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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!

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:

  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 And, as a public resource, lemmy is not a safe place to post your unpublished work, so please make sure your work is protected.

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As you might've noticed if you visited our community page after this post, I made a very cool looking banner (or so my mum tells me). Thing is, I don't use that many plugins on my own, and what better way to make the banner look interesting than to put your favorite plugins in there? This page will also serve as a cool overview of different plugins our community uses, so be sure to post all of your favorites! I'll pick the coolest-looking ones for the banner!

This post is gonna stay up until I decide that the banner is done (and perhaps we'll make it a seasonal thing to swap it out, who knows?) I'll update this banner in my spare time when you guys post some things to add.

To get on the banner, comment the name of a plugin and the company or a name of the person who made it. You can also post a link to its page or your own screenshot of the plugin, if you want.

I don't know what the limit is to how many plugins I can put in the image, but we should have a lot of space (and we're not limited to the amount of spots currently on the list). I suppose as long as every individual plugin is recognizable when shrinked, we're all good!

Right now the banner features:

(in order: columns from left to right )

  1. Pro-Q 3 by Fabfilter ^posted^ ^by^ ^many^
  2. SPAN by Voxengo
  3. MSED by Voxengo
  4. Sforzando by Plogue
  5. Vital by Vital Audio
  6. Decapitator by Soundtoys ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/michaelfone@vlemmy.net^
  7. 1176 Collection by Universal Audio ^posted^ ^for^ ^being^ ^a^ ^classic^
  8. Pigments by Arturia ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/DASEIN^
  9. Saturn by Fabfilter ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/michaelfone@vlemmy.net^
  10. Zener-Bender by Softube Chandler ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/ebauche^
  11. Aalto by Madrona Labs ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/DASEIN^
  12. XO by XLN Audio ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/michaelfone@vlemmy.net^
  13. 2500 Bus Compressor by Api ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/michaelfone@vlemmy.net^
  14. Comper by Analog Obsession ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/goosehorse^
  15. Surge XT by Surge Synth Team ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/mokpo@lemm.ee^
  16. Sausage Fattener by Dada Life ^posted^ ^by^ ^chaos^ ^incarnate^
  17. Replika XT by Native Instruments ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/ebauche^
  18. Permut8 by Sonic Charge ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/DASEIN^
  19. Omnisphere by Spectrasonics ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/Shadowbait^
  20. Shaperbox by Cableguys ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/michaelfone@vlemmy.net^
  21. Nova Dynamic EQ by Tokyo Dawn Records ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/goosehorse^
  22. Super VHS by Baby Audio ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/Shadowbait^
  23. PaulStretch by Sonasaurus ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/mokpo@lemm.ee^
  24. EQ232D by Bettermaker ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/DASEIN^
  25. "Space Echo" Delay Tape-201 by Arturia ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/michaelfone@vlemmy.net^
  26. Supermassive by Valhalla ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/mokpo@lemm.ee^
  27. Gullfoss by Soundtheory ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/Shadowbait^
  28. Raum by Native Instruments ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/Shadowbait^
  29. Deelay by Sixth Sample ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/mokpo@lemm.ee^

I'll swap out the placeholders for your submissions and credit you! Like this:

Stuff by Cool People ^posted^ ^by^ ^u/supercoolperson^

And that's about it. Sh.itjust.works and waveform.social will have different banners (in the same style), so we can do something different with both of them! Post away!

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[–] mokpo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favourite synth plugin by far is definitely SurgeXT

and when I'm stuck or run out of ideas I just love to drown everything in Valhalla Supermassive :) No matter what crap I made before, it makes a soothing porridge out of everything :D

even better in combination with the vst version of PaulStretch

And I like Deelay It's pretty neat for sound design.

[–] anthromusicnote@waveform.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SurgeXT looks pretty cool, I'm definitely taking a closer look at it later. Added everything for now!

[–] mokpo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Do that. It's absolutely amazing.

[–] goosehorse@waveform.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm newish to the plugin space, but two that I've found myself using quite a bit are:

Analog Obsession's Comper

Comper is a compressor with both serial and parallel options. I feel like I've gotten better sounds from this than the official Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor emulations from Plugin Alliance. Of course, that could be user error


I am a lowly live sound engineer, after all ;)

Tokyo Dawn's Records' Nova Dynamic EQ

I just like the way this one sounds. Does what I want with a good spectrum analyzer built in. I intend to purchase the full version soon, but I've found the free version very useful in my mixes. On the mastering side, I leaned into rhe Kirchoff EQ from Plugin Alliance, but it seems a bit unstable and feels a little overkill on the mixes where Nova gets the job done just fine.

They're in! Thanks for the submissions!