Welcome to the Libre Music Challenge #29, for the month of April 2024.
This is a friendly contest where we make music with free (libre) software exclusively. Everyone is welcome to join, at any skill level.
This is a place for learning and sharing knowledge, and an opportunity to explore creativity through limitation.
But most importantly, we just hope it inspires you to make some music!
The challenge for this month is to make a track with MDA Piano and ePiano.
Here they are, everyone's favourite piano plugins! For this month's challenge, you have to make a song with these iconic piano sounds. You can use one or the other plugin, or both! You can also use any other sound sources in addition to MDA Piano/ePiano, but the piano sounds must be a prominent feature of your song.
If your distro doesn't ship the MDA lv2 plugins, you might have to compile them from here: https://gitlab.com/drobilla/mda-lv2
There are a few other versions as well. See @SpotlightKid's excellent write-up if you'd like more info: https://collab.0x20.eu/s/p3HdMisHm (he also provides pre-built binaries for the vst2 and vst3 versions)
The original manuals for the plugins can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220623205 ... aplugs.htm
You can use any DAW and any effect plugin, as long as everything is free software.
Happy music making!
Rules
Rules are the same as the previous challenges.
You can find them here for convenience: https://lmc.nyxkn.org/rules
Or here under version control: https://github.com/nyxkn/libre-music-ch ... a/rules.md
Links
Playlists and results of all the events: https://lmc.nyxkn.org/events
Join us on unfa's RocketChat/Discord server! We all hang out on #libre-music-challenge at https://chat.unfa.xyz
And if you'd like to stay up to date with future announcements, there's an RSS feed you can subscribe to: https://lmc.nyxkn.org/rss
Voting
Once the voting period starts, head on over to https://lmc.nyxkn.org/vote to enter your votes.
If you are a participant of this or any previous challenge, you can simply log in with your linuxmusicians username.
If you're not a participant but still want to vote, make your interest known and I'll enable an account for you.