William Ashley
Electronic Music Producer • Sound Designer • VST3 Plugin Developer
South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada
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Articles on production, sound design, plugin development, and the philosophy of making music.
Latest from William Ashley Music
YouTube's Evolution: Can Creators Still Thrive in the new Attention Economy?
June 25, 2026
YouTube new algorithm is fundamentally shifting. This article explores the background and how independent content creators can adapt to the changing environment at YouTube while still providing the content they and their channel community values.
File Formats, Reverse Engineering, and the Rocksmith vs. Slopsmith Debate: Law, Interoperability, and Creative Freedom in Music Software
June 25, 2026
Music software is often heavily protected medium, although there is a lot of interchange with software using file formats to exchange data between programs. This article discusses file Formats in the context of Rocksmith vs Slopsmith and the takedown of Slopsmith and sites mirroring files with the same fileformat as Rocksmith.
The Art of Decision Compression: How to Send Stems to a Mix Engineer
June 22, 2026
Why the way you export and organize stems matters more than most producers realize — a guide to professional handoff and decision compression.