I’d recommend starting with Airwindows Consolidated then. It’s a multi-FX browser for Airwindows with a prettier GUI. https://github.com/baconpaul/airwin2rack/blob/main/doc/manualdaw.md

MuseScore is the best! I’ve come from Sibelius and Dorico, but the ease of MuseScore blows them away for most use cases.

For mixing, I regularly use several plugins from Airwindows, namely TapeHack, Distortion, Flutter2, Srsly2, among others. ChowDSP is also a great FOSS plugin developer. And while Reaper isn’t open source, its JSFX are, and so many of those are rad.

You may like to check out Ardour. I haven’t used it, but the Ardour users I’ve come across seem to be quite happy with it.

I’m into it! I’d be more active here if there was that kinda thing going on.

This was the video that helped me get it running. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF9kf1oj-UU

I also referenced this thread. https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?p=166531

I got Kontakt working halfway okay on Linux Mint. I’ll try to scrounge up what I did to get it running. Please remind me if you don’t hear back from me.

But tbh, I don’t use it much, because even on macOS, I found it sluggish. YMMV though, so I’ll try to be helpful soon.

If need be, you may find some free/cheap alternatives to NI instruments in DecentSampler.

I freelance mix and produce music. The advice I’ve heard from other music freelancers is try to be helpful whenever you can manage it. What allowed me to start receiving clients was getting to know people in my kinda scene and telling people it’s something I enjoy doing. Once I had a few accessible examples of my work I could point to, I started receiving more inquiries. Start offering your services to friends or peers you admire. You don’t have to be sales-y, just offer it as a way you can help them should the need arise.

That intro was so fucking cool!

I really like how the guitars are mixed. The stereo field is really pleasant.

If I were mixing this, I’d wanna hear a little more bass, around ~50-100Hz. I might cut a few dB from the guitars around 200Hz to let the bass have some space.

I’d also prefer to hear the drums more upfront than they are. I wanna feel that kick and snare transient bursting out the speakers.

Granted, I don’t listen to a lot of this kind of music, so my tastes may not be your own. :)

The whole mix is a very nice, warm vibe. Really enjoyable. Thanks for sharing.

Downloaded this the other day. I look forward to learning how to use it!

I’d venture to guess most people’s voices go up at least a minor third.

Love the stuff by ChowDSP.

AudioThing and TAL have some handy freebies.

There’s a whole treasure trove in Airwindows’ stuff.

I get a lot of use from Reaper’s stock plugins, particularly the EQ, compressor, and limiter.

Reaper users can also help themselves to community-made JSFX.

Vital is my go-to synth.

Cardinal synth is super powerful and a fun can of worms.

Oo thanks for sharing the cool music.

For the strxwberrymilk example, it sounds like just a chopped and screwed dialogue. What I would do to imitate it is chop up a sample of dialogue and import each slice into a sampler on different pads/keys, that way I can “play” the part in that I like. (Alternatively, you can arrange it on the grid too, dragging and dropping slices.) I might follow that with a formant shifter for that kinda chipmunk sound.

Similar thing for the BoC reference: but it sounds like some of the slices are very short and loop, creating that stuttering, robotic sound, almost oscillating in the audible range. It also sounds like the part is also being panned around the stereo field. I might add flanger to capture the psychedelic feel too.

I’m sorry, stranger. I wish you that kind of joy and friendship again, if it’s something you seek.

Sounds to me kinda like a heavily distorted bitcrusher. That’s what I’d do if I was trying to recreate it. It sounds like what I remember the stock Logic bitcrusher sounding like. But I wonder if it’s not just a shitty mic overdriving a shitty preamp.

And in post, they’ve panned it moving from one side to another in the stereo field.

This guy is a gem. And this converter has been helpful for me getting out of the Kontakt ecosystem.

Love that. Old school DJ looping, but in the box. :)

In Reaper, you can tab to transient, which might be helpful for cutting things in rhythm, since the downbeat usually has got a big transient.

Oh damn, this sounds rad.

Sounds especially guitar-like on those chromatic runs. :) Well done!

Same. Glad to learn these principles and apply them to digital audio nonetheless. :)

Nixon in China.

Jk lol.

Yes, Brandi has got a lovely vibrato!