Hey everyone! An absolute legend of Irish music passed away far too soon this week. Some of you may know Glen Hansard, and if you don’t, take some time this week to check out his music. From busking on the streets of Dublin to Oscar glory, he always seemed to keep his feet firmly on the ground. Thanks for the tunes, Glen.

SUNO AI - Love it, Hate it, Tool or Trash it?

First time creating original music in years. Used to mess around on GarageBand all the time making music for potential video games in my head. Got really consistent at it but never really focussed on the finesse of it all, the EQ, compression, mixing side of things. Just throwing together melodic and harmonic ideas that sounded good to me. I want to get back into this, I really enjoy making music, but I want to change my brain to be able to simultaneously write my themes but also keep bearing in mind things like balance, both in terms of volumes and frequencies. My older brain and ears knows that there are issues to do with both in this idea that I've spent a couple hours on. If anyone passes and fancies and a listen and potentially a bit of feedback, I'm absolutely grateful for either!

Mas conocimiento musical

Again and again I keep running into the same issue - endlessly searching for sounds during creativity flow. Auditioning 200 snares and scrolling through presets and samples does not help the momentum. More and more this makes sense to me to have a collection of sounds prepared before producing. In recent Produce-A-Ton, Dane showed his collection of recorded sounds in Sampler menu. Now I’m eager to know whether ther’s like the best strategy for building my collection. What was your strategy? Did you organize by: Genre? Element (kicks, snares, basses, vocals)?Emotional character? Texture (warm, digital, dusty, aggressive, soft)?“Go-to” sounds that always work for you?