Really, please stop flooding people’s feed with your vibecoded stuff.

Nobody cares. Nobody needs another copy of a copy of a copy of a plugin that solved a specific problem 15 years ago. Nobody needs another plugin that does the same “spectral” sh*t that other plugins already do better. Nobody needs your unstable bloated plugin. Nobody needs your poorly built ui.

And above all, nobody will pay for your 4 hours watching an agent writing code. Nobody will pay for a thing they can ask Claude themselves to make. Nobody will pay for software that has not been tested nor engenieered (and no, Claude randomly reading the compiled software does not count as testing). Just stop trying. You’re not gonna become the next Steve Duda or invent the next serum.

I get it, prompting an idea and getting a plugin back is fun. You had fun. We’re very happy for you. But we don’t care about the result, seriously.

I’m at the point now where I have been making dance music for 7+ years and I have studied so much sound design that it takes me way way longer to make a track using any instrument or fx samples( the time spent looking)

For drum one shots I will make the transient myself usually with just a sine wave and short noise shaping, and then find the character of another sample to layer over

But when it comes to bass, melodies, leads, pads, fx and risers, it is so much less time consuming to design than myself

I think as a new producer, if you are serious about becoming good,if you take the time to learn synthesis it will help you out so much in the long run.

Even if you learn by deconstructing presets( turning all modulation and effects), it’s still going to elevate your productions

Also, if synthesis is too much or if you don’t know what sounds to use for intros you can’t go wrong with piano/strings/brass/woodwind

Hi,

I want to get some reference tracks that have outstanding mixing, I'm mostly interested in electronic music, whether it's Trance or Techno or EMD or whatever.

I mostly struggle with making my mixes sound 3D and having insane separation of sounds.

Also some tracks sound insanely wide, I know a lot of tricks but applying it is a different story.

And statistically "edm" sounds narrower compared to POP music, if It's an amazing pop track then feel free to list it too.

Cheers!

classic stuff like zay chant, jerk chant, 808 siren, chop snare etc. being used in different genres or in a more experimental way like adding effects to them.

the only example that comes to mind right now for me are the new babyfather singles that sample wake up f1lthy and ok producer tags. also jane remover does this a lot (chop snare in daria core, that one detroit perc in star people, etc)

Hi,

Watched new Big Z video on widening sounds without introducing artefacts and losing energy in mono.

https://youtu.be/RUX0O8LgMu8?si=tGfY6Fu5CDzhXivL&t=425

I'm using Logic Pro same as him so I have all the plugins except that Waves TransX plugin, I hate waves so I wonder if I can replace that one plugin with something else? I don't even fully understand how this plugin works here.

Any tips appreciated.

Basically, I want to make music recorded by me, and I wanted to know what's the best app to put recorded music into, maybe one to record with BPM and bars, since it's hard to get the recordings 100% right. Any suggestions are welcome.

Focused on a wide variety of genres from indie to electronic and everything in between.

Hey! I'm currently working on my song and have been trying to produce it myself, but the genre is so much different than what I’m used to, I just simply cannot translate my idea into a coherent sequence.

I'm leaning towards a mix of electro-pop with a strong bassline and short piano sequence at the beginning (this i wrote).

I've already started writing the core of lyrics and have a pretty clear idea of where I want to take it creatively.

Not sure if it’s a right place to ask but anyone here would be interested in collaborating on the beat? I'd love to work with someone who enjoys experimenting and creating something a little different. Thank you!

Hey there :)
I’m producing with ableton and external synths.
Synthesising all my sounds, except for percussion, drums; for them I mostly use samples and edit them to my taste, sometimes layering and chopping.
I would love to have a method/engine for making short percussion - and yes, those will be mostly noise shots with subtle layers - and would like to get some knowledge from ya’ll 🫶

Tutorials and guides will also be great.

*I don’t think it matters too much for this intention but I mostly create electronic, psychedelic trance music.
** synthesisers/grooveboxes that answer my need for deeply customizable percussion sounds will also be welcomed.

Thanks fellas

Would anyone be able to help navigate me to any good resources to learn how to live loop to create a live performance on Logic Pro? The YouTube videos I’ve stumbled across have been pretty vague. Open to written resources too.

Can MAutoPitch produce rap style autotune effects? I am having no success trying. Depth and Speed at 100%, Scale C Major. No noticeable effect even. Presets have an effect, but otherwise nothing from Default.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htyVjHr2_m8&list=RDhtyVjHr2_m8&start_radio=1

I would love to reproduce the effect of the opening vocals. It feels like they were chopped manually? I don’t know, does anyone have a guess?

I'm working with sung vocals recorded over several days. The singer wasn't always in exactly the same position in front of the mic and sometimes moved or turned their head during a take.

Because of this, the tone changes between takes and sometimes even between phrases in the same take. Some parts have a stronger proximity effect, with more low end and boominess around 200 Hz. Other parts sound thinner because the singer was farther from the mic. Some phrases also sound noticeably brighter than others.

When I put these takes together, you can hear the tone change. I'm trying to make the vocal sound consistent throughout the song, especially in the low mids.

Is there a plugin that can automatically follow these changes and correct them? Ideally, I'd like to pick a good section of the recording as a reference and have it bring the other phrases closer to that sound.

I don't want to cut 200 Hz across the whole track, because some parts already sound fine. I need more correction where the vocal gets boomy and less where it doesn't. The same goes for the changes in brightness.

I understand that different notes and vowels naturally have different frequency content. I'm not trying to remove those differences or make the performance sound flat. I just want to reduce the tonal changes caused by the singer's position relative to the mic.

There are a lot of takes, so manually EQing every phrase would take a long time. I'm using Reaper. What plugins or workflows would you recommend for this?

I have been doing music production with my old setup ( i5 3570k + 12gb ddr3 ram + ASUS P8H61-MX motherboard ). And a rampage gaming headphone xd. I got a little money in hand so I was planning to buy a bass guitar like Ibanez GSR200 and an audio interface like Behringer U-Phoria UM2, I dont think I want an amplifier. Would I face any obstacles if I buy that guitar + audio interface because my setup is old? I'm new to these things so I don't know if I am missing something or not.

Hello everyone.

I did this Meshuggah Nothing album (Blue version) inspired Impulse response with some tone matching software.

If you want to try it out just download the free IR from the link in the the description of the youtube video.

Cheers.

I've been reading through experiences of independent musicians lately, and something keeps bothering me.

Artists spend months creating something they're proud of, but once the music is ready, it feels like a whole different battle begins.

Distribution, getting heard, royalties, promotion, dealing with platforms... and somehow you're expected to figure it all out yourself.

I'm working on something focused on independent artists, but before making assumptions, I genuinely want to hear your side.

What's been your biggest struggle after finishing a song? And was there ever a point where you wished someone could just take care of that part for you?

Good experiences, bad experiences, unexpected headaches ......I'd love to hear them all.

Just trying to understand what artists actually go through.

With all the software reverse engineering projects and vibecoding going on, I was wondering, if Linux/open source support for a good DAW and good drivers is finally here. I used Reaper with a cheap audio interface and a neural guitar amp box for recording under windows. I think the last time i checked some driver or codex was missing under Linux. Shouldnt it be easier to create a free version of the missing pieces now, and does that already exist?

I’m getting into making plugins I’m wondering what types of plugins people r interested in seeing. Ideas can be as wacky as possible.

I use this technique a lot. Everything just clicked when I started doing it and I believe it is being underused. So i decided to share it here with fellow producers, both beginners and professionals. Let me know what you think about it!