Here is a list of resources for my intro-level music technology students at the end of the semester. This is a non-exhaustive list meant to inspire rather than overwhelm. That being said, I welcome suggestions for additional resources to include, with a preference for sources that are free or low-cost.


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

Free plug-ins


Splice.com list of free plugins
TDR Kotelnikov dynamics processor
TDR Nova parallel dynamic EQ
TDR Molotok dynamics processor
Surge XT hybrid synthesizer
OrilRiver stereo reverb
Voxengo plugin library
Surge Tuning Workbench Synth

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

Purchasing Equipment


Sweetwater

Reverb

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)