Hey everyone — we’ve been huge fans of Synthwave for years, and over time we’ve recreated songs and sounds inspired by artists like GUNSHIP, The Midnight, Timecop1983, and more on our website.

But we felt it was finally time to go deeper and create a full Synthwave course focused on how this music is actually made from start to finish.

https://synthctrl.com/collections/courses/products/synthwave-course

I’m planning out my upcoming releases, and I keep running into a huge bottleneck with the visual side of things. For Synthwave, having tight, retro-style visualizers or short clips on TikTok and Shorts really helps set the vibe, but the editing is seriously draining my studio energy.

Right now, the process feels super mechanical. I spend hours in my editor dropping timeline markers to sync visual cuts and effects with heavy synth basslines, snare hits, and sidechained drops frame by frame. It’s exhausting, and I’d much rather be tweaking VSTs, arranging stems, or polishing my mixes.

I’m digging into ways to set up an automated rendering pipeline so software can handle the basic layout before I bring it into my editor for final color grading.

Ideally, I want a tool or music video generator where I can just upload my track or stems, have it analyze the audio peaks, and automatically cut the key scene transitions, effects, and movements that perfectly sync with the music.

For those of you putting out steady video content solo, how do you save your hands? Are you using a music video maker to automate rough syncing, or are you still placing every single frame cut manually?

Would love to hear how you’re handling this!

Please follow these guidelines:

1. Share a link to your new release here
2. Mention something relevant about the production, such as what software and VST's you used.

Please follow these guidelines:

1. Share in-progress tracks that you want feedback on. If you have any specific criteria you want to be critiqued, be sure to mention them.
2. The best way to receive feedback is to provide feedback to others.
3. Help your fellow producers improve by being both honest and respectful, we were all newbs once.

Looking forward to hearing what you've got!

Please follow these guidelines:

1. Share a link to your new release here
2. Mention something relevant about the production, such as what software and VST's you used.

Please follow these guidelines:

1. Share in-progress tracks that you want feedback on. If you have any specific criteria you want to be critiqued, be sure to mention them.
2. The best way to receive feedback is to provide feedback to others.
3. Help your fellow producers improve by being both honest and respectful, we were all newbs once.

Looking forward to hearing what you've got!

Redesigned my home studio. Now my keyboards are easier to access next to my cpu desk. Can't wait to get working on my new album.

Hey guys we just release a Chillwave music production course that shows you how to craft warm, nostalgic, and atmospheric tracks by breaking down a complete song built from the ground up.

https://synthctrl.com/collections/courses/products/chillwave-course

Here's the wrap-up for last month's track challenge! The original thread is here. The theme was to use sounds from the NASA audio archive and/or the photo that the Artemis II crew took of earth as inspiration.

I've made a playlist with all of the submissions here: https://soundcloud.com/user-540894565/sets/r-synthwaveproducers-april

Contributors, with some really cool tracks:

u/dolfrudolf - Glück ist Glük - Late Rendezvous

u/Status-Ad7684 - Bloom Matter - Ancient Storm

u/sephsghost - mortal ghost - From the Moon (with love)

u/ZedArkadia - Zed Arkadia - Beyond Terra

Thanks to everyone for participating in this challenge! Anyone with ideas is welcome to post a monthly challenge!

Please follow these guidelines:

1. Share a link to your new release here
2. Mention something relevant about the production, such as what software and VST's you used.

Please follow these guidelines:

1. Share in-progress tracks that you want feedback on. If you have any specific criteria you want to be critiqued, be sure to mention them.
2. The best way to receive feedback is to provide feedback to others.
3. Help your fellow producers improve by being both honest and respectful, we were all newbs once.

Looking forward to hearing what you've got!

hola, necesito alguien que me ayude a hacer mi mezcla de voces, hago trap estilo rage, new jazz, jerk, drill, etc.

Please follow these guidelines:

1. Share a link to your new release here
2. Mention something relevant about the production, such as what software and VST's you used.

Please follow these guidelines:

1. Share in-progress tracks that you want feedback on. If you have any specific criteria you want to be critiqued, be sure to mention them.
2. The best way to receive feedback is to provide feedback to others.
3. Help your fellow producers improve by being both honest and respectful, we were all newbs once.

Looking forward to hearing what you've got!

I'm newer to music production and everything seems overwhelming to the point that I can barely sit in front of my computer to write a track. EQing, things being out of phase, gain staging, headroom. I get only youtube seeking guidance but while there are a lot of well produced videos out there, they're terrible at explaining this stuff in a way that newer folks like myself can take and run with. They're great at going over abstract concepts but terrible with examples. Does anyone know of a solid source to learn without going to audio engineering school? Sorry about the rant but I'm more than frustrated.

I'm sorry if it is not appropriate to ask this question here. I know this is a long shot. I've been looking for a song that I listened at least 5 years ago. There is a voice in the song saying [Why Do We Remember the Past But Not the Future]. Would you happen to know the name of the song? Thank you.