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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
2017-07-25 10:09
This time we talk to Jacek from ZARAZA, one of the two members of this experimental/industrial doom/death/sludge metal band. Where do you live and what do you do for a living? I (Jacek) currently live in Ecuador, after immigrating here from Canada about 1.5 years ago. Originally I am Polish, immigrated to Canada in 1990 when I was 20. I work in IT (obviously...hence the Linux usage). My band...Read more
This time we talk to Jacek from ZARAZA, one of the two members of this experimental/industrial doom/death/sludge metal band. Where do you live and what do you do for a living? I (Jacek) currently live in Ecuador, after immigrating here from Canada about 1.5 years ago. Originally I am Polish, immigrated to Canada in 1990 when I was 20. I work in IT (obviously...hence the Linux usage). My band...Read more
Music
2017-07-22 08:30
We are a duo of classical musicians working with popular brazilian music, MPB Bossa Nova with a bit of Jazz and light music. We play on pubs and restaurant. Light music and Light Ambient Music are our focus.Read more
We are a duo of classical musicians working with popular brazilian music, MPB Bossa Nova with a bit of Jazz and light music. We play on pubs and restaurant. Light music and Light Ambient Music are our focus.Read more
Tool
2017-06-07 21:18
The Newtonator is an LV2 soft synth that uses a unique algorithm based on simple ideas of velocity and acceleration to produce some unpredictable sounds.Read more
The Newtonator is an LV2 soft synth that uses a unique algorithm based on simple ideas of velocity and acceleration to produce some unpredictable sounds.Read more
News
2017-05-20 09:15
The Linux Audio Conference 2017 is under way and this year, Ardour and JACK creator/developer, Paul Davis talked about Linux audio and his thoughts on where things currently stand with his presentation "20 years of open source audio: Success, Failure and the In-between". Paul starts off the presentation by apologising if some people find the talk pessimistic or negative, however his talk is...Read more
The Linux Audio Conference 2017 is under way and this year, Ardour and JACK creator/developer, Paul Davis talked about Linux audio and his thoughts on where things currently stand with his presentation "20 years of open source audio: Success, Failure and the In-between". Paul starts off the presentation by apologising if some people find the talk pessimistic or negative, however his talk is...Read more
News
2017-05-19 18:19
Vladimir Sadovnikov has just released version 1.0.24 of his audio plugin suite, LSP plugins . All LSP plugins are available in LADSPA , LV2 , LinuxVST and standalone JACK formats. With this release, Vladimir has added Oszillator, an Oscillator utility plugin. There has also been various important bug fixes for existing LSP plugins in this release. */ The suite has seen regular releases lately and...Read more
Vladimir Sadovnikov has just released version 1.0.24 of his audio plugin suite, LSP plugins . All LSP plugins are available in LADSPA , LV2 , LinuxVST and standalone JACK formats. With this release, Vladimir has added Oszillator, an Oscillator utility plugin. There has also been various important bug fixes for existing LSP plugins in this release. */ The suite has seen regular releases lately and...Read more
News
2017-05-19 17:17
Ardour 5.9 has recently been released with new features, including many improvements and fixes. This release includes - Support for the Presonus Faderport 8 control surface Improvements to tempo and MIDI related features Ability to drop Group from VCA via right click on Group tab Preference to only enable Click when recording is enabled Improve Tap Tempo and allow tapping with keyboard (Space or...Read more
Ardour 5.9 has recently been released with new features, including many improvements and fixes. This release includes - Support for the Presonus Faderport 8 control surface Improvements to tempo and MIDI related features Ability to drop Group from VCA via right click on Group tab Preference to only enable Click when recording is enabled Improve Tap Tempo and allow tapping with keyboard (Space or...Read more
News
2017-05-19 18:31
The Drumgizmo team have officially announced version 0.9.14 of their drum sampling plugin. DrumGizmo is an open source, multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application. It enables you to compose drums in MIDI and mix them with a multichannel approach. It is comparable to that of mixing a real drumkit that has been recorded with a multimic setup. Drumgizmo 0.9.14...Read more
The Drumgizmo team have officially announced version 0.9.14 of their drum sampling plugin. DrumGizmo is an open source, multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application. It enables you to compose drums in MIDI and mix them with a multichannel approach. It is comparable to that of mixing a real drumkit that has been recorded with a multimic setup. Drumgizmo 0.9.14...Read more
Music
2017-05-09 17:57
Harney-Barrow is a multimedia project run by web alias Alejandro Ramos Ferrer out of an isolated rural town in the United States. Music has influences ranging from 70s Soft Rock/Pop Rock to more modern or contemporary musicians like Oneohtrix Point Never and the former Kimberly Kubus.Read more
Harney-Barrow is a multimedia project run by web alias Alejandro Ramos Ferrer out of an isolated rural town in the United States. Music has influences ranging from 70s Soft Rock/Pop Rock to more modern or contemporary musicians like Oneohtrix Point Never and the former Kimberly Kubus.Read more
News
2017-05-08 16:55
Ecuadorian / Canadian experimental veterans ZARAZA have just released their 3rd album Spasms of Rebirth . It was entirely recorded using Libre Music tools: Fedora 25 Ardour (all mixing) Guitarix (all guitars and bass) Hydrogen (drums) Calf plugins (for mixing in Ardour) Audacity (mastering)Read more
Ecuadorian / Canadian experimental veterans ZARAZA have just released their 3rd album Spasms of Rebirth . It was entirely recorded using Libre Music tools: Fedora 25 Ardour (all mixing) Guitarix (all guitars and bass) Hydrogen (drums) Calf plugins (for mixing in Ardour) Audacity (mastering)Read more
News
2017-05-07 09:15
Version 0.9.13 of drum sampling plugin, Drumgizmo has recently been released with the much anticipated diskstreaming feature. DrumGizmo is an open source, multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application. It enables you to compose drums in MIDI and mix them with a multichannel approach. It is comparable to that of mixing a real drumkit that has been recorded with...Read more
Version 0.9.13 of drum sampling plugin, Drumgizmo has recently been released with the much anticipated diskstreaming feature. DrumGizmo is an open source, multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application. It enables you to compose drums in MIDI and mix them with a multichannel approach. It is comparable to that of mixing a real drumkit that has been recorded with...Read more 
