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What helped you improve most on Audiotool?
Every Featured Artist ever asked this question — in their own words. Click any name to visit their Audiotool profile.
erthboy @et-47“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
I learned pretty late that you can learn plenty of things from tutorials for other plugins or DAWs that can be applied to Audiotool. I spent a long time in my life mistakenly being an Audiotool isolationist. Once I opened up to the broader world of producing music I feel like my sound and style really took off.
escapiistt @-9010-“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Without the friends I've made along the way, I would be nothing. People like Xyphr, anodyne, R.Shani, and Titik, or more recently Kibbey and Roy, have given me endless inspiration and help beyond belief. They've opened my ears to genres I never thought I would make and taught me to create sounds I don't think I would ever have learned without them.
Alckhem @indianboykap“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Studying other people's tracks is the best way to learn. Identifying a portion of another artist's song that stands out, opening their file, and dissecting how they created that emotion allows me to apply similar techniques in my own songs.
Snowfire @snowfire“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
The biggest thing that's helped me improve is persistence, time, and the Audiotool community. If it weren't for other people on this site that inspire me and have given me tips, I probably wouldn't have fallen in love with certain kinds of sounds. I'm talking specifically about artists such as naswalt, Wightfall, Kibbey, and Snad Breugen with plenty more I could list.
Chonoes @redguy5009“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
If I ever came across a song I thought was amazing or was completely confused about how it was made, I would open up the draft and figure out what was going on. If the remix option was off, I'd look at the snapshot and try to recreate it. That's what's so unique about Audiotool — almost every song ever posted can be used to learn without any outside help or bias.
@elow @pogtopia179“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
The people. itxmi — this was a big one from me to you. You had a huge impact on my take of music and competition. Interaction and listening to different tracks from various artists helped me discover a lot of new genres, open my ears to styles unlocking my own style of music. Community is key or your music will never be heard by others.
itxmi @noah_cheng“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
110% the community. I wouldn't be where I am right now without the help of my longtime friends on the platform, including elow, with whom I've been best friends since 2022.
volen @ryddnce“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Getting to talk with people in the community and getting critiques/feedback from them has been a huge factor in my growth as an artist. Everyone around you is wanting to improve just as much as you do, and it's awesome to have so many people to bounce ideas off of.
atelier @gilbert_lake“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
What's helped me the most is diving into other people's projects and breaking down how they build their tracks. Seeing different approaches, from sound design to arrangement, really opens the eyes and pushes you to experiment beyond your usual style. Also, the community feedback has been huge. Getting honest opinions and ideas keeps me evolving.
Batoune & The Brewers @baptiste_benezech_yahoo_fr“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
The encounters, the wise advice. You have to know how to accept being average to become good and never stop listening to the advice of others. My wife is not a musician, but she has a sense of listening far superior to mine and her advice is always very valuable.
BioL!nk @biooo-_“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
What's helped me the most is the community and the ability to explore other producers' projects. Being able to see how others build their tracks, experiment with different styles, and share tips has been invaluable. It constantly pushes me to try new things and refine my own sound.
Sub4sax @sub4sax“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
What has helped me the most is definitely the ability to experiment freely with different devices and sounds. Additionally, I've learned a lot from the Audiotool community. Interacting with other users, sharing feedback, and hearing how they approach music production has given me new perspectives and fresh ideas.
Dj TeK-NjA @solosoldier1200_gmail_com“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
The tutorial videos on YouTube helped me figure out what sounds I liked, and what I've become as a producer today. Also, hearing other producers and what all they can do with their instruments, just inspired me to learn as much as I could.
Head Trauma Romance @headtruamaromance“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
I know having access to the community is said a lot, but I truly agree. Being able to ask questions to people that know more than me is a treat. Being able to open up someone else's track is a crazy cool feature that, I'm pretty sure, only this website does.
virux @gearbotgd“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Honestly, I feel like I've made my best music after I stopped caring so much. Music is not profitable unless you're willing to sell a part of yourself, so why care? Stop caring. Make what you want. One of the best pieces of advice I've ever gotten: "If the music's good, the audience will put up with a few weird mixing choices." I should also thank naswalt for his awesome drum template.
ryzenn AKA taiko! @itsyahboi“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
What helped me a lot was how accessible audiotool is. I can use it anywhere and on any computer, which is just insane to me. And the community, that gave feedback and even showed me some tricks! Shout out to Cal Lycus and Client!
anodyne @hurakan“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
The community as a whole. But for specific artists, I gotta go with Lucas Astoria. Without him, I would have never picked up guitar again, and to be honest, I probably would have quit music. He was there at such an important turning point in my life. He helped light that fire back inside me, gave me the mental push and adrenaline I needed to keep going.
Le Voile @levoile“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Live collabs are a really nice feature. I remember when that wasn't a feature, and collabs were a lot slower going! It was harder to leave notes, or actively communicate without using a third party app.
althruist @akridiki“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
The community itself is what shaped me to what I am today. I am ever so grateful to everyone that has been with me from the start, and a big shoutout to Cal Lycus. That man has patience, and taught me almost everything I know today. I'm also inspired by several artists, such as acloudyskye. It's embarrassing how many times I've put his song on repeat to just decipher what he has done.
Uzeh @iuzi“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Connections. The more people you know, the more creative minds you get to work with. You learn more from collaborating with others.
Kurp @kurpingspace2“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
I learned the best through remixing other people's stuff. I did this for a few years until I finally decided to start creating my own stuff. The biggest inspirations to me were opaqity and looks (luxior). Their music had so many ideas within them and it was not just about sound design, but adding melodic stuff throughout their music in a way so that it does not sound like it repeats over and over.
Civility @jrockstorm6“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
The community actually helps me get better and become a better artist. Just by seeing the feedback from other well established users really helps me reevaluate and improve upon my skill. It's truly wonderful how much I've learned from others on this platform.
Amp7070 @ample“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
It would definitely have to be remixing other people's tracks when you are confused as to how they were able to make a certain noise on a track, and if remix isn't open, just ask! I just think that because of the way that the Audiotool website is set up, it is so easy to become inspired by other people and learn new things.
retro @retrorhythm“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
What helped me when I started was opening up tracks of other users and just studying the draft, looking at what they did and thinking about why they did it that way. And what has definitely widened my horizon is the diversity of the music people make on Audiotool. I discovered genres I never even heard of before.
mxcii @why-are-you-looking-at-my-url“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
There's a huge variety of styles of music on Audiotool, and I really think being exposed to that has had a huge impact on both the music I make and the music I listen to. I want to give a huge shoutout to opaqity. He has helped me a ton with getting good at music, and I really don't think I would've been where I am today without his help. Hope you're doing well mate.
WPX @jazart“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Just listening to other's tracks, even when their style is completely different from mine, gives me new perspectives, inspirations and ideas that I can implement into my own style. I'm genuinely inspired by a lot of people here.
Siren @sirenkx“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
I think it's the moment where I met a fellow former Audiotooler who goes by the alias of Icebox. Leo is someone who is very close to me, and till this day we are still very much in contact. He's the one who advised me to start rapping in my music, and guided me how to incorporate vocals. Outside of Audiotool, as I am self-taught I didn't have a mentor for stuff like mixing/mastering, Leo served as my primary guidance in that field. Not only that, we have been through countless nights together staying up late just making music. If it weren't for him, I would still be lost.
JayFK @jayfk“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
A suggestion from Snad Breugen was a huge help. He suggested that I should start by using the presets of the devices to understand how they work. That really helped a lot. Just as helpful is the remix function, which allows you to analyze tracks and see what others are doing differently. But the most important point here is clearly the community. My special thanks go to kurp and Soph.
voyd @intvoyd“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
I remember I was watching some tutorials on YouTube. I think I owe this to listening to too much music. This inspires me a lot. Also, experimenting with all kinds of pedals, twisting knobs etc.
etterath @xenom0rph“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
The AT discord for sure. I hadn't really made any social connections through Audiotool before I joined, but since then I've made some of my best friends through it. Now I've been a part of several collabs, made new musical discoveries, and gone through a lot of personal and creative growth.
andy @not_pr0n“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
I owe so much to the people of this community. Shoutout naswalt, who helped me understand sound synthesis with the Pulv, and was one of the first people who showed me the possibility of vocals in Audiotool. Shoutout Fluent and sim as they expanded my horizons with different genres, especially in Bootyclub:).
Drimeur @rafael91“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
The charts help a lot, but also surfing on the deepest part of audiotool you can even find artists that haven't been active for a long time. Also the remix button is a nice way to discover how an artist made a track. And all the tutorial parts in AT and infyuthsion's amazing work on his YT channel.
sphere @yawningiron785“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Finding and listening to new music all of the time. The community of Audiotool themselves are a great resource for finding new music as well. The individual tastes of everyone here are so remarkably diverse that you can literally find anything you want if you just know who to ask. Trust me, the more you are willing to listen, the more new music just comes to you.
viista @vistamista“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
I'd say all the people I listed earlier in this interview, as well as my family. I'm grateful to have known people that genuinely care about me, especially when they could have easily said I should pursue something else, but they're supportive and I'm eternally thankful for that.
leadenshrew @leadenshrew“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
In short, an open mind. Having the widest range of music to draw from will help you out tremendously. I do that through Soundcloud stations and Spotify radio, as well as asking my friends and family for music recommendations. If I hadn't known withdecay I probably wouldn't have ever listened to Deftones. Mashing everything you know into one weird amalgam always produces interesting results and something uniquely you.
nico @theanonymouspineapple“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Seeing the work that other artists are doing right here on Audiotool has opened my mind to sounds, approaches, and techniques that I never would have imagined. Asking people what inspires them and what they're listening to always connects me with new music and inspiration. Live collaboration is another special opportunity to learn from others.
Gravidon @gravidon“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Ask for help, ask for help, and ASK FOR HELP! This app is unique in the fact that there's a whole community of users with different styles, backgrounds and experiences built directly into the infrastructure of the site. If you're stuck or don't know how to pull off an idea that's in your head, chances are kinda high that someone in the community will be able to assist.
Client @theclient“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
The thing that has probably helped me the most are the people here. Not every DAW has a built in community. My friend Project Epsilon has probably helped me the most with music. Every question I've asked him, he's answered it. Big props to him.
okin @traptaco“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
I've had the pleasure to meet many fantastic artists that have reached out and gave feedback throughout the years which reshaped how I approach and create music. Some of them include Ollie, Vulkron, Tornsage, naut and many more. Without most of these kind and supportive artists I don't even know where I'd be right now.
aeiter @themp20q“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
I love that the website offers the opportunity for users to give constructive criticism on my music. The community on Audiotool has made a huge positive impact on my development as an artist and a person. The forums have introduced me to new types of music, production methods and have allowed me to share my voice about the platform. I encourage you to engage with people on the website as much as you can, and good things will follow!
sim @jewan“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Straight up experimenting and borrowing cool motifs, chord progressions, and melodies that I hear.
po9t @anotherevolution“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
The Audiotool Discord. Meeting people like Roy, Vulkron, joe, and others helped expand my horizons and try some things I never would have thought of otherwise.
Two Sworded @two-sworded“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Listening to music for hours with the app closed. You kinda have to break stuff down. Whenever I want the full scope of a specific genre, I delete all my watch, like, and search history on Youtube and start listening to whatever songs I do know and then I'll find more. There's so many obscure metal or jazz records no one cares about that I've heard because I let the algorithm just pull me into the abyss.
Wightfall @youllnevergetmyusernamefromhere“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Being friends with people and getting community critique. It has helped immensely to get criticism because — whether I'm grateful or genuinely offended by it — it's all I have to gauge my effectiveness as a producer by.
▽Momo▽桃. @pandasparks“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Honestly the two main things that have helped me improve on Audiotool is the support I get from the community and close ones, and my passion for music.
rai. @fonder“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
The best way to improve in music is to practice. Super cliche, but there is no shortcut. Audiotool has this wonderful feature where you can look inside of tracks to see exactly how they were made. I try to keep all my tracks remixable just in case someone wants to see how a sound was made. After doing that for thousands of tracks, I'd say you'll start to get pretty good.
Vault Boy @s51995“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Honestly there are so many. Almost every Bass Music producer helped me: AstroLizard, Client, Siren, etc. There are so many I can't even remember all of them.
Joe @no-worries-atmosphere“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Widening your horizons is all about going out of comfort zone and trying new things. I would've never known how much I enjoy rapping until I took that initial jump and pressed record. You never know, you might be really good at it.
BubbLz @bubblicious“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
What helped me the most is experimenting. I would just experiment with many Fx and machines, anything I had no idea how to do. Not only did I end up discovering what to do, but also what not to do. Making your mistakes lead your understanding.
Vulkron @nick123456“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
This community has helped me far more than anything else. Tons of artists have critiqued my mixes and a few years back, a couple artists urged me to broaden my music tastes. Even to this day, I'm still listening to new music that I either find or people post on my wall, so that horizon keeps expanding.
Sila @borozo“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Inspecting other people's tracks if remix is provided. No other way around it. And then practice, practice, practice.
Tim Derry @kravatt“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Other artists! Definitely. Through tracks left open to remixes, or simply through descriptions, comments, etc. As a beginner, what helped me also a lot were samples — playing with them made me discover a lot of AT's functionalities. Then, as a newbie, what helped me were presets: to get to know the pulv or the heisenberg, I often tried to rebuild from scratch presets I liked from other artists, just to see how to get there; and then I started to create my own.
Naut @trulsenstad“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
I think just being exposed to so many different genres of music I wouldn't necessarily have discovered on my own - definitely has helped me widen my musical horizon. Genres like dub, minimal, and future garage being worthy of mention.
Syntax AKA Kiari @inxile412“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
There's just so much music being made on Audiotool that it's hard to not be exposed to new things all the time. Almost every day, even. So naturally when you hear all of these cool things coming out you want to hear more of them and that leads to you wanting to try all these new things. It's why I've never stuck to any specific style, there's always new things I'm wanting to try no matter how different it is.
Kibbey @crashwarrior“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
Listening to the charts is a very easy way. It's not always gonna be the same three ideas that make up those Top 10 tracks. It's nice to dip your toes a little and see what everyone's been craving recently. And if you want to explore a genre from those Top 10 a little more, there are always the genre charts to look at for further investigation.
Fluent AKA Owtlet @foxyfennec“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
I used to sit in Rabb and watch laevent create songs. I learned a great deal from that, but I still don't know how to do half of that stuff. Maybe one day.
Icebox @stoneheart“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
My group of mentors, and friends from the community. From sim, to Fluent, to Velocistar, I've had many different people critique my work and even show me how to make it better. The community really helps in showing you different ways you can develop your skills.
Goon @untamed“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
I've found that by sneaking a look at the activities of others on AT with vastly different musical backgrounds, it's been easy to find cool unfamiliar sounds. The chart party afterparty in the community run AT Discord, where anyone can play anything, is great for that too.
Naswalt @naswalt“What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?”
The open assets, no doubt. I've learned the majority of what I know about sound design and synthesizers by looking at what other people have done in their tracks.