Songbridge

Songbridge Music Hacking Tuesdays 5-8PM at Noisebridge

Songbridge is for song hacking: making music that hacks human minds and emotions. We cover multitrack recording using DAWs (digital audio workstations).

Contacts

• Alex Peake: User:lxpk
• Josh Hertel: jhertel242@yahoo.com User:Jhertel242

Things to bring

• Laptops (Mac, Windows & Linux all welcome)
• Audio workstation software:

• • Mac & Windows:
    • Ableton Live Lite] has a free 30 day trial.
    • Cubase
    • Max MSP dataflow AV programming (integrates with Ableton Live).
    • Pure Data dataflow AV programming.
  • Mac: GarageBand, Logic Audio
  • Mac & Linux:
    • Ardour FREE. Has Ableton Live-style session view and arrangement view.
  • Traktion
  • Mac Windows & Linux:
    • Bitwig Studio a new DAW made by former Ableton engineers. Free demo, $269
• Virtual MIDI Keyboard (Allows you to play 2-3 octaves with your QWERTY keyboard when you don't have a USB MIDI keyboard with you):
  • Windows & Mac: Freepiano virtual MIDI keyboard
  • Mac: MIDIKeys virtual

Linux Music Production Distros

(in no particular order)

• AV Linux http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html

"...a full complement of the best Linux Audio and Video creation software encompassing both open-source excellence and commercial demos." Free.

• KX Studio http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/

"...a collection of applications, artwork and plugins, targeted at audio and video production." Free.

• Tango http://tangostudio.tuxfamily.org/en/tangostudio

"A complete Live (GNU/LINUX) distribution for musicians and professionals studios based on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.4." Free.

• Ubuntu Studio http://ubuntustudio.org/

"...some of the most popular and recently updated audio software in the Linux world." Free.

Ubuntu Studio VirtualBox image: http://virtualboxes.org/images/ubuntu-studio

• Studio 13.37 (formerly "Puppy Studio") http://www.getstudio1337.com/

"...the fastest, most fully-featured, pro audio studio in the world! Studio 13.37 (pronounced “leet”) is perfect for professional audio work. Doesn’t need to be installed, and can produce studio-quality results from almost any computer. Unbelievable speed, amazingly low latency, and “zero glitches”. Full money-back guarantee." $50

• MORE: http://www.penguinproducer.com/Blog/2011/09/distributions/

Linux Audio Software

• Paid and free software. These are stuffs included with AV Linux, but you can obtain them for other Linux distros: http://www.getstudio1337.com/features-2/
• Linux Music-Making Software: http://audio.tutsplus.com/articles/general/29-music-making-apps-for-linux/

Linux Hardware Audio/USB Interfaces

• http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1720657.html

Johny Radio's Hand-Picked Musical Web Toys & Tools

A collection of free, fun, web-based, music and sound producing toys and tools. Includes a mutating windchime, toys that twist your instrument or turn your voice into visual art, gorgeous drones, a visual harp, a fractal synthesizer, faithfully-modeled 808 and 909 drum machines, a modeled plucked string, reverbs, MIDI multitrackers, and full-fledged recording studios. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Web_Sound_Toys

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