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Hello Everyone! I make chiptunes on trackers which are quite famous for "keygen music" associated with software piracy. My philosophy with the music I make is that all my tracks can be downloaded for free, are copyright free, and most importantly: its source files can be accessed.

The last bit is something I dont see too much of in the music communities (correct me if I am wrong). I would definitely like to see this more popularised perhaps making something akin to "FOSS Music". Under all of my tracks I put a mediafire link to .xm file. I think this would be incredibly useful to creators as there many times where I hear a song and just love a specific instrument or sample they used and would like to use it in my own music.

Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

NCS is a great step in the right direction, but back when I used to make music with LMMS, getting access to the actual files people used was a godsend for learning and tinkering.

I do definitely think it's something that could catch on, especially considering how easy it is for "pro" artists to recreate other people's music effortlessly anyways

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

LMMS

Yeah I defo agree, so much of how I learnt to create music was from tinkering in other people's music. Do you know if there is any fedi site or forum that specifies in open source music?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Traditional workflows involving analog recordings and proprietary instrument plugins sadly make "sources" quite useless for music.

At least for the latter problem this DAW sounds quite promising: https://github.com/stargatedaw/stargate