Free from Aphelion
Learn to make music
Three things, all free, all finished. No account, no trial, no upsell at the end. We make a DAW for a living and these are the resources we wanted to exist while building it.
The theoryBattutoMusic theory derived from the physics of sound rather than handed down as rules. Written for people who use a piano roll instead of a stave, with every claim either worked out on screen or labelled as convention.5 courses, 34 lessonsThe practiceThumpA page for every genre of electronic music: what it is, what it sounds like, the few elements that actually define it, and how to get them. Each one comes with the drum pattern, playable in the browser and downloadable as MIDI.237 genres across 17 familiesThe argumentLiltA melody generator that has never heard of music theory, and eight conventions of melody to hold its output against. It is a way of seeing what the rules are actually worth, on a machine that follows none of them.8 conventions, 198 fragments
All three are made by Aphelion, who also build Phonon, a DAW that takes this material rather seriously. None of these pages sells it to you. If you already use Phonon, its own free courses are at Phonon University, which is a separate job from the three above.