Welcome to Libre Music Production - How to get started
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!
News and latest content
News
2015-01-30 19:31
The MusE developers have just released version 2.2.1. Fixes and improvements include: Optimizations to lv2 rtfifo Fix for potential crash on startup due to defaultStyle Updated Czech translation from Pavel Fric Added explicit link library to simpledrums, didn't appear on some systems Added some new keyboard shortcuts, duplicate tracks, edit track name Make it possible to mute/solo lots/all of...Read more
Tool
2017-08-27 19:43
a2jmidid is daemon for exposing legacy ALSA sequencer applications in JACK MIDI systems. Equivalent functionality is now built into JACK 1. If you want to expose similar functionality using JACK 2 you will still need to use a2jmidid. If you are using JACK 2, you can access this functionality by typing 'a2jmidid -e' into a terminal. You can set this to autostart when using a program such as...Read more
a2jmidid is daemon for exposing legacy ALSA sequencer applications in JACK MIDI systems. Equivalent functionality is now built into JACK 1. If you want to expose similar functionality using JACK 2 you will still need to use a2jmidid. If you are using JACK 2, you can access this functionality by typing 'a2jmidid -e' into a terminal. You can set this to autostart when using a program such as...Read more
Tutorial
2015-02-06 08:55
What is the objective of this tutorial? In this tutorial we're going to make a very simple synthesizer using Pure Data and learn its concepts and workflow along the way. The objective is to get you started with the software in a kind of hands-on approach, doing something relatively useful, relatively quick. If you want in-depth stuff, there are some great sites on the internet. See pd-tutorial...Read more
What is the objective of this tutorial? In this tutorial we're going to make a very simple synthesizer using Pure Data and learn its concepts and workflow along the way. The objective is to get you started with the software in a kind of hands-on approach, doing something relatively useful, relatively quick. If you want in-depth stuff, there are some great sites on the internet. See pd-tutorial...Read more
News
2015-01-25 12:31
Arturia recently attended the NAMM Show and unveiled AudioFuse, their new audio interface. AudioFuse is a compact USB interface with a plethora of I/O, including two built in mic preamps and ADAT I/O. The unit also has wide compatability, including Linux, and boasts a round-trip latency as low as 3 milliseconds. Some features include - 2 mic preamps 2 instrument level inputs 2 inserts Phono/Line...Read more
News
2015-01-23 18:22
The Guitarix team are looking to replace the current set of presets in Guitarix with something more up to date. For this, they are looking for users to send them their best presets. They will then choose the best ones out of these submissions to create a new factory preset bank. For full details, see Hermann Meyer's post on the Linux Audio Users mailing list .Read more
The Guitarix team are looking to replace the current set of presets in Guitarix with something more up to date. For this, they are looking for users to send them their best presets. They will then choose the best ones out of these submissions to create a new factory preset bank. For full details, see Hermann Meyer's post on the Linux Audio Users mailing list .Read more
News
2015-01-23 18:09
Rui Nuno Capela has released the third beta, version 0.6.0, of his Vee One Suite. This suite contains 3 plugins - Synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer Samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler Drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler Changes in this release include - MIDI bank-select/program-changes is now supported, for patch, preset and/or instrument program control. New Help/...Read more
Rui Nuno Capela has released the third beta, version 0.6.0, of his Vee One Suite. This suite contains 3 plugins - Synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer Samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler Drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler Changes in this release include - MIDI bank-select/program-changes is now supported, for patch, preset and/or instrument program control. New Help/...Read more
News
2015-01-18 22:12
Our newsletter for January 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: First 'LMP Asks' interview of the year, with Spencer Jackson Drumgizmo tutorial LMP Survey results New software release announcements and more!Read more
News
2016-06-03 09:01
With the up and coming release of version 0.0.60 of the Calf plugin suite , Markus Schmidt has been posting some videos demonstrating some of the plugins. Check them out! */ */Read more
Tool
2017-02-01 08:16
SoX, which stands for Sound eXchange, is a command line tool used for various types of audio processing and manipulation. Sox is a very flexible tool and can be used in scripting. Amongst other things, it can be used for audio format conversion/encoding, editing, applying of effects, and the playback/recording of audio files.Read more
SoX, which stands for Sound eXchange, is a command line tool used for various types of audio processing and manipulation. Sox is a very flexible tool and can be used in scripting. Amongst other things, it can be used for audio format conversion/encoding, editing, applying of effects, and the playback/recording of audio files.Read more
News
2015-01-15 21:39
Glen MacArthur , the maintainer of AV Linux , has done some more work and improvements on his existing drumkit libraries and added a completely new one called 'The Red Zeppelin'. He has also set up a webpage with details and images of the sampled drumkits. Here you will find links to SFZ and SF2 sample libraries. Hydrogen kits are due to be uploaded soon. Check out bandshed for full details. Also...Read more
Glen MacArthur , the maintainer of AV Linux , has done some more work and improvements on his existing drumkit libraries and added a completely new one called 'The Red Zeppelin'. He has also set up a webpage with details and images of the sampled drumkits. Here you will find links to SFZ and SF2 sample libraries. Hydrogen kits are due to be uploaded soon. Check out bandshed for full details. Also...Read more 
