# digital audio (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover digital audio. Page: Feed: --- ## [You Are Not Immune To Local Consensus](https://kyefox.com/you-are-not-immune-to-local-consensus/) _2026-05-31 · Kye Fox · Kye Fox_ Human beings are prone to mistaking local consensus for global consensus. Most people never notice this process happening because they're never pushed far enough outside consensus to see its edges. Increasingly, we encounter flattened symbolic versions of one another first, mediated through our local cluster's narratives. ## [You won't read this](https://kyefox.com/you-wont-read-this/) _2026-05-01 · Kye Fox · Kye Fox_ You'll skim it at best . If you're kind, you might offer sympathy. If you're an asshole, you'll look for a comment form to go off on a rant devoid of any connection to the thing you're responding to. There isn& ## [Find your most used sounds in Ableton Live](https://kyefox.com/find-your-most-used-sounds-in-ableton-live/) _2026-04-03 · Kye Fox · Kye Fox_ Step 1 : Grab DB Browser for SQLite Step 2 : Find your Ableton data directory. If you're on Windows: press windows key + R, and put in %LOCALAPPDATA%/Ableton then click Run. The stuff you're looking for will be in Live Database . Step 3 : Open one of the ## [Advice on advice](https://kyefox.com/advice-on-advice/) _2025-11-19 · Kye Fox · Kye Fox_ This started as a comment on Hacker News. I need a browser extension to capture comments on forums and social media as blog drafts. Here is one of a small number of things I consider indisputable: It's impossible to make self or mind small enough to be safe ## [Revisiting The Walking Dead](https://kyefox.com/revisiting-the-walking-dead/) _2025-11-02 · Kye Fox · Kye Fox_ Circumstances aligned recently to allow me to catch up on The Walking Dead. I started with spinoffs: Dead City and Daryl Dixon. I had already watched most of Fear The Walking Dead and the first season of World Beyond. Fear was better about not lingering. World Beyond was too much ## [4/4: A beat you can dance to](https://kyefox.com/4-4-a-beat-you-can-dance-to/) _2025-09-07 · Kye Fox · Kye Fox_ Spend any time immersed in music discussions and you'll see people ask why 4/4 is so popular. The short and most precise answer to all questions of music and music theory is: centuries of changing traditions spanning the rise and fall of empires lead (and led) to ## [Nobody cares about decentralization until they do](https://kyefox.com/nobody-cares-about-decentralization-until-they-do/) _2024-10-31 · Kye Fox · Kye Fox_ A recurring line in discussion of federated, decentralized social media is that no one cares about it. They just want their Twitter without the Nazis. Which is okay. But how it looks on the backend matters. When the illusion of a unified user experience breaks, how accessible the escape pod ## [SKTremolo – An Open-Source VST3 Tremolo](http://shanekirk.com/2024/10/sktremolo/) _2024-10-13 · Shane · ShaneKirk.com_ While contemplating a series of articles on digital audio oscillator types and implementations, I asked myself, “What audio effect would provide the simplest demonstration of these things while also being fun and interesting?” The first thing that came to mind was the humble tremolo. This is the stuttery, pulsing effect you hear on the rhythm … Continue reading "SKTremolo – An Open-Source VST3… ## [Wonder](https://kyefox.com/wonder/) _2024-09-08 · Kye Fox · Kye Fox_ I used to look up into the night sky and wonder. Then I went there. Among the trillions upon trillions of stars, none had that kindred spirit I longed for. I found a machine civilization, a sentient black hole (I called him Phil, which he enjoyed very much), and others ## [Free and affordable music production resources](https://kyefox.com/free-and-affordable-music-production-resources/) _2024-08-29 · Kye Fox · Kye Fox_ This is all stuff I use or have used and still recommend as of publishing. Black Octopus Sound has a 1GB royalty-free sampler . This was my go-to pack when I was just starting out and couldn't afford anything. Sonniss has a huge collection of free and ## [Sync Bookmarks Everywhere (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/F7AnlgrspqRR) _2024-08-29 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync keeps folders and toolbar intact across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. ## [There is a best Digital Audio Workstation](https://kyefox.com/there-is-a-best-digital-audio-workstation/) _2024-08-29 · Kye Fox · Kye Fox_ A DAW, or Digital Audio Workstation, is a big, fancy environment for working with sound. The common truism is, to an extent, true: you can do anything in any DAW. But the more advanced you get, or the more niche your need, the more friction you'll encounter if