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
Music
2017-05-05 11:25
My name is Danilo Siqueira. I've been studying music production on Berklee online for 2 years and needed a capstone project, in order to finish the project. As linux enthusiast and musician, I've decided to compose, record, produce a small album (an EP if you will). But this small project got some attention on the internet and became a full-fledged band (a power trio actually). So now it has...Read more
My name is Danilo Siqueira. I've been studying music production on Berklee online for 2 years and needed a capstone project, in order to finish the project. As linux enthusiast and musician, I've decided to compose, record, produce a small album (an EP if you will). But this small project got some attention on the internet and became a full-fledged band (a power trio actually). So now it has...Read more
News
2017-04-20 08:52
In this extensive video, Unfa uses Helm , the new light gun of the Linux Audio Synthesis arsenal, to compose a full drums+bass+melody track on the fly! */ Ardour keyboard shortcuts and various workflow tips, dinosaur jokes and extreme sound design, this video has everything ; It's like we're in the studio with Unfa, discovering Helm, pulling sliders and pushing envelopes, as a new groovy track...Read more
In this extensive video, Unfa uses Helm , the new light gun of the Linux Audio Synthesis arsenal, to compose a full drums+bass+melody track on the fly! */ Ardour keyboard shortcuts and various workflow tips, dinosaur jokes and extreme sound design, this video has everything ; It's like we're in the studio with Unfa, discovering Helm, pulling sliders and pushing envelopes, as a new groovy track...Read more
Music
2017-04-08 22:18
Homerecorded electronic protest popsongs. With a few early exceptions, all created with linux and open source.Read more
Homerecorded electronic protest popsongs. With a few early exceptions, all created with linux and open source.Read more
Music
2017-04-08 22:05
I'm a network engineer born in the 70s. I have been using Linux for more than 20 years. I'm a bad musician but I like creating some ambiances :) I'm mainly using Ubuntu and Kxstudio repo. My music is mostly influenced by the 80s.Read more
I'm a network engineer born in the 70s. I have been using Linux for more than 20 years. I'm a bad musician but I like creating some ambiances :) I'm mainly using Ubuntu and Kxstudio repo. My music is mostly influenced by the 80s.Read more
Tool
2017-03-06 13:04
Glorec is a sound recording GUI that lets you record sound as wav files, with gui. using openal, opengl, glut. Features level monitoring recording multiple timestamped files rec/stop with click or spacebar fullscreen with f or f11 records 16 bit/44100Hz mono wav files 100% gfxRead more
Glorec is a sound recording GUI that lets you record sound as wav files, with gui. using openal, opengl, glut. Features level monitoring recording multiple timestamped files rec/stop with click or spacebar fullscreen with f or f11 records 16 bit/44100Hz mono wav files 100% gfxRead more
Tool
2017-03-03 08:06
Open Stage Control is a libre desktop OSC bi-directional control surface application built with HTML, JavaScript & CSS and run as a Node / Electron web server that accepts any number of Chrome / Chromium / Electron clients. Features include - multiplatform desktop server application with built-in client interface mouse & multitouch interfaces compatible with Chrome 49 or later all the...Read more
Open Stage Control is a libre desktop OSC bi-directional control surface application built with HTML, JavaScript & CSS and run as a Node / Electron web server that accepts any number of Chrome / Chromium / Electron clients. Features include - multiplatform desktop server application with built-in client interface mouse & multitouch interfaces compatible with Chrome 49 or later all the...Read more
News
2017-03-02 08:03
Open Stage Control has just seen the release of v0.17.0. Open Stage Control is a libre desktop OSC bi-directional control surface application built with HTML, JavaScript & CSS and run as a Node / Electron web server that accepts any number of Chrome / Chromium / Electron clients. The big new feature with this release is that it now supports MIDI in addition to OSC. Documentation for this new...Read more
Open Stage Control has just seen the release of v0.17.0. Open Stage Control is a libre desktop OSC bi-directional control surface application built with HTML, JavaScript & CSS and run as a Node / Electron web server that accepts any number of Chrome / Chromium / Electron clients. The big new feature with this release is that it now supports MIDI in addition to OSC. Documentation for this new...Read more
News
2017-02-21 11:31
Qtractor , the veteran Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer, is getting dangerously close to the 1.0 roadmark.Release highlights: JACK Transport mode switching on main menu/tool-bar (NEW) Main menu Track/Navigate/Next, Previous wrap around (FIX) Auto-backward play-head position flip-flopping (FIX) JACK Transport tempo/time-signature in-flight changes (FIX) Sanitized audio clip zoom-in/out resolution...Read more
Qtractor , the veteran Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer, is getting dangerously close to the 1.0 roadmark.Release highlights: JACK Transport mode switching on main menu/tool-bar (NEW) Main menu Track/Navigate/Next, Previous wrap around (FIX) Auto-backward play-head position flip-flopping (FIX) JACK Transport tempo/time-signature in-flight changes (FIX) Sanitized audio clip zoom-in/out resolution...Read more
News
2017-02-12 10:16
Ardour 5.6 has just been released. This latest version brings with it lots of bug fixes, refinements and GUI enhancements. The main visual change you'll notice in this release is the new toolbar layout. This has been rearranged to make better use of vertical space, also adding a new mini-timeline. The mini-timeline is useful for navigating your session while using the mixer tab. It shows markers...Read more
Ardour 5.6 has just been released. This latest version brings with it lots of bug fixes, refinements and GUI enhancements. The main visual change you'll notice in this release is the new toolbar layout. This has been rearranged to make better use of vertical space, also adding a new mini-timeline. The mini-timeline is useful for navigating your session while using the mixer tab. It shows markers...Read more
News
2017-02-01 07:37
Open Stage Control has just seen a new release. Open Stage Control is a libre desktop OSC bi-directional control surface application built with HTML, JavaScript & CSS and run as a Node / Electron web server that accepts any number of Chrome / Chromium / Electron clients. Features include - multiplatform desktop server application with built-in client interface mouse & multitouch...Read more
Open Stage Control has just seen a new release. Open Stage Control is a libre desktop OSC bi-directional control surface application built with HTML, JavaScript & CSS and run as a Node / Electron web server that accepts any number of Chrome / Chromium / Electron clients. Features include - multiplatform desktop server application with built-in client interface mouse & multitouch...Read more 
