Bitwig and Presonus just released an open source exchange format between DAW. It would even transfer automation data which seemed to be until now a pain point. I think it's a good thing to be able to collaborate with other musicians easily.

So what do you guys think?

When I'm not mastering I work with the team from analogvibes, painstakingly re-creating iconic analog hardware for recording studios.

We're launching a DIY version of a Tube Opto compressor (aka LA2A "Silverplate") really soon. If you're into DIY and sound, this compressor is killer on vocals and bass, and, well everything you throw at it. The silverplate edition is a treasure from the late 70's

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Looptober 2022

The goal is to make one loop every day in october. I'll try to tackle it, create a bunch of hopefully nice stuff and learn.

Are you in?

Post your loops here

Punk Labs just released OneTrick Simian, an audio Plugin drum machine perfect for this vintage drum sound. If you're doing any kind of retrowave, synthwave, vaporware etc, it's just perfect. Give it a try and tell us how you like it. And share your music.

And I really like their website and marketing!

KDEnlive is ongoing a funding round. They'll implement some nice timeline features (nested timeline), some massive performance improvements and some better FX workflow.

If you use KDEnlive, now is time to give back to the dev team. I did.

I did a sample pack for musicians using a modular synthesizer a while ago. It's made of 23 Risers for different music genres. I hosted it for a while on another platform, and as I'm moving to a more robust solution, I want to share it again with you all #musicians.

The risers are CC0, there's no E-Mail trap, no tracking, nothing. They are entirely free. Click the link, download them, et voilà!

cloud.samuelaubert.eu/nextclou…

Enjoy, make music

zrythm just released its beta version.

go give it a try, it's a really promising DAW, free software, multiplatform. Good looking. And "modern". And with a chord track.

I'm not affiliated, but I like the look and feel of inkline. At the moment, they are working on porting it to Vue3. It's a nice alternative to Veautify etc.

I started learning web development with it. And I really enjoy the format so far. Have you ever tried to learn web dev online?

I'm interested on why you chose one over the other, if you tested a lot of them, and ultimately what do you use it for. And no, I'm not running a covert poll to develop a product, I'm genuinely interested.

I don't use video software right now, but as a FOSS audio guy, I want to keep an open mind about media creation altogether in the free/libre software world.

I'm an audio guy and I've seen what pipewire does for audio. It brings flexibility and low-latency together so that both professionals and normal users use the same audio stack.

But how does it work in a video pipeline? What are the use case?

A classic question, but as linux audio is getting bigger and bigger and even I can't cope with all the great new plugins, I'd be glad to hear what you all are using in order to make great mixes.

Zrythm is a new (still in alpha version) DAW on the not overly crowded FOSS DAW market. It's aimed at music producers, not necessarily engineers like ardour.

What I like a lot, is that it does a bit of everything, borrows nice concepts here and there, here are a few examples.

• Dragging the bottom right corner of a region duplicates the region.
• It supports all linux plugins format (I'm looking at you LMMS)
• It has a nice plugin browser, a monitor section and you can easily export stems (I'm looking at you qtractor)
• I has a chord/scale helper, perfect for creating solid harmonies.
• It has a solid MIDI system (looking at you ardour)
• It does audio and MIDI, od course
• You can modulate parameters using a modulator track (think modulate your pan or just any plugin parameter using an LFO)

It's not entirely stable yet, there a quite some little things to iron out, but it's already usable, testable, and the dev is really reactive. Please report bugs (you can even do it per email, without singing in) and support the project if you can.

Is it a good thing for developing fast mobile pages? Or yet another Google gimmick that will disappear in 3 years?

great audio mix tip to thicken a complete mix and bring important elements forward:

It's a parallel mixbus compression technique from Andrew Scheps. No need to watch the 10 minutes long video here it is:

• create a bus with any kind of compressor.
• send all tracks except the drums to this bus. The sends have be post fader.
• Compress the bus aggressively (fast-medium attack, fast release, 4:1 ratio up to 10dB gain reduction)
• bring the bus fader up until it blends and thickens all your front elements.
• Play with your compressors characters, try different ones etc. That's the creative side. -Enjoy