An electronica track i made using only FLOSS (bespoke synth + HELM and Ardour for mixing) + 2 HW synths and an analog drumsynth.

Hope you will enjoy the journey ;)

Arps Heaven

Short and simple demo track with OctaSine (https://www.octasine.com/) FM synth VST2 plugin, using  only sounds from the plugin (10 instances).

Added chorus, reverb and compression from LV2 plugins in the DAW (Ardour 7 on Linux).

All sounds programmed from scratch by myself.

Chill Time with OctaSine

Ping The Pinecone

Submission for LMC19, the Libre Music Challenge for June 2023. All sounds were created with the Odin2 synthesizer.

This track was made with Ardour on Linux. Other than Odin2, other plugins used were:
- LSP equalizer
- x42 compressor and limiter
- Airwindows reverb and tape
- Dragonfly hall reverb

For more info on the Libre Music Challenge, check here: https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=25803

Onwards [LMC19]

Challenge! Song must
- BE IN A MAJOR KEY
- HAVE A MELANCHOLY FEEL TO IT (SADNESS)
- HAVE A PIANO USED AS AN INSTRUMENT 
- HAVE A HARD HITTING DROP

Made with ARDOUR running on Linux:
CNT | TYPE | NAME
  1 * LV2    Dragonfly Plate Reverb (by Michael Willis)
  1 * LV2    Calf Vintage Delay (by Calf Studio Gear)
  1 * VST2   Oscilloscope x2 (by LSP VST)
  1 * VST2   ToTape5 (by airwindows)
  1 * VST2   Crystal (by airwindows)
  3 * LV2    LSP GOTT Compressor Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  3 * LV2    LSP Sidechain Compressor Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    DR-14 - Crest Factor Loudness Range Meter (Stereo) (by Robin Gareus)
  1 * LV2    Wolf Spectrum (by Patrick Desaulniers)
  2 * LV2    MIDI Velocity Gamma (by Robin Gareus)
  1 * LV2    Calf Analyzer (by Calf Studio Gear)
  1 * LV2    LSP Multiband Compressor Stereo x8 (by LSP LV2)
  2 * LV2    Geonkick Single (by Iurie Nistor)
 19 * LV2    Surge XT (by Surge Synth Team)
  1 * LV2    LSP Multiband Limiter Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    LUFS Meter (by Klangfreund)
  2 * LV2    MIDI Velocity Adjust (by Robin Gareus)
  1 * VST2   Wider (by airwindows)
  2 * LV2    x42-dpl - Digital Peak Limiter Stereo (by Robin Gareus)
 13 * LV2    LSP Parametric Equalizer x16 Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    Luftikus (by Lkjb)
  1 * VST2   Galactic (by airwindows)
  2 * VST3   sfizz (by SFZTools)
  1 * LV2    LSP Spectrum Analyzer x2 (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LADSPA Comb Filter (by Steve Harris)
  1 * LV2    ReFine (by Lkjb)
  1 * LADSPA GLAME Butterworth Highpass (by Alexander Ehlert)
  2 * LV2    Calf Deesser (by Calf Studio Gear)
  1 * VST2   GlitchShifter (by airwindows)
  5 * LV2    LSP Compressor Stereo (by LSP LV2)

Slow Down

Inspired with "Thin red line" episode of battle of Balaclava.
https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/scottish-history-and-archaeology/the-thin-red-line/

Libre Music Challenge 22 "General MIDI" contribution.
https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=26150

Made with:
Ardour 7.3
General MIDI Synth
x42-eq
x42-dpl
ACE Compressor
Calf Vintage Delay
B.Shapr
Calf Stereo Tools
Arrpegiator (by MOD)
*Micro Delay Line (by Robin Gareus)
CHOWTapeModel
Simple Scope (by Robin)
True Peak Meter (by Robin)
Calf Analyzer

Picture is fragment of original painting of Robert Gibb, The Thin Red Line, 1881, National War Museum, Edinburgh (Public Domain)
https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-war-museum/

thin red stripe tipped with the line of steel

This one started as an exercise in (sound-)desgining Deadmau5 plugs, progressed into vocal processing with pitch shifting and linear predictive coding and finally - though a copy and paste accident - it dropped into rumble techno 😁

Read Stories

Fun with Arpeggiator in Helm synth
https://tytel.org/helm/

Helm's Arp

Entry of the Libre Music Challenge 23 https://lmc.nyxkn.org/. Made with Helm on the tracker editor of Ardour.

Rugo

A track where the Wavetable synth from socalabs has an important place.
https://socalabs.com/synths/wavetable/

Wavetable

My entry for the Libre Music Challenge No 29. Made with Ardour 8.6 on Archlinux, with guitar, bass, Drum Samples are the DrumGizmo Aasimonster https://drumgizmo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=kits:the_aasimonster CC-BY 4.0
Also, a ton of virtual instruments and plugins:

CNT | TYPE | NAME
 12 * LV2    ACE Compressor (stereo) (by Ardour Community)
  1 * VST2   ChorusEnsemble (by airwindows)
  4 * LV2    LSP Artistic Delay Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  2 * LV2    Wolf Shaper (by Patrick Desaulniers)
  1 * LV2    DR-14 - Crest Factor Loudness Range Meter (Stereo) (by Robin Gareus)
  2 * LV2    B.Shapr (by Sven Jaehnichen)
  3 * LV2    AIDA-X (by AIDA DSP)
  1 * LV2    GxTubeScreamer (by Guitarix team)
  5 * LV2    MDA ePiano (by MOD Team)
  2 * LV2    Dragonfly Hall Reverb (by Michael Willis and Rob vd Berg)
  1 * LV2    LSP Parametric Equalizer x16 MidSide (by LSP LV2)
 12 * VST3   Surge XT (by Surge Synth Team)
  1 * LV2    LSP Multiband Clipper Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  2 * LV2    ToTape6 (by Hannes Braun)
 21 * LV2    LSP Parametric Equalizer x16 Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    LSP Spectrum Analyzer x2 (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    Noise repellent (by Luciano Dato)
  1 * LV2    EBU R128 Meter (by Robin Gareus)
 10 * LV2    ACE Compressor (by Ardour Community)
  2 * LV2    GxAmplifier-X (by Guitarix team)
  1 * LV2    MDA Detune (by David Robillard)
  1 * LV2    DrumGizmo (by DrumGizmo Team)
  1 * VST2   StereoChorus (by airwindows)
  4 * LV2    x42 Instrument Tuner (by Robin Gareus)
  1 * VST2   Galactic (by airwindows)
  1 * VST2   Swell (by airwindows)
  1 * LV2    Calf Multi Chorus (by Calf Studio Gear)
  2 * LV2    LSP Clipper Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  3 * LV2    LSP Compressor Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    LSP Flanger Stereo (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    x42-dpl - Digital Peak Limiter Stereo (by Robin Gareus)
  2 * LADSPA C* CabinetIV - Idealised loudspeaker cabinet (by Tim Goetze)
  1 * LV2    GxBoss DS1 (by Guitarix team)
  5 * LV2    MDA Piano (by MOD Team)
  1 * LV2    GxChorus-Stereo (by Guitarix team)
  1 * LV2    Bollie Delay XT (by Bollie)
  6 * LV2    LSP Parametric Equalizer x16 Mono (by LSP LV2)
  1 * LV2    ZaMultiCompX2 (by Damien Zammit)
  1 * LV2    GxSVT (by Guitarix team)
  1 * LV2    setBfree DSP Tonewheel Organ (by Robin Gareus)
  3 * VST2   ToTape5 (by airwindows)
  1 * LV2    GxBoobTube (by Guitarix team)

Arps Heaven

SahaaThyva

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