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How AI Is Transforming the Creative Economy and the Music Industry

October 12, 2025

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“I wanted a song Whitney Houston would be proud to sing. It had to be sensual but never cheap, powerful but not overwrought”: DC producer bags first Future Sound Award for AI music

October 12, 2025

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“The record company thought I was mad – but sometimes you sign acts to make money, and sometimes you sign acts to make music”: The making of Enya’s Orinoco Flow, the unexpected No. 1 hit that created a New Age superstar

October 11, 2025

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“How can I play machines like they’re instruments? How do I play these machines the same way I play a piano or guitar?”: Jack Antonoff reveals the two vintage delay units and classic ‘80s synth that provide the secret sauce on Sabrina Carpenter’s Manchild

October 11, 2025

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“That actually came from me and Oz jamming on the piano in my apartment in North Hollywood”: From Ozzy Osbourne to Papa Roach, Fleetwood Mac to George Harrison, here’s 5 career-defining songs you didn’t know were written on the piano

October 10, 2025

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Focusrite releases blue Anniversary Edition of its Scarlett 2i2 interface

October 9, 2025

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“Ultra-natural vocal performances that are indistinguishable from live recording sessions”: Could IK Multimedia’s “ethical” ReSing software be a gamechanger for AI voice modelling?

October 9, 2025

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9 mistakes producers make when using an audio interface – and how to avoid them

October 8, 2025

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How to stress test a laptop for music production in any DAW – and why every producer should do it

October 8, 2025

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“Clearly the M-10 is not tuned for this type of music”: V-Moda M-10 review

October 7, 2025

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Teenage Engineering leak appears to reveal dub reggae-themed EP-2350 Riddim Supertone sampler and EP-40 mixer

October 6, 2025

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“I wanted to design something that would not only be capable of but excel at any tone I might need”: Prog metal trailblazer Misha Mansoor teams up with Neural DSP for Archetype plugin suite that nails his Periphery tone – but does so much more

October 6, 2025

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“It’s policing Black music… Hip-hop was born from sampling. And now sampling is synonymous with theft”: Lizzo argues that the origins of sampling law are “racially charged”

October 5, 2025

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SampleRadar: 497 free modular percussion samples

October 4, 2025

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“It’s been such a privilege to work with Daphne’s sounds”: Daphne Oram’s centenary celebrated in compilation featuring previously unheard archival material

October 4, 2025

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Music studio complex opens in former nuclear bunker in The Hague

October 3, 2025

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Teenage Engineering is giving away a free EP-1320 Medieval sampler to anyone that spends $999 in its online store

October 3, 2025

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“I’ve never fully gelled with Logic and Pro Tools – they kind of feel like Microsoft Excel to me”: Jacques Greene and Nosaj Thing on the making of their new collaborative project, Verses GT

October 2, 2025

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“Not being a musician you feel a little bit of an imposter, but I’ve got a passion for it and I think a lot of great musicians respect me for that”: Dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood on embracing AI and playing the studio like an instrument

October 1, 2025

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“I looked on Reverb for a Yamaha CS-80 – we drove out to get it and its sound became a key part of the movie’s soundtrack”: The classic synth heard on the Barbie OST was picked up in “an hour and a half” on Reverb, says Mark Ronson

October 1, 2025

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“The way that the algorithm is set up, no one can serve the masses anymore”: Lizzo puts out TikTok vid blaming social media for absence of crossover mainstream hits

September 30, 2025

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“I’m a big preset guy. If a preset’s called Fat Bass, there’s a 90% chance it’s actually a fat bass”: Rico Nasty and Benson Boone producer Imad Royal on saving time and staying focused in the studio

September 29, 2025

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AlphaTheta’s CDJ-3000 gets an X upgrade that allows DJs to access their libraries with the tap of a smartphone

September 29, 2025

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“The iLoud Precision MKII redefines what’s possible in modern monitoring”: IK Multimedia upgrades its pro-level studio monitors with redesigned hardware and enhanced room correction

September 28, 2025

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