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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
2015-03-27 09:02
This years Linux Audio Conference will be getting underway in just under two weeks time. The conference runs from April 9th to 12th and will be taking place in Mainz, Germany. You can now check out the program for the conference over at the LAC website. Don't forget, if you have any questions, you can hop onto the the LAC2015 IRC channel .Read more
This years Linux Audio Conference will be getting underway in just under two weeks time. The conference runs from April 9th to 12th and will be taking place in Mainz, Germany. You can now check out the program for the conference over at the LAC website. Don't forget, if you have any questions, you can hop onto the the LAC2015 IRC channel .Read more
News
2015-03-26 16:08
After over four years of development and a lot of work from over 400 contributors, MuseScore 2.0 is finally available! You can download it from musescore.org . MuseScore is a free software for creating very professional-looking music scores in a WYSIWYG way. It is easy to use, gives great results without a lot of tweaking and is a great choice for people coming from proprietary solutions such as...Read more
After over four years of development and a lot of work from over 400 contributors, MuseScore 2.0 is finally available! You can download it from musescore.org . MuseScore is a free software for creating very professional-looking music scores in a WYSIWYG way. It is easy to use, gives great results without a lot of tweaking and is a great choice for people coming from proprietary solutions such as...Read more
News
2015-03-21 18:48
Libre Music Production's tutorial, " Ultimate Guide to Getting Started With Guitarix " is featured in this month's issue of Linux Format, out now! (Issue 196, April 2015) This is our second time to feature in Linux Format. We'd like to again thank Neil Mohr and all at Linux Format for making this happen!Read more
Libre Music Production's tutorial, " Ultimate Guide to Getting Started With Guitarix " is featured in this month's issue of Linux Format, out now! (Issue 196, April 2015) This is our second time to feature in Linux Format. We'd like to again thank Neil Mohr and all at Linux Format for making this happen!Read more
News
2015-03-18 17:08
Andrés Pérez López is planning a workshop in Barcelona promoting free and open source software for making music. It will also feature some material published here on Libre Music Production. The workshop is planned to take place in CC Convent de Sant Agustí from 22nd April to 20th May. The program for the workshop is as follows - Session 0 (preparative): Installing KXStudio Session 1: Free...Read more
News
2015-07-28 14:05
Carla has just seen it's fourth beta release. This release is mostly focused on bug-fixing but there are some interesting new features. The highlights are: Updated plugin skins New experimental plugins MOD GUI Support Also of note is a new MIDI sequencer plugin. This is experimental and in it's early stages but it is an interesting addition all the same. For a full rundown of changes and more...Read more
Carla has just seen it's fourth beta release. This release is mostly focused on bug-fixing but there are some interesting new features. The highlights are: Updated plugin skins New experimental plugins MOD GUI Support Also of note is a new MIDI sequencer plugin. This is experimental and in it's early stages but it is an interesting addition all the same. For a full rundown of changes and more...Read more
News
2015-03-18 16:37
Guitarix developer, Hermann Meyer has just announced a new LV2 plugin for the Guitarix LV2 plugin suite, Gxjcm800pre, a JCM800 simulation. This simulation had previously been available within the Guitarix standalone program but is now also available as an LV2 plugin. The LV2 plugin includes tone, presence and master controls so that the full JCM800 is simulated. Gxjcm800pre does not include...Read more
Guitarix developer, Hermann Meyer has just announced a new LV2 plugin for the Guitarix LV2 plugin suite, Gxjcm800pre, a JCM800 simulation. This simulation had previously been available within the Guitarix standalone program but is now also available as an LV2 plugin. The LV2 plugin includes tone, presence and master controls so that the full JCM800 is simulated. Gxjcm800pre does not include...Read more
News
2015-03-16 21:29
The DrumGizmo developers have just pushed out a hot fix release, version 0.9.8.1. This fixes a rather serious bug in the resampling code that would cause sample skewing over the channels when resampling was enabled. The latest version can be downloaded at drumgizmo.org Don't forget you can visit the official DrumGizmo IRC channel at the Freenode network.Read more
News
2015-03-15 20:37
Our newsletter for March is now sent to our subscribers. If you have not yet subscribed, you can do so from our start page . You can also read the latest issue online . In it you will find: 'LMP Asks' interview with Markus Schmidt Pure Data tutorial (Part II) New tool request form New software release announcements and more!Read more
Tutorial
2015-03-15 20:23
Part I: A simple synthesizer in Pure Data – Part I The next steps: What we are going to do now is to add an ADSR envelope to our synthesizer and then allow it to play more than one note simultaneously. We also have a lot of new concepts to introduce, including some that are very basic and that, if you tinkered a little with your patch and with pd in general after the first tutorial, you may be...Read more
Part I: A simple synthesizer in Pure Data – Part I The next steps: What we are going to do now is to add an ADSR envelope to our synthesizer and then allow it to play more than one note simultaneously. We also have a lot of new concepts to introduce, including some that are very basic and that, if you tinkered a little with your patch and with pd in general after the first tutorial, you may be...Read more
News
2015-03-17 10:36
A new beta of EQ10Q V2, a powerful and flexible parametric EQ, has been released. Beta7 has many new features and improvements, including an updated user interface and an FFT visualization tool. Alongside the parametric EQ you will also find a noise gate (GT10Q), compressor (CS10Q) and a bass enhancement plugin called Bassup. There are detailed overviews of each of the included plugins on the...Read more
A new beta of EQ10Q V2, a powerful and flexible parametric EQ, has been released. Beta7 has many new features and improvements, including an updated user interface and an FFT visualization tool. Alongside the parametric EQ you will also find a noise gate (GT10Q), compressor (CS10Q) and a bass enhancement plugin called Bassup. There are detailed overviews of each of the included plugins on the...Read more 
