely to be at 3.6.6 for some time. If you want 3.7.0 now (or any bleeding edge version in the future) you have no...Read more
News
2016-03-22 09:07
SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server. SuperCollider 3.7.0, over two years in the making, has finally been released! Additions and fixes include (from the News in 3.7 help file...Read more
News
2016-06-03 08:54
Sebastian Posch , Guitarix user extra-ordinaire, has released some new videos. Guitarix is a modular, virtual amplifier where you can choose different preamp and amp models, combine them with various effects and speaker cabinet emulations to come up with your very own tones. First out is his "Dope: Stoner/Doom Metal Preset for Guitarix": */ And while you are at it, why not check out his guitar...Read more
