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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.

11 mo on HN

Music Theory and White Supremacy

Adam Neely
11 HN recommender · 2020–2024
8 mo on HN

Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius

Tantacrul
8 HN recommender · 2019–2026
8 mo on HN

Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit

Ahoy
7 HN recommender · 2021–2026
6 mo on HN

Functional Composition - Chris Ford

ClojureTV
6 HN recommender · 2013–2023
6 mo on HN

Intro to Synthesis Part 1 - The Building Blocks of Sound & Synthesis

matrixsynth
3 HN recommender · 2018–2022
6 mo on HN

The Marvel Symphonic Universe

Every Frame a Painting
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
6 mo on HN

Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music

Tantacrul
6 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HN

DOOM: Behind the Music

GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
5 mo on HN

ORCA Sequencer Intro (Experimental Livecoding!)

Allieway Audio
4 HN recommender · 2019–2025
5 mo on HN

How I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)

Tantacrul
5 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HN

K Lars Lohn - Keynote - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016
4 HN recommender · 2016–2021
5 mo on HN

The Unanswered Question 1973 1 Musical Phonology Bernstein Norton

cagin
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
4 mo on HN

Learn music theory in half an hour.

ANDREW HUANG
4 HN recommender · 2019–2023
4 mo on HN

The most feared song in jazz, explained

Vox
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HN

Making of "The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff

Jim Pavloff
5 HN recommender · 2014–2025
4 mo on HN

Flying Dream

Gary Garrett
4 HN recommender · 2014–2020
4 mo on HN

Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In An Electric Guitar?

Jim Lill
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
4 mo on HN

Music Software & Interface Design: MuseScore

Tantacrul
4 HN recommender · 2019–2024
3 mo on HN

Why Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch

Rick Beato
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
4 mo on HN

Bytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programs

Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut)
4 HN recommender · 2014–2023
4 mo on HN

Why you DON'T want Perfect Pitch

Adam Neely
6 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HN

Testing 432 Hz Frequencies (and temperaments)

Adam Neely
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HN

Music as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland

TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
3 mo on HN

Gaslighting Your Fans w/ Dolby ATMOS™

Benn Jordan
4 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HN

Sample Breakdown: Daft Punk - One More Time

TRACKLIB
3 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HN

Making of "The Prodigy - Voodoo People" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff

Jim Pavloff
3 HN recommender · 2011–2024
3 mo on HN

I BOUGHT A WHOLE CHURCH ORGAN - Part 1 The Organs Removal

LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER
3 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HN

New Horizons in Music: Polyrhythms | Loop

Ableton
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HN

How We Made MuseScore 4 - Music App Design is Challenging!

Tantacrul
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HN

Lazerhawk ~ Redline Full Album

Stay Nifty
3 HN recommender · 2015–2021
3 mo on HN

The most mind-blowing concept in music (Harmonic Series)

ANDREW HUANG
3 HN recommender · 2021–2021
3 mo on HN

Every Melody Has Been Copyrighted (and they're all on this hard drive)

Adam Neely
4 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HN

Pachelbel Rant from 2006 [Official High Quality Re-Post]

RobPRocks
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HN

Andrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014

O'Reilly
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
3 mo on HN

Why It's Impossible to Tune a Piano

minutephysics
2 HN recommender · 2015–2026
3 mo on HN

Which key is the saddest?

Adam Neely
3 HN recommender · 2018–2020