This is a song recorded by the abstract deconstruction creative commons band Lorenzo's Music using only open-source tools and software.
We decided to create an experimental recording method. We thought of a way to use GitHub for music to record remotely with the recording software Ardour and Ubuntu Studio. And this is the first song from that experiment.
Since Ardour is all controlled by a main code file and distributes the used tracks to folders from that file that it could be version controlled by GitHub. The band could share our sessions and create branches for each new idea track or idea that was made to the song using the full Ardour sessions with audio and all!
Here is the final recording from this experiment
You can also download this song from our website https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2020/12/with-you-by-lorenzos-music.html
We use GitHub for the working Ardour files of our songs to collaborate, make changes and record our parts outside of the studio.
View the description of the original idea for this GitHub for music process on our website Brainstorming Using Github For Music With Ubuntu Studio And Ardour To Record Remotely.
We use the free and open source Linux based operating system Ubuntu Studio. The Ubuntu studio OS has programs and plug-ins for this project preinstalled and ready to use.
The song is recorded with Ardour an open-source digital audio workstation.
Most of the effects used come from the open-source audio effects software projects Calf Studio Gear or Guitarix virtual guitar amplifier plugins.
You will need to clone this repository to use it. Downloading it as a zip file will not work.
- Ardour DAW https://ardour.org Recording Software that is used for these recordings so you will need to install this!
- Git LFS https://git-lfs.github.com. This needs to be installed to access the large .wav files of the recording on Github or else there won't be any music to hear in the recording :)
Effects
These should be installed to recreate the actual version of the song we made, but the recording is still able to work without them, it will just sound different without these effects.
- Calf Plugins Effects. https://calf-studio-gear.org. These are the EQ and compression effects. These are only available for Linux operating systems but some of them come pre-installed in Ardour. If you can't install them the songs will still play the original files without these effects.
- Guitarix These are the guitar pedal effects used on the tracks. Sadly these are only available for Linux. You can still play the files without them if you are on another operating system you will just hear the unaltered sounds. - https://guitarix.org
- Yoshimi The midi synth software for the droning synths on the song. http://yoshimi.github.io/
The only thing you need to install is Git LFS https://git-lfs.github.com to download the large .wav files from the GitHub repository.
You will get a missing files error message when opening this file. When we were recording the song there was an imported track that we deleted. It still looks for this file for some reason.
It is not needed so you can ignore this.
- select skip all missing files
- Click Continue
If you create anything from this song, remix it, or build anything from it let us know! We would love to hear it!
You can message us on Twitter @lorenzosmusic or email us on our website lorenzosmusic.com
With you by Lorenzo's Music is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
