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2018-09-20 17:44
On the move, in motion, out and about: that's “in giro”, and that we are. we pick up things in our travels, pluck them from limbs, absorb or excavate or simply remember them, and during layovers we stitch these together and sing. being in giro is being with change, and ever-seeking we make music that ever-seeks. As points on our trajectory towards freedom, the defiantly homemade music is free/...Read more
On the move, in motion, out and about: that's “in giro”, and that we are. we pick up things in our travels, pluck them from limbs, absorb or excavate or simply remember them, and during layovers we stitch these together and sing. being in giro is being with change, and ever-seeking we make music that ever-seeks. As points on our trajectory towards freedom, the defiantly homemade music is free/...Read more
News
2016-11-19 16:13
Olivier has translated our Drumgizmo article to French for his LibraZiK project website. The French translation of the article can be found here . LibraZiK is a software suite project for audio production. For more information about the project, check out it's home page . There is also other interesting tutorials on the project website so if you speak French, don't forget to check them out .Read more
Olivier has translated our Drumgizmo article to French for his LibraZiK project website. The French translation of the article can be found here . LibraZiK is a software suite project for audio production. For more information about the project, check out it's home page . There is also other interesting tutorials on the project website so if you speak French, don't forget to check them out .Read more
News
2016-11-15 12:43
*/ A new series of video tutorials by Unfa is out, where he's generously revealing the studio recipes he used on his several full-lengh albums. From his previous interviews and videos, we know that he uses ZynAddSubFx a lot, even for drums . Today, in step-by-step videos illustrated by a always-on-screen real-time oscilloscope, he demonstrates the forces at work inside his precious patches.Read more
*/ A new series of video tutorials by Unfa is out, where he's generously revealing the studio recipes he used on his several full-lengh albums. From his previous interviews and videos, we know that he uses ZynAddSubFx a lot, even for drums . Today, in step-by-step videos illustrated by a always-on-screen real-time oscilloscope, he demonstrates the forces at work inside his precious patches.Read more
News
2016-11-13 23:16
jack-matchmaker is a small command line utility that listens to JACK port registrations by clients and connects them when they match one of the port pattern pairs given on the command line at startup. jack-matchmaker never disconnects any ports. The port name patterns are specified as pairs of positional arguments or read from a file and are interpreted as Python regular expressions, where the...Read more
News
2016-11-13 22:15
The Hydrogen team have just announced version 0.9.7 of Hydrogen, the last planned release before version 1.0. Along with tons of bug fixes and other smaller changes, the main new features are as follows - The color of the SongEditors squares is now configurable Added support for midi cymbal choking Added support for midi hihat pressure control Added hihat pressure groups Added basic non session...Read more
The Hydrogen team have just announced version 0.9.7 of Hydrogen, the last planned release before version 1.0. Along with tons of bug fixes and other smaller changes, the main new features are as follows - The color of the SongEditors squares is now configurable Added support for midi cymbal choking Added support for midi hihat pressure control Added hihat pressure groups Added basic non session...Read more
News
2019-02-13 13:41
Through a collaboration with Michael Oswald , Libre Music Production are proud to present two high quality open source drumkits for DrumGizmo . Michael has written a tool (DGPatchMaker) in the programming language Haskell to create DrumGizmo drum kits from existing sample libraries, and using that, he has created patches for the free SM Mega Reaper Drumkit and the Salamander kit. For creating...Read more
Through a collaboration with Michael Oswald , Libre Music Production are proud to present two high quality open source drumkits for DrumGizmo . Michael has written a tool (DGPatchMaker) in the programming language Haskell to create DrumGizmo drum kits from existing sample libraries, and using that, he has created patches for the free SM Mega Reaper Drumkit and the Salamander kit. For creating...Read more
News
2016-11-08 15:10
The new episode of the great OSM Podcast is out! Agenda We explore Ardour 's new features. Sidechaining, VCAs, Parallel processing (pin dialog!), tempo ramps, and of course, pong (and some of the other built in plugins). We couldn’t figure out how to demo tabs, themes or scripting. Podcast OUT!Read more
News
2016-11-01 16:29
QMidiArp has been updated to version 0.6.4 ; Here is the changelog : Improvements o All Modules now have the Note Filter already present in the Arps. Also, the note range entries can now be set by MIDI learn o Arp: The octave mode is now defined by independent upper/lower bounds (feature request #12 by ssj71) o LFO: New waveform flip button (feature request #11 by MilkMiruku) o Seq: The output...Read more
QMidiArp has been updated to version 0.6.4 ; Here is the changelog : Improvements o All Modules now have the Note Filter already present in the Arps. Also, the note range entries can now be set by MIDI learn o Arp: The octave mode is now defined by independent upper/lower bounds (feature request #12 by ssj71) o LFO: New waveform flip button (feature request #11 by MilkMiruku) o Seq: The output...Read more
News
2016-10-30 23:28
The Drumgizmo team have just announced version 0.9.11. This is mostly a bug fix release but it also has takes advantage of Ardour's new inline plugin display . This will show the loading progress of drumkits so you no longer have to keep the plugin window open to see when your drumkit is fully loaded and ready to go. Also, don't forget to check out drumgizmo's new, official forum over at...Read more
The Drumgizmo team have just announced version 0.9.11. This is mostly a bug fix release but it also has takes advantage of Ardour's new inline plugin display . This will show the loading progress of drumkits so you no longer have to keep the plugin window open to see when your drumkit is fully loaded and ready to go. Also, don't forget to check out drumgizmo's new, official forum over at...Read more
Article
2016-11-04 18:45
Hi Yassin, thank you for taking the time to do this interview. Where do you live, and what do you do for a living? Well, thank you! I'm French, born and raised in Paris. Right now I live in Casablanca, Morocco. What I do, let's see. Well, I'm a musician, so that's what I do. In those times where I have to take the pressure off the afferent, built-in impecuniousness, I do web design and various...Read more
Hi Yassin, thank you for taking the time to do this interview. Where do you live, and what do you do for a living? Well, thank you! I'm French, born and raised in Paris. Right now I live in Casablanca, Morocco. What I do, let's see. Well, I'm a musician, so that's what I do. In those times where I have to take the pressure off the afferent, built-in impecuniousness, I do web design and various...Read more 
