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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
One Year of LinkedMusicians: Big Updates & New ToolsWe are officially approaching our one-year anniversary since taking LinkedMusicians public this April, and the growth has been incredible. We’ve hit a milestone of **20,000+ unique monthly visitors!
To celebrate and improve the experience, we’ve been busy making some significant upg…Read More
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i’ve really only been coming to lm for the deals forum, but after your recent post, I tried some of the new site features. i tried out the reviews, forums, free presets, and free sample and sound effect search engines, and think they’re great additions to the lm. i can see that a lot of new features have been added recently, which I haven’t had a…Read More
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Welcome to our new members @philtmusic @crystaltiger, @sounddust and everyone else who has recently joined LinkedMusicians.
I wanted to make sure that you’re aware of the guide to getting started at LinkedMusicians. While it’s in need of an update that I’ll do before the month is over, it remains useful for understanding the basics of the LM…Read More
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Is anyone checking their emails for updates from OPEN MIC? If so, could you post a comment below and let me know? Thanks! Peter
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
For those of you on Facebook, I created a new personal Peter Woods profile page. FTR, that image isn’t me! 😉 If you want to connect, please feel free. I’m eventually going to connect up LinkedMusicians to Facebook and our subreddit.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583779686553&sk=directory_work
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
CURRENT PLAYLIST: A modern folk music playlist I put together myself featuring Fleet Foxes, Iron & Wine, Noah Kahn, The Lumineers, Sun Kill Moon, and Midlake.
What about you? What are you listening to, or what was on your most recent playlist?
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
For much of my career, I’ve had a habit of asking fellow employees, my employees, research PhDs, consultants, assistants, secretaries, family members how they think of names and concepts for things I’m working on, from the marketing of mobile phones to insurance to software to well, too many things to mention. Now, before I turn to a human, I…Read More
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
We — okay I — have been introducing features for the site that make LinkedMusicians an extremely useful resource for finding the things that a DAW-based music producer might need. Today, we rolled out a PowerSEARCH engine for finding no-cost, royalty-free and public domain recordings, audio samples, and loops and I’m working on a PowerSEARCH…Read More
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
LinkedMusicians reached an impressive milestone of 500 unique visitors before noon CST today! Now we need to boost our activity to get more of those visitors to move from lurkers to registered members. Say hello, friends! Share what you’re up to. Share your thoughts. Share your music. This place is better when we hear your voice.
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
For anyone who hasn’t been paying attention, this week we released:
– Forum Daily Digest Emails.
You now can get one email with a bunch of links for any forum you’re following instead of a single email for each topic.– Mixing & Mastering Problem Solver tool.
Just enter any mixing and mastering questions or problems that you have and you…Read More1 Comment-
I just added a chord and scale finder tool to LinkedMusicians this morning. It’s under KNOWLEDGE HUB in the left-hand navigation menu. At the moment, it only displays properly in light mode, but we’ll get it working in dark mode soon.
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Say hello! Share what you’ve been up to, even if it’s nothing! 🙂
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I’ve recently released my second album after spending much of the past 12 months writing & recording it. I tend to play a lot of open-mic events, as they’re a good barometer for which songs go down well and which sit on the shelf. I played a launch gig last weekend, have received some radio play, and also an online review. The album is ‘Night…Read More
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HI Paul, You should share it with us in our Share Your Music forum and on your PROFILE PAGE! I’d love to check it out. What style of music is it?
Say hello! Share what you’ve been up to, even if it’s nothing! 🙂Read More
– LinkedMusicians (@linkedmusicians) February 25, 2026
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Thanks, I’ll pop a post over there. The second album ‘Night Call’ has a darker edge to it, taking some of its cues from ’80s/90s synth bands and brought right up to date. Soundwise, there’s elements of The Cure, Depeche Mode, Editors, Verve, Radiohead etc.
https://skypatterns.bandcamp.com/album/night-call
The first album is more of a blend of…Read More
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You caught me when I was here, listening now — very cool! I can’t lie, I made a joke (my daughter and wife are in the room, as everyone took the day off), when I heard the English accent, I said, “Ah, maybe he’s a Chicagoan!” That was a joke because Chicago has a long history of singers pretending to have an English accent. I suppose Al…Read More
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Hahaha I’m 100% British, I live close to Manchester, home of Joy Division, The Chameleons, The Smiths, Oasis, and an absolute ton of other bands.
I know Ministry and can see why you’ve mentioned the accent. I know RevCo better, I saw them many moons ago playing in Manchester. I remember that they wanted to bring live animals onto the stage…Read More
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I’m an American, from Chicago. The most popular band I played in — back in the 90s — had a singer originally from England, but he moved here when he was around 5 years old or something. He had no accent–but when he sang, bam, English accent! You know, there’s not a lot of demand for songs sung by guys with Chicago accents! Hahaha. Everyone in…Read More
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I rather suspect that if I tried to sing with a fake American accent, it would be laughable! I’d probably sound like the Sheriff in The Dukes Of Hazzard
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While I was never a singer — always a drummer professionally, even though my first instrument is piano. This was my attempt to jam a song I never played before (I had to stop playing after an injury causing tendinitis). So, this was me just looking up the lyrics and chords for the song and doing a bunch of first takes for Wurly, drums, etc. –…Read More
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That’s a faithful version of the song, really good!
I don’t know if you’ve seen Carpool Karaoke with Paul McCartney, but he visits his childhood home and is recalling a story of when he wrote ‘She Loves You’ in the front room. Excited by it, he then walks through to the back room and plays it for his Dad, who says something like, “I like it, but…Read More
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Yep, I saw it. I actually was a little too young for The Beatles as a kid and became a McCartney fan first. Huge, huge, huge Beatles fan. I didn’t play their music much as a working musician, but now, with pretty bad tendinitis limiting what I can play without pain to really simple stuff, it’s fun to just crank out a Beatles song. I know them…Read More
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The surprising thing about seeing McCartney performing live is just how many songs we do know. I grew up after they’d already split up, and have very few of their albums, yet I know the words to many of their songs, which says a great deal about the quality of their songwriting. Whatever your personal goals with music are, simply stick to those.…Read More
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I’ve been preparing for our very first Love Music Hate Racism gig tonight in York – the original one 🙂 – we sold out a couple of weeks ago so it is going to be busy on the door!
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Well the gig was great – lots of teenagers having a lovely time (all so polite and friendly). Unfortunately an alarm went off several times towards the end of the gig and was eventually tracked down to someone vaping. We had to pull the plug half way through the headliner’s encore 🙁 From what we have pieced together from comments it seems…Read More
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Why apologize? This place was intended to be our outlet to express our love of music — and you’re combining that love of others and doing good in the world, I think that’s great and love hearing about it, even if there are some jerks here in there. Overall, it seems like the jerks — or jerk — was the minority; their behavior isn’t greater than…Read More
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Thanks @peterPeter – we are a bit down after a sad end to what had been a great night but certainly not out. No Pasaran as my friend Joe Solo and many before him would have said 🙂
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Fascists always appeal to the stupidest, most hateful among us, to manipulate them by their weaknesses (their hate for their fellow man), even against their own self-interests. Sadly, there’s always hateful fools who hand over their souls to them. I applaud you and all who stand up against hate. Fight the good fight, my friend.
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We’ll never stop – and you, my friend, have done the same by creating this lovely space where we can be safe away from the evil rhetoric that sadly pollutes some other forums. Onwards and upwards!
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Following on from my gloomy post earlier, early signs for the next gig being saved seem positive as the venue manager seems to have understood that the situation leading to the fire alarms being triggered was out of our control so (fingers crossed) we are still on for the March gig at the same venue! What a relief!
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
As LinkedMusicians has taken off, I’m increasingly receiving codes for NFRs (Not For Resale — basically free licenses) from developers for plugins and sample libraries. I always make clear that I’m not an influencer and I have no interest in becoming one. If I really like a plugin or sample library, I’ll mention it. If I think something is meh,…Read More
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Any other Rush fans here? Yes, I have very wide musical tastes, but Rush is one of the many rock bands that I grew up listening to, so they hold a special place in my heart. While I didn’t get tickets for their upcoming tour, I am very interested in what they’re doing and excited about their playing again and the addition of their new drummer.…Read More
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I’ve bought tickets to see them. I’ve seen them twice previously, though not for many years. Ironically, I listen to hardly any other hard rock bands, but got into Rush around the time of ‘Time Stand Still’, bought ‘Hold Your Fire’ and the rest is history.
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I was into Rush for a while and went to see them in Southampton (UK) when I was around 20 (a very long time ago!!). To be honest I was a bit disappointed – I know they prided themselves on sounding exactly like the albumn but that is what I found deeply dull – there was no live feel to the music – you know those moments when things take an…Read More
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I really enjoyed Rush live. But a disclosure. Back in the day, musicians and drummers constantly compared me, as a drummer, to Neil Peart and it really annoyed me, because while I thought Peart was an excellent drummer, I didn’t think our styles had much in common beyond that we would do fast, precise drum fills and used high-pitched toms, I…Read More
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Hello (hello, hello), is there anybody in here?
We just introduced two new tools for researching the tools we use and companies we buy from that I think are very useful. It doesn’t produce a penny in revenue, but I think these tools are really valuable resources for all music producers. I wrote a blog post about it. Please try them out and…Read More
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Hey there! Good to see you. How you been?
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fretman posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Do you work on one project until “completion” and then start next, or do you work on more than one at a time? When my ears get fatigued from hearing the same thing over and over again I usually go walk the dogs or go grocery shopping. But I’m thinking maybe I should just switch to another project. I could get more done that way. Thoughts?
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When I’m doing a cover, I tend to crank it out super quick. I’ve finished some within an hour. I usually will have an idea in mind for how to arrange something and just record it. I’m done. If I were working professionally, it would just be a demo. When working on original songs, mostly written decades ago, I rely on memory to recall lyrics,…Read More
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I’ve certainly worked on several song ideas concurrently. In fact, one song can often generate an idea that doesn’t feel quite right in the current song, but can be used in a second song – and then there’s also the thing you’ve mentioned about not being sure of where to go next with the song currently being worked on, so you move to another one,…Read More
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andrewfly posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Dear friends at Linked Musicians, I wish you a wonderful holiday season and an incredible New Year.
2025 has been a year of major change across our industry. Between economic pressure and the fast rise of AI, many musicians have felt uncertain, and I’ve seen how this uncertainty can sometimes turn into frustration.
As a sample library p…Read More
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I don’t think I’m alone in loving “This is Spinal Tap.” I used to have the quote, “There is a fine line between clever…and stupid,” in my email signature at work back in the 00s. I own a VHS and Deluxe DVD version of the movie, and my wife has the DVD too (from before we were married). This past Saturday, my wife, daughter, and I watched “Spinal…Read More
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patrickwichrowski posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I don’t know what they updated in Synthmaster 3 that it installs but doesn’t open in my windows 10 pc. Not even a warning about lack of avx or anything else. I will do a search to discover the minimum system requirements for the synthmaster 3. Synthmaster 2 Player runs ok here.
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They correct it 😀
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patrickwichrowski posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Kontakt 8 is nice, but it causes problems with old libraries (Xperimenta Harpsichord make loud noises in ASIO mode).
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Have you contacted the developer? I suspect he will address the problem if he knew. I have several of his libraries, but don’t have the harpsichord.
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I contacted them some days ago. No problems opening this library in Kontakt player 6 or 7 in ASIO mode. 😉
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Xperimenta contacted me and sent a preset instrument that corrects the problem in ASIO mode. Also they will soon launch an update to fully correct the problem.
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Okay, developers and retailers, you can ease up now, right? Time to go out to dinner with the family. To all those in the US celebrating Thanksgiving, I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. And to those around the world who don’t celebrate, I want to thank you for being part of this community. Let’s show the world that social media can be kind,…Read More
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I have a Spotify playlist with my favorite songs of all time on it. I’ve pretty much done research on each song to learn more about its meaning. One of those songs is Jimmy Cliff’s “Many Rivers to Cross.” He wrote the song during a period of great disappointment, after moving to England in hopes of a career in music. Jimmy had said that he thought…Read More
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
Retailers need to hit the pause button on sending Americans emails with the subject line: “You’re on the list.” Seriously, I have two marketing emails from developers with variations on that subject line. In ths US, being on “the list” has certain implications right now. None of those implications are good. I’m just sayin’.
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
How many times a day must we be forced to prove we’re not robots?
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Paul McCartney is going to release his first new track in five years, a protest to the use of AI in the music industry.
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I’ve tried to keep my real last name out of search and AI for this site and one of the big AI tools just figured it out. I’m not sure how. But let’s keep it off here. I use my pseudonym from my working musician days, Peter Woods.
Woods was my mother’s maiden name — although legally it was an adopted name and not her birth name (so I’m not…Read More
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