Made on the dirtywave m8 tracker.

There are a number of questions online dealing with this subject, but many answers are contradictory, or aren’t familiar with what a soundfont is, and few seem to acknowledge that—according to the US Copyright Office at least— you can’t copyright a recording of an individual note (See the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices Chapter 300, Section 313.4 (B)). That said, I was only able find one Reddit thread where someone brought up specific cases tied to the issue, and there was still some confusion within that thread.

I’m making original compositions, and I still want to properly credit the website I got a soundfont from, because I think that’s the right thing to do, though it’s not required. The site offers them for free and seems to have all its own rights in order. To my knowledge, all of the recordings were explicitly made for use in this manner, not ripped from other copyrighted material, but it would put my mind at ease to be sure someone couldn’t change their mind years later and have grounds to sue me for royalties because somewhere buried in the individual recordings of individual notes is, like, a piano where the c-sharp is especially pianoish.

I’d like to believe I’m in the clear, but am I misunderstanding anything here?

(Tried to ask this on Reddit’s music production sub and the post was removed without explanation. Never heard back from mods when I reached out. Very strange.)

Thank you for your time.

I am using ableton for years now, just as a creative outlet on the side. Linux is my daily driver on my laptop and I aim to replace windows on my desktop soon as well. But ableton keeps me from moving on, so I took a look at bitwig. I do not have any external plugins or vsts, which works great for me with the native stuff in ableton. But I'm afraid bitwig lacks the same broad selection of effects and instruments. What is your experience and recommendation regarding plugins? I also kind of like what bitwig does to the workflow.

How is your experience with the ableton push in bitwig?

Thanks a lot in advance!

I have been using FL Studio for years. It was easy to pirate when I was younger and broke, and it's still flexible enough for anything I want to do now without hassle. (The license these days is "meh" for clips and plugins. However, I am designing and beginning to record most of my own instruments now with a core set of plugins.)

I would like to experiment with an open source DAW, but not sure which routes to take there.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/14281466

I've never seen computer keys used in place of piano keys before though I am sure being able to customize the feel of the switches is pretty nice. Are there production midi controllers that do the same?

Inspired by Koan Sound I wanted to record some double bass and get creative with it. Fortunately, I have a very old and kind of broken double bass at home. However, I have no idea how to play it properly and decided instead of trying to play it how it is supposed to be played, record a bunch of sounds & noises (I apologized to the double bass afterwards) and try to arrange them into something afterwards. This is the result. It's not perfect but I am fairly happy with it. :)

What I took away from this project: Starting with a few samples can really spark creativity for me. I would have never come up with this on a blank canvas. Listening to the double bass recordings I noticed variations in volume/articulation/... which gave me ideas where to place percussion and other accents. Then the track built itself from there.

Let me know what you think!

I searching for a native OTT alternative for Linux some one can recommend something ?

This is one of the tracks that I made for the video game project I'm working on. I'm still a beginner in music though. So I believe it might sound bad. I think volume balancing could use some polish.

Hey smart peeps, I'm a remote worker who attends a lot of virtual meetings. I also sometimes create training videos or host training sessions, and my current earbuds are some $15 amazon cheapos.

I sometimes get feedback that people can hear my typing or the squeak of my chair.

I have about $200 budget to spend on some nicer headphones. When I search, I look for 'noise canceling' or 'background sound suppression', but only see more cheap headphones or some over-the-head headsets.

Are higher quality earbuds possible? What's out there that's a good product y'all might recommend?

Released April 24 / 2024

Written and produced by Robb Rourke

#hiphop #beats

I've been using machine learning to separate the music from the soundtrack of the 2001 film Osmosis Jones. Using selective muting and many, many spectral edits, I've extracted around 20 songs so far.

There will be artifacts, but it's the best that can I can do with the sources and tech I have.

Here are a bunch of free sample packs from Venus Theory. Some for Vital, some for PhasePlant, some for Decent Sampler

https://venustheory.gumroad.com/

Click "Freebies!"

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Hi friends,Happy New Year to you all! Here is my new song "Dune", which I composed and recorded live just using the Moog Sub 25 together with the Valhalla Su...

#Decent sampler is pretty nice actually and #free. It provides a low friction way to create your own sample packs as well, including effects and custom graphics. There is also a tutorial video showing how. Linux, Mac, Windows.

There are also several many free sample packs from Venus Theory and others.

Plugin
https://www.decentsamples.com/product/decent-sampler-plugin/?swcfpc=1

Packs
https://www.decentsamples.com/product-category/publishers/decent-samples/?orderby=price

How to make packs
https://www.decentsamples.com/decent-sampler-developer-resources/

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Dive into the eerie world of haunted recordings music with this mesmerizing piano melody by Robb Rourke. Let the haunting sounds transport you to another realm as you study or unwind. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more chilling tunes.

Hey there! I just found a very nice offer for the 4i4 audio interface. Do I understand correctly, that there are 3 differen audio outputs that I can rout to? So main1 and main2 and headphones? I would like to route my Ableton headphones out (what gets played when selecting instruments and stuff like that) to the actual headphones channel instead of the main out?

Thanks a lot in advance, happy producing!

A dark instrumental piece I wrote and performed.

Mix of orchestra, guitar and Piano.

Sorry if it looks like promote. Just a song I wanted to share

Hi, I create videos to educate others on living more with nature instead of from nature. Anyway, I currently pay for Epidemic Sound. I only use the songs from a single band for all of my videos. So, Epidemic Sound is getting a lot of money for a dozen songs from the same band.

I'd rather pay the artists for their work than Epidemic Sound. But I don't know where to start. I'd like to find something like the songs by Wanderer's Trove to use for my videos. I don't mind paying as much as I do with ES. I'd just rather it go to the artist than a corporation. Any advice on how to find such songs without going for a subscription?

Thank you!

PS: I really hope this is the right community for this question. I don't know much about music or music production at all.

There seems to be a lot of AI audio tools; anyone try them for audio isolation? My usecase is separating a song from a 5.1 movie mix, there's a great remix of Hot Blooded I wanna preserve

How many unfinished tracks do you have knocking around on a hard drive somewhere? I was just looking through a big folder of 150 that I organized into one folder like 5 years ago. I don't know what the true total is. Anyone else find this super overwhelming haha? I'm maybe just gonna dump it on the public like Mac Demarco lol

Thanks for checking it out!