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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/effects/dynamics/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;dynamics&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Dynamics&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#dynamics&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;    document.getElementById(&#34;effectMenu&#34;).open = true;&#xA;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;distortion&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Distortion&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#distortion&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;!-- https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/guitar_effects_guidebook_vol_20.pdf --&gt;&#xA;&lt;iframe width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;500&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/erv4lit4aWY&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://benmosheron.gitlab.io/blog/2020/04/26/distortion.html&#34;&gt;How Distortion Works in Music (Ben Sheron&amp;rsquo;s Blog)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;dynamics--transients&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Dynamics &amp;amp; Transients&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#dynamics--transients&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When thinking of effects we have some nice mental models for what things sound like. Delay is just echos, reverb adds space, etc. Distortions &lt;em&gt;sound&lt;/em&gt; simple enough, they just make it more aggressive - the problem is, they sometimes don&amp;rsquo;t. We have to think like an audio engineer here.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/effects/filter/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;filters-lp-hp-bp-notch&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Filters (LP, HP, BP, Notch)&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#filters-lp-hp-bp-notch&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;egg&#34; hidden&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;    See the signal processing chapters. If you&amp;rsquo;re trying to do real time DSP and if you want to modulate the cutoff, you&amp;rsquo;re probably stuck with an IIR. FWIW, the delay of an FIR means the linear phase is often worse than not anyway. If licensing isn&amp;rsquo;t an issue, you&amp;rsquo;ll probably want to start with at least &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.musicdsp.org/en/latest/Filters/index.html&#34;&gt;https://www.musicdsp.org/en/latest/Filters/index.html&lt;/a&gt; or really any DSP library. Implementing a well performing filter isn&amp;rsquo;t that hard. Implementing a well performing, variable-cutoff-filter is doable. Implementing one better than open source libraries is a heckin&amp;rsquo; undertaking. All of that said, if you&amp;rsquo;re after a particular character or Virtual Analog, you&amp;rsquo;ll have to start from scratch anyway.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;iframe width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;500&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/nzgzng2hb50&#34; title=&#34;Synthesizer Filters!&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal/learning-synthesis-filters&#34;&gt;https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal/learning-synthesis-filters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/effects/meta/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;meta&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Meta&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#meta&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;mid-side&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Mid-Side&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#mid-side&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Want to apply a different effect to the center of your sound than the more hard-panned left or right sounds - that is, does applying a different effect tho &amp;ldquo;middle&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;sides&amp;rdquo; of your audio sound interesting to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;iframe width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;500&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/dD6_Bajj2DI&#34; title=&#34;The Magic Of Mid Side&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;gain-staging&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Gain-Staging&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#gain-staging&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gain staging is the practice of setting the gain or level of each stage in a signal chain, such as in a mixer or a sound system, to an optimal level. This is important because it ensures that the signal remains at a consistent level as it passes through each stage of the signal chain, which can help to avoid distortion and other problems.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/effects/misc/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;misc-effects&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Misc Effects&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#misc-effects&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;    document.getElementById(&#34;effectMenu&#34;).open = true;&#xA;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;auto-tune&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Auto-Tune&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#auto-tune&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;egg&#34; hidden&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;    Doing autotune in code is well beyond the scope of a small comment. Outside of just throwing AI at the problem - witch is likely to sound god awful - there&amp;rsquo;s no magic bullet here. It&amp;rsquo;s spectral analysis hell.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;book-columns flex flex-wrap&#34;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Given it&amp;rsquo;s basically a meme now, I assume you know what Auto-Tune is. What you may not realize is that not all auto-tune is, well, auto. A lot of the time it&amp;rsquo;s done manually, painstakingly correcting the tuning. If the original sound is close enough, it&amp;rsquo;s usually pretty easy to get it to sound natural, too.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/effects/time/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;time-based-effects&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Time Based Effects&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#time-based-effects&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;    document.getElementById(&#34;effectMenu&#34;).open = true;&#xA;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;delay&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Delay&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#delay&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;egg&#34; hidden&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;    There are a million ways to make a delay that&amp;rsquo;s weird. Most basic? Make a ring buffer and add the signals, probably with a dry/wet mix. Less basic? IDK, add in multiple taps on the ring buffer? Use random samples in the buffer? Change the sample rate of the buffer? Reverse the buffer occasionally? Go nuts.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Delay is basically echo. Take a sound in, and repeat it it it. Normally the main controls on a delay are &amp;lsquo;Time&amp;rsquo;, which controls how long of a delay there is before each repeat, &amp;lsquo;Feedback&amp;rsquo; which controls how much the level is reduced each time the delay repeats (and in turn, how many audible repetitions there are), and &amp;lsquo;Dry/Wet&amp;rsquo; which controls how the signal is blended, entirely dry will have no delay, entirely wet may even miss the initial sound adding a weird latency before you hear what you&amp;rsquo;re playing. Some delays have additional controls, obviously I can&amp;rsquo;t cover every possible delay, but I&amp;rsquo;ll try to cover most:&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/effects/trivial/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;trivial-effects&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Trivial Effects&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#trivial-effects&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;    document.getElementById(&#34;effectMenu&#34;).open = true;&#xA;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;tremolo&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Tremolo&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#tremolo&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;!-- Mulitply the signal with a NOT bipolar LFO. You might want it to go .1 to 1 or so, as going full mute can sound weird. The wave shape and speed matter a lot. Most common is a sort of saw tooth with a more expoential rise, as to have a higer value if integrated (and so be on more of the time).--&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;book-columns flex flex-wrap&#34;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;    This is probably the easiest to understand audio effect. Put simply, fade the volume in and out automatically. This can be done at different speeds (really fast for a &amp;lsquo;deep&amp;rsquo; effect or slow for something pad-like) and with a bias so that the volume never completely cuts. It can also refer to a playing style where the same note is struck rapidly, leading to a similar effect. In VCV this can be done as simply as hooking up an LFO to a VCA&amp;rsquo;s CV input like we did here, but turning up the frequency of the LFO-2 module (note, that here there is no bias so the volume does actually cut out):&#xA;  &lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;https://opguides.info/music/vcavult.gif&#34; alt=&#34;vcavult&#34; /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;iframe width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;500&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/GkMYl3kY7aw&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;vibrato&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Vibrato&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#vibrato&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vibrato as an effect requires pitch shifting, which I suppose actually makes it akin to FM synthesis as in Chapter 2, regardless, it&amp;rsquo;s as simple as applying a, typically subtle, pitch &amp;lsquo;wobble&amp;rsquo; into the sound. On a guitar this may be done with a pedal but more simply just by bending the string back and forth with the fingers quickly or using a whammy bar. In eurorack or VCV you can just use the FM input and hook up an LFO&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;getting-our-hands-dirty&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Getting Our Hands Dirty&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#getting-our-hands-dirty&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Music, like any creative endeavor, requires you keep your left and right brains equally talkative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;book-columns flex flex-wrap&#34;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;div style=&#34;min-width: 1px; width: 1px; padding: 0 0 0 0; margin: 6px 0;background:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);;&#34;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;      &lt;b&gt;Logical&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;      &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt; Mixing parts together&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt; Studying music theory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt; Getting core components of the song laid out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt; Practicing tecnique on an instrument&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt; Writing lyrics with good timings and structure&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/div&gt;&#xA;  &lt;img src=&#34;https://opguides.info/music/Brain--Line-Art-Illustration.svg&#34; alt=&#34; &#34; width=&#34;80em&#34; style=&#34;border-radius:50px;&#34;&gt;&#xA;      &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;          &lt;b&gt;Creative&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;                &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt; Using weird sound sources&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt; Combining effects &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt; Finding inspiration outside of music&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt; Adding fun frills to the song&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt; Writing vivid, emotional lyrics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;!-- Brain SVG edited from https://freesvg.org/brain-line-art-illustration --&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you know that you&amp;rsquo;re a creative type&lt;/strong&gt;, try to focus on the science and math and technique of things more on these pages and as you practice. Learn how sound actually works and interacts in your environment and how knowing these things well let you make better art.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/gettingstartedcont/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;continuing-our-adventure&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Continuing our Adventure&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#continuing-our-adventure&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Picking up where we left off,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://opguides.info/music/addedvca.webp&#34; alt=&#34;addedvca&#34; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This lil&amp;rsquo; synth works, but it doesn&amp;rsquo;t give us much control, and unlike a real instrument, after we let go of the key it just immediately stops. Similarly, most real instruments have a either a bit of a pluck at the start or a more gentle fade in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;book-columns flex flex-wrap&#34;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;This leads us to the idea of &lt;strong&gt;envelopes&lt;/strong&gt;. In music, you&amp;rsquo;ll often want to draw a shape that evelopes a signal. That is, it contains it and determines when it is active and how much. We want to envelope our volume signal - that is, we want to shape it more than the basic on/off that we have right now.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/instruments/electro-mechanical/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;electro-mechanical-instruments&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Electro-Mechanical Instruments&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#electro-mechanical-instruments&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a particular love of instruments that sit in that acoustic sweet spot where i feels as though there&amp;rsquo;s a physical resonating body merged with a synthesizer, where you can hear key clicks and a physical body but it doesn&amp;rsquo;t respond like we&amp;rsquo;re used to yet it&amp;rsquo;s not so avant-garde as not not be useful or just a gimmick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think a hurdy gurdy, but with an inbuilt tube amp and the drones are actually tube based oscillators.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;the-esoteric&#34;&gt;&#xA;  The Esoteric&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#the-esoteric&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;    document.getElementById(&#34;instMenu&#34;).open = true;&#xA;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&#34;twitter-tweet&#34; data-conversation=&#34;none&#34;&gt;&lt;p lang=&#34;en&#34; dir=&#34;ltr&#34;&gt;feedback only, no input. i love this instrument. &lt;a href=&#34;https://t.co/IR6lmxZGHJ&#34;&gt;pic.twitter.com/IR6lmxZGHJ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; 𝒆𝒎𝒎𝒂 (@HECKSCAPER) &lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/HECKSCAPER/status/1289077336999104512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#34;&gt;July 31, 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&#34;https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&#34; charset=&#34;utf-8&#34;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lbSRuPZ3y8&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;amp;ab_channel=emmaessex&#34;&gt;𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬: pedal rig rundown &amp;amp; building a sound (Emma Essex)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;iframe width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;500&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/1MJ2g7Eb0QE&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;&lt;iframe width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;500&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q3oItpVa9fs&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;&lt;iframe width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;500&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/A0VYsiMtrNE&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;&lt;iframe width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;500&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/WQDjVTpe6Lk&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;&lt;iframe width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;500&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/DRuGVfy5eDk&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/p/CI8AdiYhhkR/&#34;&gt;A neat on-guitar effects board (Instagram, ian.costabile)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/instruments/guitar/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;guitar&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Guitar&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#guitar&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[TODO] Things I don&amp;rsquo;t know where to put yet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Strat plates, they&amp;rsquo;re replaceable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re at least brodly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TODO: General overview, labeled diagram pointing to each component&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Les Paul, Gretch, Stratocaster, Telecaster, Jazzmaster&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEOuGs7m8bw&#34;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEOuGs7m8bw&lt;/a&gt; might be good to at least link, if not embed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;piano-keybed label=&#34;Guitar&#34; variant=&#34;Standard (24 fret)&#34; highlight=&#34;E2-E6&#34;&gt;&lt;/piano-keybed&gt;&#xA;&lt;piano-keybed variant=&#34;Baritone&#34; highlight=&#34;B2-B6&#34;&gt;&lt;/piano-keybed&gt;&#xA;&lt;piano-keybed label=&#34;Bass&#34; variant=&#34;4 string&#34; highlight=&#34;E1-D#4&#34;&gt;&lt;/piano-keybed&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1 id=&#34;guitar-pickups&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Guitar Pickups&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#guitar-pickups&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A guitar pickup is a type of transducer - a device that converts one kind of energy into another.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/instruments/perc/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;percussion&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Percussion&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#percussion&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;    document.getElementById(&#34;instMenu&#34;).open = true;&#xA;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;theory&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Theory&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#theory&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;!-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez8Q68h9i4M --&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;book-columns flex flex-wrap&#34;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;    Before I even dive into Percussion, I think it&amp;rsquo;s necessary to point out how generic the term is. Just looking at the Wikipedia page for drum kit, you&amp;rsquo;ll see this:&#xA;  &lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;https://opguides.info/music/drumkit.webp&#34; alt=&#34;wikipedia drum kit list&#34; height=&#34;500em&#34;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p class=&#34;attribution &#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_kit&#34;&gt;Drum Kit&lt;/a&gt; page on Wikipedia&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and clearly that&amp;rsquo;s still not an exhaustive list. Just off the top of my head I can see it lacks the Cajon or Taiko as acoustic instruments, let alone anything more specific than electronic drum, which can make for a class all its own.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/instruments/strings/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/instruments/strings/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;strings&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Strings&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#strings&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://opguides.info/common/TODO.svg&#34; alt=&#34;TODO&#34; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;    document.getElementById(&#34;instMenu&#34;).open = true;&#xA;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;guitars&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Guitars&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#guitars&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;!-- Normally I wouldn&#39;t even click something like this, but this one is actually good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnJkVg3Es2o --&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;book-columns flex flex-wrap&#34;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;  &lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;https://opguides.info/nonfree/character/guitar.webp&#34; style=&#34;border-radius:1em;&#34;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p class=&#34;attribution &#34;&gt;&#xA;    Picture of my character by &lt;a href=&#34;alexthenerdbird.weebly.com&#34;&gt;Alex the Nerd Bird&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;acoustic-electric-acoustic-electric&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Acoustic, Electric, Acoustic-Electric?&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#acoustic-electric-acoustic-electric&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;hollow-body-solid-body&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Hollow Body, Solid Body?&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#hollow-body-solid-body&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;pickups&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Pickups?&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#pickups&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;frets&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Frets?&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#frets&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some guitars used &amp;ldquo;fanned&amp;rdquo; or multi-scale frets. This is most common on extended range (7+ string) guitars. The intent is that the scale length can be longer for the thick string and shorter for the thin so that the tension on all of them is reasonable (it avoids the low string being floppy). Different guitars may use a different fret as the &amp;ldquo;straight fret&amp;rdquo; where it changes from being fanned up vs down, and this can alter what chords are comfortable. They also should have better intonation.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/instruments/synth/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/instruments/synth/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;synthesizers&#34;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;span style=&#34;text-shadow:2px 2px 0 black,4px 4px 0 red,8px 8px 0 yellow,12px 12px 0 green,16px 16px 0 blue,20px 20px 0 indigo;&#34;&gt;Synthesizers&lt;span&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#synthesizers&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;    document.getElementById(&#34;instMenu&#34;).open = true;&#xA;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve already talked about FM, additive, subtractive, etc. in Sound Sources. Here I want to go into how they fit into a song, the idea of pads, leads, bass. As well as how a lot of famous sounds have been done and what some of the most famous synths are. I&amp;rsquo;d also like to cover some of why some newer synths are exciting, like the Hydrasynth, Continumm, Norand Mono, Subharmonicon, Polygogo,&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/instruments/wind/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/instruments/wind/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;wind&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Wind&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#wind&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TODO: I&amp;rsquo;d love to put a sorta of piano graphic up that shows the range of each instrument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://opguides.info/common/TODO.svg&#34; alt=&#34;TODO&#34; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;    document.getElementById(&#34;instMenu&#34;).open = true;&#xA;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;what-is-a-wind-instrument&#34;&gt;&#xA;  What is a Wind Instrument?&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#what-is-a-wind-instrument&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;quote [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_instrument)&#34;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;    A &lt;strong&gt;wind instrument&lt;/strong&gt; is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator. The pitch of the vibration is determined by the length of the tube and by manual modifications of the effective length of the vibrating column of air.&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/intro/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/intro/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;bang-zwoop-bada-dap-bap&#34;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;span style=&#34;-webkit-text-stroke: 2px #F8F8F8;text-shadow: 0px 4px 0px red, -5px 8px 0px #973999;color: #000;&#34;&gt;Bang!&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style=&#34;text-shadow:2px 2px 2px #973999,2px 4px 2px white,8px 8px 4px #973999,4px 12px 4px white,8px 16px 8px #973999,4px 20px 8px white;&#34;&gt;Zwoop&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style=&#34;text-shadow:2px 2px 0 black, 4px 4px 0 #DB5C60,6px 6px 0 #DBD967,8px 8px 0 #D951DB,10px 10px 0 #3BDB66,12px 12px 0 blue,14px 14px 0 #8746DB;&#34;&gt;Bada-dap-bap&lt;/span&gt;.&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#bang-zwoop-bada-dap-bap&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s a sine wave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;canvas id=&#34;wave&#34;&gt;&lt;/canvas&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;const canvas = document.getElementById(&#34;wave&#34;);&#xA;const gl = canvas.getContext(&#34;webgl&#34;);&#xA;let vertexShaderSource = `&#xA;  attribute vec2 a_position;&#xA;  uniform float u_time;&#xA;  uniform float u_amplitude;&#xA;  uniform float u_frequency;&#xA;  uniform float u_xspacing;&#xA;&#xA;  void main() {&#xA;    vec2 position = a_position;&#xA;    position.y += sin(u_time * (120.0/16.0) + a_position.x * u_frequency) * u_amplitude;&#xA;    gl_Position = vec4(position, 0, 1);&#xA;  }&#xA;`;&#xA;&#xA;let fragmentShaderSource = `&#xA;  precision mediump float;&#xA;&#xA;  uniform vec4 u_color;&#xA;&#xA;  void main() {&#xA;    gl_FragColor = u_color;&#xA;  }&#xA;`;&#xA;&#xA;function createShader(gl, type, source) {&#xA;  let shader = gl.createShader(type);&#xA;  gl.shaderSource(shader, source);&#xA;  gl.compileShader(shader);&#xA;  let success = gl.getShaderParameter(shader, gl.COMPILE_STATUS);&#xA;  if (success) {&#xA;    return shader;&#xA;  }&#xA;  console.log(gl.getShaderInfoLog(shader));&#xA;  gl.deleteShader(shader);&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;function createProgram(gl, vertexShader, fragmentShader) {&#xA;  let program = gl.createProgram();&#xA;  gl.attachShader(program, vertexShader);&#xA;  gl.attachShader(program, fragmentShader);&#xA;  gl.linkProgram(program);&#xA;  let success = gl.getProgramParameter(program, gl.LINK_STATUS);&#xA;  if (success) {&#xA;    return program;&#xA;  }&#xA;  console.log(gl.getProgramInfoLog(program));&#xA;  gl.deleteProgram(program);&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;let vertexShader = createShader(gl, gl.VERTEX_SHADER, vertexShaderSource);&#xA;let fragmentShader = createShader(gl, gl.FRAGMENT_SHADER, fragmentShaderSource);&#xA;let program = createProgram(gl, vertexShader, fragmentShader);&#xA;&#xA;let positionLocation = gl.getAttribLocation(program, &#34;a_position&#34;);&#xA;let timeLocation = gl.getUniformLocation(program, &#34;u_time&#34;);&#xA;let amplitudeLocation = gl.getUniformLocation(program, &#34;u_amplitude&#34;);&#xA;let frequencyLocation = gl.getUniformLocation(program, &#34;u_frequency&#34;);&#xA;let xspacingLocation = gl.getUniformLocation(program, &#34;u_xspacing&#34;);&#xA;let colorLocation = gl.getUniformLocation(program, &#34;u_color&#34;);&#xA;&#xA;let buffer = gl.createBuffer();&#xA;gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, buffer);&#xA;&#xA;let positions = [];&#xA;let amplitude = .8;&#xA;let frequency = 8;&#xA;let xspacing = .025;&#xA;&#xA;function render() {&#xA;  gl.viewport(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);&#xA;  gl.clearColor(0, 0, 0, 0);&#xA;  gl.clear(gl.COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);&#xA;&#xA;  gl.useProgram(program);&#xA;&#xA;  let time = performance.now() / 1000;&#xA;&#xA;  gl.uniform1f(timeLocation, time);&#xA;  gl.uniform1f(amplitudeLocation, amplitude);&#xA;  gl.uniform1f(frequencyLocation, frequency);&#xA;  gl.uniform1f(xspacingLocation, xspacing);&#xA;  gl.uniform4f(colorLocation, 1, 1, 1, 1);&#xA;&#xA; positions = [];&#xA;  for (let x = -canvas.width / 2; x &lt; canvas.width / 2; x += xspacing) {&#xA;    positions.push(x, 0);&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  gl.bufferData(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, new Float32Array(positions), gl.DYNAMIC_DRAW);&#xA;&#xA;  gl.enableVertexAttribArray(positionLocation);&#xA;  gl.vertexAttribPointer(positionLocation, 2, gl.FLOAT, false, 0, 0);&#xA;  gl.drawArrays(gl.LINE_STRIP, 0, positions.length / 2);&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;function parentWidth(elem) {&#xA;  return elem.parentElement.clientWidth;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;function setup(){&#xA;  buffer = gl.createBuffer();&#xA;  gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, buffer);&#xA;  gl.lineWidth(4);&#xA;  canvas.width = parentWidth(document.getElementById(&#39;wave&#39;));&#xA;  canvas.height = parentWidth(document.getElementById(&#39;wave&#39;)) / 2;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;setup();&#xA;setInterval(render, 30);&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want you to try something. Put your foot back up on your heel and each time you see a new peak, tap the ground. Play a non existent kick drum to each new peak. (or just tap a finger on your desk)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/lies/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/lies/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;i-lied&#34;&gt;&#xA;  I lied&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#i-lied&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, sort of. I haven&amp;rsquo;t told you anything that&amp;rsquo;s wrong, but I have been omitting something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The software we&amp;rsquo;re using, VCV Rack, is very &lt;em&gt;weird&lt;/em&gt;. It lacks many features that most people expect in a &lt;strong&gt;DAW&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;D&lt;/strong&gt;igital &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;udio &lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;orkstation. We&amp;rsquo;ll talk significantly more about DAWs in a coming page, but I need to bring them up now because there&amp;rsquo;s some things that VCV absolutely does not do well that will make creating full songs that sound like music you&amp;rsquo;re probably used to unnecessarily difficult.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/lyrics/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/lyrics/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;12---lyrics--vocals&#34;&gt;&#xA;  12 - Lyrics &amp;amp; Vocals&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#12---lyrics--vocals&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;quote Some moron that has never made music&#34;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;    Lyrics and just sung poetry!&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;div style=&#34;display: block; text-align: right; width: 100%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; line-height: 0px;&#34;&gt;&#xA;        &lt;p style=&#34;font-size:.85em;color:var(--text-color);&#34; class=&#34;qsource&#34;&gt; &#xA;        - Some moron that has never made music&#xA;        &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh fuck directly off. This is poetry:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre style=&#34;line-height: .9rem&#34;&gt;&#xA;    They thought there be seven&#xA;&#xA;   and they&#39;re right. There is&#xA;&#xA;seven sins without I&#xA;&#xA;I come from a place that many do find&#xA;&#xA;Heroes and villains find me inside&#xA;&#xA;When they do what they do for family&#xA;&#xA;       Regardless of who dies&#xA;&#xA;Blood is my name&#xA;l&#xA;o  Many families have cried&#xA;o       r&#xA;d       i&#xA;        e&#xA;        n&#xA;        d&#xA;   once so dear&#xA;                  tossed aside&#xA;&#xA;Blood is my name, the sin of&#xA;o&#xA;n&#xA;d&#xA;s undeserved&#xA;&#xA;I&#39;m a sin that lurks unheard&#xA;&#xA;Religious and Righteous often mistaken&#xA;&#xA; Use my name as if it is not forsaken&#xA;&#xA;Do not think that blood is a bond&#xA;&#xA;to never be broken&#xA;&#xA;I find my way to bring many to do&#xA;&#xA;things that should never be spoken&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should that be sung, pray tell? How long should each syllable be stressed? How long should each vowel be held? What about pitch? Should it be sung sweetly or with anger?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/midi/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/midi/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;midi-in-detail&#34;&gt;&#xA;  MIDI in Detail&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#midi-in-detail&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;M&lt;/strong&gt;usical &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;nstrument &lt;strong&gt;D&lt;/strong&gt;igital &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;nterface, or &lt;strong&gt;MIDI&lt;/strong&gt; is what it sounds like, the primary way to get data between devices digitally. Want to tell a hardware synth to play a sequence you arranged on your computer? MIDI. Want to play notes into your computer using a keyboard? MIDI. Want to sequence drums, with varying &amp;lsquo;velocity&amp;rsquo; on each hit? MIDI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds Great?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the most part, yeah. Everything works together and you can make all your hardware speak the same language. Let your keyboard talk to your computer, your computer talk to your drums, now you can play the drums with your keyboard! Send automation from your computer to a parameter on your synth to vary the sound over time, whatever. MIDI is pretty much carries all the information about your music expect the audio itself.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/musicpiracy/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/musicpiracy/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;piracy&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Piracy?&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#piracy&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;plugins&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Plugins++&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#plugins&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look, I&amp;rsquo;m not the police. I don&amp;rsquo;t really care what you do on your system. I&amp;rsquo;m not going to outright condone you to find pirated versions of music software, though- in part for liability, but mostly because you &lt;em&gt;absolutely will get a virus&lt;/em&gt;. Some sites are more reputable than others, and if you&amp;rsquo;re careful, you can probably yoink at least a few things. Again, I&amp;rsquo;m not saying you should. But, I do understand why you might want to:&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/psychoacoustic/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/psychoacoustic/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;psychoacoustics-and-cultural-associations&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Psychoacoustics and Cultural Associations&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#psychoacoustics-and-cultural-associations&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;book-columns flex flex-wrap&#34;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;https://opguides.info/nonfree/character/vega.gif&#34; alt=&#34;vega&#34; style=&#34;zoom:200%;&#34; /&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;    When we hear music, we don&amp;rsquo;t hear individual sine waves and sum them up. We don&amp;rsquo;t hear instruments devoid of context, either- a ukulele carries a different cultural meaning than a mandolin. We also don&amp;rsquo;t just hear what comes out the speakers as plainly as basic frequencies. Our ears process what we here. Our ears take in the reverb of the room, ignore sounds before and after drum hits, find speech in sounds that weren&amp;rsquo;t meant to. All of this is to say when you make music, you&amp;rsquo;re not making music for somebody&amp;rsquo;s ears. You&amp;rsquo;re making it for their mind.&#xA;  &lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your goal should be to make them feel something, to make someone dance, or reflect, or feel excited, or love. You don&amp;rsquo;t do that by analyzing sound like a mechanical task, you do that by listening and hearing and reflecting on your art.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/seqandmidi/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/seqandmidi/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;sequencing--midi&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Sequencing &amp;amp; Midi&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#sequencing--midi&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;tip &#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;a  href=&#34;https://opguides.info/music/midi/&#34;   class=&#34;book-btn music&#34;&gt;&#xA;  MIDI In Detail&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA; covers the technical bits of MIDI in much more detail, but you&#39;ll still probably want to read this first if you don&#39;t know what MIDI even is.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;sequencing&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Sequencing&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#sequencing&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The definition of a sequence is pretty obvious, but don&amp;rsquo;t be misled by the name- a &amp;ldquo;sequence&amp;rdquo; is not always just a list of notes to be played one after the other. Sometimes there&amp;rsquo;s overlap, gaps (rests), bends from one note to another (legato) and almost always information about how hard a note is pressed and how long it should be held for are saved. To whet your appetite before I go more into the weeds, I recommend this video from Red Means Recording:&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/software/daw/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/software/daw/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;digital-audio-workstations&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Digital Audio Workstations+&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#digital-audio-workstations&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;    document.getElementById(&#34;softMenu&#34;).open = true;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;D&lt;/strong&gt;igital &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;udio &lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;orkstations is software that allows you to record and edit audio, host and play digital instruments, arrange the parts in a timeline, and mix the audio together. The most common DAWs you&amp;rsquo;ll see are Ableton Live (Often called just &amp;ldquo;Ableton&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;Live&amp;rdquo;) and FL Studio, but there are plenty of other options as well, many of which are listed below.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/software/livecoding/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/software/livecoding/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;programmable-music-tools&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Programmable Music Tools&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#programmable-music-tools&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;    document.getElementById(&#34;softMenu&#34;).open = true;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;!-- TODO: Add https://github.com/ldrolez/clyphx-live10 --&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before getting into this list, I also want to point out that there&amp;rsquo;s an &lt;em&gt;endless&lt;/em&gt; number of programmable music sequencing tools which can be found built into VST plugins, larger audio software, and even video games. I&amp;rsquo;m particularly fond of the huge number of interesting sequencers for VCV Rack, such as &lt;a href=&#34;https://library.vcvrack.com/FrozenWasteland/QuadAlgorithmicRhythm&#34;&gt;Quad Algorithmic Rhythm Generator&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://library.vcvrack.com/Geodesics/Entropia&#34;&gt;Entropia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://library.vcvrack.com/Geodesics/Fate&#34;&gt;Fate&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://library.vcvrack.com/AudibleInstruments/Marbles&#34;&gt;Marbles&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&#34;https://library.vcvrack.com/scanner-darkly-collection-one/SDOrcasHeart&#34;&gt;Orca&amp;rsquo;s Heart&lt;/a&gt; - just to name a few.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/software/plugin/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/software/plugin/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;plugins&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Plugins&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#plugins&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;tip &#34;&gt;&#xA;    This page is a massive work in progress. Even the things that look done may be wrong.&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;    document.getElementById(&#34;softMenu&#34;).open = true;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[TODO] break list up more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sound Sources&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vintage Synths&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Modern Synths&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bass Synths&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sampled / Acoustic Modeling&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Percussive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Effects&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dynamics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Filter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reverb&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delay&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trivial&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Weird as fuck&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Misc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tools&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Organization&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MIDI generation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&#34;book-hint &#34;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is probably where the most bias of any of the lists on this page will show as I obviously can&amp;rsquo;t list every possible plugin. Instead, I&amp;rsquo;ll list those that I think are particularly good both in terms of value and function. While the list below does have ranking (copper, silver, gold) &lt;strong&gt;everything&lt;/strong&gt; I&amp;rsquo;m listing I think is good, even the &amp;lsquo;copper&amp;rsquo; ones!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/vcv/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/vcv/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;vcv-rack-tips--tricks&#34;&gt;&#xA;  VCV Rack Tips &amp;amp; Tricks&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#vcv-rack-tips--tricks&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;tip &#34;&gt;&#xA;    I am not affiliated with VCV or the Rack software in any way.&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite &lt;a href=&#34;https://aria.dog/barks/why-i-will-never-create-modules-for-vcv-rack-anymore/&#34;&gt;the mess&lt;/a&gt; in the VCV community, I&amp;rsquo;ve still put in a lot of time in the software and run a pretty large group chat on Telegram where it (alongside hardware Eurorack) is the main focus. In that chat, there&amp;rsquo;s been a few recurring questions, this page is just some of those questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Effects</title>
      <link>https://opguides.info/music/effects/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/effects/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;audio-effects&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Audio Effects&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#audio-effects&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;    document.getElementById(&#34;effectMenu&#34;).open = true;&#xA;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;tip &#34;&gt;&#xA;    This chapter is broken up into subsections, check the menu and it should have expanded!&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1 id=&#34;please-read-this-for-real&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Please Read This, for real&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#please-read-this-for-real&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;automation-lanes-are-your-friend&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Automation Lanes Are Your Friend&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#automation-lanes-are-your-friend&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of audio effects boil down to automating some simple parameter. Sometimes you may not actually need a dedicated effect and can instead get by with using &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmgXmb2V6zE&#34;&gt;Automation Lanes (once upon a synth)&lt;/a&gt; in your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Instruments</title>
      <link>https://opguides.info/music/instruments/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/instruments/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;instruments&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Instruments&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#instruments&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;    document.getElementById(&#34;instMenu&#34;).open = true;&#xA;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;tip &#34;&gt;&#xA;    If you&amp;rsquo;re going to be playing an instrument though a computer - and I mean either an instrument which makes its own noise like a guitar or a controller like a MIDI keyboard - you&amp;rsquo;ll want to adjust your audio buffer size as best you can. See &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/optimising-latency-pc-audio-interface&#34;&gt;Optimizing The Latency Of Your PC Audio Interface&lt;/a&gt; from Sound on Sound for more info about this, but generally just set your buffer size as low as you can until it starts to sound like it&amp;rsquo;s horribly broken. If you don&amp;rsquo;t do this, the delay between hitting a note and sound coming out your speakers will make it &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; difficult to play.&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;tip &#34;&gt;&#xA;    This chapter is broken up into subsections, check the menu and it should have expanded!&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;what-is-an-instrument&#34;&gt;&#xA;  What is an Instrument?&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#what-is-an-instrument&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, yeah, that sounds like a stupid question, but I think it&amp;rsquo;s important to think about. Wikipedia has it defined like this:&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/mix-and-master/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/mix-and-master/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;mixing--mastering&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Mixing &amp;amp; Mastering&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#mixing--mastering&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;mixers&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Mixers&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#mixers&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;mixer front ends, preamps, etc. Software mixing, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;loundness-monitoring&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Loundness Monitoring&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#loundness-monitoring&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/&#34;&gt;https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;talk about loudness and Spotify&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;mixing&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Mixing&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#mixing&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eq, pan, quadraphonic+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;mastering&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Mastering&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#mastering&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/H3ZyaXgTqjM&#34;&gt;Delay Always Means Phase Shift But Phase Shift Does Not Always Mean Delay (Dan Worrall)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;iframe width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;500&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/s6Bo9VN4z3w&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;studio-monitors-headphones-and-amps&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Studio Monitors, Headphones, and Amps&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#studio-monitors-headphones-and-amps&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;book-columns flex flex-wrap&#34;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dzobc0wWoAAQuJ8?format=jpg&amp;amp;name=large&#34; alt=&#34;&#34; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p class=&#34;attribution &#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/Tirrelous/status/1097219650868396032/photo/1&#34;&gt;@Tirrelous on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;div class=&#34;flex-even markdown-inner&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s the list of all the specs you might want to understand if you&amp;rsquo;re looking to buy headphones or studio monitors. It&amp;rsquo;s a tad bit overwhelming, but I want to start with this so that you can get an idea of why this is complicated:&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/music-hardware/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/music-hardware/</guid>
      <description>&lt;iframe width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;500&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/a_90uFCrWWY&#34; title=&#34;YouTube video player&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1 id=&#34;music-hardware&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Music Hardware&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#music-hardware&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; make all of your music with just a computer, you’ll probably want some tools that make your life as a musician easier and let you explore ideas faster. Like I said back in the &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;a  href=&#34;https://opguides.info/music/effects/&#34;   class=&#34;book-btn music&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Audio Effects Chapter&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;, in my experience, making music depends on a really quick brain to input device feedback loop. Being able to turn a physical knob and mash physical keys will often lead to better results if only because you’re able to try things both faster and by physically interacting with something that you may not have thought of otherwise. It’s why guitars, MPE keyboards, and Eurorack are so great: they all give you a crazy amount of control and expression that is &lt;em&gt;literally&lt;/em&gt; at your fingertips. The brain to input interface there is just so much better.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://opguides.info/music/software/music-software/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/software/music-software/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;music-software&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Music Software&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#music-software&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;    document.getElementById(&#34;softMenu&#34;).open = true;&lt;/script&gt;&#xA;&lt;h5 id=&#34;audio-sources&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Audio Sources&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#audio-sources&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h5&gt;&#xA;&lt;table&gt;&#xA;  &lt;thead&gt;&#xA;      &lt;tr&gt;&#xA;          &lt;th&gt;Name &amp;amp; Link&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;          &lt;th&gt;Description&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;          &lt;th&gt;Screenshot&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;  &lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;      &lt;tr&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;      &lt;tr&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://sugar-bytes.de/products&#34;&gt;Various from SugarBytes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;I really like &lt;li&gt;Consequence - Chord Grovebox&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Factory - Mod Matrix Polysynth&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Guitarist - Guitar Emulation, easy to program&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Drum Computer - Drum Synth&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Obscurium - I don&amp;rsquo;t even know, but it&amp;rsquo;s cool.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cyclop - Neat Synth, good for bass&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Egoist - Weird audio stem re-groover?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thesys - MIDI Sequencer &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;      &lt;tr&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;      &lt;tr&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;      &lt;tr&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;      &lt;tr&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;      &lt;tr&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;websites&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Websites&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#websites&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai/drum-machine/view/&#34;&gt;Google Drum Machine (Like XO)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Other Resources, Music</title>
      <link>https://opguides.info/music/other-resources-music/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/other-resources-music/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;other-resources&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Other Resources&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#other-resources&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://patchstorage.com&#34;&gt;PatchStorage&lt;/a&gt; - A community of many active audio &amp;amp; visual programming enthusiasts who share and discuss their projects!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://learningmusic.ableton.com/&#34;&gt;https://learningmusic.ableton.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://codepen.io/teropa/full/bRqYVj/&#34;&gt;https://codepen.io/teropa/full/bRqYVj/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02504321/document&#34;&gt;Synchronized Swept-Sine: Theory, Application, and Implementation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq&#34;&gt;AutoEq&lt;/a&gt; - Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;sample-packs--wavetables&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Sample Packs &amp;amp; Wavetables&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#sample-packs--wavetables&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.echosoundworks.com/coda&#34;&gt;Echo Sound Works &lt;em&gt;Coda&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (~$30) - Wavetables &amp;amp; Serum presets. These wavetables are truly amazing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1 id=&#34;cool-people&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Cool People&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#cool-people&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/RichardDevine&#34;&gt;https://twitter.com/RichardDevine&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/LOOKMUMNOCMPUTR&#34;&gt;https://twitter.com/LOOKMUMNOCMPUTR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/electricdahliia&#34;&gt;https://twitter.com/electricdahliia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&#34;best &#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;https://opguides.info/nonfree/logo/best.svg&#34; width=&#34;20em&#34; style=&#34;margin: -10px 0px 0px 0px; margin-bottom: -10px;&#34;/&gt;&#xA;    &lt;a href=&#34;https://t.me/thePatchBay&#34;&gt;https://t.me/thePatchBay&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/span&gt; - some shameless self promo, as this is my chat.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Sound Sources</title>
      <link>https://opguides.info/music/sound-sources/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/sound-sources/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;methods-of-making-noise&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Methods of making noise*&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#methods-of-making-noise&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* Excluding traditional instruments. We&amp;rsquo;ll get there soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;samples&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Samples&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#samples&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://opguides.info/music/Audacity.webp&#34; alt=&#34;Audacity&#34; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;span class=&#34;smalltext &#34;&gt;&#xA;    A snippet of a .wav file open in audacity&#xA;&lt;/span&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A sample is exactly as the name implies- a &amp;lsquo;sample&amp;rsquo; of audio. Sample is a pretty broad term though, so usually some more terms are applied to help categorize them. Still, for the generic term what is usually meant is a small audio file that contains one sound, like one drum hit or one piano key press.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Theory</title>
      <link>https://opguides.info/music/theory/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>https://opguides.info/music/theory/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;first-this&#34;&gt;&#xA;  First, this:&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#first-this&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;iframe width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;440&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rgaTLrZGlk0&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t undervalue just sitting down and listening to music, trying to figure out what parts you enjoy and thinking about how it compares to what you&amp;rsquo;ve made, what you think you should change to sound better. Along with that, it helps to look at breakdowns of music done on YouTube. I particularly recommend all of the videos from &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez8Ljhv9dyw&#34;&gt;12tone&amp;rsquo;s channel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1 id=&#34;theory&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Theory&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#theory&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;!--- https://www.smufl.org/fonts/ may be useful for this page ---&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m going to be honest. I can&amp;rsquo;t read music and I don&amp;rsquo;t know scales. Why, then, would I in any way think I&amp;rsquo;m qualified to write anything about music? Well, let me stop you right there, I&amp;rsquo;m not. I make music for fun. However, I like to think that people enjoy my music and I enjoy listening to it myself as I make it, and though my experience I&amp;rsquo;ve picked up a little here and there to make sure things don&amp;rsquo;t sound awful. Furthermore, my background is primarily technical and there&amp;rsquo;s actually an insane amount of overlap with the incredibly technical and music. Fundamentally music is just doing math with frequencies after all.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Video</title>
      <link>https://opguides.info/music/video/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;video--streaming&#34;&gt;&#xA;  Video &amp;amp; Streaming&#xA;  &lt;a class=&#34;anchor&#34; href=&#34;#video--streaming&#34;&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;hellip;Psst, if you&amp;rsquo;re on this page, you may be interested in &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;a  href=&#34;https://opguides.info/posts/video-synth/&#34;   class=&#34;book-btn gradient-border2&#34;&gt;&#xA;  My blog post on Video Synthesis&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;speech throw big&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&#xA;        &lt;p&gt;Before anything else, I need to crush some hopes and dreams:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You absolutely should not expect your YouTube or Twitch channel to make it big. Even if you put in the work, invest in good equipment, and make cool content regularly, and promote the shit out of yourself, it&amp;rsquo;s still a game of luck on if you can go viral and if you can retain any viewership whatsoever after doing so. Even assuming you do, you&amp;rsquo;ll always be one step away from angering the YouTube overlords and having your channel deleted or needing to take a month off to deal with life and finding that you&amp;rsquo;ve lost half your audience. The internet has a short attention span.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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