5 Great Free Software Options for Making Music at Home
Making music at home has never been cheaper. And if you’re savvy enough, you can do almost anything for free!
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How to Create a Context for Your Music
On the internet, your music may be experienced in a variety of contexts that fail to communicate your full story. Here’s how to actively overcome this.
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Humanize Your MIDI Sounds With These 5 Production Tips
With all the tech out there helping us make better-sounding digital music, the harder it is to make it sound live. Here are 5 tips for humanizing MIDI.
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5 Keys to Success in Digital Music Promotion
The digital promotion landscape in music is changing fast and more competitive than ever, here’s some tips to helping you cut through and find success.
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10 Great Mobile Apps That Help Me (and You) Create Awesome Music from Scratch
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. For such a long time, I resisted using apps to make music. I thought they must just be crappy, tiny versions of what they’re attempting to emulate…
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5 Ways to Help Your Music Get Discovered in the New Digital Age
+ What are you working on? Share your musical goals with us and we’ll hook you up with a Soundfly Mentor to help you reach them! Recently our friends over at The Outline published a great piece called, “Finding New Music in the Algorithm Age.” The article collects input from six experts and industry veterans, people who work…
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From Discs to Digital: The Odd History of Music Formats
Physical formats have only been around since the 1870s — but in that relatively short amount of time, we’ve managed to come up with some pretty bizarre ways to release music. Each format on this list had its moment of usefulness. But looking back might make you ask “what were we thinking?” Regardless of how obsolete…
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5 Ways to Tell if Your Vocals Have Too Much Processing
+ Recording and mixing your vocals at home? Grammy-winning artist Kimbra explores how to harness the full creative potential of your music in her new course! When working with the endless options of vocal effects in today’s average digital audio workstation (DAW), it can be very tempting to go overboard. It’s like having a huge, free buffet in…
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Hyperbits’ Guide to Layering and Humanizing Pianos
Make your digital MIDI productions sound more organic with these helpful tips for layering pianos from electronic music producer Hyperbits!
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The 5 Best Free VST Compressor Plugins (with Free Presets!)
We searched for five of the best free compression VST/AU plugins out there. Compression is an indispensable tool for the music producer found across individual tracks, mix buses, and mastering chains. Compressors are used for narrowing dynamic range, manipulating amplitude envelopes, peak limiting, and more. They’re also well-known for having distinct characteristics depending on the circuitry…
