#musicproduction

Music By Mattie just dropped magic.METER, a free analyzer that grades your vocal mix against measurements taken from 3,054 hit songs. It never processes the audio, it only listens and scores things like

Editing drum maps inside Cubase is tedious enough that a free standalone editor is genuinely worth grabbing. Jun Murakami's Cubase DrumMap Editor (v1.5) does the whole job: New, Open, Save, plus Import.csv

Orra Audio just dropped Orra Key, a free key-finding plugin that actually puts the result to work. Drop it on a loop, press play, and within seconds it names the key, the relative major or minor, and the

The tedious part of typing Japanese lyrics into a score was never writing the words. It's converting all the kanji into hiragana and splitting everything into syllables by hand. Yomigana Converter does

How a free synth discovered in 2014 became an essential part of my music.

W.A. Production just handed BPB readers the keys to their Techno Mega Pack — a seven-pack bundle that normally sells for $155.85. It's stacked for techno and tech house: Techno Stamina, Dirty House Fever,

Loot Audio is giving away UVI Prisma for free — the $149 hybrid instrument built from 250 UVI instruments, with 1,151 presets on board. Two sound layers per patch, five performance macros for quick changes,

Idle Foundry just dropped CA-72, a free synth modeled on the early-70s Minimoog Model D — right down to the CA3046 oscillator board, transcribed from the original service docs and simulated in ngspice.

Polarity just dropped MEQ, a free spectral matching EQ for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It learns the spectrum of a reference track and nudges your mix toward it, with mid/side handled separately and an

Sidechain ducking usually means routing buses and fiddling with compressor sidechain inputs. Pulse Ducker from j.mp3 labs skips all of that: it's a free volume-shaping plugin where you pick one of 16 ducking

Hivetune's new ENS-86 takes the chorus sound of classic 80s poly synths and old bucket-brigade circuits and drops it into a clean, modern interface. Rate and Depth cover everything from barely-there thickening

Airwindows just dropped ConsoleX3, a free open-source mixing console system that wraps a full channel strip into a single plugin. It packs a four-band EQ, dynamics that can compress or expand, saturation,

The Elektron Monomachine has been out of production for a decade, and second-hand prices are no joke. Monomodule changes that — it's a free, open-source plugin that runs the Monomachine's actual DSP program

A 1994 Yamaha V50 track that survived cassette, time and technology.

From my first organ to virtual singers — how technology shaped my musical journey.

A journey back to 2016, when a simple synthesizer sample became an alien story. Discover how I created “Alien Experimentation” with Magix Music Maker.

From playing the organ at 5 to creating music with virtual instruments and virtual singers : my musical journey.

How's it going everyone! I am excited to bring you this week's Blocktunes Development update because I am introducing the new DAW Editor for our Gold tier members! This gives you the ability to have a