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Music Production

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This is Music Production. A place to share anything and everything you want about your music making journey! Learning is the goal, so discussion is encouraged!

RIP Waveform.

Rules are as follows:

  1. Don't share other people's music without commentary, analysis or questions. This is not a music discovery community.
  2. No elitism or bigotry towards other people's music tastes. Be polite in disagreement.

I will update rules as necessary, but I promise we'll stay light on them and only add new ones after discussion!

Here are some useful examples of what a great post would be about:

(in no particular order)

  1. Stuff you made/are making. Get valuable feedback and criticism!
  2. Learning resources - videos, articles, posts on any topic concerning a production process, be it composition, sound design, sampling, mixing, mastering, DAW workflow or any other.
  3. Free plugins, presets and samplepacks. Giveaways and self-made stuff included!
  4. News about production software, releases and personalities.
  5. Questions and general advice about music production.
  6. Essays on your favorite productions. Inspirations and insights!
  7. Your physical analog gear! Let us know how it performs!

Good to know: As a general word of caution, avoid posting complete compositions, mixes and tracks on the internet before backing them up on a remote and reputable server. Even small snippets or watermarked tracks should be posted AFTER backing it up to cloud. Timestamps from cloud services will help you in case of theft. And, as a public resource, lemmy is not a safe place to post your unpublished work, so please make sure your work is protected.

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A big part of creating unique tracks is getting your synths to sound unique and distinct from each other as well as from other producers. If you've been used to working with presets and know how it feels to be trying to find that one sound, why not start learning how to make it yourself?

This video will get you started.

As daunting as it may seem at first, making simple patches is really fast from the get-go, so don't feel like you won't be able to immediately put that knowledge to work.

This video also goes into some technical details between different types of synthesis to avoid problems that you might encounter later in the mixing stage.

If you need a free alternative to Serum, consider Vital from a previous post! Although, you should be able to follow it with any other synthesizer!

I hope this video helps you guys on your journey!

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