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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
2015-05-11 10:59
John Option recently took to a skate park to have some fun recording a video for their new song, "Where is my car?". As with all John Option music, this new song is published under the terms of the Creative Commons License Attribution Share Alike . John Option use exclusively FLOSS software to make their music, utilising Ardour as their DAW of choice. They also make all audio source files of...Read more
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2015-05-27 17:50
Robin Gareus has just tagged v0.2 of his new, up and coming, graphical EQ on github. Fil4.lv2 is based on DSP from Fons Adriaensen's highly regarded fil-plugin, which you may have seen in your plugin manager as '4-band parametric filter'. Please note, at current this is still very much a work in progress. Fil4.lv2 is available as an LV2 plugin but there is also a standalone JACK app. So what...Read more
Robin Gareus has just tagged v0.2 of his new, up and coming, graphical EQ on github. Fil4.lv2 is based on DSP from Fons Adriaensen's highly regarded fil-plugin, which you may have seen in your plugin manager as '4-band parametric filter'. Please note, at current this is still very much a work in progress. Fil4.lv2 is available as an LV2 plugin but there is also a standalone JACK app. So what...Read more
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2015-05-08 19:07
Harry van Haaren from OpenAV has just posted an update on Fabla 2's progress along with a nice demo of some of it's capabilities. Check it out! Fabla 2 will be the first release to use AVTK , a UI toolkit built from the ground up, by OpenAV, to be flexible and lightweight.Read more
Harry van Haaren from OpenAV has just posted an update on Fabla 2's progress along with a nice demo of some of it's capabilities. Check it out! Fabla 2 will be the first release to use AVTK , a UI toolkit built from the ground up, by OpenAV, to be flexible and lightweight.Read more
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2015-05-02 11:38
Rui Nuno Capela has just announced a new release of his Vee One Suite of plugins. The plugin suite is available in the LV2 plugin format as well as standalone JACK clients, with NSM support. There are 3 plugins in the suite. They are as follows - Synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer Samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler Drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler This new release...Read more
Rui Nuno Capela has just announced a new release of his Vee One Suite of plugins. The plugin suite is available in the LV2 plugin format as well as standalone JACK clients, with NSM support. There are 3 plugins in the suite. They are as follows - Synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer Samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler Drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler This new release...Read more
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2015-04-26 19:54
Our newsletter for April 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 article features in Linux Format magazine 'LMP Asks' interview with Giovanni A. Zuliani Arduino tutorial Lots of new software release announcements and more!Read more
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2015-04-24 07:12
It was recently brought to our attention that Ardroid, a remote control app for Ardour , no longer appears to be available at Google's play store. All is not lost however. If you haven't heard of F-Droid , maybe it's now time to check it out. F-Droid is an alternative software repository for your Android device that contains FLOSS software. Ardroid is still available for download from the F-Droid...Read more
It was recently brought to our attention that Ardroid, a remote control app for Ardour , no longer appears to be available at Google's play store. All is not lost however. If you haven't heard of F-Droid , maybe it's now time to check it out. F-Droid is an alternative software repository for your Android device that contains FLOSS software. Ardroid is still available for download from the F-Droid...Read more
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2015-04-19 01:54
Ardour has just seen a new major release, version 4. Since the last release, there have been over 4,000 commits. Ardour has seen a lot of infrastructure work and now uses a new graphics engine (cairo) for the editor window. You can now also use other audio backends other than JACK , for example you could use ALSA , although JACK is still the recommended backend. Other than infrastructure work...Read more
Ardour has just seen a new major release, version 4. Since the last release, there have been over 4,000 commits. Ardour has seen a lot of infrastructure work and now uses a new graphics engine (cairo) for the editor window. You can now also use other audio backends other than JACK , for example you could use ALSA , although JACK is still the recommended backend. Other than infrastructure work...Read more
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2016-06-03 09:03
OpenAV have just released a statement announcing the end of the OpenAV Release System. The idea of this system was that source code for OpenAV projects would be released 12 months after their announcement with donations bringing forward release dates 1 month at a time. The full statement can be read on the OpenAV website . The accompanying video is below. */ OpenAV will now work from a donation...Read more
OpenAV have just released a statement announcing the end of the OpenAV Release System. The idea of this system was that source code for OpenAV projects would be released 12 months after their announcement with donations bringing forward release dates 1 month at a time. The full statement can be read on the OpenAV website . The accompanying video is below. */ OpenAV will now work from a donation...Read more
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2015-04-16 09:00
Things have been moving along for the Guitarix project lately. First of all, they have redesigned their website and forum . Also, their website now has a new domain at guitarix.org , while the source code is still hosted at sourceforge . Hermann Meyer has recently been working on pedal simulations generated from schematic files, using Guitarix's Ampsim Toolkit . You will now find the following...Read more
Things have been moving along for the Guitarix project lately. First of all, they have redesigned their website and forum . Also, their website now has a new domain at guitarix.org , while the source code is still hosted at sourceforge . Hermann Meyer has recently been working on pedal simulations generated from schematic files, using Guitarix's Ampsim Toolkit . You will now find the following...Read more
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2015-04-14 08:30
Thanks to Rui Nuno Capela and his trusty camera, you can now check out photos from this year's Linux Audio Conference. You will find the photo gallery over at rncbc.org He has also uploaded videos of LAC's Linux Sound Night. You can check out these videos on Rui's youtube account .Read more
Thanks to Rui Nuno Capela and his trusty camera, you can now check out photos from this year's Linux Audio Conference. You will find the photo gallery over at rncbc.org He has also uploaded videos of LAC's Linux Sound Night. You can check out these videos on Rui's youtube account .Read more 
