Music Production
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Welcome to Music Production@sh.itjust.works.
A place to share anything and everything you want about your music making journey! Learning is the goal, so discussion is encouraged!
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.
We 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 analogue 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 And, as a public resource, Lemmy (and the broader fediverse) is not a safe place to post your unpublished work, so please make sure your work is protected.
RIP Waveform Social | RIP Lemmy Studio
Be nice. All instance rules apply.
Rules:
- Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
- No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
- No Ads / Spamming.
- No pornography.
Règles :
- Soyez respectueux. Tout le monde doit se sentir le bienvenu ici.
- Pas de bigoterie - y compris le racisme, le sexisme, le capacitisme, l’homophobie, la transphobie ou la xénophobie.
- Pas de publicités / Pas de spam.
- Pas de pornographie.
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There's two aspects of it, one is the technical aspect (learning how to use relevant software and/or hardware) and the artistic aspect (how to make a good beat, melody, chord progression etc.). Both need to be learned, and both can be learned! TBH I'm not sure what I'd recommend to a complete beginner here, but learning a DAW (digital audio workstation) like Reaper or Ardour is a good start.
I've been active in the Linux music production world for like 5 years, and I haven't seen much talk about LMMS. Last time I tried using it, I didn't manage to get it working, but that was probably mostly because they had very little documentation on how to set up and use it. Might be different nowadays, or there might be more functions that are obvious to me because I have more experience with DAWs now. I used Ardour for a couple of years, which is also FOSS but well-documented and very powerful, but its workflow isn't great for electronic music; I'd say its main audience are people who are recording physical instruments. I use Bitwig now, it's the only "big", commercial DAW with a proper, native Linux version; not FOSS, though. If you want to try Ardour, look up Unfa's tutorials.
Once you learned the basics of your software, you can search up tutorials that are more about how to make a specific genre of music.