Hi,
I wonder which blogs, forums and website your are visiting regularly ... please only music related stuff. I'm on KVR (obviously), Gearslutz and MuffWiggler. I'm mainly interested in places about Sound design, Field Recordings and stuff. Tips are really appreciated ...
TIA
Your place to be (Music, Sound, etc. Forum and blogs)
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- KVRAF
- 9578 posts since 6 Jan, 2017 from Outer Space
Cycling74 forums, Loopers Delight...
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- KVRAF
- 8077 posts since 9 Jan, 2003 from Saint Louis MO
Lines -- Thought-provoking, mostly friendly, strong moderation, diverse in terms of musical gear/techniques used/viewpoints, lots of info on Monome gear and active community development of Teletype firmware. Sometimes a little full of itself.
MW -- Good for gear (especially modular) announcements, comparisons, and trades, bad for GAS. Occasional discussion of technique and the kind of questions/investigations that lead to inspiration. Sometimes gets into pointless arguments, has a few trolls and a frustrating "no politics" policy that is itself a kind of political statement.
KVR -- Used to be a favorite. Mostly has fallen to pointless arguing, and I'm trying to disengage from that (not entirely successfully). Still useful for new plugin announcements or discovering that I missed something cool.
Mutable Instruments -- Is mostly only about that brand's gear, but I do have a lot of Mutable stuff and I mostly like Olivier's design (and other) philosophy. Worth visiting every few weeks or so.
Ambient Online -- a pretty quiet forum, which I guess is appropriate. I started participating again recently since I submitted to the recent moon-themed compilation.
Matrixsynth -- lots of videos, worth scrolling through to see if there's anything cool among them.
Synthtopia -- a slightly different set of synth news etc. that sometimes picks up things other places don't. Comments are mostly not worth reading.
CDM -- Peter Kirn's music tech blog. I've discovered some good music this way, also been shown a lot of not very interesting products and a few winners. I kind of found myself commenting negatively a lot about products that miss the mark or particular assumptions he makes, and decided I should probably back off a little.
Horizontalpitch -- a "blogzine" with lots of interesting interviews.
MW -- Good for gear (especially modular) announcements, comparisons, and trades, bad for GAS. Occasional discussion of technique and the kind of questions/investigations that lead to inspiration. Sometimes gets into pointless arguments, has a few trolls and a frustrating "no politics" policy that is itself a kind of political statement.
KVR -- Used to be a favorite. Mostly has fallen to pointless arguing, and I'm trying to disengage from that (not entirely successfully). Still useful for new plugin announcements or discovering that I missed something cool.
Mutable Instruments -- Is mostly only about that brand's gear, but I do have a lot of Mutable stuff and I mostly like Olivier's design (and other) philosophy. Worth visiting every few weeks or so.
Ambient Online -- a pretty quiet forum, which I guess is appropriate. I started participating again recently since I submitted to the recent moon-themed compilation.
Matrixsynth -- lots of videos, worth scrolling through to see if there's anything cool among them.
Synthtopia -- a slightly different set of synth news etc. that sometimes picks up things other places don't. Comments are mostly not worth reading.
CDM -- Peter Kirn's music tech blog. I've discovered some good music this way, also been shown a lot of not very interesting products and a few winners. I kind of found myself commenting negatively a lot about products that miss the mark or particular assumptions he makes, and decided I should probably back off a little.
Horizontalpitch -- a "blogzine" with lots of interesting interviews.
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- KVRAF
- 1791 posts since 17 Sep, 2002
VI-Control is interesting at times. There are a lot of working composers there, as in people who actually make a living from music (library/production music, film scores, video game music, TV, arrangement/orchestration, etc), so it's nice to get their insight from time to time. However, some of them are kind of snobby about it, but that's life.
There is a lot of drama, however, and the "bigger names" seem to be jumping ship (Hans Zimmer, Mike Verta, Daniel James, Spitfire Audio, to name a few).
There's a lot of mob mentality happening over there (when you have a "like" button on posts, it starts to get a bit Facebook-y). If you criticize Epic trailer "music," for instance, you'll get a bunch of people slinging ad hominem attacks at you. If you question god emperor Hans Zimmer, you'll likely be banned, but only after he's had a chance to drunkenly insult you first. If you question their moderation policy, your posts will be censored. So it can be a bit stifling if you try to stray from the herd.
In spite of that, a lot of knowledgeable people hang out there and can really help you get the most out of your rig, especially if you're into orchestral sounds or film/game/tv/trailer music and sound design. A number of developers post there too.
There is a lot of drama, however, and the "bigger names" seem to be jumping ship (Hans Zimmer, Mike Verta, Daniel James, Spitfire Audio, to name a few).
There's a lot of mob mentality happening over there (when you have a "like" button on posts, it starts to get a bit Facebook-y). If you criticize Epic trailer "music," for instance, you'll get a bunch of people slinging ad hominem attacks at you. If you question god emperor Hans Zimmer, you'll likely be banned, but only after he's had a chance to drunkenly insult you first. If you question their moderation policy, your posts will be censored. So it can be a bit stifling if you try to stray from the herd.
In spite of that, a lot of knowledgeable people hang out there and can really help you get the most out of your rig, especially if you're into orchestral sounds or film/game/tv/trailer music and sound design. A number of developers post there too.
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- KVRAF
- 2593 posts since 15 Feb, 2006 from Another Green World
Mostly KVR, TalkBass, LogicProHelp with a bit of GearSlutz. TapeOp and electromusic.com tend to have a higher vibe than KVR, but I actually like the unruliness here! Occasionally visit Sound on Sound, REAPER, Ableton, MuffWiggler, and various production subReddits. I've found something to like about pretty much every electronic music forum I've visited, with the smarmily-entitled notable exception of MOTUNation. 