Should you focus on quality or quantity?

As a synthwave producer, should you focus on quality or on quantity?

The Quality vs Quantity Spectrum is a terrible mental model for synthwave pro...

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Chord Progressions Deep Dive Part 2

This is part #2 of the Chord Progressions Deep Dive series.

In this session I'll cover:

  • Cadences
  • Displaced Progressions

We'll discuss Caden...

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Synthwave Chord Progressions in Action

In this live production session I'll show you how to create chord progressions in a synthwave context using chord leading charts and creating drum ...

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How to balance the core elements of your synthwave track

In this video I discuss and show how to balance the core elements of your synthwave track.

The core elements are: drums, bass, lead, chords/arps/p...

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Music is magic

The experience of making music is truly magical.

Sometimes you wake up and it’s a normal day, just like any other.

But then you sit down to make ...

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July Production Challenge Livestream! (how to synthwave)

The weekend of July 21st the members of the Synthwave Dojo community on Discord participated in a 1 hour production challenge where the goal was to...

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Bass & Drums Micro-Balance

Today I’ll be talking about the micro balance between the bass and the drums.

Just like in my video about the micro balance in the drums, getting ...

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Kick Snare and Hats Micro Balance

In this Synthwave Live Production Session I'll cover 3 approaches for setting a good micro balance between the fundamental elements of your drum ki...

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Synthwave Composer Tools eBook

 

I created a handy ebook with chords, keys, scales and other useful tools to help you in your synthwave composition process.

In this video I wal...

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There are no shortcuts in synthwave

In this day and age, everyone is looking for the shortcut, the hack to get an incredible result without any effort.

Life doesn’t work that way. An...

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Synthwave Poly Synth Keys Tutorial on TAL UNO LX (synthwave sound design & synthesis)

In today’s video I’ll show you how to create 2 poly synth keys patches for synthwave and retro music using the great TAL UNO LX synthesizer.

Make ...

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Chord Progressions Deep Dive

In this video I'll do a deep dive into how to create chord progressions for synthwave. We'll use a tool called "chord leading charts" for this.

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