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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!
News and latest content
The LMMS team have released the long-postponed 1.1 release. Along with a ton of bug fixes, changes include - 3 new native synth instruments Fully modular FX mixer Updated ZynAddSubFx Automation live recording Check out the announcement and further details over at linuxmusicians.com .Read more
Pere Rafols Soler has just released EQ10Q V2 Beta6 . EQ10Q is a powerful and flexible parametric EQ. Alongside the download you will find a gate and a compressor plugin. With beta6 there is now also a new plugin called BassUp. You can read a full description about each plugin here . New features in this release include - Added the BassUp plugin Added stereo versions for GT10Q (Gate) and CS10Q (...Read more
The Hydrogen developers have just put up an interesting post on the Hydrogen website, 14 ways to contribute to Hydrogen! What pops into most peoples heads when they think about contributing towards a software project is coding and bug testing, but there are many other ways to contribute too, especially for end users. Check out the full list of ways you can contribute to Hydrogen.Read more
The Drumgizmo team have just announced the release of version 0.9.7 of Drumgizmo . The most notable change in this release is the implementation of realtime resampling. This means that Drumgizmo will match, in realtime, whatever samplerate you are working with, so you are no longer restricted to 44.1kHz! Check out the announcement at Linux Audio Users mailing list for full details . Download the...Read more
OpenAV have recently redesigned their website . They are also looking for some feedback relating to some of their projects. If you are a VJ or projection-master? OpenAV would like to hear from you about your dream workflow at an event, what is it that you need and what issues you encounter often. Also, Fabla 2.0 is being planned and they are also looking for user feedback. If you have any ideas,...Read more
As 2014 comes to an end, we want to see what everyone’s favourite FLOSS audio software and plugins are. We intend on having an annual end of year survey, to see what's currently popular, what stands the test of time, and what people still feel is lacking in the Linux Audio world. If you are interested in participating, you can find the survey here .Read more
In this interview we talk to Aurélien Leblond of one man band, A Violent Whisper . Aurélien has ported Alsa Modular Synth modules over to the LV2 plugin format. He has also been hacking away on adding new features to Hydrogen . Hi Aurélien, where do you live, and what do you do for a living? I'm a French living in Galway, on the west coast of Ireland. Galway is a very interesting city to live in...Read more