Reply To: Requesting Your Thoughts On the Latest Tweaks to the Site

[peter]

On jude77 said

I think you’re doing a really good job.  It’s a task I certainly wouldn’t undertake.  Personally, I find the site user-friendly overall, though I tend to only look at the Deals/Free Instruments sections.

In terms of using blue for the forum names, that was a good choice.  In a cross-cultural study 37% of people associated it with loyalty, stability and tranquility and 43% of people associated it with relief.

Thanks for the feedback! When you have a chance, check out the recently added magazines and podcasts section. It includes excerpts from magazines like Mix, Sound on Sound, Tape Op, American Songwriter, Songwriting Magazine, some great podcasts and YouTube channels on music theory, songwriting, and music production. The idea is to have all of this in one place — completely free — where everyone can find more content of interest — and hopefully — facilitate discussions about it in the forum and on the social walls.

I did realize going in that with the Early Adopters group, as most of us only used the cakewalk Deals forum, and maybe the Songwriting Forum, that it would be a challenge to get people to check out other forums and content. That’s okay. I don’t give up! I’m a pragmatist. If you find value in what’s here — and if we continue to find better ways to make people aware of content in other parts of the site — I think we can go beyond the Deals Forum. But in any event, I’m happy to have you and everyone else here, however you use the site!

Here’s a direct link to the landing page for the Magazines & Podcasts section.

MAGAZINES & PODCASTS

If you enjoy reading, like I do, here's the page that has various magazines and web publications featuring articles on music production, like Sound on Sound (SOS), Mix Magazine, Tape Op Magazine, MusicTech, etc. If you have a chance to check it out, I'd love to get your thoughts. You basically see the article exceprts and click on more to go off to the site the article is from to read the complete article -- everything is free. I'm just trying to make this a really valuable community for all of us and the articles presented are all available free from the various publishers.

Music Production Related Magazines, Blogs, Podcasts & YouTube Channels

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