🎶 **Excited to Share My New Arrangement of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson!** 🎶

I had so much fun making this track come to life in my own style and couldn’t have done it without the amazing gear and incredible people who helped along the way!

**Special Thanks To:**
- **Viscount International** 🎹 for that iconic organ sound—big shout-out to Delroy White for taking it up a notch with some custom tweaks.
- **Yamaha Drums** 🥁 bringing the heartbeat of this track.
- **Audix Mics** 🎤 for capturing the drum sound perfectly.
- **Pianoteq** for that smooth Rhodes sound in the background, adding that perfect touch.
- **Nord** 🎹 used the Stage 4 for some awesome Clav sounds.
- **Surge Synthesizer** 🎛️ powered up tons of synth sounds! Surge is fully accessible and open-source, and for all my blind producers, this one is a must.

Shout out to Mike Gardner for making it all sound amazing with the final mix!

Check out these links to all the fantastic companies that helped bring this track together:

🎹 Viscount International - [viscount link]
🥁 Yamaha Drums - [yamaha link]
🎤 Audix Mics - [audix link]
🎹 Pianoteq - [pianoteq link]
🎹 Nord Keyboards - [nord link]
🎛️ Surge Synthesizer - [surge link]

**#Thriller #MusicProduction #ViscountOrgan #YamahaDrums #AudixMics #PianoteqRhodes #NordStage4 #SurgeSynth #BlindMusician #MichaelJackson #MatthewWhitakerMusic #Accessibility #MusicForEveryone**

Wow. I didn't expect the amount of resonance my writeup is getting. Thank you very much.

I did a lot of changes, split the document. Hopefully providing alternative, practical strategies for synthesizing sounds in a size-coding context:

ronnypries.de/notes/music-prod…

May also be generally relevant for folks struggling/are bored with their bassdrums.

#demoscene #sizecoding #sounddesign #mixing #patchdesign #musicproduction

Synthesis for coders - rktic's working notes

Hopefully actionable patch-programming insights for size-coders, who also make their own music.

^{ronnypries.de}

"What made me put my coffee down this morning was 'synthetically generating music', which apparently now falls under 'needs to disclose'.

Them’s fighting words.

Let’s say I fiddle with some knobs on my Eurorack setup (that’s a music synthesizer if you don’t know), and decide to upload it in the background of a video. Am I now making 'altered content?'"

#MusicProduction #MusicTech #AI #Policy #YouTube #Deepfakes

vkc.sh/youtubes-bad-ai-disclos…

Spectral Compressor. It's incredible that FOSS audio production tools are at a level where top EDM producers make videos about them. Props to au5 for acknowledging that it's not just free, but also open-source.

youtu.be/jo_ayanaKo4?si=evvqcO…

#MusicProduction #FOSS #SoundDesign #EDM #music

This Plugin Shouldn't Be Free, But Is

School Of Bass: https://bit.ly/SOBassSpectral Compressor: https://github.com/robbert-vdh/nih-plug/tree/master/plugins/spectral_compressorDisable Gatekeeper (...

^YouTube

🎹 Hi everyonnneee, I hope you are all doing good! 💜 Here's a piece of #music I have been working on. What vibe/genre/era do you get from this? I would love to hear your thoughts 🎵🎶🎵🎶

#musicproducer #80s #musicproduction #cubase

Here's one of the lesser known ancient Chinese sayings. Still worth living by:

~~ Any day can be made better by synthesizing a kick drum with Geonkick. ~~
- Sun Tzu (most likely)

youtu.be/EtWSnbmdB9w
github.com/free-sm/geonkick

#MusicProduction #FOSS #OpenSource #Geonkick #Drums #SoundDesign #DrumSynthesis

GitHub - free-sm/geonkick: A free software percussion synthesizer for GNU/Linux

A free software percussion synthesizer for GNU/Linux - GitHub - free-sm/geonkick: A free software percussion synthesizer for GNU/Linux

^GitHub

If you are looking for open-source sampled instruments to use in your music, here's a great repository:
sfzinstruments.github.io/

They use the SFZ format which is the best way to make sampled instruments. It's open-source, easy to edit (all based on text + audio files) and well documented.

To use these instruments in Ardour or other DAWs I'd recommend the open-source plug-in sfizz:

sfz.tools/sfizz/

More about the SFZ format here:
sfzformat.com/

#MusicProduction #FOSS

Ardour developers ask for help from users - it's really easy to do and we can all make Ardour a bit better :)

Read more here:

discourse.ardour.org/t/help-ma…

#Ardour #AudioProduction #MusicProduction #Audio #FOSS #OpenSource #Libre #LinuxAudio #FreeSoftware

Help make Ardour 7.3 better: a simple thing for everyone

The source code of Ardour now contains support for searching both global and per-session preferences/properties.

^Ardour

"Obsolete Sounds is the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening."

👉 citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-s…

#sound #musicproduction

I hit 3000 plays on my Bandcamp

Makes me happy that folks have given my beats a chance

Even if you've listened once and thought "man, this shit is wack", thank you 🙏🏾

bluemarvelmusic.com

#blacktwitter #blackmastodon #blackfedi #music #hiphop #beats #beatmaker #musicproduction #musicproducer #bandcamp

Ardour 7.0 stable has been officially released!

ardour.org/whatsnew.html

#Ardour #MusicProduction #AudioProduction #Audio #FOSS #OpenSource #GNU #Libre #FreeSoftware