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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!
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News
2015-12-16 12:02
Spencer Jackson has just announced the official GUI release of Infamous Plugins v0.2.0. Just days ago, Spencer made a pre-announcment about the GUI release of the plugin bundle, earmarked for 28th January 2016, with donations bringing that release date forward. This donation campaign has been successful so everyone can now have a nice early Christmas present. As well as the usual bugfixes and...Read more
Spencer Jackson has just announced the official GUI release of Infamous Plugins v0.2.0. Just days ago, Spencer made a pre-announcment about the GUI release of the plugin bundle, earmarked for 28th January 2016, with donations bringing that release date forward. This donation campaign has been successful so everyone can now have a nice early Christmas present. As well as the usual bugfixes and...Read more
News
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 . You can already build it from source . If you need a little guidance doing so, just ask for it in the comments.Read more
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 . You can already build it from source . If you need a little guidance doing so, just ask for it in the comments.Read more
News
2015-12-12 23:59
Our newsletter for December is now sent to our subscribers. If you have not yet subscribed, you can do that from our start page. You can also read the latest issue online . In it you will find: 'LMP Asks' interviews with Babis Kouvalis and Scott Petersen Qtractor and Supercollider tutorials New software release announcements and more!Read more
News
2015-12-11 12:30
Drumgizmo user, Sardonicus, has recently released an eight channel drumkit for Drumgizmo called 'ShittyKit'. Shitty by name, not so shitty by nature, this is Drumgizmo's first ever user created drumkit. This kit is a Stagg Gia drumkit with the following instrument channels - Ch 1: Kick Ch 2: Snare Ch 3: 12” Tom Ch 4: 14” Floor tom Ch 5 and 6: Overheads Ch 7 and 8: Room As opposed to some other...Read more
Drumgizmo user, Sardonicus, has recently released an eight channel drumkit for Drumgizmo called 'ShittyKit'. Shitty by name, not so shitty by nature, this is Drumgizmo's first ever user created drumkit. This kit is a Stagg Gia drumkit with the following instrument channels - Ch 1: Kick Ch 2: Snare Ch 3: 12” Tom Ch 4: 14” Floor tom Ch 5 and 6: Overheads Ch 7 and 8: Room As opposed to some other...Read more
News
2015-12-10 12:49
Spencer Jackson has just made a pre-announcement about the release of Infamous Plugins v0.2.0. As you may remember, Spencer uses a donate system whereby he initially releases the plugins DSP code, with donations thereafter pushing forward the release date for the plugins in all their GUI glory. Infamous plugins aim to "fill some holes, supplying non-existing plugins for linux audio". Version 0.2...Read more
Article
2015-12-13 00:19
This month LMP talked to Scott Petersen, SoundCollider programmer, teacher, composer and maker enthusiast. Hi Scott! Thank you for taking the time to talk with us. Could you tell us a little about who you are? I am a composer, laptop improviser, guitarist/pianist/whatever-instrument-you-havist working at Yale University as the Technical Directory of the Yale Music Technology Labs (YalMusT) and...Read more
This month LMP talked to Scott Petersen, SoundCollider programmer, teacher, composer and maker enthusiast. Hi Scott! Thank you for taking the time to talk with us. Could you tell us a little about who you are? I am a composer, laptop improviser, guitarist/pianist/whatever-instrument-you-havist working at Yale University as the Technical Directory of the Yale Music Technology Labs (YalMusT) and...Read more
Music
2017-04-20 23:54
I'm a music producer and performer from Paris, France, recording and performing in Casablanca, Morroco since 2007. I'm your average geek. In the late 80s I was making music and photography ; Punk-rock bands and vinegar-smelling bathrooms. In the 90s I got into computers ; A cloud of of Amiga-tracked house, techno and metal dispersed by a chemical wind. Then came the internet and I got into code...Read more
I'm a music producer and performer from Paris, France, recording and performing in Casablanca, Morroco since 2007. I'm your average geek. In the late 80s I was making music and photography ; Punk-rock bands and vinegar-smelling bathrooms. In the 90s I got into computers ; A cloud of of Amiga-tracked house, techno and metal dispersed by a chemical wind. Then came the internet and I got into code...Read more
Tutorial
2016-12-27 09:49
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. Today, we are just going to get our...Read more
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. Today, we are just going to get our...Read more
News
2015-12-06 13:40
Pere Ràfols Soler has just announced the latest release of his EQ10Q plugins . The plugins are now out of the beta phase and this is the first stable release of Version 2.0. With this release, EQ10Q has added mid/side modes for the stereo variant, zoom and scroll for the eq plot window, improved FFT drawings and an optimized GUI. This release also sees the addition of two new plugins, LR2MS and...Read more
Pere Ràfols Soler has just announced the latest release of his EQ10Q plugins . The plugins are now out of the beta phase and this is the first stable release of Version 2.0. With this release, EQ10Q has added mid/side modes for the stereo variant, zoom and scroll for the eq plot window, improved FFT drawings and an optimized GUI. This release also sees the addition of two new plugins, LR2MS and...Read more
Tutorial
2016-03-10 15:57
This article is the first of a series of articles on LMP that will explore the SuperCollider programming language. In addition to learning about the language and how to use the program interface, you will learn how to download SuperCollider and begin experimenting on your own. You will also find links to helpful documents and additional resources throughout the article and in the Links section at...Read more
This article is the first of a series of articles on LMP that will explore the SuperCollider programming language. In addition to learning about the language and how to use the program interface, you will learn how to download SuperCollider and begin experimenting on your own. You will also find links to helpful documents and additional resources throughout the article and in the Links section at...Read more 
