Tron’s gas fee reduction cuts daily revenue by 64% in 10 daysEven after the change, Tron still holds a significant lead in revenue among layer-1 blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana and BNB Chain.

Via shrugs off tepid open to end first day of trading slightly above IPO priceTransit tech software startup Via had its IPO debut on Friday, starting at below offering price before rising to close at nearly $50.

A Breadboard Computer in Three ChipsBuilding a computer on a breadboard is a seminal project for many builders, but it can become complicated quite quickly, not to mention that all the parts needed for a computer are being placed on a medium which often lends itself to loose wires and other hardware bugs. [3DSage] has a working breadboard computer that is as simple as it can possibly be, putting it together piece by piece to show exactly what’s needed to get a computer which can count, access memory, and even perform basic mathematical operations.
The first step for any computer is to build a clock, and in this case it’s being provided by a 555 timer which is configured to provide an adjustable time standard and which steps through the clock pulses when a button is pressed. The next piece is a four-bit counter and a memory chip, which lets the computer read and write data. A set of DIP switches allows a user to write data to memory, and by using the last three bits of the data as opcodes, the computer can reset, halt, and jump to various points in a simple program.
Although these three chips make it possible to perform basic programming, [3DSage] takes this a bit further in his video by demonstrating some other simple programs, such as one which can play music or behave as an alarm clock. He also shows how to use a fourth chip in the form of a binary adder to perform some basic math, and then packages it all into a retro-styled computer kit. Of course you can take these principles and build them out as far as they will go, like this full 8-bit computer built on a breadboard or even this breadboard computer that hosts a 486.

Cosmica Artists Spotlight Latin Talent for Heritage Month 2025Cosmica Artists has built its reputation as a home for groundbreaking Latin voices in the indie and alternative space. This Latin Heritage Month, the company is highlighting a roster of artists whose 2025 already carries significant momentum.A statement from the company discloses that the lineup is “marked by Grammy wins, national TV debuts, and features across Billboard, Rolling Stone, and Variety.” These achievements set the stage for a fall filled with new music and major performances.Miranda del SolThe release calendar is strong: Katzù Oso shares Corazones Desechables on September 19 before unveiling his anticipated album La Conexión October 17. Miranda del Sol releases her debut EP when you were asleep (vol. i) the same day, introducing her bilingual, alt-pop sound to a wider audience. Luna Luna returns with the For Siempre EP on October 10, while Rhiannon Rodriguez issues a live single in collaboration with Chingon.Loyal LobosCosmica’s artists are also active on stages across the Americas. Loyal Lobos appears in Bogotá on September 12, while GRAMMY-winning Gaby Moreno performs in Rancho Cucamonga a week later. Luna Luna headlines Los Angeles’ Roxy Theatre October 9, and Bronx-born singer-songwriter Selines makes her festival debut at Migo Fest in New York October 11. The fall continues with Hunters of the Alps in Miami, Katzù Oso at The Paramount in Los Angeles, and Selines again at The Novo to close out November.Gaby MorenoSeveral artists stand out as defining voices of this season. Gaby Moreno, who recently brought her 2024 album Dusk to national TV platforms including Good Morning America and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, is praised as “one of Americana’s only prominent Latina voices.” Former Chicano Batman frontman Bardo takes a new direction with his debut solo project Transformation Time, while Boyle Heights–born Katzù Oso has nearly doubled his streaming audience in anticipation of his October release.Other highlights include Miranda del Sol, spotlighted by Glamour and supported by Zane Lowe, Luna Luna continuing to build momentum after national touring, and 19-year-old Rhiannon Rodriguez growing a fast digital following. The roster also brings established names such as Twanguero, whose guitar mastery has earned him a Latin GRAMMY and acclaim from Rolling Stone Spain, alongside new-generation artists like Victor Internet and Guatemalan indie-pop voice TITA.TwangueroA statement from the company emphasizes that “this Latin Heritage Month, Cosmica Artists spotlights a roster whose 2025 is already marked by Grammy wins, national TV debuts, and features across Billboard, Rolling Stone, and Variety.”Together, the lineup reflects both the legacy and the future of Latin music in the indie and alternative space.The post Cosmica Artists Spotlight Latin Talent for Heritage Month 2025 first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

SMAOLAB releases Akira Filter, a FREE Korg MS-20 low-pass filter plugin
SMAOLAB has released Akira Filter, a free low-pass filter plugin inspired by the legendary MS-20 filter from KORG. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably tested dozens (if not close to a hundred 😳) of filter plugins over the years. Despite having a few go-to favorites like HY-Filter and our own BPB Dirty Filter, I [...]
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HeartBeat: Percussive beats from Sample Logic Sample Logic’s latest release is a new loop-based instrument that provides a wide variety of percussion beats and kits suitable for many genres.

This producer has created an electronic album for babies so “parents and their children can bond over a micro rave”Graham Smyth, a DJ and producer from Ireland, has created an electronic music album for babies. Split into two halves for both moving and winding down, it’s intended to help babies and their parents bond over “a micro rave and a nap”.
Fittingly titled Music For Babies To Rave And Sleep To, the record utilises children’s instruments, and its tracks are even inspired by how a young child may pronounce words – with Toy Piano becoming Toy Pianonono, for example. The record was crafted with assistance from producer Gareth Quinn Redmond, and its title also takes inspiration from Brian Eno’s Music For… albums.

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Speaking to District Magazine, Smyth explains: “The album is intended to introduce children to the different aspects of electronic music, from building up to the peak time rave all the way down to placing the head down for a snooze so mirroring a night on the tiles is fully intentional.”
Backed by science no less, he continues to share, “Babies’ heart rates are 50 percent faster than adults so the music should reflect this, hence the drum ‘n’ bass inspired beats on [track] Toy Pianonono (For Raving).
“The percussion is even influenced by how young children interact with instruments. If you give an adult a keyboard they will probably try to bang out a hesitant version of Chopsticks, whereas a child might throw it, bang it, rub it, hit it, even eat it. I thought that all the typical sounds (not the eating) that children make when interacting with the instruments should be included in the production.”

Babies certainly have an interesting connection with music; YouTuber Rick Beato shared his belief that all babies can develop perfect pitch up to nine months old on a Rick Rubin’s podcast posted earlier this year.
Beato came up with the theory after watching a TED talk from Patricia Kuhl, a professor known for her research on early language learning. Kuhl showcased a study which looked into the sounds that babies can hear in their early life, and how they are “geniuses” when it comes to detecting language.
Graham Smyth’s Music For Babies To Rave And Sleep To is out now. You can find out more via his Bandcamp page.
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“Greta Gerwig was in love with the sound of ‘70s and ‘80s analogue synthesisers”: How Mark Ronson took to Reverb to track down a Yamaha CS-80 for the Barbie soundtrackMark Ronson soundtracked the 2023 Barbie movie with a little help from Reverb, having tracked down a Yamaha CS-80 from the site that he managed to pick up within an hour and a half.
The synth went on to become a core part of the film’s score, with Ronson originally tracking it down due to director Greta Gerwig’s love of classic analogue synth sounds. Ronson’s anecdote was originally shared at an Industry Insights talk at NAMM last year, but has resurfaced as Reverb has relaunched in the UK.

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Reverb UK’s relaunch is being celebrated with lower seller fees – an “all-in” five percent on every sale, down three percent from before – and new tools for sellers. The platform is the largest online marketplace dedicated to music gear; in addition to private sellers, many UK-based music shops and businesses also utilise the platform to sell stock.
As well as the fee drop, sellers will now also have access to UK-specific market trend data, which they can use to price their gear more effectively, as well as discounted postage labels via popular couriers.
Ronson said at the 2024 panel, “We were working on the score for Barbie, and we realised that Director Greta Gerwig was in love with the sound of ‘70s and ‘80s analogue synthesisers. I looked on Reverb for a Yamaha CS-80, and I saw that there was one about an hour and a half away, so we drove out to get it and its sound became a key part of the movie’s soundtrack.”

The soundtrack, which featured Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, and many more, made UK chart history as the first soundtrack to have three songs all feature in the Top Five, as well as breaking the record for most songs (six in total) in the Top 40.
Following the film’s release in 2023, Ronson told NME, “I wanted to get the job, but I also didn’t want to just give them some generic dance shit. I wanted to do something I’ve never done before… The thing I learned very quickly doing the score for Barbie is that you’re always serving the picture. You’re always serving the emotion.
“You have to turn off all the things you know about making pop and rock and soul music for the last 30 years. Yes, it needs to be beautiful, but sometimes you just need to get the fuck out the way,” he explained.
Barbie: The Album is out now, and the film is also available to buy or stream. If you fancy bagging a bargain synth, head over to the newly relaunched Reverb UK. 
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Supertramp162 Oscilloscope 1.5Oscilloscope is a Max for Live device designed for Ableton Live by Stephen Black, to visualise and analyse audio signals. It provides visual feedback of audio waveforms, allowing users to observe the shape and dynamics of their sound signals in real-time. Updates include a phase correlation meter and a Lissajousas to further display visual representations of audio with the Oscilloscope, Sonogram and Spectroscope modes. Please note to use Max for Live devices, you must have either Ableton Live Suite (as it comes pre-installed) or a version of Ableton Live Standard with the Max for Live add-on purchased separately. Read More

IK Multimedia ARC Studio is effective for acoustic correction — so why am I frustrated?€349 (currently on sale for €249), ikmultimedia.com
Room correction EQ is becoming a powerful way to remedy frequency imbalances and unwanted resonances in your studio space. Leading the way at the affordable end are Sonarworks’ SoundID and IK Multimedia’s ARC software. At the opposite end, Trinnov has hardware-hosted systems that start at around £4,000, which are more likely found in commercial studios.

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Except for a few high-end monitors and audio interfaces that are able to host Sonarworks profiles on their DSP chip, room EQ is usually run as a plugin within a DAW, or a system-wide app on your computer. Sonarworks has the edge here, as it features system-wide routing and also handles headphone correction, but it’s slightly more expensive. Meanwhile, ARC is more cost-effective but doesn’t have headphone correction or a system-wide option.
Not being able to route the entire system audio stream through room EQ becomes a hassle, since you have to insert the room correction as a plugin at the end of the master bus chain, and remember to turn it off when bouncing on most DAWs. Neither can you use the room EQ for audio in other apps without a workaround. The limitations are especially annoying when hybrid mixing with analogue gear, which involves real-time bounces in the DAW. Essentially, you cannot hear your mix properly when doing the final bounce and check.
ARC Studio aims to do away with much of this frustration at an attractive cost.
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What is ARC Studio?
IK Multimedia’s ARC Studio is a box that sits between your main audio interface outputs and monitors, offering a complete package for measuring room correction profiles and then hosting them. Once you measure the room profile with the included microphone, you can load it up onto the Studio and work away with EQ-corrected monitors, with minimal latency. Just like competing products, there are also EQ profiles that allow you to audition your mix using virtual monitors, to see how it sounds on a car stereo, phone speakers and so on.
The hardware is simple and uncluttered. The front panel houses just two LEDs to indicate power and signal level, plus a single illuminated button to toggle the correction on and off. On the back, there are stereo XLR inputs and outputs, a USB-C port for loading and switching profiles from the computer, and a power socket. Unfortunately, there’s no digital input, so users are stuck with an extra round of (analogue-to-digital and then digital-to-analogue) conversion inside the box that might be lesser in quality than those in the audio interface being used. This might rule out users for whom specifications matter.I think it’s a little short-sighted to not include digital input, even if this might have added to the cost.
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How do you set up ARC Studio?
To get going with ARC Studio, you need an audio interface with a mic preamp and phantom power. The measurement software prompts you to plug the microphone in, turn phantom on and set an appropriate level, and then place the microphone at different positions (and different heights) in the listening position while short sine sweeps are played on the monitors. I opt for the more accurate, 21-position measurement and it is straightforward and relatively swift, at under 15 minutes.
If you’ve used Sonarworks before, the ARC measurement process seems more primitive since the monitors send no ‘clicky’ triangulation signals to calculate exact points for the various measurement positions in the room. With ARC, you need to remember where you’ve been and try to be consistent, which isn’t that easy. That all said, the final profile is based on an average of the room response in all these positions, so it probably doesn’t matter as much as you’d expect…
Room analysis. Image: Press
How well does ARC Studio work?
In use, the software side fares really well. My own room has a large desk, plus a window to one side, and both these aspects cannot easily be adequately fixed with the basic filters on my main monitors. ARC takes care of the frequency response (including the difference between left and right) and I can change the target curve to taste using the six available target curve EQ bands. For example, critical listening might use the standard target curve with a full mid range, while a general listening curve with a pleasing, gentle mid scoop could avoid fatigue. Emulations of other speaker systems are also handy, most notably for checking whether kicks and basslines can be distinguished on phone speakers.
Having hardware to host room EQ is a welcome addition to my home studio, especially as I insert hardware into my master bus. My interface is able to run room EQ in its DSP, but it doesn’t interface with either Sonarworks or ARC, so it would be complicated to set up. With ARC studio, there’s no more faffing with switching plugins on and off. I work with the low-latency Natural Phase mode (1.4 ms latency) with no issues when tracking, and then switching to the more accurate Linear Phase mode (42 ms) for playback.
There are frustrations, though. Firstly, the measurement mic is incredibly flimsy, its plastic build is nearly as hollow as a Kinder egg shell. While the controls are solid enough, there’s not quite enough weight in the metal case to stop it tipping up under the weight of the connected XLR cables when placed on top of other shallow outboard gear.
Once an EQ profile is loaded, you can disconnect the USB cable to the computer and use the ARC Studio in a standalone mode of sorts, but then there’s no way to store multiple profiles and switch between them on the hardware. Power-down seems to wipe the stored profile, so you have to scrabble to replug the USB cable every time you switch power back on – especially annoying if you use dongles to manage limited USB-C ports.
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Is ARC Studio right for you?
If you work primarily on a single set of studio monitors, then the ARC Studio is a winning option unrivalled at its price point. Load your correction profile up and happily work away on mixes that translate well to other systems, without noticeable latency or stress on your computer’s CPU.
But it’s when you need a little bit more that the cracks start to show. Adding alternate monitors? Not possible without introducing extra hardware or buying a second ARC Studio. Upgrading your interface or converters? I’m afraid you’re lumbered with the extra conversion stages onboard the Studio.
Commendably, ARC Studio is less than a tenth of the price of the Trinnov Nova, although the Trinnov has a far wider range of input and output options, acts as monitor controller and applies linear phase and time correction to each monitor rather than just EQ correction.
ARC Studio is an innovative, well-priced room EQ solution for bedroom studios, but it slightly misses the mark for professional users.

Key features

Hardware / software room EQ package
Stereo XLR inputs and outputs
Simple LED metering on hardware
Modes: Natural Phase (1.4 ms latency) ; Linear Phase (42 ms latency)
USB-C port for connection to computer
External DC power supply (included)
Measurement mic and ARC 4 software included

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IK Multimedia launch Brown Sound 82/84 for TONEX IK Multimedia have announced the release of the Brown Sound 82/84 Signature Collection for their TONEX platform, the third and final part of its limited Brown Sound series.

US court to hear arguments for Sam Bankman-Fried’s appeal on Nov. 4Almost two years after Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the downfall of crypto exchange FTX, the former CEO's lawyers will return to court.

Songwriters Hall of Fame Posthumously Inducts Bern BernsPictured (L to R): Pete Ganbarg, SHOF Board Member and Chairman of SHOF Legacy Committee; Berns’ daughter Cassandra Berns; Charlie Feldman, SHOF Board Member; and SHOF inductee Steve Miller. (Photo Credit: Larry Busacca/SHOF)On Thursday, the Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) announced the "induction of legendary songwriter and producer Bert Berns, whose legacy has influenced the world of music for decades. Berns, who tragically died in 1967 at age 38, was recognized posthumously for his remarkable contributions during an intimate ceremony held last night at 54 Below cabaret club in New York City.""Berns wrote some of the most enduring songs ever recorded, including standards like 'Twist and Shout,' 'Piece of My Heart,' 'Hang On, Sloopy,' 'Everybody Needs Somebody to Love,' 'Brown Eyed Girl,' 'Tell Him,' 'I Want Candy,' 'Cry to Me,' 'I’ll Be a Liar,' 'Cry Baby,' and 'Heart Be Still.' His songs were immortalized by some of the most influential recording artists of all time, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Solomon Burke, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Otis Redding, David Bowie, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Isley Brothers, The Moody Blues, Wilson Pickett, Melissa Etheridge, Gene Pitney, the Animals, the Yardbirds, the Strangeloves, Erma Franklin, Dusty Springfield, The Exciters, Garnet Mimms, and more."PHOTO: Bert Berns (Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Bert Berns Family)"In 1963, Berns’ work with Solomon Burke caught the attention of Atlantic Records’ chiefs Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, and he joined the label as a producer, replacing Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. He flourished under the encouragement of Wexler. He was the first American to produce records in London during the British Invasion. In 1965, he started his own rock and roll label, BANG Records, whose roster included the likes of Neil Diamond, Van Morrison, and The McCoys. The following year he established R&B and soul music label Shout Records.""The SHOF induction ceremony was hosted by musician Paul Shaffer and Berns’ son Brett and daughter Cassandra. Tributes included video messages from SHOF inductees Paul McCartney and Van Morrison. Guests included SHOF inductee Steve Miller and Steven Van Zandt. Also in attendance were industryites Joel Selvin, Russ Titelman, Avery Lipman, Kenny Laguna, and SHOF Board members Charlie Feldman and Pete Ganbarg, Chairman of the SHOF Legacy Committee.""The celebration of Berns’ legacy also included live performances by Cassandra Berns, singer Betty Harris, Tony-nominated actress Mary Bridget Davies (A Night with Janis Joplin), and Broadway stars from the musical Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story, including Bryan Fenkart, Linda Hart, and Teresa Gattison. Highlights included a stirring performance 'Cry to Me' by Harris, an artist signed to Berns’ Jubilee record label whose 1962 cover version was a Top 10 R&B hit. Harris celebrated her 86th birthday that night as the audience joined in singing 'Happy Birthday.' The night concluded with Fenkart leading the audience in a rousing finale of Twist and Shout.'""While the annual SHOF gala does not usually include posthumous inductions for songwriters after their death, the organization hosts its special posthumous inductions at unique venues and events. Deceased writers to be considered for posthumous induction were included in a special segment of the 2025 SHOF ballot."Pictured (L to R): Bert Berns and Atlantic Records Jerry Wexler (Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Bert Berns Family)The post Songwriters Hall of Fame Posthumously Inducts Bern Berns first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

The music industry is broken. OpenWav’s new app aims to change thatOpenWav is building a direct-to-fan platform for music artists which lets them keep more of the profits.