Music Production Wiki

**Welcome to the Music Production Wiki!**
This site is intended to be a community reference focusing on tools, techniques, history, and general knowledge related to music production.

This is a new site, and is very much a work in progress. Feel free to contribute and information to any of the stub pages or creating new pages on topics that aren't yet covered.

The current content tends towards electronic music production (synthesis, sampling, sequencing, sound design, etc.), but contributions about all kinds of music production knowledge are welcome and encouraged.

### Production Basics

* Gain, Volume, Level
* Dynamic Range
* How Digital Audio Works
* Mixing
* Sends, Returns, and Buses
* Parallel Processing
* Mastering

### Synthesis and Sound Design Basics

* What is Sound Design?
* Oscillators
* Envelopes/ADSR
* Filters
* Amp
* LFO (Low Frequency Oscillators)
* Pitch modulation
* Frequency Modulation

### DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations)

* Ableton Live
* Logic Pro
* FL Studio
* Reaper
* Pro Tools
* Studio One
* Cubase

### Drum Machines

* TR-808
* TR-909
* LinnDrum
* Oberheim DMX

### Synthesizers

* Juno-60 and Juno-106 (Roland)
* Jupiter-8 (Roland)
* SH101 (Roland)
* D50 (Roland)
* OBX-a (Oberheim)
* CS 80 (Yamaha)
* DX 7 (Yamaha)
* Prophet 5, Prophet 10, Prophet 8 (DSI/Sequential)
* MS 20 (Korg)

### Effects

* EQ (Equalization)
* Compression and Limiting
* Saturation, Distortion, Overdrive
* Reverb
* Delay
* Chorus
* Phasing/phaser (Phase modulation)
* Gate/Noise Gate
* Flanging/Flanger
* Bit Reduction/Sample Rate Reduction
* Stereo Widening

### Sequencers, Workstations, and other Hardware

* MPC
* Maschine
* Ableton Push 3

### Popular Plugins (Instruments)

* Serum (Xfer)
* Vital (Vital Audio)
* PhasePlant (Kilohearts)
* Omnisphere (Spectrasonics)
* Keyscape (Spectrasonics)
* Trillian (Spectrasonics)
* Diva (U-he)
* Hive (U-he)
* Zebra2 (U-he)
* Massive (Native Instruments)
* Massive X (Native Instruments)
* FM8 (Native Instruments)
* Absynth (Native Instruments)
* Kontakt (Native Instruments)
* Pigments (Arturia)
* Arturia V Collection (Arturia)
* LABS (Spitfire) [Free]

### Popular Plugins (Effects)

#### Compression and Limiting

* Pro-L2 (FabFilter)
* Pro-Q 3 (FabFilter)
* Pro-L2 (FabFilter)
* Presswerk (U-he)
* Kotelnikov (Tokyo Dawn Labs)
* TrackSpacer (Wavesfactory)

#### EQ

* Pro-Q 3 (FabFilter)
* Nova (Tokyo Dawn Labs)
* SlickEQ (Tokyo Dawn Labs)
* Spectre (Wavesfactory)

#### Delay

* ValhallaDelay (ValhallaDSP)
* ValhallaSuperMassive (ValhallaDSP) [Free]
* ColourCopy (U-he)
* Deelay (Sixth Sample) [Free]

#### Mastering

* Ozone (Izotope)
* T-Racks (IK Multimedia)

##### Guitar Amp Modelling

* Guitar Rig (Native Instruments)
* Amplitube (IK Multimedia)

##### Tape Simulation and Lofi

* RC20 (XLN Audio)
* CHOWTape (Chowdhury DSP) [Free]
* Satin (U-he)

#### Collections

* Arturia FX Collection (Arturia)
* Komplete (Native Instruments)

### Non-Electronic Instruments

* Guitar
* Bass Guitar
* Drums
* Other Strings (Mandolin, Banjo, Ukulele)
* Acoustic Piano
* Fender Rhodes
* Wurlitzer A200
* Hammond B3
* Strings (Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass)
* Brass (Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, French Horn, English Horn, etc.)
* Reeds (Saxophone, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon)
* Winds (Flute, Piccolo)
* Percussion

### Production Technologies

* MIDI
* CV and Modular

### Production Techniques and Specific Sounds

* Sampling and Chopping
* Sidechaining/Ducking
* Reese Bass
* Wobble/wub/dubstep bass
* New York Compression
* Classic Breaks
	+ The Amen Break
	+ Funky Drummer

### Genre Explainers

* House
* Techno
* Dubstep
* Hip Hop/Rap
* Trap
* Drill
* Rock
* Pop
* Jazz
* Lofi
* Drum n Bass (DnB)
* Hardcore

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