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)