 Hey, it's Anfa you're watching a little quick live-streamed video. I would like to talk about Liber music challenge or LMC for short. It's a monthly friendly challenge that's being run in my community It's about discovering new software open source software and making music with some Guidelines in place to make it more interesting and help people explore new ideas Yeah, so this is the ninth Liber music challenge. It's taking place every month and right before my monthly live streams for example tomorrow is another monthly live stream Everyone involved is voting and the best tracks are being picked and I believe they didn't finish their voting yet. So I think if you follow You might just vote and Yeah, get yourself heard and pick your favorite tracks among the six submitted this month so Let me oh Let me do this and let's play the music So the first track is titled Phone Jam by a very Oh, I like the chords gonna rise the volume. I'm thoroughly enjoying this Oh, I love that scatting that's that's being retuned for a new different melody. Oh really cool I Really cool harmonies. I really like the rhythm on the on the chords tabs Nice melodies. My beatboxing was great pretty like a little bit off time and some In some parts, I mean rhythm a rhythm aspects could be could be corrected more in the recordings But overall, this is this is really really fun. I did not explain What the real deal with this challenge was I said that every liberal music challenge has a theme and this month's theme was Taking a 20-minute Live beatbox improvisation I've made on this YouTube channel sometime ago Sampling it and making a track out of that. So if you take a look here Mmm Yeah, they mentioned a free sound a sound a B-boxing session. I have uploaded to free sound sometime ago. Oh, what is that? What? Okay, that that link is weird I can copy the text of the link and paste it so this is the improvisation and I have actually made this live streamed that Yeah, streamed live on 4th of June 2020 Yeah, and they took that recording Which I published under creative commons zero license So anyone can grab it and do whatever they want with it They can you can take that recording sample some beats and sell that and I don't really have anything against that That's the license Yeah, so all the pieces in this challenge have been made using that beatboxing session and Since I don't just make drum sounds with my mouth There's also some scatting and A little bit of vocal samples as well because I've been talking a bit. So Yeah, that's the theme. Let's go ahead with another track This track is titled hangover makeover By lamb or L.A.M. Dark. Oh my goodness. This is sublime. I love it. I'll let me send them on base. Oh, it's cool Reliking the conditions nice risers and that's the track Hank over makeover by lamb or L.A.M. I Forgot to mention that the the theme for this challenge is not just to take The recording I made and sample it but it's also to use some specific open source software So let me read this this month one was asked to make a track using liberal softwares and as sound source The ninjas to and or drops sampling plugins from a clearly broken software Processing one of unfuzz beatbox audio file shared on free sound So there are two plugins called drops and the ninjas to oh No, this is also this gate SC. Why is it gate SC? so a member of our community Our GH VDB Berg or Rob Vandenberg is making some samplers and he's made drops which is a sampler and this is his most recent thing and Yeah, it recently he like published 1.0 beta of this plug-in and I think it's pretty nice and I yet have to test it thoroughly with this new version because I used an old version But didn't use this one this new one and I should make up for that. So, yeah, another plug-in. He made is called Ninjas to and this one I use quite a lot So I have some gripes with it. It's a slicer. So you can cut up samples Into little pieces and then each piece is assigned to a different MIDI note. It's a very cool to very great very nice for rearranging drum beats if you have loops recorded drum loops and then you can Chop them up very easily. It's also great for doing vocal chops And I use this on I believe on one of my live streams or maybe multiple even Yeah, loading the files is a little bit tricky The guy the people in my community know I'm not very happy about how you load files that the file dialogue is pretty It's clearly broken Yeah, but the plug-in itself is really nice and these two plugins are quite powerful when it comes to Processing plugins, of course, this is not some super advanced stuff, but still you can do a lot with a little if you just Get some creativity going The creator of the plug-ins Rob Wunderberg is in the chat and he says do not mention the pile dialogue Okay, I won't again so, yep Now let's listen to another track titled drop with drops Hence the like because of the plug-in she used I guess they used and the artist is named my lo-fi which is who is also a A fellow musician in in this little community Mmm, and I always enjoy his stuff. Let's hear it That's amazing These vocal samples are processed in such a way that all creates such an amazing mood And from a voice decimation Very wet the bass is there This snare is a little bit too bright. The highs in the snare are a little bit hurting on my ears But other than that, I don't have any complaints These vocal samples reminding of infected mushroom a bit. Oh, we have a relentando on the end Slowing down that was awesome Drops with drops by my lo-fi. Oh I Would really like to see the project file for this one and see how he made those bases in the middle That's pretty crazy As I said, like the snare has a little bit too much highs in the drop Which are painful to me, but otherwise I really like this and like the drop had Proper punch. It had very deep bass sub bass. It had like very nice Very danceable rhythm slowing down a little bit and like it's so cool because it's like blending between the raga or dub Stuff from the start and at the end and here we go to full on dubstep More modern dubstep maybe and it's like building a bridge between these musical genres that Evolved one from another and the vocal processing and How he picked the the chops from my recording where I say stuff or sing stuff and how he processed that and I don't know It's it's a really Really amazing. Oh my lo-fi is in the chat and he says that the project files are on Linux musicians forum Well, I need to check that out. I need to find that. I'm gonna ask you later in the in the community chat By the way, if you'd like to take part in the liver music challenge Meet the people who are making these tracks hang out Figure out how to do music on Linux have people help you solve your problems Please go to ANFA Dot XYZ actually chat dot on the father XYZ and there's a self-hosted rocket chat Server which you can join Anonymously and read or you can make an account and talk or you can also find a link to discord Also, all the links are in every video description. I publish so you can just go down and check this out Alrighty, let's move on To the next track which is titled did rip off Penguin's success by Sahat Eva Let's hear it That's a classic I Love this bass it really reminds me of art of noise like the album daft It's quite intense It's like The beat is slightly it's it's kind of swinging it's like samples are not cut Super correctly like the transfer a little bit like double transients or something Creates a pretty weird laid-back slightly drunk Maybe appropriate One word says it's a cover of his own song. Is it really a cover? You are right. That's why I said it's a classic. It's a cover So that was did rip off of Penguin success by Sahat Eva and now we know why Because it's indeed a cover It's a cover of penguins polka penguin polka by Rob van den Berg Who is the author of the plug-in and the truck was made for a one-sent of challenge number at 118? Yeah, so maybe you want to listen to that as well, but it's not today. It's today. We're going a liver music challenge So, yep, let's hear another one by Nick's Elise Elise alas And it's titled serious robot business Oh That face Drop the bee I really make all these sounds. I don't remember that. This was a serious robot business. By Nix Aless or Nix Elise. My lo-fi says in the chat, drop the beat and going slow. Hilarious. I am having fun. I must say I have heard or listened to some of these before. Namely Drop with Drops and serious robot business. It's still catch me off guard. I was like listen to it like a week ago or something but I haven't heard this last one so I'm really curious what's gonna be. Okay let's sunset this live stream with Cutten Drops by SG-75. Let's go. I like the melody a lot. And this sound. I wonder how much of these drums are in my Beatles samples. Oh nice. That's a very complex groove right there. I love this. It's almost broken. But somehow it works. I like this vibrato on these keys. Wow. So that was Cutten Drops by SG-75. I love that. I wonder. Yeah something I think I would really enjoy also in this track would be some maybe more pronounced chord progression. It felt like it's all on the same chord all the time and I like the melodies and the sounds and the rhythms. So it felt like if there was some chord changes in the track, some chord change here, a chord change here, it would maybe build a little bit more tension and keep it a little bit more engaging. So I still enjoyed this thoroughly. That's it for this short live stream. Thank you all for coming. This was Libra Music Challenge number nine. If you would like to join this, wrong window, then go to chat.anfa.xyz. Oh I'm not typing where I should be. chat.anfa.xyz. Not this one. This one. And in here you will find newcomer info, which is the thing you should visit first. And here you will find information what's going on. You can find link to Discord if you prefer to use Discord. So I do encourage you to try Rocket Chat because it's free and open source. It's self-hostable. I'm running this on a virtual private server. So no companies have like confirmed the data and sell our chats. Like this is in our own hands. So yeah, kind of unlike Discord, which is proprietary centralized and all that stuff. Yeah. And then if you go and search for Libra Music Challenge, you will find this a nice little channel dedicated to this monthly event. And you can join in and make some music, discover some free and open source tools, get some motivation, get some inspiration, have a great time and overall become a better musician. And also be more free because you're not using software that's locking you in. Alrighty. So that's all for this live stream. It was planned to be short. I don't know how long we're going. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I have no idea how long we're going. Oh, 35 minutes. Not bad. Okay. So yeah, thanks to everyone who's taking part in the Libra Music Challenge. Thank you so much to people who are running the challenge. And I believe Sahadeva is one of these people who are organizing this, who are gathering the submissions, organizing voting, putting it up on our internet archive, posting results on the Linux Musicians Forum, I believe. Yes, yes, the Linux Musicians Forum. This is also another place where you can find this. And I'm going to also post all these links in the live streams description so you can visit these, visit these places, join the chat, join the community, have some fun, discover new software and be happy. Yep. So that's it. Thank you for watching. I hope this was interesting. And I don't know if you've enjoyed this as much as I did. I guess that would be a bit difficult. I tomorrow I'm doing another monthly live stream. So if you're watching this live, then don't forget to tune in tomorrow. And also huge thanks to all the people who are supporting me on Patreon and Libra Pay, because their financial support is helping me take out time from work and other things to do live streams like this one, to make tutorials, etc. If you, the reviewer, find my stuff valuable, maybe you would like to join them and drop in a buck or two every month. Yep. Rob van den Berg says, yes! Throw money at ANFA, please! Okay, I love you, bye-bye. I don't know where I should end. Did it end already? I think it's going to be awkward and weird. I'm waiting to-