Libre Music Challenge #32: Drum and bass

[nyxeles]

Welcome to the Libre Music Challenge #32, for the month of July 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 in the genre of Drum and bass.
You can use any DAW, any sound source and samples and any other plugin, as long as everything is free software. Samples must be available at no cost and under free licenses (i.e. public domain, CC0, CC-BY with appropriate attribution). Remember to list all software and each sample used.

Happy music making!

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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.

[folderol]

Seeing as this doesn't insist on a specific synth, I might have a go at this - Mind you, I've never got anywhere near D&B before

[folderol]

Where do we post? Got something-ish (not very good), but I don't see any info.

[bluebell]

Seeing as this doesn't insist on a specific synth, I might have a go at this - Mind you, I've never got anywhere near D&B before

I found out that it's a lie. Drum and bass music isn't drums and bass only.

[folderol]

Seeing as this doesn't insist on a specific synth, I might have a go at this - Mind you, I've never got anywhere near D&B before

I found out that it's a lie. Drum and bass music isn't drums and bass only.

Yes, I discovered that myself!

Anyway, I still don't know where to submit my track. It's complete and ready to go.

[Largos]

Upload anywhere, post a link to download. The info is at the rules link in the OP.

[folderol]

Yes I read them. Upload is not the problem. It doesn't say where to post the link

[Largos]

On this thread.

[bsg75]

Here is my contribution to Libre Music Challenge #32: Drum and bass
https://soundcloud.com/sg75_2/here-today-feat-roses1401

Sound sources are SurgeXT, BlackPearl drumkit and Geonkick.

The vocal sample is by the amazing Roses1401
https://freesound.org/people/Roses1401/sounds/687050/

Code: Select all

Made with Ardour and ...
NT | TYPE | NAME
  1 * LV2    Luftikus (by Lkjb)
  2 * LV2    x42-dpl - Digital Peak Limiter Stereo (by Robin Gareus)
  1 * LV2    LSP Compressor Stereo (by LSP LV2)
 11 * LV2    LSP Parametric Equalizer x16 Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  2 * VST2   DeBess (by airwindows)
  2 * LV2    Calf Deesser (by Calf Studio Gear)
  1 * LV2    Dragonfly Plate Reverb (by Michael Willis)
  4 * LV2    LSP GOTT Compressor Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * VST2   Wider (by airwindows)
  1 * LV2    Calf Analyzer (by Calf Studio Gear)
  1 * LADSPA GLAME Butterworth Highpass (by Alexander Ehlert)
  1 * LV2    Geonkick Single (by Iurie Nistor)
  1 * LV2    DR-14 - Crest Factor Loudness Range Meter (Stereo) (by Robin Gareus)
  1 * LV2    LUFS Meter (by Klangfreund)
  1 * LV2    LSP Multiband Limiter Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    Noise repellent (by Luciano Dato)
  1 * LV2    Calf Transient Designer (by Calf Studio Gear)
 12 * VST3   Surge XT (by Surge Synth Team)
  1 * LV2    Black Pearl Drumkit (by Robin Gareus)
  1 * VST2   Crystal (by airwindows)
  2 * LV2    LSP Compressor Mono (by LSP LV2)
  6 * VST2   ToTape5 (by airwindows)
  1 * LV2    Tal-Dub-3 (by TAL-Togu Audio Line)
  2 * LV2    LSP Parametric Equalizer x16 Mono (by LSP LV2)
  1 * VST2   Galactic (by airwindows)
  1 * LV2    LSP Expander Mono (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    LSP Parametric Equalizer x16 MidSide (by LSP LV2)
  2 * LV2    LSP Sidechain Compressor Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    Wolf Shaper (by Patrick Desaulniers)
  1 * LADSPA Comb Filter (by Steve Harris)

Sessions archive:
https://sonnengesicht.de/sg75_-_Here_to ... on-archive

[cieciu]

Hi, my melody
https://soundcloud.com/user-889632176/f ... ies-buttox

So the invasion of small green men has been repelled. Now we have to wait out orbital bombardment. Force field holds but radiation fries buttox. Geiger counters gone mad. Let's visit the local bunker. Quick.

LibreMusicChallenge#32 DnB: viewtopic.php?p=169276

Ardour DAW.
Airwindows drum sample set.

1 * LV2 Simple Scope (Stereo) (by Robin Gareus)
2 * LV2 LeftoMono (by Hannes Braun)
7 * LV2 Helm (by Matt Tytel)
2 * VST3 Vitalium (by DISTRHO)
1 * LV2 x42-dpl - Digital Peak Limiter Stereo (by Robin Gareus)
1 * LV2 LSP Spectrum Analyzer x2 (by LSP LV2)
5 * LV2 ACE Compressor (stereo) (by Ardour Community)
4 * LV2 Calf Vintage Delay (by Calf Studio Gear)
2 * LV2 Red Zeppelin Drumkit (by Robin Gareus)
2 * VST3 Geonkick (by Iurie Nistor)
1 * LV2 Micro Delay Line (by Robin Gareus)
3 * LV2 x42-eq - Parametric Equalizer Stereo (by Robin Gareus)
2 * LV2 General MIDI Synth (by Robin Gareus)
1 * VST2 x42-eq - Parametric Equalizer St (by Robin Gareus)

https://freesound.org/people/Fission9/sounds/476225/
https://freesound.org/people/NenadSimic/sounds/149966/
https://freesound.org/people/Johnnyfarm ... ds/209769/
https://freesound.org/people/ALEFF-ATMOS/sounds/452780/
https://freesound.org/people/F.M.Audio/sounds/620435/
https://freesound.org/people/newlocknew/sounds/654525/

[folderol]

Here is my entry. I think it's 'nearly' D&B

http://www.musically.me.uk/Misc/foldero ... ruiser.ogg

Some info:
Uses:
Rosegarden sequencer
Yoshimi softSynth
Tenacity (foss fork of Audacity)
All instrument patches are in the V2.3.2 default banks (except Soft Kick which is included in the current master's banks)

Patches in order of appearance:
Ice Field
Soft Kick
Natural Drum Kit
Vibraphone
Warm Synth
Steel Bass
Stick Hit
Ride
Ethereal
Drum Kit2
Hard Synth
Ride Crash

All chromatic parts were initially played in from a keyboard on CH1 to part 1, then moved to other parts.

I started out with just minimal Soft Kick for timing and improvised the Ice Field melody. Later splitting this out across Warm Synth and Ethereal and adding chords.

Vibraphone and Hard Synth parts were the next additions.

I then expanded the percussion and added Steel Bass.

After that it was just adjustments and editing for the best overall balance.

Actual recording was a single pass of all tracks from Yoshimi to Tenacity, and a very light Fast Lookahead Limiter applied to tame percussion peaks.

[Lifeline]

This would be my submission.

Corrosion, my first Ardour synth project file.
https://mega.nz/file/TFUWxT5D#uEAZmwjLz ... 8MhJyeBbfU

plugins used.

CNT | TYPE | NAME
1 * VST2 StrinGO (by FX Mechanics)
5 * VST3 ZL E Compressor (by ZL)
2 * VST3 Surge XT (by Surge Synth Team)
3 * VST3 Geonkick (by Iurie Nistor)
1 * VST2 HardVacuum (by airwindows)
1 * VST3 Diopser (by Robbert van der Helm)
2 * VST2 Vaporizer2 (by VAST Dynamics)
1 * VST3 Monique (by Surge Synth Team)
1 * VST2 AutoPan (by airwindows)
3 * LV2 ZL Equalizer (by ZL)
3 * Lua ACE Amplifier (by Ardour Community)
2 * VST3 Dexed (by Digital Suburban)
1 * VST2 DualDelay (by IEM)
1 * VST2 BiRR2D (by FX Mechanics)
1 * VST3 Firefly Synth 1.8.2 VST3 (by Sjoerd van Kreel)
2 * VST3 ZL Inflator (by ZL)
8 * VST3 ChowMultiTool (by chowdsp)
1 * VST3 Delay Architect (by Jean Pierre Cimalando)
1 * VST2 Multiband Compressor LeftRight (by LSP VST)

This is actually two Ardour session (for CPU optimization reasons, tho I didn't run into them... Project didn't expand as much as I initially thought it would)
so +

CNT | TYPE | NAME
8 * VST2 Cardinal Synth (by DISTRHO)
1 * VST2 Signalizer (by Lightbridge)
1 * VST3 Monique (by Surge Synth Team)
2 * VST3 ChowMultiTool (by chowdsp)

I guess that will be all... I haven't submitted to LMC in a long long while.

[jahunt1]

It was so fun to participate in Libre Music Challenge #32: Drum and bass. However, life got in the way and my track isn't nearly as polished as I would like. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gi5uR9 ... mPRu0/view

This was my first ever attempt at making music with free/libre software and it was nice to escape Windoze for a while.

Thanks for listening!

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Hardware Used:

• Laptop: System76 Oryx Pro 8

• Mic: Blue Snowball

• Guitar: Epiphone SG

• Amp: Vox 15R

• Drum Kit: Pearl Roadshow

Software Used

• Ubuntu 22.04

• Ardour 6.9

• Audacity (recording guitar)

Ardour Plugins

• AVL Drums (Black Pearl kit)

• ACE Equalizer (by Ardour Community)

Before I forget, the project files are on GitHub here:
https://github.com/jahunt1/libre-music-challenge-32-dnb

[MyLoFy]

Hey there,

Here is my submission:
A DnB song about the linux login shell bash. Or... is it?
Made with Ardour 8.6, self recorded samples and SurgeXT for all synthesized sounds. Also a ton of plugins which are listed below.

https://soundcloud.com/mylofymusic/bash-my-shell

Ardour session files:
https://mark.nl.tab.digital/s/fH36errMGjfxx4B

Lyrics:
Bash My Shell
It runs so well
Command - and then
I'm Bourne again

Plugins used in this session:

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CNT | TYPE | NAME
  2 * Lua    ACE High/Low Pass Filter (by Ardour Community)
  2 * VST2   DeBess (by airwindows)
 18 * LV2    LSP Parametric Equalizer x16 Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    LSP Multiband Compressor Stereo x8 (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    EBU R128 Meter (by Robin Gareus)
  1 * LV2    TAP Tubewarmth (by MOD Team)
  1 * LV2    LSP Spectrum Analyzer x2 (by LSP LV2)
  2 * LV2    LSP Compressor Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    LSP Artistic Delay Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  2 * LV2    ACE Compressor (by Ardour Community)
  7 * LV2    Dragonfly Hall Reverb (by Michael Willis and Rob vd Berg)
  9 * LV2    ACE Compressor (stereo) (by Ardour Community)
  1 * LV2    LSP Sidechain Multiband Compressor Stereo x8 (by LSP LV2)
  2 * LV2    LSP Parametric Equalizer x16 Mono (by LSP LV2)
  3 * VST2   ToTape5 (by airwindows)
  1 * LV2    ReFine (by Lkjb)
  1 * VST2   Slew2 (by airwindows)
  4 * LV2    ZaMultiCompX2 (by Damien Zammit)
  1 * VST3   Cardinal FX (by DISTRHO)
  1 * VST2   kPlateD (by airwindows)
  1 * VST2   ToTape6 (by airwindows)
 21 * VST3   Surge XT (by Surge Synth Team)
  1 * VST2   Galactic (by airwindows)
  1 * LV2    LSP Limiter Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * VST2   PitchNasty (by airwindows)
  1 * LV2    LSP Clipper Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    x42-dpl - Digital Peak Limiter Stereo (by Robin Gareus)
  2 * LV2    LSP Parametric Equalizer x16 MidSide (by LSP LV2)

[avelhomusic]

i´d like a extension (saturday) for conclude my submisson... is possible?