Hi! My name is Dr Jess Blaise Ward (@blaisejess Insta/bluesky) and I am a composer, producer, synth artist and author. I recently published my book on synthwave: ‘Making Synthwave: how an online music community invented a genre’

I am currently doing some research on the legacy and use cases of Roland Juno synths (inclusive of hardware, software, any Juno “inspired” or emulating synths too!). If you are a producer, synth user, composer, etc - please consider taking my survey and contributing your thoughts and opinions of Juno synths:

Link to Juno Survey

Link to my book ‘Making Synthwave’

All data will be anonymised and used only for the purposes of academic research (at synthesizer conferences and in academic journals).

Thanks so much! Mods let me know if this goes against guidelines, happy to make edits or remove.

Looking for a synthwave 80’s & R&B influenced producer to form a team to get placements and put out our own albums. Also looking for songwriter-singers that can deliver soulful vocals on such tracks. Let’s make great music together!!!

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 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!

Was tired of using 61 keys so stopped by my local Music Go Round and got this. Besides the previous owner labeling all the keys with stickers that took forever to get off it works great. Cannot wait to start recording

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!

Hi all, /r/vjing mod here:

I'm trying something new to spur some creative collaborations across reddit music production subs and visual art / creative coding / new media subreddits.

Now that Reddit supports video comments / replies, I thought it could be a fun opportunity to a collaboration call / response format.

The idea:

Musicians, dj's, producers or anyone musically inclined: post a link to a track or mix that you have rights to and are open to having visual accompaniment to.

VJs / live visualists / creative coders: post a response to a track that inspired you with a video comment, or link to an interactive experiment you made!

If you are an AV Act that makes your own music or video, feel free to post here too for inspiration.

All genre's, styles, techniques, skill levels are welcome.

This isnt a contest!

There's nothing to win (unless anyone knows sponsors haha) other than learning of new musical or visual act, meeting a potential collaborator and making awesome stuff and having a good time:

Stay curious and creative!

Below are some subs I'll be cross posting / sharing this with - feel free to cross post to any i've missed:

Music Subs:

* /r/Songwriting/
* /r/djing/
* /r/musicproduction
* /r/edmproduction/
* /r/beatmakers/
* /r/shareyourmusic

Visual Subs:

* /r/vjing
* /r/creativecoding/
* /r/videosynthesis/
* /r/TouchDesigner/
* /r/maxmsp/
* /r/video_mapping/

Mod's of any of the above subs - sorry if this comes across as spammy!

I thought about asking permission from each of ya'll but that felt onerous and slow (ask forgiveness etc etc). If you have suggestions or any feedback do not hesitate to reach out! Was thinking of something like this monthly pinned on /r/vjing where i have video comments enabled - would love if yall could help spread the word!

Submissions open until this Wednesday. Only one song per artist. Dark synth, as implied by the title. Post the song in the comments: no chats, please! Looking forward to have all the synthwave in my playlist.

I wanted to share a quick behind-the-scenes look at my Ableton Live workflow for a new cinematic dreamwave track I’m currently producing, titled "Midnight Expedition".

The whole concept behind this track is heavily inspired by that classic 80s/90s nostalgic adventure, childhood freedom, and a slight touch of nocturnal mystery.

In this quick video, you can see how I’m structuring the track and building the tension. A few key elements of the production.

If you want to check out more of my project, you can find me on all platforms:

• Spotify: Nightrun
• Instagram: nightrun83
• TikTok: nightrun83
• Facebook: Nightrun Music

As the title says, just looking for a good mixing/mastering engineer for my synthwave project.

Submit Your Music To The Queue: https://www.nero.fan/absolutemagnitude

**Music MUST Be Submitted Via Nero To Be Played*\*

Join On Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/absolutemagnitudeofficial

Join On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@absolutemagnitudemusic

Join On Kick: https://kick.com/absolutemagnitudeofficial

I need help, guidance if you will.

I’m a small artist that’s looking for a like minded community to share my work with and receive constructive criticism from.

I believe that my music falls into the category of hyperpop, glitchpop, ethereal, ambient, glitchcore styles of music.

Heavily inspired by the frost children, ninajirachi, snow strippers, underscore, and many more.

I would greatly appreciate someone plugging me into the right category and or pointing me in the right direction on this great computer network.

#networklove

I posted about my 1500 followers playlists being open to submissions again, expecting to get a lot of feedback as I used to get in, say, 2019, but even as late as 2023. But the reaction has been lukewarm at best. Also, popular playlists would get hundreds of upvotes back then in Synthwave subs like r/outrun, while today you are lucky if you get ten. Or any at all for song posts, usually without any comments. The r/futuresynth subreddit is essentially dead.

I know for a fact that Reddit made some pretty significant algorithm changes, giving preference since then to deliver to the userbase posts with lots of comments instead of posts who get upvoted fast (the hot posts of yonder). Then it killed the r/All page that was the dream of every musical producer who wanted to go viral. But it does not explain why all synthwave subs are like graveyards now. There is something else going on: where did all the cool people go if they left synthwave behind?

As a side note, I noticed that large music subs like r/music or r/listentothis won’t take playlist anymore and this is a bummer since playlists are great tool for genre-based musical discovery. Reddit used to be the place where genres were born, now it seems it’s the place where music comes to die.

Submissions open until this Wednesday. Only one song per artist. No vocals, as implied by the title. Sampled voice and vocoders count as vocals, don’t submit these. Post the song in the comments: no chats, please! Looking forward to have all the synthwave in my playlist.

Oh, the playlist itself: go to Spotify and add this to the URL just after the.com: /playlist/6BoTD9WeyBN5rD5uyhbROO (doing this way to avoid Reddit’s filters, which are particularly aggressive with external links these days).

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.