Found these a few days ago: http://quadrophone.com/oblique-strategies/

These are a set of flashcards originally written by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt to help combat musician's block.

Scroll to the right on the Image

A lot of the time when starting a new track I'll have tons of ideas to try out but not tons of time. So I sometimes do this if anything really sticks out to me that I want to remember.



I think that is particularly the effort needed to draw the MIDI stuff in that helps it all click, but idk just wanted to share.

Here are a few articles / documents / images /pages that I love to show people and will occasionally revisit myself when working on sound design! First let me say that these links aren't directed towards making very specific sounds like a tutorial may be, but are instead intended for wide-application use and general knowledge gain from factual / experimental evidence. That said, don't be afraid at all to post links about "How to make this certain reese base" since it is my personal goal that anyone from any production background can gain knowledge from this thread!


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Here is an article that shows how compression affects the timbre of a sound:
http://theproaudiofiles.com/compression-and-timbre/

Here is a chart showing formant frequencies of many vowels:
http://cnx.org/resources/e79a89273114bf4418fb78a75aba02640b1f922d/sub_formants-voweltable.png

Here is a data chart on some Orchestral Instruments. I often use this when trying to get similar sounds with synthesis:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/music/orchins.html

This is a visual reference of the frequency spectrum in terms of mixing and some instrument placement:
http://i.imgur.com/HMDQzXt.jpg

This one is kind of a mix of the previous two links:
http://i.imgur.com/HMDQzXt.jpg

Article by iZotope giving a general explanation of what Mid/Side processing is:
https://www.izotope.com/en/community/blog/tips-tutorials/2014/06/what-is-midside-processing/

This link contains all of the sections to the Article series "Synth Secrets" by Sound on Sound writer Gordon Reid. There is tons of content on here that explains creating sounds of all different types and calibre:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

Thats all for now, I'll try to post more links as I find them! Thanks for reading all, -Nogan