My inspiration store is back online: https://store.alexpfeffer.com There's a new sample player on it called TYDE. I built it from scratch to play my libraries, and it's free. So is Glass Particles, the library that comes with it - glass-like sounds, percussive patches, pads and textures. Everything is Windows only for now. I'd like to put the store through a stress test before I lean on it properly. Grab the free sample player and Glass Particles, run them, and tell me what goes wrong. Store, player and download flow are all brand new, so I'd rather hear about it from you than find out later. To get them: enter your email on the store page, confirm the mail you get back, and you'll land on a page with two downloads - TYDE and Glass Particles. Anything broken, odd or confusing, post it here. Cheerio, Alex

For as long as I can remember, I've had a dream of building a fun way to help people understand music theory. Many years ago, I started creating a music theory world inside Minecraft. I have no idea how many hours went into that world, and I never really finished it. Now, many years later, I've finally made MusiCraft happen as its own little game. It's still in early access, but it's getting there. No sign up needed. Just play it free in your browser and let me know what you think 🙌 https://musicraft.alexpfeffer.com/

Having just finished the Trailblazer 1 Course, I thought I'd put together everything I've learned so far into a new track. https://on.soundcloud.com/DdMMYnjrgexUi7UEsE It's a simple theme with a straightforward structure. I would really appreciate your feedback—let me know if I'm heading in the right direction. Thanks a lot! 😁

I've personally tried to learn Ableton over the past year and I find it as unintuitive as any piece of software I've ever used. I play live as well as craft midi. What DAWs have you had success with?

A while back in June cubase (latest update) kept crashing my computer. I reached out to steinberg and he said that it sounding like it was a computer issue. It was a dell optiplex 7010 64gb 2tb. Not terribly old. And i was using the same template i have been using for months, so no change. So after ordering a new computer, dell latest 64g 2tb ect 1250 Ai powered desktop, I received another email from steinberg saying their systems were down and it took to respond again and he believed it was kontakt (latest update). Well yesterday my new computer crashed several times. Has anyone else had this issue? Both cubase and kontakt have had updates since then. I also use a lot of sample libraries from opus. But that also has had updates. Also after the crashes yesterday the cubase window saying a crash log was created didn't show up.