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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
2016-06-03 09:00
Axoloti is an interesting open hardware unit that allows "effects processing, step-sequencing, sample playback, or granular processing". It started its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo at the end of December. It has already reached it's goal, with 2 weeks left of the campaign. Axoloti is complimented by editor software, Axoloti Patcher , which works like an analog modular synthesizer. Plug...Read more
Tutorial
2016-11-19 16:16
A French translation of this article can be found over at LibraZik . Thanks to Olivier for this. What is Drumgizmo? Drumgizmo is a drum sampler plugin available in the LV2 plugin format. It is also available as a standalone version. There are already drum samplers available for Linux, so what's so different about Drumgizmo? Drumgizmo's main aim is to simulate a real drum kit. It supports the...Read more
A French translation of this article can be found over at LibraZik . Thanks to Olivier for this. What is Drumgizmo? Drumgizmo is a drum sampler plugin available in the LV2 plugin format. It is also available as a standalone version. There are already drum samplers available for Linux, so what's so different about Drumgizmo? Drumgizmo's main aim is to simulate a real drum kit. It supports the...Read more
News
2015-01-13 11:29
*/ Thanks to everyone that filled out our end of year survey for 2014. As it was an open survey, there were a lot of different replies, but all the same, there are clear favourites in each category. Here are the results - Favourite software of the year Carla Beta Favourite plugin of the year Calf plugins All time favourite software Ardour All time favourite plugin Calf plugins */ What do you feel...Read more
*/ Thanks to everyone that filled out our end of year survey for 2014. As it was an open survey, there were a lot of different replies, but all the same, there are clear favourites in each category. Here are the results - Favourite software of the year Carla Beta Favourite plugin of the year Calf plugins All time favourite software Ardour All time favourite plugin Calf plugins */ What do you feel...Read more
News
2015-01-07 11:37
Following hot on the heels of recent beta releases, the MusE developers have finally announced the stable release of version 2.2. The big news with this stable release is that MusE now has support for LV2 plugins. For full details, check out the announcement on the Linux Audio users mailing list . You can also check out MusE demos, demonstrating LV2 plugins in action on the project website .Read more
Following hot on the heels of recent beta releases, the MusE developers have finally announced the stable release of version 2.2. The big news with this stable release is that MusE now has support for LV2 plugins. For full details, check out the announcement on the Linux Audio users mailing list . You can also check out MusE demos, demonstrating LV2 plugins in action on the project website .Read more
Tool
2016-06-06 17:29
Infamous Plugins is a collection of open-source LV2 plugins. It aims to fill some holes, supplying non-existing plugins for linux audio. The suite consists of - The Infamous Cellular Automaton Synth The Infamous Envelope Follower The Infamous Hip2B The Infamous Cheap Distortion The Infamous Stuck The Infamous Power Cut The Infamous Power Up The Infamous EWham The Infamous Duffer The Infamous Lush...Read more
Infamous Plugins is a collection of open-source LV2 plugins. It aims to fill some holes, supplying non-existing plugins for linux audio. The suite consists of - The Infamous Cellular Automaton Synth The Infamous Envelope Follower The Infamous Hip2B The Infamous Cheap Distortion The Infamous Stuck The Infamous Power Cut The Infamous Power Up The Infamous EWham The Infamous Duffer The Infamous Lush...Read more
Article
2015-07-28 14:00
In our first interview of the year, LMP talks to the brains behind the Infamous Plugins suite, Spencer Jackson. Hi Spencer. Thanks a lot for doing this interview! Where do you live, and what do you do for a living? I live in Logan, Utah, USA. I’m an electrical engineer in the R&D department at ICON Health and Fitness. I do a lot of embedded development and focus on maintaining product quality...Read more
In our first interview of the year, LMP talks to the brains behind the Infamous Plugins suite, Spencer Jackson. Hi Spencer. Thanks a lot for doing this interview! Where do you live, and what do you do for a living? I live in Logan, Utah, USA. I’m an electrical engineer in the R&D department at ICON Health and Fitness. I do a lot of embedded development and focus on maintaining product quality...Read more
News
2015-01-06 07:32
The Calf developers recently met up to discuss the up and coming release, version 0.0.60. All in all there are now 44 plugins that make up the Calf suite. For more information, check out Markus Schmidt's blog post.Read more
The Calf developers recently met up to discuss the up and coming release, version 0.0.60. All in all there are now 44 plugins that make up the Calf suite. For more information, check out Markus Schmidt's blog post.Read more
News
2015-01-03 20:17
The Linux Audio Conference has been announced and will be taking place in Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany from the 9th to the 12th of April. Frank Neumann has posted about the conference on the Linux Audio mailing lists including details on submissions and participation. For further details and information about the Linux Audio Conference, check out the LAC 2015 webpage .Read more
The Linux Audio Conference has been announced and will be taking place in Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany from the 9th to the 12th of April. Frank Neumann has posted about the conference on the Linux Audio mailing lists including details on submissions and participation. For further details and information about the Linux Audio Conference, check out the LAC 2015 webpage .Read more
News
2015-01-01 22:47
Bruno Ruviaro has just finished updating the Ardour FLOSS manual. It was originally created in 2009 and was based on Ardour 2. Bruno has now updated it so it is now relevant to Ardour 3 and it's operations, including new screenshots. The updated version can be found here . Also, don't forget to check out the official Ardour manual .Read more
Bruno Ruviaro has just finished updating the Ardour FLOSS manual. It was originally created in 2009 and was based on Ardour 2. Bruno has now updated it so it is now relevant to Ardour 3 and it's operations, including new screenshots. The updated version can be found here . Also, don't forget to check out the official Ardour manual .Read more
News
2015-07-28 13:56
The 3rd beta of what will become Carla 2.0 has been released . New features implemented since beta2 include - Internal patchbay mode Carla as VST plugin (Linux only) Carla LMMS plugin New and updated skins Old non-skin mode If you're using the KXStudio repositories , you can simply install "carla-git" to get the latest beta.Read more
The 3rd beta of what will become Carla 2.0 has been released . New features implemented since beta2 include - Internal patchbay mode Carla as VST plugin (Linux only) Carla LMMS plugin New and updated skins Old non-skin mode If you're using the KXStudio repositories , you can simply install "carla-git" to get the latest beta.Read more 
