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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!

We have a mirror community at !musicproduction@sh.itjust.works !

It's a general instance, and it will provide us with better redundancy in case of outages and hiatuses! Everything I post will pop up on both, and you can cross-post your submissions to the other instance if you like!

Rules are as follows:

Don't share other people's music without commentary, analysis or questions. This is not a music discovery community.
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)

Stuff you made/are making. Get valuable feedback and criticism!
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.
Free plugins, presets and samplepacks. Giveaways and self-made stuff included!
News about production software, releases and personalities.
Questions and general advice about music production.
Essays on your favorite productions. Inspirations and insights!
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 And, as a public resource, lemmy is not a safe place to post your unpublished work, so please make sure your work is protected.

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Anyone else a fan of weird little boutique controllers? (waveform.social)

submitted 1 year ago by DASEIN@waveform.social to c/musicproduction@waveform.social

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Left front: ooen-control controller (in a 3D printed case) (https://kblivesolutions.github.io/open.control/)

Right front: Phanstasmal Force (https://www.tindie.com/products/distropolis/phantasmal-force-micro-midi-controller/), spray-painted orange.

Behind: MIDI Fighter Twister (more just for scale than to suggest it's a boutique thing) on a 3D printed stand I found here, and spray-painted orange:. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4782849

I love these little controllers. They can do stuff I've not found on any other controller and are totally customisable so they end up being unique to your own style (although I've never owned a Push and reckon they probably have a lot of the same functions). I use Control Surface Studio to create scripts for them in Live - and that's another thing that has totally changed how I use Ableton for mixing, but mainly performance. They're also tiny so are easy to carry round in a laptop bag.

I've just realised in coming across like a salesman or something, haha! Anyway, along with a Launchpad MK2 this is basically a photo of my live "rig".

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[–] newjoan@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's awesome thanks for the rundown.

'Novel use for the crossfader' is really inspiring!

[–] DASEIN@waveform.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think of all the tips and ideas I've picked up over the years, the crossfader thing is one of (if not the) most effective performance tricks I've ever come across. So simple too!