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The Answers To Every Question You’ve Ever Had

A home for all of the best tutorials on the most often requested questions about music creation, mixing, production, etc.

To kick it off-

an excellent interactive guide to compression from pATCHES

https://patches.zone/compression-guide

(p.s. pATCHES make loads of great stuff including some free plugins for Ableton)

An interactive guide on music production from Ableton:

https://learningmusic.ableton.com/index.html

Not just advice or best practices BS-

you can assemble your own beats right from your browser!

All the basics are covered from beats, harmony, melody, arrangement, etc. all in an interactive website where you learn by playing

Everything you need to learn to start making your own beats, songs, etc. is right here

Let's Learn About Waveforms

https://pudding.cool/2018/02/waveforms/

Analog Synth Basics:

https://youtu.be/xyVFIPtOsm8

https://youtu.be/X76j7v6n-V8

https://youtu.be/2_Yba9S2moA

https://youtu.be/9SMi47AEnSo

https://youtu.be/n8qkVnkk8b8

https://youtu.be/q217G-gl_Ww

is this meant to be a virtua had-job?

oooh baby

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp

Hand job? Hands are for newbs. Use an LFO or an envelope so your hands are free to twist a nipple or somethin'

so this thread DOES answer every question I've ever hd including "where do babies come from."

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp

A bit of info & credits:

Ethan Hien is a Doctoral Fellow in Music Education, New York University.

He's also part of an awesome community of technology & music educators doing a bang up job of explaining music & music tech to beginners & intermediate music makers- practical, interactive, & easy to understand

So if your interested check out the rest of his site as well as Ableton's music education site (linked above)-

I'm likely to link more if them here as well.

with that here's some good places to start:

What is "groove"?

http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2014/what-is-groove/

How To Groove (includes files to practice with & more)

http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2011/how-to-groove/

Tackling the topics other music threads are afraid to. Accept nothing less.

DIY sex toys with both MIDI & CV intergration coming soon...

don't touch that dial