Music and open source

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We continue our journey inside theOpen source! We want to make as many people as possible understand that many interesting things can be produced. For example, we recently talked about comics Pepper & Carrot, a totally free and free comic that relies only on donations. It is also designed and written using only and exclusively free software. In this article we will instead see what we can do with the music and theOpen source.

Can we do the same thing with music?
Apparently yes and to demonstrate this we give the example of unfa, a Polish composer and music producer who uses exclusively software Open source and Linux. You can listen to his entire discography on Bandcamp or up SoundCloud. If you like it you can donate (even just €1 per month) thanks to Patreon or a LiberaPay (from an ethical point of view, if you're interested, LiberaPay it's better).

We add, thanks to a your suggestion on Telegram, also the Italian project GeekosDAW it's theirs Telegram group.

Music ed Open source

After introducing you to unfa, we leave you some material Open source for musicians. Also useful for those who have a Youtube channel (why not, Peertube) and doesn't always want to use the same free music available and that everyone uses.

• Free Music Archive is a giant database of songs and original music from independent artists. All the songs you find here are free for download. To use it within a project, read carefully licensing guide!

• Incompetech, same as above. In this case you can use the music for almost any project you want, the important thing is that you include credits to the author ¹;

• Hooksounds, in this case you can use free music only for non-commercial products and for videos that do not receive monetization. Otherwise you have to pay the license;

• Bensound, other Repositories of music with free license (with few limitations);

• Purple Planet Music, another interesting catalog with good user license;

• Premium Beats (by Shutterstock), Filmster And Freesound there are other catalogs to take a look at;

• CCTrax And ODGProd, are two other sites to download licensed music Creative Commons. Thanks for report;

JummBox

We don't just talk about free music for musicians, but we also point out this interesting tool Open source ². JummBox is an online tool for drawing and sharing chiptune melodies! Totally free and you can even use it offline. On this Twitter profile you can hear melodies created by other people. It also exists SUPER-LOOPER which only works on desktop and it is not Open source.

LMMS e Ardour

Produce music with your computer, play instruments and samples with this completely free program Open source! ³ An interesting project for sure and in case you have any questions about the program there is also a forum for the support! The same goes for Ardor, too Open source ⁴ and available on Linux, macOS And Windows.

React Guitar

We end the article by talking about a project Open source ⁵ very nice. React Guitar it is in fact a brilliant guitar simulator! You can try using it by going to the address react-guitar.com.

Last gem: also take a look at AudioStellar, a brand new project Open source ⁶!

1. Incompetech prices[↩]
2. JummBox on GitHub[↩]
3. LMMS on GitHub[↩]
4. Ardor on GitHub[↩]
5. React Guitar on GitHub[↩]
6. AudioStellar on GitLab[↩]

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