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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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Tutorial
2016-11-23 08:59
I cannot comprehend that people who have been making this, no doubt enviable, piece of hardware ( DMX 6Fire details here ) for almost 10 years, all of it without Linux support or an all-inclusive manual, haven't to this date so much as written up something like this page, and that I, a total novice, have to fumble my way through mountains of gossip spread all over the net! Nor can I stand 2-yard...Read more
I cannot comprehend that people who have been making this, no doubt enviable, piece of hardware ( DMX 6Fire details here ) for almost 10 years, all of it without Linux support or an all-inclusive manual, haven't to this date so much as written up something like this page, and that I, a total novice, have to fumble my way through mountains of gossip spread all over the net! Nor can I stand 2-yard...Read more
News
2016-10-01 20:11
Ardour 5.4 has just been released. The main news with this release is support for Ableton's Push 2 control surface . This control surface is designed to work with, and complement, Ableton Live's clip/scene workflow. Ardour does not currently support this type of workflow so Ardour's support, at least for now, is in relation to mixing, editing and musical performance. Documentation for Ardour's...Read more
Ardour 5.4 has just been released. The main news with this release is support for Ableton's Push 2 control surface . This control surface is designed to work with, and complement, Ableton Live's clip/scene workflow. Ardour does not currently support this type of workflow so Ardour's support, at least for now, is in relation to mixing, editing and musical performance. Documentation for Ardour's...Read more
Music
2016-09-29 14:43
We proudly present our new album "Wischn/noisiV" which is produced with Ardour, Audacity, Zita AT1, Calf Plugins, Eq10q, ZamGate, Xwax, Rakarrack Also the artwork was made with free software. (Gimp, Xsane, Libre Office and Scribus) All songs recorded mixed and mastered @MoosAirStudios.com www.die-ag.atRead more
We proudly present our new album "Wischn/noisiV" which is produced with Ardour, Audacity, Zita AT1, Calf Plugins, Eq10q, ZamGate, Xwax, Rakarrack Also the artwork was made with free software. (Gimp, Xsane, Libre Office and Scribus) All songs recorded mixed and mastered @MoosAirStudios.com www.die-ag.atRead more
News
2016-09-29 11:11
John Option have just released a new song called "Lifestyle obsession", accompanied as always by a video. Their new song, as with all of John Option releases, is published under the terms of the Creative Commons License Attribution Share Alike . */ John Option use exclusively FLOSS software to make their music, utilising Ardour as their DAW of choice. They also make all audio source files of...Read more
News
2016-09-29 11:02
AMSynth version 1.7.0 has just been released. AMSynth is an open source realtime software synthesizer for Linux. Its operation is similar to analog Moog Minimoog and Roland Juno-60, which are considered classic synthesizers from the 1970s. It is available in various formats, including LV2 and DSSI plugins as well as JACK/ALSA standalone clients. Changes in this release include - MIDI CCs are now...Read more
AMSynth version 1.7.0 has just been released. AMSynth is an open source realtime software synthesizer for Linux. Its operation is similar to analog Moog Minimoog and Roland Juno-60, which are considered classic synthesizers from the 1970s. It is available in various formats, including LV2 and DSSI plugins as well as JACK/ALSA standalone clients. Changes in this release include - MIDI CCs are now...Read more
News
2016-09-21 15:50
Rui Nuno Capela continues his end of summer release frenzy. This time around he is pushing out Qtractor 0.7.9. Release highlights include - Audio/MIDI metronome anticipatory offset (new) Current clip highlighting (new) SFZ sample file archive/zip bundling (new) MIDI transpose Reverse tool (new) MIDI (N)RPN running status and NULL support (new) MIDI Controllers catch-up algorithm (fix) MIDI track...Read more
Rui Nuno Capela continues his end of summer release frenzy. This time around he is pushing out Qtractor 0.7.9. Release highlights include - Audio/MIDI metronome anticipatory offset (new) Current clip highlighting (new) SFZ sample file archive/zip bundling (new) MIDI transpose Reverse tool (new) MIDI (N)RPN running status and NULL support (new) MIDI Controllers catch-up algorithm (fix) MIDI track...Read more
News
2016-09-19 16:35
Days after his Qstuff* end of Summer'16 release frenzy , Rui Nuno Capela releases the Eleventh beta release of his Vee One Suite, version 0.7.6. This suite of plugins includes - Synthv1: an old-school polyphonic synthesizer Samplv1: an old-school polyphonic sampler Drumkv1: an old-school drum-kit sampler For a full run down of the changelogs, check out Rui's announcement over at rncbc.orgRead more
Days after his Qstuff* end of Summer'16 release frenzy , Rui Nuno Capela releases the Eleventh beta release of his Vee One Suite, version 0.7.6. This suite of plugins includes - Synthv1: an old-school polyphonic synthesizer Samplv1: an old-school polyphonic sampler Drumkv1: an old-school drum-kit sampler For a full run down of the changelogs, check out Rui's announcement over at rncbc.orgRead more
Music
2016-09-17 06:03
Independent label and collective for experimental music and sound from South Asia.Read more
Independent label and collective for experimental music and sound from South Asia.Read more
News
2016-09-14 15:46
Fans of Rui Nuno Capela's Qstuff* take heed, he has just released the following end of summer updates to his suite of software - QjackCtl 0.4.3 Qsynth 0.4.2 Qsampler 0.4.1 QXGEdit 0.4.1 QmidiCtl 0.4.1 QmidiNet 0.4.1 For a full run down of the changelogs, check out Rui's announcement over at rncbc.orgRead more
News
2016-09-14 06:19
The Ardour project is looking for help with development in relation to the projects websites. Ardour currently uses 5 independent web sites, the main site, forums, manual, bug tracker and nightly builds sites, and they are looking for someone to help them with the following tasks - Modernize forum ( https://github.com/discourse/discourse or similar), keep existing posts and comments (currently...Read more
