Hey. I've noticed this community has been pretty silent for quite a while. This was one of the reasons I made a music production community over at waveform.social (link below). If you want to discuss music stuff, a specialized instance is way better than sticking to the drama of large instances (a lesson I learned only after creating the community at sh.itjust.works)

I've been posting content over at waveform.social, lemmy.studio and sh.itjust.works, all in their respective music production communities.

Waveform.social and lemmy.studio have other active communities related to making music all about synthesizers, gear and DAWs.

If you want to participate, head over to any instance that strikes your fancy and check it out!

Waveform.social link: !musicproduction@waveform.social

Lemmy.studio link: !musicproduction@lemmy.studio

Sh.itjust.works link [Warning - General instance]:!musicproduction@sh.itjust.works

On the off-chance that the community moderator here is still active, feel free to delete this post. I'll be happy to post my content here if I know it's still being moderated!

EDIT in the end, I settled on an Audient iD24, managed to get one from Juno for around £250

As per title... and to clarify, I don't just mean a headphone port, I mean an internal bus separate from the main outs, that can be seleCubase. This info doesn't seem to be present on the manufacturer's blurb; I've just been stung buying a Presonus 24c which it turns out only has 'Main Out L / R'.

Presonus support solution is to use their DAW, I am already fluent in Cubase / Ableton and have no desire to learn a third (StudioOne)! My main interface at home is a UAD Apollo which has main outs, virtual busses, and a headphone bus. I wanted to get a different interface for live stuff & travelling.

Obviously UAD is a higher tier than the £150 24c so perhaps I was expecting too much from it. I need an interface with headphone bus as I use that to run Slate VSX (headphone software).

Heya! I’m thinking about purchasing wireless noise-canceling earplugs (e.g. the Sony WF-1000XM4 or Apple AirPods Pro), mostly for listening to music on the go. But I was also wondering whether there are any issues (aside from the latency one) when it comes to making music on the go with these headphones? I assume it’s generally possible to configure Ableton Live to use those Bluetooth headphones instead of the internal audio card? And there’s most probably a quite high latency, but I would probably be fine with that (at least in most mobile music production situations where I would just use the internal audio card of the MacBook Pro). Anyway, would love to hear experiences from people who did this!

Edit: I’m currently using Audio-Technica ATH-M50 X (mostly at home) and Shure SE-215 (mostly on the go). So especially with regards to the Shure earplugs I’m probably quite used to not having a super neutral listening experience already.

@musicproduction "The Other Side" is the third LP from the Swiss artist "Saint Cyr". The music is inspired by the Doom Rock and Doom Metal scene, but exclusively produced with electronic and synthetic instruments. The tempo is slow, the chant is clear but the atmosphere is heavy and dark... The light is at the end of the tunnel but "The Other Side" is not an easy road...

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-other-side/1677092524

#musicproduction #musicpromotion #musicindustry #saintcyr #theotherside #laminimalechic

Looptober 2022

The goal is to make one loop every day in october. I'll try to tackle it, create a bunch of hopefully nice stuff and learn.

Are you in?

Post your loops here

Punk Labs just released OneTrick Simian, an audio Plugin drum machine perfect for this vintage drum sound. If you're doing any kind of retrowave, synthwave, vaporware etc, it's just perfect. Give it a try and tell us how you like it. And share your music.

And I really like their website and marketing!

I did a sample pack for musicians using a modular synthesizer a while ago. It's made of 23 Risers for different music genres. I hosted it for a while on another platform, and as I'm moving to a more robust solution, I want to share it again with you all #musicians.

The risers are CC0, there's no E-Mail trap, no tracking, nothing. They are entirely free. Click the link, download them, et voilà!

cloud.samuelaubert.eu/nextclou…

Enjoy, make music

Back in the early nineties, hardcore and jungle dominated the UK dance music scene. These massive tracks were created on limited hardware and computers you’d usually associate with playing games. Pete Cannon recreates an authentic jungle sound by combining modern technology with the original hardware used to create these tracks.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/75784

zrythm just released its beta version.

go give it a try, it's a really promising DAW, free software, multiplatform. Good looking. And "modern". And with a chord track.

TS-M1N3 ,a clone of a classic overdrive pedal ...plugin' lv2' for #linux #lv2 #musicproduction 🎧 🎸

Post updated with more alternatives, I hope 2022 is very good for everyone, and many productions…

A classic question, but as linux audio is getting bigger and bigger and even I can't cope with all the great new plugins, I'd be glad to hear what you all are using in order to make great mixes.

Zrythm is a new (still in alpha version) DAW on the not overly crowded FOSS DAW market. It's aimed at music producers, not necessarily engineers like ardour.

What I like a lot, is that it does a bit of everything, borrows nice concepts here and there, here are a few examples.

• Dragging the bottom right corner of a region duplicates the region.
• It supports all linux plugins format (I'm looking at you LMMS)
• It has a nice plugin browser, a monitor section and you can easily export stems (I'm looking at you qtractor)
• I has a chord/scale helper, perfect for creating solid harmonies.
• It has a solid MIDI system (looking at you ardour)
• It does audio and MIDI, od course
• You can modulate parameters using a modulator track (think modulate your pan or just any plugin parameter using an LFO)

It's not entirely stable yet, there a quite some little things to iron out, but it's already usable, testable, and the dev is really reactive. Please report bugs (you can even do it per email, without singing in) and support the project if you can.

great audio mix tip to thicken a complete mix and bring important elements forward:

It's a parallel mixbus compression technique from Andrew Scheps. No need to watch the 10 minutes long video here it is:

• create a bus with any kind of compressor.
• send all tracks except the drums to this bus. The sends have be post fader.
• Compress the bus aggressively (fast-medium attack, fast release, 4:1 ratio up to 10dB gain reduction)
• bring the bus fader up until it blends and thickens all your front elements.
• Play with your compressors characters, try different ones etc. That's the creative side. -Enjoy

Here's a helpful list of free and open-source tools for producing music. It's got everything from DAW's to samplers, synths and more.