July's livestream was pretty rad, lad!
Ice coffee, distorted TB303-like sounds and screaming in British.
2020-07-05 20:37:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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First step towards providing an alternative to Discord
As most of you probably already know - Discord's Terms of Service are not great. There's been a push in the Free Software community towards dumping it or at least providing an alternative ...
2020-06-27 15:03:55 +0000 UTC View PostMixxx is an amazing DJ-ing program
Join me for a YouTube premiere!
Scheduled to 20:00 CET.
I'll be in the live chat answering all your questions!
See ya!
Woot! 60 patrons! Also: next video!
Thank you all so much fro your continued support!
The community was always one of the most appealing things to me regarding libre software and Linux.
And I feel like the community tha...
Ardour 6 Quickstart
After a long wait Ardour 6 is here!
What better time to learn it than now?
In this video I'm going to guide you through a process of creating a simple project from scratch.
You'll lear...
New way to get the digital rewards!
Hey!
TL;DR
Get the digital rewards here:
https://is.gd/unfarewards
Also - please keep ...
June's livestream was full of surprises!
This time I've decided to leave the comfy space of Ardour and give Zrythm a good, loong look. I had 90 minutes to make a track with it. I can't say I succeeded, as all I have to show for it is a ve...
2020-06-07 20:39:17 +0000 UTC View PostLive beatbox improvisation
I've done a spontaneous improvised live beatbox performace today.
Maybe you'll find it inspiring.
If you'd like to sample some of the beats or maybe analyze them and use them in your musi...
Ardour 6 is finally here!
Here's my thoughts about the new, long awaited release of Ardour - one of the most capable and popular libre DAWs around.
Enjoy!
2020-05-28 00:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post10,000 YouTube Subscribers Special
My YouTube channel has just crossed 10,000 subscribers.
Thank you so much for your appreciation and support! You are a great community, that I am really proud of!
If you missed it, he...
Making that psytrance vocal synth (and the rest too)
Many of you have wondered how I made this psychedelic vocal synth sound heard in my track Numinous:
https://youtu.be/31SNN3cP...
Turning (virtual) AC into DC with Carla
A quick and fun video showing off Carla a bit.
The thumbnail is actually the first thing YouTube has proposed to me.
2020-05-13 18:38:51 +0000 UTC View PostMay's livestream was chill but intense
We've made some chilly dubstep with awesome chords and a lyricless vocal line.
We've also hit 76 concurrent viewers, so that's a record!
Many thanks to all who submitted their music, ...
Faking time warp with samplv1 and Ardour 5
Here's a short video showing an interesting way to mangle your recordings with samplv1 libre sampler plug-in. You could do this with any DAW supporting LV2 plug-ins, automation and MIDI sequencing,...
2020-04-25 20:03:08 +0000 UTC View PostI've got new studio headphones!
Here's a little relaxed video about a piece of on-head monitoring gear I've just acquired - namely ATH-M50xBT studio monitor headphones. In this video I cover my impressions and thoughts of the fir...
2020-04-15 22:26:28 +0000 UTC View PostTAL NoiseMaker - introduction, UI and features overview
In this video I take a good look at a slightly forgotten, but unique and amazingly sounding free synthesizer plug-in: NoiseMaker by Togu Audio Line.
It wasn't always free software, but thank...
April's monthly livestream had some trouble, but was lots of fun!
We've made a track from scratch using TAL Noize Mak3r as the sole synthesizer, and Ardour 6.0-pre1 as the DAW (you can download the final track's Ardour session and exported Ogg Vorbis file below)....
2020-04-05 20:45:35 +0000 UTC View Post
How to get a fresh Manajro installation ready for music production?
Here's how I do it!
2020-03-30 06:39:40 +0000 UTC View PostStop The Panic (and stay home)
Here's a piece of music I made for this difficult time of pandemic.
Stay safe!
unfa live - March 2020
Get ready for another monthly livestream!
I'll show you some new music, talk about Surge synthesizer, make music and play your submissions.
But all of that after I make the coffee!
2020-03-01 17:20:44 +0000 UTC
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"Can I sell the music I make with free software?"
This was a spontaneous answer to a question I've received.
I thought it's good time to talk about licensing of software and creative works.
I talk about free and open source software, and...
Synthesizing hihats and a crash cymbal with Geonkick
Here's a final (for a while at least) tutorial about Geonkick.
I show you how you can synthesize hihats in a couple of ways, and finally - we make a crash cymbal.
I've also created a ...
Synthesizing 4 different snares with Geonkick
Today I've livestreamed another tutorial - this time about synthesizing snares with the free and open-source percussion synthesizer called Geonkick.
I've also used Dragonfly Hall Reverb and ...
Synthesizing 5 types of kick drum with Geonkick
I've spontaneously decided to livestream my next tutorial about Geonkick.
In this video I show you how to synthesize 5 different kicks drums using libre drum synthesizer Geonkick.
Enj...
February's livestream was EPIC (in a cinematic sense)
WARNING: DO NOT USE VIRTUAL PLAYING ORCHESTRA!!
As of 2022-02-10 VPO is misleading it's users into violating copyright of the source samples' authors. The library uses various sources licens...
Introduction to Geonkick 1.9 - a libre drum synthesizer
As you've shown great interest in learning how to use Geonkick - I've made my first tutorial.
in this video I take a look at the user interface, talk about the structure of the synthesizer, ...
Interview with the creator of Sonoj Convention
Here's a short interview I've recorded during Sonoj Convention 2019.
Meet Nils!
January's livestream was epic!
Thus time we've been making a short orchestral piece of music using the Fluid_R3 GM soundfont and Ardour.
Dragonfly reverb has proven to be irreplaceable!
And in the end there's also ...