https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/groove-swing-and-quantise https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/groove-swing-and-quantise Quantise is not one button. Strength, range, flam, velocity and length settings decide how much of a performance survives the grid. This guide walks through those settings in Logic Pro and Ableton Live, with a routine for tightening a part without flattening it. Manuals checked on 25 Oct 2026. Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers productionmidiworkflows https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/arpeggiators-and-step-sequencers https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/arpeggiators-and-step-sequencers An arpeggiator plays the notes you hold one at a time in a pattern; a step sequencer plays a fixed grid of steps you program in advance. This guide explains what each control actually does, how to build a usable part with each in any DAW, and how to keep them from sounding like a preset demo. Manuals and specifications checked on 25 Oct 2026. Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers sound-designsynthesismidiworkflows https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/chord-progressions-for-producers https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/chord-progressions-for-producers You do not need notation to write chords. A triad is three notes you can count out on a piano roll, a progression is a short loop of them, and a few DAW tools will do the counting for you. This guide covers triads, the 1-5-6-4 loop, inversions and voicings, using Ableton Learning Music and the Ableton and FL Studio manuals, read on 24 Oct 2026. Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers productionsongwritingmidiworkflows https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/drum-programming-basics https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/drum-programming-basics A programmed drum part sounds stiff when every hit lands on the grid at the same strength. Three controls do most of the work of fixing that: velocity, swing and groove templates. This guide explains each using the MIDI 1.0 message list, Apple's Logic Pro guide and Ableton's Live manual, read on 24 Oct 2026. Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers productionmidiworkflows https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/scales-and-modes-for-producers https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/scales-and-modes-for-producers A scale is a palette of notes and a mode is the same palette with a different home note. This guide shows how to find a key, build major and minor scales by counting semitones, hear what Dorian, Lydian and Mixolydian add, and use the scale tools in Ableton Live and Bitwig without letting them write for you. Sources are Ableton Learning Music, the Ableton Live manual and Bitwig release notes, read on 25 Oct 2026. Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers productionsongwritingmidiworkflows https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/midi-controller-basics https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/midi-controller-basics A MIDI controller makes no sound; it sends instructions. Here is how to think about keybeds and pads, what MPE adds and how it works over ordinary MIDI, and an honest status check on MIDI 2.0 after Windows finally shipped support in 2026. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:30:00 GMT We are the music makers midicontrollersmpemidi-2home-studio https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/hybrid-ai-idea-daw-record-workflow https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/hybrid-ai-idea-daw-record-workflow Song generators are good at the first ten minutes of a track and bad at the last ten hours. This guide sets out a hybrid workflow: sketch with AI, move the parts into your DAW as MIDI and stems, then replace, perform and mix the record yourself, keeping a log of which parts a human made. Tool details are from vendor help pages read on 24 Oct 2026. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ai-musicworkflowsdawmidistems https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/text-to-midi-vs-text-to-audio https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/text-to-midi-vs-text-to-audio Text-to-audio models hand you a finished-sounding recording. Text-to-MIDI models hand you notes: pitches, lengths and velocities you can edit, re-voice and play on your own sounds. Here is how the two approaches differ, what research systems such as MusicGen and text2midi actually output, and why the symbolic route keeps more of the song in your hands. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers midiai-musicworkflows https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/midi-generators-in-your-daw https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/midi-generators-in-your-daw Ableton Live 12, FL Studio and Logic Pro all generate MIDI you can edit note by note, but none of the three turns a plain-language prompt into a melody. The closest thing to text-to-MIDI is FL Studio's Gopher, which writes Piano Roll scripts on request. For artists, MIDI beats rendered audio because every note stays yours to change. Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:30:00 GMT We are the music makers midiaiableton-livefl-studiologic-proworkflow https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/02/midi-2-0-windows-11-macos-explainer https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/02/midi-2-0-windows-11-macos-explainer Microsoft has built Windows MIDI Services into Windows 11, adding native MIDI 2.0, shared ports and app-to-app loopback, and macOS can already run Network MIDI 2.0 sessions. The plumbing is there. Most of the musical benefit still waits on DAWs and plugins adopting the new APIs. Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers music-techmidiwindowsmacosdaws