I’ve been using this forum actively for about a year now and I’m just hugely impressed. The community is supportive and helpful. Threads mostly stay on topic without people falling into turf wars.
There are loads of great music making competitions with a really high quality of entry.
I know how hard this is to achieve as I was one of the founders of The Fretboard (did the initial deving and was an admin for the first 5 or so years). Which is a similar high point in quality for music communities.
I was wondering if people knew of other electronic music communities which hit a similar high watermark?
The reason I ask is that I often have “in the box” questions like “What’s a good sounding synth VST with low CPU?” and though I’m sure I’d get a good answer I don’t like to ask it on here when this is a primarily hardware focussed forum.
I used Reddit occasionally, but it’s much lower quality compared to here and KVR threads seem more likely to end up in squabbling.
) is like a modular synth. Ableton as well. Really utilizing the stock plugins is the easiest way to save CPU usage and provides loads of possibilities once you start adding modulation sources and what not.
