10 stories tagged music-production, newest first.
440 points by gumby | 208 comments
Substack essay from the Musical Form Institute comparing tempo variation in 1975 vs 2025 Billboard hits to argue modern pop production is grid-quantized to machine perfection.
71 points by androsynth89 | 30 comments
GitHub repository for blokkily, an experimental pattern-first digital audio workstation with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support.
106 points by fidotron | 38 comments
Blog post from Ambionix about the CZP-1 web-based Casio CZ-101 synth emulation and a YouTube video recreating Boards of Canada sounds on the CZ-101.
535 points by terryds | 127 comments
A free, open-source Notion-hosted course teaching beginners music production and theory in the browser using the Strudel live-coding environment.
408 points by qzervaas | 103 comments
A Bjango article examining the vocal effects Daft Punk used in their songs, drawing on a May 2001 Remix magazine interview with the duo.
460 points by wesz | 166 comments
A website for discovering and sharing drum machine patterns, currently supporting the Roland TR-808, browsable by genre.
350 points by holdit | 118 comments
Ableton's Learning Synths, an interactive browser-based site teaching the basics of synthesizers and sound synthesis; the page was captured while still loading.
359 points by gfortaine | 86 comments
AP News obituary reporting that Quincy Jones, the music producer who worked with Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson, has died at 91.
1035 points by prhrb | 211 comments
Ableton's free interactive browser-based lessons teaching the basics of music making, covering drums, bass, chords, and melodies.
644 points by isomorph | 432 comments
Apple press release from May 9, 2023 announcing Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, with features aimed at mobile video and music creators.