nothing more offensive than when you pet your cat and they immediately go and clean that spot. like alright i get it. jesus

people NEED to stop gatekeeping making music like ohhhh i don’t have an instrument ohhhhh i don’t know music theory ohhhhh i’m not gonna pay for some program. SHUT UP. take my hand.

you need NONE of that shit!!!!! there’s a website called beepbox.co. literally all you have to do is press things until it sounds a modicum of nice. it’s easy it’s free and it works on anything which has a browser because it’s a website.

if even ONE person starts making music bc of this post it will be worth it.

making bad music is just as important and okay as it is to write badly or draw badly or sing badly. you AREN’T BEHOLDEN TO MAKE GOOD MUSIC. making music is not utilitarian HAVE FUN. HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!

love how people will encourage people to just start making shit and see what happens when it comes to drawing and writing but when it comes to beginner musicians (music makers if you wish to be less formal) it’s just COMPLETE RADIO SILENCE. it feels like no one even knows you MAKE music it just sprouts up from the ground one day and some guy picks it up. am i alone in this dark cave

Fuck it

I'm gonna try and make music

Call me betovan bc I'm deaf as fuck /j

HELL YEAH!!!

Alternatively if you wanna get into music producing in a more “proper” way, you still don’t need any money.

Ableton has excellent free websites to learn the basics:

Learning Music

Learning Synths

You can learn basically everything you need on YouTube. I recommend:

Mercurial Tones Academy

Dan Worrall

Bthelick

A lot of your favorite artists, mainly in electronic music, likely have done track breakdowns, you can watch those to learn how they do things.

DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) ultimately all do the same things, and Cakewalk is a great FREE fully fledged one. Sure it has some issues, and doesn’t have many plugins included, but it works just fine. All the music I released so far was made there, before I made the jump to Ableton.

As for VST plugins:

Vital is an excellent free synth

Native Instruments Komplete Start is a good free collection of plugins

TDR Nova is a great free EQ

There’s a lot of others and I don’t wanna name everything I’m aware of here, but feel free to DM me for more (Or if you have any other questions and stuff too).

And as for samples, you can get a bunch of free ones at:

Cymatics

Ghosthack

Having good headphones is nice and what I’d recommend you invest in first once it comes to it, but even your current ones will probably be fine, mainly if you slap AutoEQ onto them to flatten the frequency response. And ultimately, music isn’t all about the mixing, the most important part is conveying an emotion.

I know this goes against the spirit of the original post a little, but I want people to know that getting into music production also no longer costs thousands, you can just do it at home on your computer without no money.

Yeah, there is still quite the learning curve, I get that, though it’s also why it’s managed to hold me as a hobby for so long.

I do however have something of the exact opposite variety too, the most simple way to make music I know of, and a wonderful little semi-social experience, along the lines of the game Journey:

hi op i think you should know that i did indeed make a song for the first time because of this

HEY GREAT NEWS. I FREQUENTLY USE BEEPBOX HAVE FOR YEARS AND THE THING IS THERES A HUNDRED MODDED VERSIONS OF IT.

I SPEAK FROM EXPERIENCE WHEN I SAY USE ULTRABOX ITS SO MUCH BETTER THAN VANILLA BEEPBOX.

THIS IS THE BEST MODDED VERSION OF BEEPBOX. LITERALLY. IT HAS SEVERAL FEATURES FROM OTHER BEEPBOX MODS IMPLEMENTED IN IT. SO MANY MORE INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS OF CREATING THEM. ALLOWS YOU TO RECOVER SONGS IF YOUR COMPUTER CRASHED IN THE MIDDLE OF MAKING THEM. ALLOWS YOU TO CHANGE OCTAVES, EVEN ALLOWS FOR CUSTOM SAMPLES. A SHIT TON MORE SCALES, MUCH MORE OPTIONS FOR KEY SIGNATURES AND TEMPO. ULTRABOX IS AN EVEN MORE SOUPED UP VERSION OF BEEPBOX. THERE IS NO REASON NOT TO BE USING IT OVER VANILLA BEEPBOX. THERES SO MANY MORE FEATURES. ITS WAY MORE ROBUST. PLEASE.

the way elphaba reaches out to hold glinda’s hand when she says i want to remember this moment always nobody’s staring nobody’s pointing for the first time i’m somewhere i belong and then she smiles the world’s brightest smile

thinking about that one show where while elphaba is saying all of this glinda nuzzles into her shoulder and gives it a little kiss

because I knew you I have been changed for good.

its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%

daily reminder that if you like something someone made tell! them! tell them tell them tell them TELL THEM

i took my gelphie dolls to the arboretum for a little date :)

something about elphaba looking annoyed and her back stiffening when she found out glinda got married. something about that

pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with "the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right" and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes "now consider the vast power of grief in this setup" it never really stops considering

ich mag den begriff "wortschatz". das ist mein berg an wörtern und ich sitz da drauf wie so ein drache

I do not think there will be gelphie in part 2 I think they’ll be like we fought over a man but our platonic friendship and sisterhood with each other is more important to us than that! and cast interviews will be of this sentiment and then there will be articles that are like The feminism of wicked part 2 and then Ariana grande will share an instagram post that’s like What does she see in that pile of straw anyway…

I have only seen bits of the 2025 Brazilian non-replica, but in what I have seen so far, there are two Gelphie related heart-breaking additions/alterations:

if Elphaba turned into a worm Glinda would be like eww eww ew but would commission a fancy enclosure and get premium lettuce and talk to her sometimes in the solitude of night in her frilly nightgowns like oh Elphie I do hope you’re comfortable even with all this odd business we find ourselves in You were always the bravest of us… but if Glinda turned into a worm Elphaba would just put her in a plain jar with a stick and would be like I don’t hold high regard for the worm it’s only a worm now but she would plant bushes to cut leaves from in her backyard garden every morning to put in worm glinda’s jar and if she saw children playing in her bushes she would yell at them and then go back to her room and post on r/childfree about it. even though she has a son