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Singularity (20 minutes of ambient/chillout/dnb)

It's been a good while since I made a piece this long.

Big thanks to Louigi Verona for inspiring me with his droning. Singularity was started as a remix of this piece.

I always imagined a drum an...

Backstage: why Olive Video Editor is a big deal

As you know, I make videos about music production with Linux and open-source software.

I have decided long ago to only use libre programs in my production, so I can really show what it can do, not just in audio space, but also visual and audio-visual.

Making videos is hard. Making good videos is harder. It's even ...

JACK audio over network? Easy!

I've randomly found out about this tool awesome called nalled `zita-njbridge`.

I think it's good to spread the work about it, who knows what could it be used for?

Enjoy!

December's livestream was a live techno adventure!

I've created a live performance setup using Carla, Sequencer64 and Non Mixer fro this stream.

There was a lot of challenges to get this all to work, but somehow I managed to overcome them all just in time.

I've learned there's a 2019-12-01 22:10:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Campaign Goal and Discord changes

I've finally bit the bullet and comitted some long overdue changes on this Patreon site and my Discord server.

• I've removed the Patreon campaign goals. They were based on my specific financial and job situation at the time of creation, which have completely changed twice over in the past year, so the goals became ...
  2019-11-17 22:02:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Installing KXStudio repositories and Zyn-Fusion (2019 update)

Recently the KXStudio repositories have went through some major maintenance.

This video gives an update on that, and shows you the process of installing the KXStudio repositories on a modern Debian-based system like Pop!_OS - and how you can install Zyn-Fusion using the repositories... and also - without using them at ...

November's livestream almost crashed to pieces

But then it came back, and it was fun!

My system crashed twice right in the start of the stream (after the 30-minute warmup though). I've got some memory leak that consumed 32 GB of my RAM and 16 GB of swap and crashed my PC twice in something like 7 minutes.

Because of that the stream is in two pieces:

2019-11-06 10:29:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Sidechain compression in Ardour 5

If you wanted to know how to do sidechian compression in Ardour - now you do.
I'm demonstrating the process with 4 different open-source plug-ins, starting with a sock Ardour compressor, which does a suprisingly good job!

Also: here's a teaser-song for that video in case you missed it:

2019-10-15 10:48:43 +0000 UTC View Post

October's livestream was insane!

That was an amazing party for me :)
We had between 44 and 51 people watching all the time - that's the most I've seen so far.
We had really awesome music submissions, and tons of positive energy.

I've attempted making something in the style of synthwave (as suggested by viewers) - the drums I made in Geonkick, t...

Feature Request for audio developers

Are you creating an open-source EQ plug-in?
Here's a couple of ideas that'd make it really useful for sound design.

Also - enjoy a WIP of my track "Harras0r" :)

Sidechain compression in Ardour (early look)

This video is almost ready, but...
It lacks the background music.
Don't ask... it's complicated.

I wanted to give you an early access to this, and release it to the public next week.

Enjoy!

Synthesizing Trap Drums (short video series)

I've just finished my new 3-video series about drum synthesis with the Roland's TR808-inspired trap aesthetic in mind.

The first video is already published, the next one will go public in the following weeks.

You can already download the final Ardour session, MIDI files and ZynA...

August's livestream was nuts!

I haven't had this much fun since riding a roller coaster :D

Big thanks to everyone who submitted their music and attended the event!

Quick & Slick GUITAR SOUND on Linux!

I'm showing my favorite Guitarix plug-ins, that can turn a dry electric guitar signal into a wall of rock or metal with ease!

But first... we need some music to work with!

Also: you can download the drum track I've created to play with it on your own. It's in 110 BPM. 2019-07-28 12:13:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Recording and slicing vocals (unfa live 2019-07-07)

I had a blast :D

I've shown how I recorded vocals in Ardour 5. How I calibrated JACK so it the recordings stay in sync, even when recording with very high latancy (~21 ms).

I've discovered how to slice vocals in 2019-07-07 20:25:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Ardour's user interface: The Toolbar

Here's another video I've made for Ardour.

Enjoy!

Dragonfly Hall Reverb

I think this plug-in deserves more recognition!

https://github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb

LMMS 1.2 stable is here!

Yesterday I've got the news, and I think it's worth spreading the love.

I think it's also a good opportunity to introduce new poeple to LMMS, by giving a quick overview of what it is.

Enjoy!

May 2019 Update (Car Vlog)

It's been a while since I made on of those!

If you wonder what I've been up to lately - here's an update.

I am also asking for your feedback regarding my work.
Longer or shorter videos?
Stereo or mono voice capture?

Let me know!

Ardour's Initial Configuration

Here's the second tutorial I've made for Ardour.
Also available on PeerTube:
https://pe.ertu.be/videos/watch/225768a9-8bba-469b-8f74-fa569177ad74


Enjoy!

How to use Zyn-Fusion's macro Learn in Ardour 5?

Phew! That was a big one!

This is the first serious video I'm publishing that was made entirely in Olive Video Editor. I had some issues (I finally managed to crash it a lot), but I still had a blast, and I could never get such results usi...

New video preview (RC2)

RC1: https://youtu.be/U9YHWGrwtr0

Enjoy this early look at my upcoming video :)

I've listed errors to fix here:

• 0:14 Lack of background music
• 1:50 - add broll?
• 2:36 - gap in the voice
• 3:09 - add a transiti...
  2019-05-15 10:37:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Final Cut of my talk from Sonoj Convention 2018

If you want to learn what is automation in music production, and how to use it in Adour 5.12 - this is a perfect talk for you.

I wanted to make this video for over a year already, but only now I came around to finally do it.

Previously the only version available was the raw livestream, but I had more footage and...

Livestream of May 2019

It got a bit Q&Y-y, we had some very interesting tangents about music-kaming mindsets, mastering, vinyl records etc.

Enjoy!

New livestream schedule!

I'm going to be streaming every first sunday at 8 PM CET (before it was saturdays).

See you then!

A little dubstep WIP + a poll for the next livestream

I've just dropped a fresh WIP of a dubtep track called "Bad Sector".

Now - I want to either make something similar to it's drop during next livestream, or breakdown this drop instead. Please vote for what you'd prefer to see in this poll on Mastodon:

2019-04-07 21:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Open-Soure Audio Plug-In Formats

Phew! It's done! Enjoy :)

Livestream - march 2019

In this stream I've made a beat out of a recording of a coffee grinder in action. The results were suprisingly good!

Feel free to download the Ardour session created during this stream - if you make a remix - submit it for the next livestream 2019-03-02 23:52:22 +0000 UTC View Post

My collaboration with Ardour

I'm working on official video training for Ardour.

Here's the Ardour YouTube Channel.

More details in the video :)

- unfa

Launched on Liberapay - a Patreon alternative!

I've decided to finally launch an alternative to Patreon -  enter Liberapay.
It's a non-profit, open-source based recurring donation platform.

You have requested it, and I decided to finally do it.
So in case you wanted to support me, but Patreon is not your pair of headphones - Liberapay should now have you...