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Music theory, synthesis & production Videos Recommended on Hacker News (103)
Music theory, synthesis & production is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 103 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 262 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Music making: music theory, synthesizers, sound synthesis, audio production, mixing, guitar tone and amps, DAWs, composition, music notation software, instruments, electronic music.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Music Theory and White Supremacy: “The canonical video on the subject” — an HN commenter, 2024.
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11 mo on HNMusic Theory and White Supremacy
Adam Neely
11 HN recommender · 2020–2024
8 mo on HNMusic Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius
Tantacrul
8 HN recommender · 2019–2026
8 mo on HNTrackers: The Sound of 16-Bit
Ahoy
7 HN recommender · 2021–2026
6 mo on HNFunctional Composition - Chris Ford
ClojureTV
6 HN recommender · 2013–2023
6 mo on HNIntro to Synthesis Part 1 - The Building Blocks of Sound & Synthesis
matrixsynth
3 HN recommender · 2018–2022
6 mo on HNThe Marvel Symphonic Universe
Every Frame a Painting
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
6 mo on HNNotation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music
Tantacrul
6 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HNDOOM: Behind the Music
GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
5 mo on HNORCA Sequencer Intro (Experimental Livecoding!)
Allieway Audio
4 HN recommender · 2019–2025
5 mo on HNHow I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)
Tantacrul
5 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HNK Lars Lohn - Keynote - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
4 HN recommender · 2016–2021
5 mo on HNThe Unanswered Question 1973 1 Musical Phonology Bernstein Norton
cagin
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
4 mo on HNLearn music theory in half an hour.
ANDREW HUANG
4 HN recommender · 2019–2023
4 mo on HNThe most feared song in jazz, explained
Vox
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HNMaking of "The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
Jim Pavloff
5 HN recommender · 2014–2025
4 mo on HNFlying Dream
Gary Garrett
4 HN recommender · 2014–2020
4 mo on HNTested: Where Does The Tone Come From In An Electric Guitar?
Jim Lill
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
4 mo on HNMusic Software & Interface Design: MuseScore
Tantacrul
4 HN recommender · 2019–2024
3 mo on HNWhy Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch
Rick Beato
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
4 mo on HNBytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programs
Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut)
4 HN recommender · 2014–2023
4 mo on HNWhy you DON'T want Perfect Pitch
Adam Neely
6 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HNTesting 432 Hz Frequencies (and temperaments)
Adam Neely
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNMusic as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
3 mo on HNGaslighting Your Fans w/ Dolby ATMOS™
Benn Jordan
4 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNSample Breakdown: Daft Punk - One More Time
TRACKLIB
3 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNMaking of "The Prodigy - Voodoo People" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
Jim Pavloff
3 HN recommender · 2011–2024
3 mo on HNI BOUGHT A WHOLE CHURCH ORGAN - Part 1 The Organs Removal
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER
3 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HNNew Horizons in Music: Polyrhythms | Loop
Ableton
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNHow We Made MuseScore 4 - Music App Design is Challenging!
Tantacrul
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HNLazerhawk ~ Redline Full Album
Stay Nifty
3 HN recommender · 2015–2021
3 mo on HNThe most mind-blowing concept in music (Harmonic Series)
ANDREW HUANG
3 HN recommender · 2021–2021
3 mo on HNEvery Melody Has Been Copyrighted (and they're all on this hard drive)
Adam Neely
4 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNPachelbel Rant from 2006 [Official High Quality Re-Post]
RobPRocks
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNAndrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014
O'Reilly
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
3 mo on HNWhy It's Impossible to Tune a Piano
minutephysics
2 HN recommender · 2015–2026
3 mo on HNWhich key is the saddest?
Adam Neely
3 HN recommender · 2018–2020