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2 months ago
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ElevenLabs made an AI album to plug its music generator

ElevenLabs released an AI-generated album offering artists full ownership and streaming revenue while promoting its commercial AI music platforms.
Django
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Suno leans into customization with v5.5

Suno v5.5 enhances user control with new features: Voices, My Taste, and Custom Models for personalized AI music creation.
Music production
fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

ElevenLabs releases a new AI-powered music generation app | TechCrunch

ElevenLabs launched ElevenMusic, an iOS app for creating and discovering AI-generated music, aiming to expand beyond voice models and compete in the music space.
Roam Research
fromThe Verge
2 days ago

Teenage Engineering might be getting into instrument amps next

Teenage Engineering's KO-Amp 35 is a new mid-range instrument amp with Bluetooth and a rechargeable battery, indicating a potential entry into budget guitar amps.
#music
NYC music
fromPitchfork
2 days ago

PPP (Piezo, Plead & Python): "Wisco"

PPP's 'Wisco' is a standout track for summer 2023, blending deep house and unique sound design for a dancefloor experience.
fromFuturism
3 days ago

Berklee College of Music Students Furious That It's Offering an AI "Songwriting" Class

The petition accuses the school of promoting OpenAI's ChatGPT, which 'steal the art of [tens of thousands] of artists and rot the essence of the industry and have devastating consequences on the environment all to create facsimiles of real human art.'
Higher education
Marketing tech
fromRAIN News
1 week ago

ENCO Systems upgrades its DJ replacement technology with upcoming release

ENCO Systems is launching an upgraded aiTrack technology for cloud-native, automation-agnostic broadcast environments at NAB Show 2026.
fromZDNET
1 week ago

How I calibrated my subwoofer placement for peak impact in awkward room setups

Placing your subwoofer in the front quadrant of a room allows the walls to guide low-pitched sounds effectively, enhancing overall audio quality. Avoiding corners is crucial, as this can lead to muddy and overpowering bass that detracts from the listening experience.
Remodel
Music production
fromPitchfork
2 days ago

Lyra Pramuk Announces Hymnal (Resung) and Shares New Djrum Rework

Lyra Pramuk's EP 'Hymnal (Resung)' features reworks from various artists, emphasizing themes of ecological grief and spiritual invocation.
Gadgets
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

The Korg Handytraxx Play finally got me learning to scratch

The Korg Handytraxx Play enables easy scratching and sampling in a compact, portable design.
#audio-interface
fromEngadget
2 months ago
Gadgets

Roland's Go:Mixer Studio is an affordable but capable mixer for budding recording engineers

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fromEngadget
2 weeks ago

Roland Go:Mixer Studio review: Portable, professional and plenty of polish

The Go:Mixer Studio offers premium features and design for portable audio recording, including multitrack output and onboard effects.
fromEngadget
2 months ago
Gadgets

Roland's Go:Mixer Studio is an affordable but capable mixer for budding recording engineers

London music
fromPitchfork
3 weeks ago

Vince Clarke Launches New Analog Synth Covers Project

Vince Clarke collaborates with Neil Arthur and Benge for a covers album titled Doublespeak, featuring analog synth renditions of various classic songs.
fromPitchfork
5 days ago

upsammy / Valentina Magaletti: Seismo

Drummers' timekeeping is fluid; even at its most rocksteady, it's enlivened by tiny, imperceptible pauses and hiccups. Sequencers and drum machines, on the other hand, march in lockstep.
Music production
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fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

Akai just released a portable and relatively budget-friendly MPC sampler

Akai's MPC Sample is a portable sampler and groovebox with advanced features and a retro design, catering to music creators and finger drummers.
Music
fromPitchfork
4 weeks ago

JWords Announces New Album Sound Therapy

JWords releases her second solo album Sound Therapy on May 8, featuring her first lead vocal performances alongside collaborators Kingsley Ibeneche and Nappy Nina.
fromThe Verge
5 days ago

Room for the Moon is thrillingly weird experimental pop

The opener "Not Not Not" is almost goofy, its chaotic melodies constantly dancing around each other in a perpetually disorienting way. It lurches forward asymmetrically, grooving like a flat tire.
Music production
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fromYOGMAY
1 month ago

Sound Healing Teacher Training vs Sound Healing Course

Sound healing courses teach foundational principles of vibrational healing through sacred instruments and frequencies, while teacher training programs prepare practitioners to professionally instruct others in these techniques.
London music
fromConsequence
4 weeks ago

Kraftwerk Announce 50th Anniversary Reissue of Radio-Activity

Kraftwerk releases a 50th anniversary reissue of Radio-Activity in three formats with new Dolby Atmos mix, accompanied by their first UK and Ireland tour in nine years.
Music production
fromFast Company
1 week ago

The future of music is human-generated

The music industry's value is shifting from songs to the human connection behind performances as AI-generated music becomes abundant.
Media industry
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Substack launches a built-in recording studio | TechCrunch

Substack launches Recording Studio, enabling creators to pre-record and publish videos with built-in editing, clip generation, and thumbnail creation tools.
Music
fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938-2014)

Women played a prominent but largely overlooked role in developing electronic music during the 1960s, with figures like Delia Derbyshire pioneering the genre alongside male contemporaries.
fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

This Pared Down Stereo System Takes-on Cubist Dimensions

In Braque's paintings, collages, and prints, the polymath set out to distill bucolic landscapes and rural village scenes as broken up and then re-assembled geometric compositions; decidedly abstract yet still slightly recognizable representations. Through this revolutionary approach, he examined how objects could be depicted from multiple perspectives-multiple sources of light-as if superimposed portrayals of the same setting rendered at different times of day.
Design
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

Meet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant

Galen Buckwalter, a 69-year-old research psychologist and quadriplegic, participated in a brain implant study to contribute to science that aids those with paralysis. The six chips in his brain decode movement intention, allowing him to operate a computer and feel sensations in his fingers again.
Music production
Music production
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model | TechCrunch

Google released Lyria 3 Pro, allowing users to create longer music tracks with enhanced customization and control compared to Lyria 3.
Music production
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Google Lyria 3 Pro makes longer AI songs

Google's Lyria 3 music-making AI now creates tracks up to three minutes long with enhanced features for user control and integration with other Google products.
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fromWIRED
1 month ago

These Excellent Computer Speakers Are $100 Off

IK Multimedia iLoud Micro Monitor desktop speakers are discounted to $250 and deliver studio-quality audio with flat midrange, bold bass, and detailed highs, suitable for music production, audiophiles, and general listening.
#speaker-design
Writing
fromThe Walrus
2 months ago

Harmonics | The Walrus

A caregiver comforts a dying loved one amid a surreal, glittering ambulance and ER, balancing narcotics, music, storytelling, and tender presence.
#ai-music-generation
Music production
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

Google's Lyria 3 Pro can now generate AI music (slop) up to 3 minutes in length

Google's Lyria 3 Pro generates full three-minute songs with enhanced customization and understanding of musical composition.
Music production
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

Google's Lyria 3 Pro can now generate AI music (slop) up to 3 minutes in length

Google's Lyria 3 Pro generates full three-minute songs with enhanced customization and understanding of musical composition.
Music
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

Synth Modular Controller Treats Music Making Like Building with Blocks - Yanko Design

A modular synth system uses snap-together physical blocks for each function, making synthesis tangible, teachable, and scalable from beginner toy to serious performance instrument.
Data science
fromNature
2 months ago

Science finds its song

Scientists are translating research data into music, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, revealing patterns, and increasing accessibility through data-driven music events.
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Music production
fromEngadget
1 month ago

Tembo might just be the world's cutest drum machine

Musical Beings unveiled Tembo, a drum machine using magnetic pucks for tactile beat sequencing, designed to make music creation accessible to beginners while offering professional features for experienced musicians.
Music production
fromEngadget
1 month ago

Tembo might just be the world's cutest drum machine

Musical Beings unveiled Tembo, a drum machine using magnetic pucks for tactile beat sequencing, designed to make music creation accessible to beginners while offering professional features for experienced musicians.
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

The secret story of the vocoder, the military tech that changed music forever

The vocoder was never supposed to be a revolution in music. Its development began a century ago, when an engineer at Bell Labs was looking for a simpler way to send phone calls across copper telephone lines.
Music production
fromeLearning Industry
1 month ago

How To Remove Background Noise From Video: Best Practices For Professional Content

When professionals talk about how to remove background noise from video, they are really talking about improving the audio track of a video so the speaker's voice is clearer, more consistent, and easier to understand. Background noise refers to any unwanted sound that competes with the main voice, like air conditioning hum, office chatter, keyboard typing, traffic, or the low hiss created by recording equipment and compression. In video production, background noise removal is about reducing distractions so the listener can focus on the message.
Film
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Korg's new experimental synthesizer combines acoustic sounds with electronic control

The Phase8 uses a new form of "acoustic synthesis" that combines acoustic sound generation with electronic control. Takahashi says the synthesizer is "beyond analog vs. digital" and "beyond electronics" altogether. It features chromatically tuned steel resonators, which creates an acoustic sound similar to that of a kalimba. These signals can be manipulated via onboard effects and sequenced like a traditional synthesizer. Here's a video of the synth in action.
Music
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fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Quad Cortex mini amp modeler: All the power, half the size

Neural DSP uses machine learning and impulse response technology to create lifelike guitar amp modeling software and hardware that replaces thousands of dollars worth of traditional gear.
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fromWIRED
1 month ago

These Fender Mix Headphones Come With Modular Parts for Easy Repairs

Fender's Audio Mix headphones feature fully replaceable and swappable parts, including the battery, with customizable colors and materials, offering a modular alternative to disposable wireless headphones.
fromDEV Community
1 month ago

I Built a 100% Private, On-Device AI Audio Stem Splitter (No Servers!)

If you've ever used tools like PhonicMind or LALAL.AI, you know the drill: Upload your MP3. Wait in a queue. Pay for "credits" or high-quality downloads. Your file sits on someone else's server. For musicians, producers, or just karaoke fans, this is slow and privacy-invasive.
Music production
Music
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Kaoss Pad V is the first major upgrade to Korg's touch-based effects in 13 years

Korg's Kaoss Pad V adds dual-finger X/Y control, voice effects with MIDI output, enhanced sampling/looping, balanced input, and a $649.99 preorder price.
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Akai's MPC XL groovebox is the most powerful device the company has ever made

First of all, it offers four times the processing power of previous MPCs, which is enough to load up to 32 virtual instruments at the same time. This is assisted by a full 16GB of RAM, which is a whole lot in this era of AI tomfoolery. The XL can handle 16 audio tracks simultaneously. In my experience with previous units, this is more than enough for a full song.
Music
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Arturia's FX Collection 6 adds two new effects and a $99 intro version

Pitch Shifter-910 is based on the iconic Eventide H910 Harmonizer from 1974, an early digital pitchshifter and delay with a very unique character. Arturia does an admirable job preserving its glitchy quirks. Pitch Shifter-910 is not a transparent effect that lets you create natural-sounding harmonies with yourself. Instead, it relishes in its weirdness, delivering chipmunk vocals at the higher ranges. There is also a more modern mode that cleans up some artifacts while preserving what makes the 910 so special.
Music
fromWIRED
1 month ago

This Weird Little Synthesizer Makes Me Happy

The unit can run on three AA batteries (a set is included) or on the included USB-A to DC adapter (you'll need your own wall charger). The included instruction manual helps you make sense of what the heck all the knobs, levers, buttons, and lights mean.
Gadgets
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Casio teased a retro gaming-inspired sampler

Casio showed up to NAMM (CES for music gear nerds) this year with a prototype sampler called the SX-C1 that looks every bit the lovechild of a Game Boy and an SP-404. The top has a directional pad and four buttons just like you'd find on a game controller, flanking a 1.3-inch OLED screen. But at the bottom, there are 16 rubberized pads for triggering samples with crunchy pixelated number labels on them.
Music
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months ago

Teenage Engineering-inspired Music Sampler Uses AI In The Nerdiest Way Possible - Yanko Design

Junho Park's graduation concept borrows all the right cues from TE's playbook, that modular control layout, the single bold color, the mix of knobs and buttons that practically beg to be touched, but redirects them toward a gap in the market. Where Teenage Engineering designs for people who already understand synthesis and sampling, the T.M-4 targets people who have ideas but no vocabulary to express them.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

kalimba-like acoustic synthesizer produces sounds by touching, plucking or strumming it

Korg's phase8 is an eight-voice, touch-interactive acoustic synthesizer with steel resonators that can be plucked, tapped, and modulated for customizable layered sounds.
Music production
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Yamaha launches Creator Pass for music makers and podcasters

Yamaha launches Creator Pass, a subscription bundle combining music production and podcast tools from multiple partners at seven different pricing tiers ranging from $14.99 to $468 annually.
Gadgets
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Roland's TR-1000 Rhythm Creator is the ultimate drum machine

The Roland TR-1000 combines analog circuits, digital synthesis, sampling, effects, layering, and a modern sequencer into a powerful but complex $2,699.99 drum machine.
Music
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months ago

Korg Phase8 Is a Cyberpunk Kalimba for Producers Who Are Bored of Regular Synths - Yanko Design

Korg Phase8 is a tactile tabletop instrument using electromagnetic hammers and acoustic pickups to enable 'Acoustic Synthesis' and encourage physical interaction to shape sound.
Music
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Ableton Live is adding audio streaming for real-time musical collaboration

Ableton's Link Audio enables real-time audio streaming collaboration over local networks but is limited to audio and has restricted device support.
fromWIRED
2 months ago

These Hackers Are Turning Dead Vapes Into Musical Synthesizers

We started from a very silly place,
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fromwww.engadget.com
2 months ago

JBL made a pair of AI-powered practice amps

JBL launched AI-powered BandBox Solo and Trio practice amps with onboard Stem AI for source separation, built-in effects, a looper update in October, priced $250 and $600.
Music
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

A Pioneer of Electronic Music Reanimates Old Songs

Beverly Glenn-Copeland created influential electronic music, achieved underground recognition decades after self-releasing "Keyboard Fantasies," and recently recorded a new album amid hardship.
Gadgets
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

Roland's $299 Pocket-Sized Audio Interface Was Designed Specifically For TikTok and Instagram Music Creators - Yanko Design

Portable mixer delivers studio-grade 24-bit/192kHz recording, onboard EQ, compression, reverb, battery power, and compact design tailored for livestreaming creators.
fromFast Company
2 months ago

The answer to AI in music isn't suppression. It's data

But to anyone tracking the data over the past few years, it was inevitable. In 2022, Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti redefined the market, driving Latin music's streaming growth to new heights. It later became the first Spanish-language album nominated for Grammy Album of the Year. The takeaway is simple: When you have accurate, real-time data, you don't guess where culture is going, you know.
Music
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Roland's Go:Mixer Studio turns your phone into a mobile music studio

Roland now offers a more capable audio mixer for phones and tablets with the launch of the Go:Mixer Studio. The Go:Mixer audio interface lineup has always been a bit limited, better suited for scrappy live streams and capturing quick demos on their phones than professional recording. The Go:Mixer Studio is an attempt to actually reach that lofty goal, with more inputs and outputs, built-in effects, and up to 24-bit / 192kHz audio.
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Music
fromRAIN News
2 months ago

Sony expands NYU audio facility

NYU's Sony-funded Audio Institute now has a dedicated Sony Audio Institute Studio, modernizing facilities and expanding research into immersive audio, machine listening, and music psychology.
Music
fromGSMArena.com
1 month ago

Google's Gemini can now create music

Google's Gemini now generates 30-second music tracks using Lyria 3, with SynthID watermark, automatic cover art, lyrics, and multilingual beta availability.
Music
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
2 months ago

Earworm Alert: "Making U"! Vivid Electronic House Vibes from Monoko and Inkko - KALTBLUT Magazine

Monoko and Inkko release "Making U," a UK-influenced electronic house track blending UK garage, house, and electronica for euphoric club and reflective listening.
Music
fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

The Harmoni Guitar From Openhagen Taps in to Our Need to Riff

The Harmoni guitar blends hand-tuned mahogany craftsmanship, rosewood and D'Addario components, and sustainable upcycled accessories with a magnetic stand for accessible, balanced playing.
Music
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Legendary composer Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and 'AI'

Laurie Spiegel's 1986 Music Mouse, an 'intelligent instrument' enabling algorithmic music via an XY mouse grid, is being revived for modern machines with Eventide.
Music production
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings, leaving its future uncertain

Native Instruments has entered preliminary insolvency proceedings with an administrator appointed to restructure or sell assets, leaving employees and product futures uncertain.
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