Here's a quick livestreamed tutorial for Surge.
I've used stock Geonkick sounds (that I made myself, lol) to make a simple DnB beat, and we're synthesizing some nasty, fat reese bass to that!
Enjoy :)
No project download this time - the Surge instance has mysteriously vanished from my project after I've c...
Tangential to music making is the topic of putting your music on streaming services like YouTube.
A member of the unfa community has asked about making lyric videos and syncing them to beat.
So here's a quickly made tutorial about doing just that in Olive 0.1x helping yourself with Audacity.
Enjoy!
2020-12-08 19:59:15 +0000 UTC
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This livestream was over 3 hours long.
During this time we've made a dubstep drop, an intro for it and synthesized all sounds using Surge 1.8 (nightly build) inside Ardour 6.5.
Surge has some exciting new features coming up, and in this stream I've synthesized drums, bases a clavichord, and...
laser farts...
I've decided to try and make something for the Libre Music Challenge #6.
And here it is!
You can read more here.
You can also download the Carla project and the audio-only version of this video (licensed unde...
I thought it'd be a good idea to talk about a basic tool everyone needs - an equalizer.
I think LSP Parametric Eq plug-ins are a really great option for people working on Linux, and in this video I explain and demonstratethe basic and the advanced aspects of using this powerful plug-in.
Enjoy!
BTW: This v...
Here's another part for you! This time it's a bit longer than 20 minutes.
Enjoy!
After five years of work, it's finished.
This track was the beginning of my friendship with Combustible Lemonade. When I heard it, I fell in love with the composition and I thought I understand the vision behind it, and it felt so close to my taste - merging old with the new. Polyphonic baroque-inspired melodies with s...
Another chunk of the huge tutorial is done!
Enjoy!
Yep. The ground-shaking, revolutionaly wavetable synthesizer - from the creator of Helm, Matt Tytel - finally has a release date! November 24th (2020).
The synth was also reveled to offer a basic package for free, with a few paid tiers above that featuring extra factory content, skins and other stuff.
There hasn...
I knew I won't be able to do the regular monthly livestream, but I wanted to do *something*.
And this something has turned out to be a look at Giada (a live audio and MID loop machine) and Carla (a non-linear plug-in host) for creating live music performances.
It also seems that after watching this, Geonki...
Due to factors beyond my control, I have to cancel November's unfa livestream.
I'm sorry to bring you this news - I hope you're all safe and sound and that we'll see and hear each other in December!
Second part of my Complete Ardour MIDI tutorial released early to my Patreon supporters.
Enjoy!
Due to a demolition crew coming in to swarm my current studio I had to push the upcoming monthly livestream forward by one week.
Pros: You've got one more week to submit music!
Cons: I am not sure about the Internet connection quality in the temporary studio location that I'll be using
Trying out a newly open-sourced synthesizer by The Wave Warden.
I like it!
You can download the Ardour 6.3 session and play with the patches I made if you want.
Enjoy!
The long-awaited complete MIDI Tutorial for Ardour is currently in editing / post production.
Since it's probably going to take me a good while to complete the editing, as the amount of recorded footage is enormous (over 5 hours, 60 GB total - I had to program a special proxy footage generation an handling script for m...
Quarterly Release Pact is an initiative to motivate libre audio software developers to release more often.
I've covered the Q4 releases in this short livestream. Enjoy!
I apologize for some bad language that I've used during this stream.
I also apologize for some loud sneezes that I've performed without proper loudness warning. We need neural networks to solve both of these problems.
This month I've decided to celebrate Ardour's addition of VST3 support and explore the amazing open...
In this video you'll learn how to record, edit, process and export speech suing Ardour 6, Noise Repellent and LSP plug-ins. I work under Manjaro Linux.
Below are my notes, which could act as a script for the video. You can also download the full Ardour sess...
Lifeline has asked me about this, so I thought it's a great topic for a short video!
Let's see if you can find all the Easter Eggs...
Enjoy!
Your Patreon money at work!
:D
Can you make a beat using nothing but sounds of carrots?
Smash them together? Skin them? Bite them? Sure!
The result? Hear for yourself!
Also: get the Ardour 6.2 session project and remix this!
I've created my own adaptation of Muse's "Unintended", a very well known rock ballad.
Hold your socks!
Enjoy!
(The video premiered on YouTube on 2020-09-02 at midnight CET.)
GDQuest has invited me to give a little interview for his video about Free and Open Source music production software.
Enjoy!
In this livestreamed tutorial I show you what (and why) you can do to make a recorded voice sound like it's being transmitted through an analogue wireless communication system.
You can download the finished Ardour 6.2 session to play with it yourself (licensed under CC-0 1.0).
In case you don't have 45 minutes t...
TechHut has invited me to record a segment about Free and Open-Source for his video about tools for content creators.
He's done a great job at cutting it down to 5 minutes, but we agreed it'd be shame to not publish an extended cut. So I made one!
Here's TechHut's video, which should give you a context: 2020-08-10 21:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Rob van den Berg has initiated a fun and educational monthly challenge that's aiming to motivate and inspire people to use the free and open-source software to make some music!
Join it here:
https://chat.unfa.xyz/channel/libre-mu...
Phew! This was a rough one. I can still feel the heat.
I've spent a lot of time preparing the music submissions playback (using Mixxx instead of Ardour).
You can get my submissions pre-processing script here: https://github.com/unfa/tools
2020-08-03 19:10:46 +0000 UTC
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Here's an overdue update on the Dragonfly Reverb plug-ins!
There's now four of them!
You can also download the Ardour 6 session of the Reverb-Testing song (licensed under CC-0).
Enjoy!
Yesterday and today I've sat down and performed a live coverage of a bunch of exciting software releases.
I'm trying a new format that'll let me get stuff out there extremely fast, so I don't get bogged down with scripting and editing videos that require that.
Here's three updates so far:
2020-07-16 21:55:43 +0000 UTC
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Correction:
Ardour 3.0 was released in 2013, not 2011. Should I correct and re-upload this video?
I've started writing a script for a big Ardour MIDI tutorial. I've started by writing about it''s history and soon I realized I have a few things to say that won't really f...
