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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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Tool
2017-08-27 18:36
synthv1 (yes, lowercase) is an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic 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
synthv1 (yes, lowercase) is an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic 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
News
2015-06-17 09:58
Version 0.8 of setBfree , the DSP Tonewheel Organ emulator, has just been released. setBfree is designed to "imitate the sound and properties of the electromechanical organs and sound modification devices that brought world-wide fame to the names and products of Laurens Hammond and Don Leslie." setBfree is available as an LV2 plugin. There is also a JACK standalone version available. There have...Read more
Version 0.8 of setBfree , the DSP Tonewheel Organ emulator, has just been released. setBfree is designed to "imitate the sound and properties of the electromechanical organs and sound modification devices that brought world-wide fame to the names and products of Laurens Hammond and Don Leslie." setBfree is available as an LV2 plugin. There is also a JACK standalone version available. There have...Read more
Tool
2016-07-28 09:37
setBfree is a MIDI -controlled, software synthesizer designed to imitate the sound and properties of the electromechanical organs and sound modification devices that brought world-wide fame to the names and products of Laurens Hammond and Don Leslie. It is available as an LV2 plugin. There is also a JACK standalone version available.Read more
setBfree is a MIDI -controlled, software synthesizer designed to imitate the sound and properties of the electromechanical organs and sound modification devices that brought world-wide fame to the names and products of Laurens Hammond and Don Leslie. It is available as an LV2 plugin. There is also a JACK standalone version available.Read more
News
2015-06-15 01:13
OpenAV have been hard at work testing their plugins to make sure they are working on the MOD platform . OpenAV will be attending the Sonar+D event in Barcelona along with the MOD team. The MOD team are one of the 10 finalists for the Sonar+D StartUp competition. As you can see from the above image, Fabla2, OpenAV's drumkit sampler (work in progress), is still under active development and is also...Read more
OpenAV have been hard at work testing their plugins to make sure they are working on the MOD platform . OpenAV will be attending the Sonar+D event in Barcelona along with the MOD team. The MOD team are one of the 10 finalists for the Sonar+D StartUp competition. As you can see from the above image, Fabla2, OpenAV's drumkit sampler (work in progress), is still under active development and is also...Read more
News
2015-06-12 07:42
The AV Linux forum has moved due to an unexpected termination of 3rd party hosting, so update your bookmarks. The new URL is http://bandshed.net/forum/index.php Glen MacArthur posted over at Linuxmusicians.com about the move, noting that the new hosting is working from a backup of the forums from May 16th. In a nutshell, If you joined or posted after May 16 you may need to sign up again. You can...Read more
Article
2015-06-11 23:08
This month, in our first ever double interview, we talk to Max and Dadda of the Creative Commons band John Option . They are both FLOSS enthusiasts who enjoy making music on Linux and then sharing it with the world. Max (left) and Dadda (right) Hi Max and Dadda, thank you for taking the time to do this interview. Where do you live, and what do you do for a living? Max: We both live in Italy and...Read more
This month, in our first ever double interview, we talk to Max and Dadda of the Creative Commons band John Option . They are both FLOSS enthusiasts who enjoy making music on Linux and then sharing it with the world. Max (left) and Dadda (right) Hi Max and Dadda, thank you for taking the time to do this interview. Where do you live, and what do you do for a living? Max: We both live in Italy and...Read more
Tool
2015-06-05 15:52
4 Band Parametric EQ (fil4.lv2) is a graphical EQ with High/Low shelfs and High/Low Pass filters which is based on DSP from Fons Adriaensen's highly regarded fil-plugin. It is available in both mono and stereo variants and has a spectrum display plus waterfall FFT history built-in. The display also has vertical zoom and the window can be resized. There is also a standalone JACK client of the...Read more
4 Band Parametric EQ (fil4.lv2) is a graphical EQ with High/Low shelfs and High/Low Pass filters which is based on DSP from Fons Adriaensen's highly regarded fil-plugin. It is available in both mono and stereo variants and has a spectrum display plus waterfall FFT history built-in. The display also has vertical zoom and the window can be resized. There is also a standalone JACK client of the...Read more
Tutorial
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. The hardware of this tutorial is...Read more
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. The hardware of this tutorial is...Read more
News
2015-05-31 10:41
Robin Gareus has just announced the latest release of x42-plugins, which is a collection of cross platform LV2 audio/ MIDI plugins, currently featuring over 80 plugins from 11 repositories. The x42-plugins collection consists of the following - meters.lv2 Collection of audio-level meters tuna.lv2 Musical instrument tuner with strobe characteristics fil4.lv2 4 band parametric graphical EQ balance...Read more
Robin Gareus has just announced the latest release of x42-plugins, which is a collection of cross platform LV2 audio/ MIDI plugins, currently featuring over 80 plugins from 11 repositories. The x42-plugins collection consists of the following - meters.lv2 Collection of audio-level meters tuna.lv2 Musical instrument tuner with strobe characteristics fil4.lv2 4 band parametric graphical EQ balance...Read more
Tool
2017-02-01 08:18
x42-plugins is a collection of cross platform LV2 audio/ MIDI plugins, currently featuring over 80 plugins from 11 repositories. The x42-plugins collection consists of the following - meters.lv2 Collection of audio-level meters tuna.lv2 Musical instrument tuner with strobe characteristics fil4.lv2 4 band parametric graphical EQ balance.lv2 Stereo conditioner convoLV2 Zero latency convolution...Read more
x42-plugins is a collection of cross platform LV2 audio/ MIDI plugins, currently featuring over 80 plugins from 11 repositories. The x42-plugins collection consists of the following - meters.lv2 Collection of audio-level meters tuna.lv2 Musical instrument tuner with strobe characteristics fil4.lv2 4 band parametric graphical EQ balance.lv2 Stereo conditioner convoLV2 Zero latency convolution...Read more 
