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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.
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1 mo on HNSamplerates: The Higher the Better, Right?
FabFilter
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNMusic on Reality TV is Insanely Manipulative
Tantacrul
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
1 mo on HNFirst Techno (Kraftwerk 1970)
PhineasFreakers
1 HN recommend · 2018–2026
1 mo on HNCorporate Music - How to Compose with no Soul
Tantacrul
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HNHow A London Orchestra Broke International Law
12tone
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNPolyend Tracker // Review and Full Tutorial from Sample to Song
loopop
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNCYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford
Nigel John Stanford
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HNUsing AI To Detect AI Music (and other music industry data-porn)
Benn Jordan
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNThe music theory of V A P O R W A V E
Adam Neely
1 HN recommend · 2016–2025
1 mo on HNThe Story Behind Audacity
Tantacrul
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNMy Squirrel Recording is in a MOVIE! 📽 DUNE: Mark Mangini, Oscar Winning Sound Designer
Dani Connor Wild
1 HN recommend · 2021–2026
1 mo on HNsCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!
johndoe3
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HNDon Knuth - Constraint Based Composition
ccrmalite1
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HNKefrens - Desert Dream - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)
RetroDemoScene
1 HN recommend · 2016–2021
1 mo on HNCharanjit Singh - Raga Bhairav (1982)
prop4g
1 HN recommend · 2016–2021
1 mo on HNBytebeat: Music from very short programs - the 3rd iteration
Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut)
1 HN recommend · 2013–2024
1 mo on HNAmiga music: Captain - Space Debris
Kuokka77
1 HN recommend · 2018–2022
1 mo on HNHow to replicate Teenage Engineering OP-1 and OP-1 Field for free. | GAS Therapy #35
playpm
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024
0 mo on HNMicrosoft Songsmith Commercial
Duker91
0 HN recommender · 2009–2020
0 mo on HNQuarter-comma Meantone with split sharps
Simon Lloyd
0 HN recommender · 2019–2022
0 mo on HNJohn Chowning - Stria (1977)
Asymmatrix
0 HN recommender · 2018–2024
0 mo on HNVader's Redemption: The Imperial March in a Major Key
Muted Vocal
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024
0 mo on HNShepard Tone
J_II
0 HN recommender · 2020–2022
0 mo on HNWill We Ever Run Out of New Music?
Vsauce
0 HN recommender · 2015–2020
0 mo on HNYamaha DX7 - the 32 classic factory patches
SynthMania
0 HN recommender · 2017–2022
0 mo on HNSir Mashalot: Mind-Blowing SIX Song Country Mashup
Sir Mashalot
0 HN recommender · 2015–2025
0 mo on HNEmily Howell - Track 1
Marco Pontello
0 HN recommender · 2010–2016
0 mo on HNThe Most COMPLEX Pop Song of All Time
Rick Beato
0 HN recommender · 2022–2023
0 mo on HNAlvin Lucier - I Am Sitting in a Room
A channel
0 HN recommender · 2020–2023
0 mo on HNNext Level Perfect Pitch (8 Year Old)
Rick Beato
0 HN recommender · 2016–2026
0 mo on HNvache
vsnares
0 HN recommender · 2013–2021