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James D. Doyle

@doylejd

Music educator, composer, and Ph.D. candidate. I work in academia. I like bikes, coffee, and games.

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Oh no Karl. I’m so sorry for your loss!

08.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh man, 1994 you were still dealing with THAC0. My students thought critical threat and confirming the crit were old school.

27.02.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats!

22.02.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

FL Studio Web tutorial cannot be completed because the audio portion wants me to add a loop that I don’t have access to as a free member. Pretty big oversight.

19.02.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Getting added to the FL Studio Web beta test in the middle of an in-office workday is cruel.

19.02.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

DAWs cheaper than 1 year of Suno Premier Plan:
Acid Pro
Audacity
BandLab
Bitwig (Edu)
Cakewalk
Cubase Elements
Cubase Artist (Edu)
FL Studio Producer
Korg Gadget
GarageBand
Ableton Live Intro
Logic Pro
Mixbus
Mixcraft
Pro Tools First
Reaper
Reason Intro
Sonar Professional
Soundtrap
Studio One Artist

16.02.2026 20:36 πŸ‘ 313 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 17
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Woke up angry today. Spinning some hardcore before work.

#vinyl

16.02.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Since I’ve done it as a guest lecture twice already, integrating music technology into the 6-12 instrumental/choral music curriculum.

Probably also the benefits of demonstrating musical concepts through Max/MSP, but that’s V.J. Manzo’s niche and I don’t want to step on toes.

16.02.2026 12:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Emo Con will be much bigger next year I am certain… If only because I’m forwarding it to every elder millennial academic I know.

16.02.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the greatest and I will do everything in my power to at least do the virtual attendance.

16.02.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Emo Con 2026

Everyone said they knew you at this academic conference

16.02.2026 01:11 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5

All the other cars around me in this faculty parking lot *also* have multiple university parking badges. #adjunct

13.02.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Popular music education folks of Bluesky - which lightweight DAW are you using with your kiddos?

Bandlab? GarageBand? Soundtrap? Tracktion?

I know my opinions, but want some more input for my Music Tech class. Let me know!

#musiced #musiceducation #musicsky

13.02.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As a teacher who went through this in my district, there *were* opportunities and experiences our students had after school consolidation that did not exist before. There were also school culture changes that became an immediate issues. That was with only 2 schools closing. 27 is a lot!

12.02.2026 12:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Move 2.0 adds Audio Tracks with clip warping, live processing; more - CDM Create Digital Music If you’ve got an Ableton Move, you can take advantage of its public beta today, too, just by connecting Move to your computer. And this is a huge release: in addition to other new functionality, Audio...

Move 2.0 may have gotten less attention, but this is big: Audio Tracks for live audio processing and some warping, too. That's in addition to Link Audio, Erosion, and Pitch Shifter. Move owners can try this beta just by connecting to a computer.

More:

10.02.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Every time I log into Instagram after a bit and see 30+ reels in my messages I remember why I stopped using it.

06.02.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The threes were falling like never before. It was magical.

02.02.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve been cooking more and have been trying to use the Instant Pot we were given. Some of these recipes are crazy. SautΓ© things in the pot, remove them, sautΓ© something else, put in a trivet, put a pan on top with ingredients.

People, the range is right there. I see it in your recipe photos.

31.01.2026 22:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It wasn’t until grad school that I got to engage with learning on commercial music, music tech, music philosophy, and world music. I enjoy all of these things much, much more than spending months on a marimba piece which is required because I also play drum set.

31.01.2026 05:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All you people doing the fun five classes in college thing but as a music performance major it was basically five years of just playing music solo, playing music together, talking about music, and listening to music. I often think about how much time was invested in something I do so little now.

31.01.2026 05:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s fantastic. I had a moment of panic that the 90 minutes of screen capture video I did would have to be re-filmed. Lol

28.01.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who must teach a unit on MainStage in a couple of weeks, are there any significant UI tweaks or anything you saw that would cause a need to change instructional materials/assignments?

28.01.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not hip or new, but β€œl’Horloge imaginaire” by Jon Nelson was the first piece I heard that really sold me on electroacoustic music.

28.01.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency - CDM Create Digital Music According to insolvency documents, Berlin-based Native Instruments GmbH (also parent to iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx) is in preliminary insolvency proceedings. This is devastating news for ...

Unfortunately, this is confirmed news.

Not remotely what you want to see. Wishing everyone at NI the best in a tough time, and hoping that in the restructuring process, the tools find a good home. Details:

27.01.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 43

Hey y’all, a friendly reminder that the local restaurants around you are going lose a lot of money in wasted product and lost weekend revenue when the storm hits. If you have time and money, consider picking up something from them for dinner before the snow. I promise they will be grateful.

23.01.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the coolest thing I have seen in years!

22.01.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Another super underrated record from Underoath. People are really sleeping on their newer work but it is better than their old stuff by a mile. #vinyl #music

22.01.2026 04:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Record collection shelf with a turntable on top playing a record. The sleeve for AFI’s Silver Bleeds the Black Sun is next to the turntable.

Record collection shelf with a turntable on top playing a record. The sleeve for AFI’s Silver Bleeds the Black Sun is next to the turntable.

My top record from 2025. I know who they are emulating in all of these tracks, but they do it well and I still like the songs. It’s way better than the cover art would have you believe.

21.01.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man wearing headphones and glasses looks at a computer monitor Alt: A bearded man with glasses is sitting in front of a computer, has headphones on, smiles and is moving to music he is listening to.

Hey you! Yes, you! 🫡
You're into this whole "making music" thing? You're a solo artist or you're in a band? Then this is for you!

It's not much and will not launch you into super-stardom, but here are three simple things you can do to get your music heard; all of it for free, no obligations!

🧡 1/4

12.01.2026 09:07 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

I’m hoping for another nuclear third quarter.

16.01.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0