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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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Article
2015-07-28 14:01
This month we talk to Tobiasz Karoń, better known online as Unfa. Tobiasz's passion is electronic music and open source software. He creates music using GNU/Linux based systems and is a massive fan of ZynAddSubFX. His favourite distro is KXStudio and his favourite DAWs are LMMS and Ardour. LMMS for sequencing and synthesizing, Ardour for recording, editing and mastering. Hi Tobiasz and thank you...Read more
This month we talk to Tobiasz Karoń, better known online as Unfa. Tobiasz's passion is electronic music and open source software. He creates music using GNU/Linux based systems and is a massive fan of ZynAddSubFX. His favourite distro is KXStudio and his favourite DAWs are LMMS and Ardour. LMMS for sequencing and synthesizing, Ardour for recording, editing and mastering. Hi Tobiasz and thank you...Read more
News
2015-07-09 13:29
Helm, a polyphonic synthesizer with realtime modulation feedback, has just reached beta stage. Helm is available in a number of forms, including a standalone client as well as being able to run as an LV2 plugin. Helm has a subtractive synthesizer engine with three oscillators with 15 anti-aliased waveforms, cross modulation, 32 voice polyphony, a low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, notch, low-shelf,...Read more
Helm, a polyphonic synthesizer with realtime modulation feedback, has just reached beta stage. Helm is available in a number of forms, including a standalone client as well as being able to run as an LV2 plugin. Helm has a subtractive synthesizer engine with three oscillators with 15 anti-aliased waveforms, cross modulation, 32 voice polyphony, a low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, notch, low-shelf,...Read more
News
2015-06-26 01:32
Ardour 4.1 has just been released. This release sees the addition of some interesting new features, along with the usual bug fixes. Here's a rundown of some of the new features - Input gain control - Audio and bus mixer strips now have an input gain control, allowing you to increase or attenuate the input signal by up to 20 dB. Save as - You can now save the current session to a new location on...Read more
Ardour 4.1 has just been released. This release sees the addition of some interesting new features, along with the usual bug fixes. Here's a rundown of some of the new features - Input gain control - Audio and bus mixer strips now have an input gain control, allowing you to increase or attenuate the input signal by up to 20 dB. Save as - You can now save the current session to a new location on...Read more
Tool
2016-06-18 17:13
Wolpertinger is a subtractive, antialiased polyphonic software synthesizer. Sound is generated by a Saw/Rect/Triangle wave generator and filtered through a resonant bandpass filter whose center frequency "bounces" around the frequency of the playing notes. Thanks to the Juce library it can be used both as a standalone application supporting JACK or ALSA audio outputs, and as a VST instrument for...Read more
Wolpertinger is a subtractive, antialiased polyphonic software synthesizer. Sound is generated by a Saw/Rect/Triangle wave generator and filtered through a resonant bandpass filter whose center frequency "bounces" around the frequency of the playing notes. Thanks to the Juce library it can be used both as a standalone application supporting JACK or ALSA audio outputs, and as a VST instrument for...Read more
Tool
2016-06-18 17:13
Vex is a 3 parts WAVTable synthetizer plugin ; You start with pre-defined wave sounds, and shape them via a classic substractive synth engine.Read more
Vex is a 3 parts WAVTable synthetizer plugin ; You start with pre-defined wave sounds, and shape them via a classic substractive synth engine.Read more
Tool
2016-06-18 17:14
Tunefish is a very unique kind of "demoscener" VST plugin synth.Tunefish is a very tiny virtual analog synthesizer. It is developed to fit into about 10kb of compressed machine code while still producing an audio quality that can compete with commercial synthesizers. This site was created to make the VST/AU version of it available to the public. This plugin, unlike the version of TF which is used...Read more
Tunefish is a very unique kind of "demoscener" VST plugin synth.Tunefish is a very tiny virtual analog synthesizer. It is developed to fit into about 10kb of compressed machine code while still producing an audio quality that can compete with commercial synthesizers. This site was created to make the VST/AU version of it available to the public. This plugin, unlike the version of TF which is used...Read more
Tool
2016-06-18 17:14
Triceratops is an analogue style polyphonic subtractive synthesizer plugin, for use with the LV2 plug architecture, at this time there is no standalone version. An up to date version of the LV2 library is required along with a suitable host (e.g. Qtractor, Jalv, Ardour), I highly recommend either the KXstudio distro or the KXstudio ubuntu repositories! The intention is for this synth to be part...Read more
Triceratops is an analogue style polyphonic subtractive synthesizer plugin, for use with the LV2 plug architecture, at this time there is no standalone version. An up to date version of the LV2 library is required along with a suitable host (e.g. Qtractor, Jalv, Ardour), I highly recommend either the KXstudio distro or the KXstudio ubuntu repositories! The intention is for this synth to be part...Read more
Tool
2017-08-27 18:37
drumkv1 (yes, lowercase) is an old-school all-digital drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo fx created by Qtractor author Rui Nuno Capela . It comes as a stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session, NSM (Non Session management) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support.Read more
drumkv1 (yes, lowercase) is an old-school all-digital drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo fx created by Qtractor author Rui Nuno Capela . It comes as a stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session, NSM (Non Session management) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support.Read more
Tool
2017-08-27 18:36
samplv1 (yes, lowercase) is an old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx created by Qtractor author Rui Nuno Capela . It comes as a stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session, NSM (Non Session management) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support.Read more
samplv1 (yes, lowercase) is an old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx created by Qtractor author Rui Nuno Capela . It comes as a stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session, NSM (Non Session management) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support.Read more 
