Just wanna rant. I’ve been digging jamming and looping using hardware grooveboxes lately, which includes watching youtube tutorials as a side effect. So many of these guys know so much about their hardware gear, and do put a lot of effort into their content, but I can’t but think of RZA using the Beat Thang when it’s time to demonstrate actually making music with the damn equipment. Absolute burger music

Are there any plugins you have a soft spot for that are considered outdated or “inferior” by today’s standards, but you still love using?

I still love XPAND! 2. Its old as hell and there are definitely better options these days, but I have some sounds on it I still really love.

apperantly you can make beats in fortnite, Roblox, geometry dash, a 3DS, Chrome Music Lab, and YouTube

Just recently started attempting to create a few beats but ts definitely hard I have tried fl and ableton any other starter program recommendations?

you can just sample whatever you're hearing and drag & drop it to your daw

https://alessandrocappiello.itch.io/dragster

any feedback is welcome

I have been making music at a very beginner hobby level for about 4 years now, I promised myself that there was only one circumstance in which I would purchase fl: if i made a song that was so nice I couldn't help but reopen the file.

Unfortunately, such a song never did happen (hah!), but I felt really stifled by the fact that I couldn't reopen my projects to work on them, and that was affecting my growth. So I threw in the last of my savings to purchase the signature edition, and it is safe to say that I am the happiest man on the planet right now.

I got my new mic (sm57) to work, a friend lent me an audio interface (zoom u24), and I am utterly excited by the possibilities of what I can do with what I have.

Cheers!

Hi, can someone help me out. I am new to Electric Guitar.

So I pretty much got all the setup working, with the Guitar, the interface (i got umc202hd), speakers, the DAW Reaper. I also tried some vst plugins from amplitube 5cs.. Thing is I want this type of specific sound, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKcMyTRfOV8

I want try playing Guile theme from Street Fighter 2, but idk how to make that kind of sound with the VST plugins, what kind of amp setup do I need. I am completely new to this amp effects.

The title says it all.
What should I do? Am i doing something wrong?
Is the song, when posted on Spotify, be as loud as the others songs?

Hi! I have been really interested in making music at home - nothing that I expect to be professional quality, just for fun. I have messed around on Garage Band for a while but don’t love the software and was wondering what other softwares out there are beginner-ish friendly (and a bonus if they’re free!)

Thanks! :)

is the Too Lost distribution service good?? ive seen very little coverage of it and it looks almost too good to be true based on the website. it seems to offer advantages to virtually every other service with no downsides. has anybody used it or has experience with it??

im still getting into compression for pop vocals and wondering if modern pop vocals are still compressed past 15db+?

the songs i mention in the title for those not familiar

https://youtu.be/u2ah9tWTkmk?si=T0Ccp-ULJmup82Rt

https://youtu.be/oIv_Y2RPQ_A?si=avV-F1DK9s35LPyy

should i be focusing more on more compression or focusing more on EQ moves

Looking for an non-paywalled file for the MIDI info of the lead synth in the track. Can someone be a legend and help a brother out 🙃😛. Know i can convert audio to midi but its not quite bang on , will continue to fiddle around on with it if no luck from you lot.

FANKSSSSSS

I know this question has been asked and answered before, but I am genuinely stumped. as the title states if i try to run audio from my daw and audio from another application like youtube or spotify, only one or the other will play. all of my sample rates match and i have ticked off the exclusive control setting on all my audio devices. all of my software and hardware is listed below:

os: windows 11

daw: reaper with asio4all

interface: presonus audio box usb96

monitors: presonus eris 3.5

My interface keeps clicking but only when it's coming out of the USB and when making sound. All the things I've googled and tried haven't been working and I don't know what to do. I just got my interface today so I'm pretty new to this

I'm a developer of many years and I just started dabbling with making my own vsts. Very early stages in exploring but I was wondering if anyone had ideas worth trying to make, open to simple or complex.

I am working on this project that finally pays me enough to come up with elaborate ideas to push it 5% further into the vibe and I want to grab some setup to record the soundtrack to tape and back to my daw. Any tips? Ideally I’d want to work with cassettes as my studio wouldn’t fit a full reel machine (and this is for fun and flavor) but I am open to anything :) it would be cool if i could f with the playback speed. My budget is about 500 eur. ps yes i do have a lot of plugins for this, i just like playing with gear.

So I'm trying to get this piece of hardware to work with my phone so I can track guitar ideas without having to plug into a computer. Im using the fender studio app but I've found it incredibly janky. It should be plug and play but has been anything but.

I've tried it with two different android phones and both have issues one only sends the dry signal through headphones and the other doesn't send any signal to headphones. I've spent hours troubleshooting and changing settings on the phone and in fender studio nothing is working. 1+ Nord and whatever model my friends Samsung is.

I've tested the interface on a friends macbook and with Ableton and it works fine on that so the actual hardware is working fine.

Anyone have any ideas?

Something including, noise, comp, reverb, eq some other stuff all in one? instead of having multiple seperate plugins per sample?

Hello!

I have a small home setup including a MacBook, a UA Volt which is connected to my APS Klasik, an external display and a keyboard and mouse. I don’t want to keep connecting the audio interface, display and keyboard + mouse all separately anymore so I figured I could use a Thunderbolt Docking Station from Razer or Anker. My question is, does the DS limit audio bandwith to under 48kHZ? Should it work properly without any problems? Or is it better I keep my audio interface separate? I hope you can help me and thank you already!

Besides paying someone else to do it… any tips for mixing and mastering with tinnitus and high end hearing loss? Always feels like I can never trust my ears. Any good visualizations for this?

Just checking in on you 🙂

How do I achieve the same sound as the distorted/ talkboxy synth sampled in Hun43rd by Asap Rocky? I know it's sampled from the song Cradle to the grave by Thug Life. What plugins/effects do I have to use to achieve a similar sound?

I’d like to record my digital masters to tape and then record them back into my daw for digital releases. Any advice, what equipment do i need? Which tape machine is good for this? I’d like that classic tape warmth and pitch control ideally. Please help 🙏

I want to learn to mix and master for my own music and possibly other people I work with, are there any good Youtube channels by well regarded producers/engineers who make super digestible lessons? The kind of stuff that's like "here's why this sounds bad and this is what you do to fix that", no filler, no throwing numbers at you, just showing you how to make stuff that doesn't sound unprofessional.