Dear everyone, I hope you had a great start into 2025! I was actually a bit away from the interwebs to recharge my batteries. Now I am back to help you guys getting your dream career or gig in 2025. Once again, please leave all the negative thoughts and fears behind and look forward to rocking this year! Here are a few first steps you can take to get closer to your goal. First of all, you need an action plan. If you need help with this, always feel free to reach out. I am here every week during six weekly live calls to personally help you with everything you need ... and personal track feedback as long as you want! 😎 Anyway, the action plan should ignore the entire big journey ahead and only focus on the first few things we should get going: Your target industry, a dedicated demo reel that should be set up within an hour (except writing the music of course), targeted application email and message texts, 10-15 mins every day to reach out to all the opportunities and people out there. Also, if you feel a task being too big or you don't have that much time, break it down to several smaller tasks that are achievable within a few minutes/hours or a day. For example: Setting up your demo reel - Start checking your older work by picking 3-5 tracks first matching your target group. Forget about all the stuff involving writing new music and so on. Need help? I am always here!

Hey everyone, I had this idea (and probably saw it mentioned elsewhere as well) that artists might benefit from a dedicate platform like substack, but for music. Is this something people might be interested in or are services like patreon and substack enough already?

“Heads up! Arturia’s Augmented Mallets is currently free! Perfect for adding marimba, vibraphone, and celeste textures to your projects. 🎶 Don’t miss out!”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yu8UrFKlgE&t=3s The link to the instrument : https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/augmented-mallets-play/overview Antonio

You are all probably already in preparations for the upcoming holidays and hopefully in chill mode soon! Just quickly wanted to wish you guys happy holidays and a great start into 2025! I also wanted to say thank you again to everyone joining this community. This all would be nothing without you! When I started the Audio Artist Academy in around the summer time of 2024 I would have never thought that we would be 1300 members strong. And the best part is, I honestly never ever have experienced a music community with an almost non-existing amount of toxicity! You rock! Stay as you are and here’s to a new year full of opportunities, projects, career paths and money! Cheerio, Alex

I want to upgrade my PC and get something like the AMD 7950X or a comparable Intel i9 or i7. Which one would you recommend for music production?