Yeah that would work well if I were precise enough to know when to automate the click in and out. If I’m playing free-tempo, I won’t really know when that click should begin.

I’ve never tried this! That sounds like pure vibes.

I’d imagine nostalgia is a big factor.

But otherwise, low-pass-filtered stuff generally sounds less exciting. You can read about pink noise and Brownian noise, for example, which more closely resemble natural phenomena like wind or rain from inside a shelter. Pink noise is white noise which decreases 3dB in volume each octave; Brownian noise, -6dB/oct. It were as if you put such a low-pass filter on white noise. So music that shares a similar frequency profile is relaxing.

Reverb can be used for lots of purposes. As you say, it simulates reverberations a physical space.

Short, natural-sounding reverb can be used to blend tracks together. If two instruments need to sound like they were recorded in the same room, do it virtually.

As others have written, longer, natural reverbs can create a perception of size. You can make a vocalist sound like sang in a concert hall or a church or a bar.

Sometimes reverb may be used to impart tone, evoke a vintage. A spring reverb has different cultural associations than a Lexicon. Some reverbs’ modal resonances highlight certain frequencies.

Long reverbs can be used to increase sustain of an instrument. Every ambient guitarist in the world is familiar with this.

What reverb means in a piece is for the artist and listener to interpret.

Are you talking about something like Soothe or SplitEQ? There are certain spectral effects that can remove the tonal characteristics from a sound, leaving only the nontonal aspects. E.g. on a piano, you’d only hear the unpitched, percussive hammer and key sounds.

Here’s a FOSS alternative for Soothe. https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2024/03/03/nih-plug-spectral-compressor/

Suno CEO doesn’t even know what tuning an 808 means.

Based on my experience, there shouldn’t be any difference between distributing a long song vs. a short one. You may not have come across them in the wild because algorithms, like radio, tend to favor 3-4 min songs.

Pretty neat IMO (though I’m not a Bitwig user). They really seem to be upping the ante as an Ableton alternative.

Stuff like this makes me think this may one day become classic, historical gear.

I appreciate it. I always thought Deezer was just a streaming platform like Spotify.

Also, dang, surprised so many downvotes for my original comment lol.

I work part time as an audio producer. Converting MP3 to FLAC is like trying to upscale an image: you can use all the fancy algos to repair loss, but it’s still lossy.

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This doesn’t sound like what I’m asking for. I’m not interested in paying Deezer for music I already own.

Also, closer sounds tend to have more prominent transients, so you can use a transient shaper and automate the attack (if you’re working with something that’s not a sustained tone, that is).

Regarding your second paragraph: I think about that so much these days.

You didn’t miss once with this take.

If we can resolve the ethical complications of AI, I agree, AI could be a net-positive, beneficial tool for learning and accessibility. Suno isn’t really that, though. It’s more like a vending machine.

Maybe you’re right, and as for people like yourself, who already know the emperor has no clothes, you don’t need to have to look at his nakedness. Others need to see him make a fool of himself. As for me, I like galvanizing people around these issues.

A few years ago, I switched from Logic to Reaper and haven’t looked back. Reaper may not be particularly pretty, but it is incredibly powerful. If Reaper’s look is a drag for you though, try out some different themes, like the Reapertips theme. Reaper is also cross-platform, so you aren’t beholden to macOS or Windows, and it runs on Linux.

Every now and then I feel a bit of envy for the modular sound design I see people do in Ableton or Bitwig, but there’s very little that I haven’t been able to replicate in Reaper, and when I need to, I use Cardinal for more intense modular sound design.