📢 LM Reaches 20K+ Visitors per month, Upcoming Anniversary Giveaway

[LinkedMusicians]

We’re now approaching the one-year anniversary of LinkedMusicians. We recently hit a milestone of 20,000 monthly unique visitors, reflecting a strong interest in an independent, open, non-toxic, and direct environment that promotes honest dialogue.

I’ve been spending this week getting things ready for the anniversary, and I wanted to put this on your radar:

Anniversary Giveaway

I’m currently working on a giveaway in the Deals Forum, tentatively scheduled for early next week. I’m reaching out to a select group of top-tier developers to secure a few specific products for the anniversary. If you want to participate, make sure you are subscribed to the Deals Forum so you see the thread when it goes live. All you’ll need to do is comment in a thread, which means if you’re reading this and not a registered member of LinkedMusicians, now is the perfect time to join us.

A Personal Note

I am also finishing a blog post for this weekend where I’ll be sharing more about the background of this passion project. That includes the transition from the pseudonym I used as a musician, Peter Woods—the surname my mother played under as a musician before shifting to music instructor while raising her children. I chose it after first playing professionally at 18 and finding that virtually no one who introduced me publicly could pronounce my last name correctly —which everyone here is now also welcome to mispronounce: DeLegge! (That’s perfectly fine, btw.)

Thanks to everyone who has been part of this first year and our beta team (we called the Early Adopters, even though, in truth, everyone here this first year since our public release is an early adopter) who have been here since late 2024.

Peter

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[Dorian Gray]

very nice. congrats on the achievement. can you tell us what the developers are giving away or the names of the developers?

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[thesteven]

Congratulations! Happy for you (and us) of the success of LinkedMusicians.

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[Blacque Jacque Shellacque]

Congrats Peter! Already one year!?!?! Incredible! You did a stellar job puting this together. Thanks!

My name is Jacques but you can call me Blacque Jacque Shellacque for short

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[LinkedMusicians]

Thanks, guys. I was responsible for building the site initially, but it has been the incredibly talented developer and member @lamia6 who has taken things to the next level. She has been incredibly important to this site. She’s written code that gave us new features, diagnosed and fixed design and coding issues, and improved various areas of performance and security. The whole LinkedMusicians passion project is about community, about our love and appreciation for music, our values of how to treat one another, ethics on how businesses should operate and transparency.

It’s the latter, transparency, that made me decide to share my real name. I will be very transparent that my hesitation to share my real name was related to my experiencing online harassment and threats. So this was, by no means an easy decision. I felt it was necessary for the growth of this site and for partnerships and I also realize, that it can appear a bit ironic that I’m very focused on transparency when using my pseudonym from my musician days. While my pseudonym has a great deal of history for me personally and my family, not using my real last name could easily make this project look less serious than it is. It was while working on the plan to assemble a LinkedMusicians advisory board with artists, educators/academia, and developers that I made that decision.

LinkedMusicians is largely a blank canvas. This is a robust social media platform that enables us to grow and accomplish a great deal and we’ve only scratched the surface. The biggest limitation has been the time I have to commit to it, which has been far too tied to posting deals (there’s technological progress coming on that front that will improve on what I’ve been doing and free up my time to focus on more strategic things).

The objective remains to continue developing the site and the community a non-toxic environment and a welcoming community where music creators of all experience levels and genres can learn and grow musically, and regardless of income level, find vetted, high-quality tools that inspire them. We’ve only just started on this journey.

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[patrickwichrowski]

Nice 😀

https://linktr.ee/patrickwichrowski/

https://patrickwichrowski.bandcamp.com/

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[LinkedMusicians]

I should have mentioned this earlier, but one of the most requested features that our members have asked for was a Daily Digest email. One email per day that features the deals posted that day (well, most of them, as I think it caps at 15 or so topics). Once again, this is another feature that was custom developed by our own @Lamia6.

It takes around 20-30 seconds to set it up and you can subscribe to any other forum Daily Digest email too:

1. Click on settings in the top right menu.
2. Click on your Account Settings in the middle of the screen.
3. Click the link for the Forum Digest.
4. Select any Forum Daily Digests you want to receive.

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[joegyork]

Congratulations Peter and many thanks for all the hard work you have put into this place. Thanks too to @Lamia6 who, as you say, has been critical to the successful development of the forum. A great team!

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[LinkedMusicians]

Okay, I have two of our favorite developers lined up for the giveaway and I’m waiting on the third.

Be ready next week.

This is our first giveaway, and will set the tone for future giveaways. I reached out to three of my favorite developers (I have a lot more favorite developers and plans for future giveaways, too, but I started with three of the best developers in the business that I also have long histories with).

This is going to be a big special and the start of something big for LinkedMusicians and I know that we all — me included — love giveaways and great gear, and I’ve selected three of the best developers in the business for this. Please spread the word about this giveaway now or when it launches. I realize that may go against the desire to keep the odds smaller, but if you want to see more of these, we need it to be a success.

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[LinkedMusicians]

We now have two top-tier developers on board for our first anniversary celebration giveaway. To give everyone a heads up, the giveaway will work as follows. There will be two winners. To enter the contest, all you’ll need to do is participate in the giveaway thread. A third party is handling the drawing and will certify the results (they’ll be a link to their site). It will be available to all current members in good standing.

So any lurkers reading this, now is the time to register. There are more giveaways and exclusive, member-only content ahead of us and I have decided to do a LinkedMusicians email to alert subscribers to the best deals, glitch sales, exclusives, and giveaways. That will launch before the end of May.

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[LinkedMusicians]

If you look to the right on the right hand side bar, you’ll notice that there’s a graphic there with IK Multimedia and Orange Tree Samples logos. Those are the companies that will be providing the prizes for our 1 Year Anniversary Giveaway. Watch this space for more information and be sure to spread the word. Watch for how to enter. It’s as simple as posting in a thread.

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[joegyork]

Great news. Two well respected companies there. I have a fair bit of IK stuff from buying one of their Max suites when it was on offer. I don’t have any Orange Tree samples I have read good things about them. Are the libraries shown the ones that will be in the giveaway?

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[LinkedMusicians]

On joegyork said

Great news. Two well respected companies there. I have a fair bit of IK stuff from buying one of their Max suites when it was on offer. I don’t have any Orange Tree samples I have read good things about them. Are the libraries shown the ones that will be in the giveaway?

The two products that will be given away to two winners are:

• IK Multimedia ReSing MAX, the premium version of IK Multimedia’s voice AI plugin. It retails for $199 USD.
• Orange Tree Samples Evolution Indie, a virtual electric guitar sample library for Kontakt Player (the free player, so you don’t need to own the full version of Kontakt to use it) sample library. It retails for $179.

 

Personally, I’m eager to check out ReSing. Lately, IK has been hitting it out of the park, IMO. Pianoverse and Hammond B-3X blow me away and IK effects have always been excellent. The reviews for ReSing have been great, so I’m eager to check that out soon (there seems to be a passion project called LinkedMusicians that’s kept me from being able to find time to work on music projects, pretty much the entire year).

As for Orange Tree Samples Evolution Indie Rock, Evolution guitars are my go-to virtual guitar instruments and while it’s very difficult to choose a favorite, Evolution Indie Rock is easily in my top 5 favorite Evolution electric guitar instruments. BTW, I wrote instruments, and often call Evolution guitars and bass sample libraries, but they’re actually a hybrid of sample library and physical modeling. I’ve been obsessed with virtual guitar I could play from keyboards since the 80s. The Evolution guitar and bass line is literally my dream virtual guitar line. I think that everyone here is very aware that maybe 15 years or so ago, after being blown away by Orange Tree Samples’ guitar and bass libraries, I contacted Greg Schlaepfer with extensive ideas for what became the Evolution line of guitars and bass (I’ve given advice to several other sample developers who make guitar sample libraries). So I have some serious personal history there. Also know that the Evolution line were the first virtual guitars to be used in final production on TV, movie, and games soundtracks, on trailers, and pop hits. Major composers — the biggest names (yep, that guy) use Evolution.

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[MrFigg]

Good one Peter 🙂

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[LinkedMusicians]

The Giveaway thread is live. All you need to do is comment, answering a couple of simple questions to get your input on the site to enter.  I wanted to make it dead simple and make how the drawing works crystal clear. Everyone who comments in the thread will be entered in the giveaway. There will be two winners and two prizes (the first selected winner will receive the first prize, the second selected winner will receive the second).

It’s only for registered members, which means the odds of winning are superb. While we get a lot of traffic, 95% of it comes from unregistered visitors. Of course, my desire is to grow the LinkedMusicians community, so I hope everyone will let others know about this giveaway (technically/legally it’s a sweepstakes).

📢 LinkedMusicians First Anniversary Giveaway Thread!

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[joegyork]

Wow great prizes!

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[LinkedMusicians]

On joegyork said

Wow great prizes!

Glad you like it! Spread the word.

The more successful we are with this one, the more we can continue doing more giveaways and exclusive deals in the future.

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[William Heins]

Congratulations! Here’s to many more 🙂

A lot of demo stuff here- https://www.reverbnation.com/daylight

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[Vst0nE]

fantastic achievement, congrats, all the best in the future

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[LinkedMusicians]

Thanks for the kind words and encouragement! Of course, it’s a group achievement. All of you are a vital part of it. And don’t forget to comment in the Giveaway thread — that’s your entry to win. That’s all there is to it. Just post in the thread to get your insight on what you like best about the site in the original post (I’m basically looking for your thoughts on LM on what matters most to you).

Let’s keep the good vibes coming and also give away some great gear!

https://linkedmusicians.com/forums/topic/linkedmusicians-first-anniversary-giveaway-thread/

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[atu]

Congrats anniversary!

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[Xandre]

Congrats!

Xandre
Chaos Scatterbrain with a plethora of 4 bar loop projects, and barely any songs

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