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LANDR Blog
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LANDR Blog is the company blog at blog.landr.com, writing about design and culture. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a pointer to LANDR's music-production guides, such as its best DAWs and free synth VST plugins lists, in threads about learning music theory and audio software. Comments cite it as a resource list.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
LANDR gives you the tools you need to create, master and release your music. Our blog is a place to read up on music production, mixing and creativity.
What Hacker News says?
One thing to notice is that the elements of music, rhythm, melody, and harmony, are based on relationships between periodic impulses. E.g. drum patterns, vibrating strings, musical sequences, and melodic intervals. Here is a small yet information-dense book: https://woodenbooks.com/index.php?id_cms=8&controller=cms#!M... Keeping the fundamental unity of musical elements in mind, build a framework of knowledge and pr…
Comment linking /music-modes/
on “Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?”Submitted 10 Synth Wizards and the Machines They Fell in Love With as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLook for tracing/profiling/binary analysis UIs: - https://superuser.com/questions/1117466/using-windows-perfor... - https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy - https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex 3D modeling / CAD software: - Blender/Rhino etc - Similar for audio you can search for 'DAWs' ( https://blog.landr.com/best-daw/ ) Many examples on https://x.com/usgraphics/media only some software. Not on the data side but can be usef…
Comment linking /best-daw/
on “Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?”Submitted Vital Synth: How to Use It and Where to Begin (2025) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis. These are largely mixing decisions, although it would be kinda weird to have a whispering actor boosted to sound as loud as a train in a scene. The technical term for this is “Dialogue LRA” measured in LU: https://s3.amazonaws.com/izotopedownloads/docs/insight200/en... - this link also mentions some of the standards around this and now to use their software to adhere to those standards. LUFS is also relevant h…
Comment linking /lufs-loudness-metering/
on “Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video]”There's some free VST's that are supposed to be good, and reaper, which isn't really free, but the trial period is at your discretion. Before you start with a DAW, read lots of reviews, watch youtube walkthrus and ask around what your friends use, learning a DAW is a significant chunk of time. Some free AU's may work with garage band also: https://ask.audio/articles/8-awesome-free-audio-plug-in-synt... http://blog.l…
Comment linking /the-7-best-free-synth-vst-plugins/
on “Learning Web Audio by Recreating the Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno”to add to the above, on OS X, instead of loop MIDI, you can create a Virtual IAC bus instead. For someone with a Windows machine that has loopMIDI, if you want to send me a patch for Windows setup instructions, I'd love to add them. I mostly develop on a Mac myself. There are also some soft synths that don't need a VST host, some mentioned here - https://blog.landr.com/the-7-best-free-synth-vst-plugins/ I will admit…
Comment linking /the-7-best-free-synth-vst-plugins/
on “Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer”