Finally took the time to set up some trusty Windows audio plugins in Linux today, courtesy wine + yabridge. Now I've got Sonible, Arturia, and FabFilter plugins in my Debian 12 system! What more could you ask for, seriously?
MMEA y'all (make mixing easy again)
(Okay, you could ask for UAD and Soundtoys, but then you'd just be greedy.)
As my Apple Silicon adventures continue, I discovered another quirk today. Apparently if your DAW isn't running using Rosetta, none of the plugins that require Rosetta will be available. However I'm not sure this really applies anymore, since all of my Plugin Alliance plugins show up & I know that none of them have been ported to Apple Silicon. The page was created for 1st generation M1 processors, so perhaps at generation 5 (M5's) this no longer applies.
#GearSquad #MusicProduction #Rosetta
#Guitarist types of the Fediverse...
...where can I upload custom IRs of guitar cabs and reverb effects to?
Do I need to pay to join Patreon or somewhere to host them?
#musictech #recording #effects #fx #MusicProduction #studio #musicstudio #guitar #audio
I have been telling some friends/family about my #musicproduction on #linux Project. I’m suprised that I sometimes need to explain what an OS is, so I can explain what Linux is.
There’s a long way for many people to know, that Windows is not the only thing you can have on your PC. And Windows is not what “a computer” looks like on the screen.
Rate my Piano! - physical modelling based piano for Bitwig. Let me know what you think.
I am currently testing some amazing #compressor, #amp simulation, and #eq #plugin (s) by a renowned vendor that previously did not support #linux.
It honestly feels unreal to me to have those outstanding plugins run perfectly smooth and natively within #bitwigstudio on #linuxaudio. 
I expect an announcement within a couple of weeks, as the beta testing is still ongoing and minor bugs are fixed.
I am super excited about another vendor supporting this great platform for #musicproduction. 
Join us on April 6th 11AM-1 & 2-4 PM for our free Audio Engineering Clinic! Featuring multiple workshops covering recording, live sound, mixing, production, and more! https://omegastudios.com/audio-engineering-clinic-2025/ #audioengineering #music #school #recording #mixing #mastering #livesound #audioengineer #musicproduction #beats #microphone #protools #rockvillemd
I had a blast this morning in my makeshift, temporary home studio.
I was channeling my inner Christine Balfa by doing 'clunk-a-clanga' on my big fuck-off 8" triangle.
Now it's coffee time.
I've been saturating myself in classical musicians analyzing songs they've never heard before. The analyses always give me musical ideas.
I'm just going to have to throw myself into writing this album. I have a few song ideas and/or hooks now. It would be helpful if any of them resulted in a complete song. Or piece. Or something a child could play with 2 fingers.
Okay, there are those hooks. And a rambling thing I wrote one night when I might have had some tune in my head, but now I've got pages of lyrics, instead. The tune is long gone. Out to pasture. Chasing mares. The usual sort of thing one does when one is a tune in retirement, whatever that may be.
Meanwhile, I think I might have to use the old method. Not the really old method, where I get callouses and bang something out on a guitar until just before tendinitis sets in, at which point I realize it doesn't have a bridge anywhere, but I can play some ripping lead to it, when my fingers aren't aching.
No. The newer old method, where I start writing something on keyboards. This keeps me from playing lead all the time.
I kid you not, I write better tunes after a layoff than I do when my chops are up. In the latter case, all I want to do is play lead, and the tune suffers. In the former case, I have no callouses and wish to not play any lead guitar right now, thank you, so can we please focus and write the rest of this song before we bleed all over the strings?
If anyone wants to throw poetry at me, I will happily see if I can turn it into music. We can share a copyright. That, plus waiting 5 or 10 years for the royalties to build, might buy a cup of coffee. And by then you'll really want a cup!
Been an expensive month. With the new computer I decided I should also upgrade my Reasom Studio software from version 11 to 13. Mainly to take advantage of the native Apple Silicon support. I love their rack concept plus I really like that I can use it as a plug-in inside Logic. When I get more time I really want to sit down and start working with it more as a DAW.
#GearSquad #MusicProduction #AppleSilicon #ReasonStudio
Tonight, I finally wired up some pedals. I have made so little music in the last year. Even though I know, making music unwinds my brain. It's a start, I guess...
Someday there will be a plug-in that emulates the tiresome workflow of matching an old version of ProTools to an old version of macOS such that it doesn't crash on you because that had such a SOUND to it, you know? Lmao
Why do we have #GameDev but #MusicProduction?
"Production" brings to mind assembly lines, which is perhaps unfortunately apt for much commercially successful music, but my musical efforts are much more about developing than being produced.
Will I finally finish this song I started in 2018? I've remade and abandoned it several times, but I like the melody and percussion enough to revisit. Some might say "just abandon it and do something else", but I'm just too stubborn 
This week I got a new flash of inspiration and added some FM "strings". Also changed my workflow from making the whole song inside the Digitone to recording some patterns and then assemble them in Ardour.
Oh, this is a good one from Alex! I just learned the difference between phasing and flanging. I don't know why I'd never bothered to look it up before, to be honest.
I'm arranging some multi part vocals. I don't have a huge bag of tricks yet, so I'm listening to various things for inspiration. 70s funk, mostly. Y'all, 70s funk is so good! Listening to some more contemporary funk as well, but they don't layer vocals to the same extent. I think I'm walking the middle ground and I've got some things that make me smile or even laugh, so hopefully it's good!
"Home (When Shadows Fall)", a pop ballad from 1932, recorded in #BlackbirdStudio on January 25th of this year for my student project.
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Ev'ning marks the close of day
Skies of blue begin to grey
Crimson hues are fading in the West
Ev'ning ever brings to me
Dreams of days that used to be
Memories of those I love the best
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#CC-BY-SA licensed music; MIDI and PDF of arrangement also for free download.
Recommendations for beginners daw?
I'm teaching a 9 year old to play keys. He's been playing around with garage band and I'm trying to get him interested in building productions up more from scratch and playing and recording his own parts. He needs to build some simple grooves and play around recording something on the keys and loop just that one or two bars that sounds good.
Requirements are windows and free (or at least cheap)
#daw #beginner #MusicProduction #kids
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