General audio/production resources:
www.youtube.com/@AudioUniversity
www.youtube.com/@sonicacademy
www.youtube.com/@MusicRadarTech
Why Reaper?
(Comprehensive and excellent list of resources from Jeff Kaiser: free plugins and VSTs, tutorials aimed at Reaper but generalizable to any DAW, etc.)
Tape Op Magazine
Recording, Mixing, Mastering:
www.youtube.com/@mixwiththemasters
www.youtube.com/@TheMixAcademy
www.youtube.com/@Producelikeapro
www.youtube.com/@SonicScoop
www.youtube.com/@fabfilter
www.youtube.com/@TheHouseofKushTV
www.izotope.com/en/learn.html
Huber and Runstein - Modern Recording Techniques
Savage - Mixing and Mastering Inside the Box
Owsinksi - Mastering Engineer’s Handbook
Corey - Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training
(I can’t recommend this one highly enough...)
Live sound:
www.youtube.com/@DaveRat
Sampling
www.youtube.com/@tracklib
www.youtube.com/@massappeal
www.whosampled.com/
(searchable index of source samples for a sprawling range of music)
Justin Williams - Rhymin' and Stealin': Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop
Logic Pro:
www.youtube.com/@WhyLogicProRules
www.youtube.com/@MusicTechHelpGuy
Ableton Live:
https://www.youtube.com/@Ableton
(also great for general songwriting and beatmaking inspiration)
https://www.youtube.com/@NedRush
Max MSP:
www.youtube.com/@cycling74com
www.youtube.com/@AmazingMaxStuff
www.youtube.com/@dude837 (“Delicious Max Tutorials”)
Schuette - Demystifying Max/MSP
Manzo - Max/MSP/Jitter for Music
Analog synths and DIY:
www.youtube.com/@andrewhuang
www.youtube.com/@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC
www.youtube.com/@MoogMusicInc
www.youtube.com/@buchlausa
www.youtube.com/@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
Collins - Handmade Electronic Music
Edstrom - Arduino for Musicians
Music Theory and Songwriting
www.youtube.com/@AdamNeely
www.youtube.com/@RickBeato
musictheory.net
Snodgrass - Contemporary Musicianship
Sarath - Music Theory through Improvisation
Edwards - How To Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC
Desantis - Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers
Sethares - Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale
Critical and Historical Inquiry
Tara Rodgers - Pink Noises
King Britt - Blacktronika: Exploring Innovators of Color in Electronic Music
Jon Silpayamanant - DAW, Music Production, and Colonialism, a Bibliography
Joanna Demers - Listening through the Noise
Alexa Woloshyn - Electroacoustic Voices: Sounds Queer, and Why It Matters
Deniz Peters et al. - Bodily Expression in Electronic Music
Tricia Rose - Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
Michel Chion - Sound, an Acoulogical Treatise (trans James Steintrager)
R. Murray Schafer - The Soundscape
Bennett - Modern Records, Maverick Methods: Technology and Process in Popular Music Record Production 1978-2000
Alexander Weheliye - “Feenin”: Posthuman Voices in Contemporary Black Popular Music. Social Text 20.2 (2002) 21-47
Georgina Born - Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde
Simon Emmerson (ed.) - Music, Electronic Media, and Culture
Simon Frith and Simon Zigorski-Thomas (ed.) - The Art of Record Production
Jonathan Sterne (ed.) - The Sound Studies Reader
Alexander Weheliye - Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
Gear Reviews
www.youtube.com/@sweetwater
www.youtube.com/waves
whyreaper.com/plugins-resources
(Free and open source resources for audio plug-ins etc)
https://gearspace.com/
(Forum for reviews, help, etc)
Synth Anatomy
Other Topics + Resources
www.youtube.com/user/elifieldsteel
(excellent tutorials on SuperCollider)
Stanford Center for Computer Music Research and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Columbia Computer Music Center
Music21
(toolkit for computer-aided musicology by Michael Scott Cuthbert)
Humdrum
(toolkit computer-aided musicology, by David Huron)