Check the previous post in the “Music-Making for Developers and Other Techies” series DAW (or Digital Audio Workstation) software is the IDE equivalent in the computer music production world. It’s the hub of your music-making activities whether you do everything with software (also commonly referred to as “in the box”)…

Check the previous post in the “Music-Making for Developers and Other Techies” series Good news! Your development PC is most likely good enough to get started with music production. Provided you are OK with sharing it between your developer and musician selves. But in case you want to buy or…

I’ve been developing software for more than 25 years. I’ve been creating music in my head for even longer and sometimes that even manifested in real-world experiments. While I took my programming hobby more and more seriously my music-making aspirations stayed just that. Throughout my software development career, I’ve tried…

My first ever “proper” album is out now! It’s called R&D and is the culmination of my second year of researching how music is made and developing my skills. Hence the name. On the other hand, I don’t have a favorite music genre or style neither as a listener nor…

I’ve been developing software since I was a teenager which was… a long time ago. All this time I was also making, well, sounds. First by dropping a small soviet microphone into a cheap kid's acoustic guitar, then using trackers (remember those?), and finally graduating to modern DAWs. There were…

Disclaimer: I’m not a security researcher and lack deep knowledge of all the underlying processes. This is my high-level reconstruction of what happened in hopes “normal” people take notice and stay safe(r). If you have a better understanding of the whole ordeal, please enlighten me and I will update this…

Gain staging is a slightly controversial and confusing subject. But it’s important enough that there are lots of articles and videos made about it. Often with conflicting advice. Which makes it even more confusing to those of us with no decades of audio engineering behind us. It is important enough…

Black Friday deals are upon us. I will not list my top 5 deals here or something like that. There are plenty of them all over the internet. Instead, I wanted to talk about my approach to getting the things I want and avoiding getting sucked into making impulse purchases…