r/musicproduction

I’ve been making music for roughly three years now. I make most of my own beats etc. I’ve had this beat that I made that I wasn’t able to come up with something to write so on a whim I sent it to this ug artist that’s popped off this year (300k on Spotify). I saw on his story yesterday that he ended up actually using it and wrote a good song over it. I’ve never had anything like this happen and I don’t want to get over excited and get screwed over. My question is, how should I go about this? Did I make a mistake just sending the beat? It was only the mp3.

Hi, does anyone have any recommendations for any ideally free Mac compatible slicers like ImageLine's SliceX.

Ideally I'd be able to drag and drop an audio file and have it slice at various levels of sensitivity. Would be great if, like SliceX, I could also drop the MIDI it produces into my DAW to keep the timings.

Alternatively, what are things that make you realize that someone is actually a good producer?

Which is better for electronic music, no vocals

I have issues mixing and mastering my tracks. My mixes aren’t horrible but nothing ever feels “full.” What do you guys suggest?
For example: The song itself doesn’t sound bad it just doesn’t sound completely cohesive.

I seem to spend my entire time doing the actual recording, but getting the actual mix/master finished seems to be taking an actual age. Does anyone else struggle with this? Or is it just me?

I just need it for a project. all I really need is the ability to slice up an audio file, speed up, slow down, pitch change. whats the best option for me?

How are you guys managing massive sample libraries these days?

Mine’s gotten to the point where:

• duplicates everywhere
• random “One Shots” folders
• Mac junk files inside packs
• loops/drums all mixed together
• impossible to browse efficiently

Feels like sample management is becoming its own full-time job.

Curious what serious producers are actually doing once their library gets huge.

It appears every other beat throughout the entire song (ending at 2:08). It sounds like some kind of spinning instrument being spun around vertically.

Does anyone know the instrument?

Hey, so I just got the mic yesterday, and I noticed a pretty annoying hissing sound when using the USB-C connection. Do you have any audio interface recommendations that could maybe help reduce it?

hey,

I built a little thing called BeatMarker.app and I want to know if it's actually useful or just useful to me.

idea: you upload a rough mix, send someone a link, they open it on their phone, scrub the waveform and drop comments right on the spot — text or a quick voice note. you go through the list in the studio and tick stuff off.

no more "yo around 1:40 something sounds weird" — you see exactly where they meant.

I know there are alternatives out there, I tried a bunch of them — but somehow none of them really clicked with my workflow. always felt like something was missing or off, so at some point I just started building my own thing.

if anyone wants to try it, drop a comment or DM and I'll send a link. honest feedback welcome, even if it's "this already exists, use XYZ."

cheers

I’ve been fascinated with sampling for a while now, and I’ve finally decided to bite the bullet and start doing it myself, but I wanted to know what free software is the best for someone just starting.

does anyone know any good saturation plugins that are really good for rap vocals? like nettspend, playboi carti type vocals. anything helps. thanks!

does anyone know any good saturation plugins that are really good for rap vocals? like nettspend, playboi carti type vocals. anything helps. thanks!

Hello everyone, I just wanted to come here and say I've made a VST and just wanted to provide this VST as an alternative to things like Vital or Serum 2 that is entirely free. I was just wondering if you guys were interested in using this VST. I call it the Synthesis R9

Music note interval ratio usage

Hello, recently I was researching about fractal music and discovered about the ratios of intervals.

Basically iive been wondering how I can use this piece of information any other way than calculating the frequency of notes depending the interval I want.

Something that I also found out through this research that in intervals there is a really fast polyrhythm, but that's something I can't really use.

Except If I slow down the frequencies so much that i convert a melody into a polyrhythm. I don't know if that makes sense;)

Any ideas on how to use this ratios?

will my song get taken down if my song includes samples from monetized youtube videos?(my song wont be monetized)

Hey, I'm looking to upgrade my current audio interface (scarlet 4thgen solo) with something better and looking for something that is good for recording guitar (7/8 string) and is great for mixing complex project in a DAW.

So far I'm thinking about Apollo solo usb, but the preamp and it's ecosystem is something I don't care for. Other option was RME Babyface but that is a bit pricey and looks fucking stupid.

Any other recommendations?