Browse our curated collection of music production resources.
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List your priorities in order to ensure that you don't forget anything and are able to effectively plan out your tasks, from production, to promotion and more.
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Kittl is an AI-powered design tool to create stunning illustrations, fonts, photos, icons, and textures. Use powerful features such as advanced text editing, magic recolor and more to create impactful designs.
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Free To Use Sounds is a small team of sound recorders capturing amazing sounds from many locations around the globe to share on the internet. The free section of their website boasts a wide variety of sound libraries.
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Find a large array of VSTs, RTAs, Audio Units, Synths, Reverbs, Compressors and much more without grabbing your wallet.
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Phase Graph is a simple max for live oscilloscope, feature two different modes and a re-sizable external window.
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Get inspired with this free device that creates endless variations on your MIDI clips or live MIDI input. Humanize performances, create new material from your existing clips, and organically build a track’s momentum.
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SC-Banner lets you quickly separate sections of your uploaded art to create a seamless profile picture and background for your Soundcloud banner.
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Motionity is a free and open source motion graphics animation editor in the web. It's a mix of After Effects and Canva, with powerful features like keyframing, masking, filters, and more, and integrations to browse for assets to easily drag and drop into your video.
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Lood is a free M4L monophonic bass Synthesizer inspired by the most beloved vintage synths. The core features two analog-inspired morphing oscillators with noise, saw, and pulse + PWM waves. There is no sub-oscillator but two oscillators are individually tuneable.
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Crush can generate very chaotic digital percussive sounds from harsh digital noise, glitchy bleeps, and bloops to weird overtone-rich percussive sounds. Crush is two FM operators sandwiching a plate resonator: an agent of chaos, your new favorite drum synth.
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ReverbNation is a platform designed to help independent musicians and bands distribute their music, promote themselves, and connect with fans. It provides tools for artists to upload their music, create profiles, and manage their presence online.
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Ospreyinstruments creates their Max4Live take on the popular Soothe2 by Oeksound. Boba applies an FFT of an internal/external side-chain input to determine which frequency bin is above the threshold to emulate dynamic resonance suppression.
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Modyfi is the design platform built for multidisciplinary designers. Design, generate, and animate art — without switching between apps.
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Create compelling mockups with laptops, phones, posters and billboards for free that can be used effectively in advertisements.
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SnipOwl can maximize your productivity by capturing any part of the web and seamlessly build personalized dashboards that automatically stay up to date. Great for making a dashboard to keep track of music and profile performance on Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Music, and anything you can think of.
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Photopea is an online photo editor that lets you edit photos, apply effects, filters, add text, crop or resize pictures. This online web application is nearly identical to Adobe Photoshop, and can even read/open Adobe Photoshop files, all while being 100% free.
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Mix Check Studio is a free online AI song analyzer that lets you upload an audio file, and provides really important and fantastic information on your mix, stereo field, balance, phase and more, while providing solutions to these problems if they are detected in your mix.
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Koe Recast is an AI that can take your recorded voice, and transform it into a new voice. With many different voices to choose from, it is a boat load of fun to mess with, and with an added bonus of downloading an .mp3 file, and an available windows application.
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Songstats aggregates all music data into one comprehensive analytics platform. Very similar to Spotify For Artists, but open to the public. Search a specific artists most popular song, on nearly every streaming platform, or add your own artist profile.
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WeTransfer is a large file transfer website that is perfect for sending project files to your collaborator. The free plan provides up to 2GB file transferring "occasionally", but has still proven useful to the "occasional" collaborator.
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An automatic music catalog creator that can provide data driven graphical information about your music. Upload your songs, and it will analyze and lay out intricate data, while providing accurate tags.
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An automatic music catalog creator that can provide data driven graphical information about your music. Upload your songs, and it will analyze and lay out intricate data, while providing accurate tags.
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Loudness Penalty analyzes your uploaded track to show you if your track will be turned down by many different streaming services such as Spotify, Youtube, TIDAL, Apple Music, and more.
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Jukeblocks creates various templates for any chosen genre to start off with the best structure. No samples are provided, but the templates are downloadable for many different DAW's
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Tone Transfer lets you transform everyday sounds into musical instruments. Record and upload audio directly into the website, and machine learning models re-render it to sound like instruments.
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Audio Test Kitchen allows you to hear the quality of over 300 microphones, ranging from $80 to $10,000. Great for test hearing microphones if you are in the market for a new one.
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DailyPlaylists is a website to pitch your Spotify tracks to popular Spotify playlists curators at the cost of credits. Each week, you get 25 free credits to spend. Be warned, most submissions make you follow random playlists or artists as another cost.
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Audiomack is an on-demand music streaming and audio discovery platform that allows artists and creators to engage with users, and upload limitless music and podcasts for listeners through its mobile apps and website.
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Slaps by DistroKid is an online community separated by genre groups, designed to give and receive feedback on tracks in a "hip" way by giving tracks fire emojis, and is a quick way to get the answer to, Does your track... Slap?
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LabelRadar streamlines your song demo submission process across the music industry, helping artists get heard by labels, while also allowing labels and promoters to review new submissions in an efficient and addictive way.
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SoundCloud is a German music streaming service that enables its users to upload, promote, and share audio. SoundCloud is one of the largest music streaming services in the world and is available in 190 countries and territories.
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Winamp is an artist hub to create subscriptions to fans for benefits, such as exclusive music or mixes, podcasts, and more. This can be a neat way to grow listeners, and find other artists on the platform. Hosting subscriptions on Winamp costs a yearly subscription.
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This website could be described as a musicians swiss army knife of ultimate cheat sheets for music theory. With many tools such as synthesizers, beat-makers, music theory cheat sheets and more, this could be the one website you need.
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Ableton has a great, interactive course on using synthesizers to create sounds. This course goes over many topics such as filters, attack, decay, sustain, release, adding movement, and much more.
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Ableton has a great, interactive music course that goes over many basic topics in music production, such as patterns, beat making, samples, tempo, genre, scales, triads, and much more.
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This website provides a good visualization of what a standard compressor does to audio. Mess with different parameters such as Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release and Makeup Gain and see how the compressor behaves.
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SoundGym is a training website that gives you a personalized training course in a fun, gaming like experience. Go through various tests to help challenge and improve your ears.
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Abletunes provides an array of fully produced, professionally mastered Ableton project files ranging from many different electronic genres. From just $29-$50, these are great to rip apart and learn from.
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Don't know where a song lies within the ever growing music genres? Use Ishkurs electronic music timeline to hear many different genres, where they came from and what year they started.
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A large selection of free plugins to choose, from instruments to effects. Many seems outdated, or odd in a way, but can still be useful in desired occasions.
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A website full of free plugins, updates on the latest free giveaways, and plugins free for a limited time. With hundreds of different plugins to browse, its easy to get lost.
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P-LASK, Certified Ableton Trainer and creator of initial presets for Serum, has free resources on his website, such as Ableton Racks, Sample Packs, and Serum Presets.
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A community of graphics designers and samplists who come together to build interesting, amazing samplers for completely free.
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A website full of synthesizer presets shared by the community, absolutely free, with many different synthesizers to search for amazing presets.
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Signature Sounds provides many free samples, including foley recordings, percussive one shots, ambience, choirs, Instruments, SFX, and much more.
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Pyr is a free 12 voice string model midi instrument with polyphonic pitchbend support, so you can play it microtonaly using Ableton's microtuner or any other tuner. Note: Pyr requires Live 11 to run.
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Kentaro Tools, master at creating and designing M4L Devices, creates high-quality, highly enjoyable devices ranging from granular, modular, LFO, reverb, and other devices that are sure to break any boundries.
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Normally Max4Live plugins don't look this good. Rebound is a 256 band spectral effect M4L device that can create crystal, glass-like sounds. A perfect companion for creating... say.. Colour Bass?
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Loudness Meter is a tool for measuring the perceived Short-term, and integrated loudness of your audio, without the need of an external window. Just place this at the end of your mastering chain, and you are all set.
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Made a happy accident, but wasn't recording? Audio Treasure is a M4L device for your master that constantly records your output in a 2 minute loop. Never miss a happy accident again.
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Looperman is a Free pro audio community for musicians, film and video producers, djs and multi media designers. Upload and download free music loops, acapellas and vocals, beats and samples to use in any music software.
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Kentaro Tools is a professional creator for Max4Live Devices, and has just released a website designed for quickly creating granular sounds. Place a sample in the box, use "R" for start/stop recording, and save the .wav file!
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Sample Focus is a platform to share and find sounds posted by a community of instrumentalists, singers, and producers. Free users can get a handful of free downloads a week, with purchasable credits for more.
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The Sounds Resource, often called "tSoR", is a website that first came alive in 2010, and is dedicated to providing sounds and audio clips that were found in video games by tSoR community members. Great for finding fun samples.
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Search for a word, phrase or caption, and GetYarn will automatically display any TV show, movie, or music clip with the said phrases. Also available for .mp3 download for quick and easy sampling.
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Unreal Engine, one of the most advanced 3D rendering software, handy for making professional animations for artist content, all while being free (unless you make a game that generates $1,000,000 in revenue).
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Space Type Generator is a fun and interesting way to create professional looking typography. Choose from a small variety of different styles, some in still image, and some in gif loop. Note: Only a few varieties are downloadable.
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Canva is an online tool to create your own album artwork, documents, posters, logos, and more. You can find thousands of album artwork templates to speed up your process of creating artwork for your new song.
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Shots.so is a free online tool to create professional looking mock ups. Upload your own album artwork, poster, selfie, etc, and choose from various styles, backgrounds, size formats, and more. Simply hit download once you are done.
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Womp3D is a brand new, browser based, 3D rendering website that allows you to create 3D graphics with little knowledge in graphics design.
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Design by OpenAI with an extensive selection of 100+ models and styles, perfect for crafting stunning images.
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Art Grab provides high-quality professionally crafted artwork available for anything you need it for. They are a pretty penny, but for a good reason. If you purchase one, you own the exclusive license.
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This website is an open source interactive tool that allows you to create a drum pattern with sounds recorded from around the world. As part of a "experiments with Google" project, this can be a fun way to get some pattern ideas.
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Easy Chord is a simple, but effective way to start an interesting chord progression, learn roman-numeral chords, and learn the mood and background of the chosen chord. Also with a provided play button the hear the result.
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VGMusic, or Video Game Music Archive, is a website similar to "kunstderfuge", but instead, dedicated to thousands of midi files of video game music. Create interesting and unique work by manipulating the midi to your own style.
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This website provides thousands of accurate midi files of compositions from many classical music composers like Mozart, Beethoven, and many more. Create interesting and unique work by manipulating the midi to your own style.
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MuseNet by OpenAI is an AI deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with many instruments, and can combine many different styles. Downloadable as .wav, .mp3, .ogg, and even midi files.
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Do you suffer from severe creative block? Are you too lazy to produce a song? Dont you just wish an AI robot could make a banger for you? There's a website for that.
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