If UMG Gets Its Way, Smaller Indie Artists Won’t Get Paid As Much From StreamingLast week, UMG and Deezer made an announcement that is set to be the biggest upheaval to the recorded music industry payment structure since the launch of streaming.

Everything we know and don’t know about AI in Music [Mark Mulligan, MIDiA]This post from Mark Mullihgan of top consultancy MIDiA may help calm any nervous moments you’re having about AI in music and the music industry as well as help you. Continue reading
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RELEASE DETAILS
Release title:
333 (Diss Track)
Main artist name:
Sina Arpa
Release date:
10th Nov, 2018
https://publme.lnk.to/333DissTrack
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RELEASE DETAILS
Release title:
Taghdim Azadi (feat. Rfan)
Main artist name:
Argin
Release date:
3rd Dec, 2022
https://publme.lnk.to/TaghdimAzadi
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Vicious Antelope Pluck6 - Mercury-6 Pluck6 contains 34 nostalgic short synths for Cherry Audio Mercury-6 synthesizer, heavily inspired by the 80s. From heavy plucks with many bass and low mids frequencies to softer and brighter... Read More

“It was the quickest way to get there”: How Disclosure used Serato Sample to create a track within a weekBritish dance duo Disclosure have revealed the rapid re-sampling process that took their recent track Simply Won’t Do from its demo stage through to completion in the space of a week.

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As explained in the latest Tape Notes podcast, Serato Sample, brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence reveal, was instrumental in the creation of the track.
In this case, Guy took an early demo made by Howard, containing vocals, drums, percussion and bass, and bounced down variations with certain parts muted, later chopping them up in the plugin.

“I’d bounced out a load of versions with various parts muted and not muted,” he explains, “threw them all into Serato Sample, and just started chopping it up right in front of Howard.
“Simply Won’t Do was the last song we made for the whole record,” says Guy, “and I’m talking like the week before mastering. It was a proper last-minute one. When you’ve got a week before mastering and are just trying to see if there’s one more song to grab, like from the air, I figured [Serato Sample] was the quickest way to get there.”
Serato Sample is a plugin dedicated to chopping up and manipulating imported audio, offering high-quality time stretching, pitch detection and correction, and automatic sample recognition. It features a familiar cue-point workflow like in Serato DJ, allowing you to adjust parameters such as volume, pitch, attack, release, or filter settings easily.

Guy loaded the entire track into Serato Sample and then experimented with its parameters, hitting a Random feature that triggered notes at different points in the song. After about half an hour of exploration, he stumbled upon a unique and hypnotic vocal loop, which he then fine-tuned by applying effects and filters to give it movement.
To create variation, Guy replaced it with a different file while retaining the same trigger points but with varying instruments or vocals.
Also in the podcast, the brothers discuss how they automated the formants in Soundtoys’ Little AlterBoy plugin on their track Looking For Love to amplify the emotions in Howard’s vocals. They also discuss mixdowns, saying “bad is not a thing in mixing”.
Interested in having a go at this re-sampling technique used by Disclosure? Download Serato Sample for $162 via Thomann.
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Focal’s Trio6 has a Focus Mode to give you three studio monitors in oneFrench manufacturer Focal has expanded its ST6 monitor range with the Trio6. The speaker boasts a dual Focus mode, an eight-inch subwoofer with a patented ‘W’ cone, and “remarkable sound neutrality across the full sound spectrum,” says the brand.
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Made in Focal’s workshop in France, the new Trio6 three-way studio monitor is said by the brand to deliver “uncompromising performance.”
This is thanks to the five-inch midrange woofer with Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) technology, which reduces distortion between 1kHz and 3kHz by 50 percent; a beryllium tweeter with Infinite Acoustic Loading (IAL) for taming resonances; and the W cone eight-inch subwoofer, which is a new innovation from the brand.
Elsewhere in the design, the speaker’s large laminar port “significantly limits port noise,” says Focal. Plus, the strengthened cabinet ensures better sound damping and therefore less distortion.

The dual Focus mode gives you an additional two reference points, allowing you to switch the monitors to a two-day or one-way design. You can connect this to a foot pedal to toggle the Focus mode as you please while listening. This feature will prove ideal for hearing your mix on smaller systems.
Following its sibling, the Solo6 and Twin6, the Trio6 features a variable high-pass crossover, a 160Hz parametric crossover, and an automatic standby mode.
Focal says that “with its impressively fluid speaker drivers, its fully analogue filtering and its carefully considered design to enhance performance, Trio6 is a versatile work tool that will win the complete confidence of sound engineers, sound designers, composers, beatmakers and producers alike.”
Image: Focal
MusicTech caught a first look at the Trio6 at Artistic Palace, Paris, where Focal presented the new speaker. A full review will be online in the upcoming weeks, but we can tell you now that these speakers are beautifully designed and sound seriously impressive. The Focus mode’s versatility is sure to be a boon for mixing and mastering, while the Trio6’s plush design will elevate the decor of most studio spaces.
Of course, flagship monitors from a brand as prestigious as Focal are never going to be light on the wallet. At $3,499/£2,599 per speaker, these will be competing with the likes of Genelec and Eve Audio monitors.
We’re looking forward to comparing the Trio6 to other models to see how they fare.
Learn more at focal.com.
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Boss introduce NS-1X Noise Suppressor Boss’ latest X series pedal uses the company’s Multi-Dimensional Processing technology to intelligently silence noise without any negative effects on tone. 

Baby Audio Transit breathes life into your transitions, courtesy of Andrew HuangBaby Audio and seasoned producer and YouTuber Andrew Huang have collaborated on a new creative effects plugin that can create epic transitions with the twist of a single dial.

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Transit boasts 18 effects modules, where every parameter can be linked to a master macro dial, helping speed up your workflow and potentially reduce complex automation drawing down to a single lane. It’s slick, well-designed, and has enough control and complexity to make it a serious sound manipulation tool. But does it actually offer anything more than what’s already available in your DAW?
Baby Audio Transit randomisation
As with other Baby Audio’s plugins, Transit has a bold, crisp and modern-looking user interface that relies on colours and easy-to-understand icons rather than on an abundance of text. Settings, readouts and parameter amounts change as you hover over each control, which helps greatly to reduce clutter and keep you in the flow.
There’s a large macro dial in the Transit Control module and then seven slots for loading any of the 18 effects modules. These include delay, reverb, flanger, chorus, phaser, tremolo, autopan, distortion (five types), bitcrusher, multimode filters, a pitch shifter with built-in LFO, a stereo spreader, a sidechain ‘pumping’ effect, an over-the-top (OTT) three-band compression effect, plus a utility with volume, pan and tone controls.
To help with those big, hands-in-the-air moments, you also get a white noise generator with a filter, and an oscillator with four waveforms and unison spread controls.

We’re happy to report that quality is pretty high across the board – especially impressive is the liveliness and resonance of the filters. That said, the pitch shifter’s sound isn’t blowing us away and is probably restricted by the need to reduce the latency and CPU demands. It would also improve the flexibility if the reverb module had more than one algorithm to choose from, or even better if there was a module that could load impulse responses.
Even without this macro control, you have the basis of a pretty decent, static multi-effects tool. Although the module controls are far from extensive, there’s enough here to pull off some interesting and effective sound design.
However, this plugin was made for movement, and each of the main module controls has a dot next to it, which you can link to the Transit Control dial. You can then set the start and end positions (forwards or backwards), and click inside the dial to adjust the slope of the transition. This is an essential element that really helps you fine-tune how each parameter reacts to the movement of the main macro.
If you flick through the 300+ presets by Huang and several other artists, you realise the kinds of crazy sounds Transit is capable of. These include more traditional noise and pitch risers, alongside pitch-warbling distortions and more epic-sounding washout effects.
Naturally, some of the patches come across as quite extreme and will need tweaking to perfectly fit your tracks. Or, even better, build up your own library of custom transitions and chains.
The real time-saver here is that you can audition more complex sweeps without having to experiment with adjusting lots of different automation. If you want to re-use a sweep elsewhere in a track, you can just copy over the single automation lane, and making a shorter version is as simple as changing the length of a single line.
Baby Audio Transit FX list part 1
One thing that you need to consider when programming patches or when using some of the presets, is the distribution of volume across the whole sweep. Although it’s dependent on the source material, we find certain presets lose volume and energy at the extremes when there’s a lot of filtering or phasing going on. You can help mitigate this by using the gain dial in the Utility module, or by using the OTT module to flatten things out – note that OTT often changes the overall timbre of the sound, though.
Baby Audio should implement a volume balancing tool into Transit, either through auto-gain, a volume-rider effect, or a more subtle upward compression module.
To add a whole other dimension to the plugin, you can turn the Transit Control module from a macro into a motion sequencer. This lets you select the length of the sequence and then trigger it with a single button, which will auto-quantise to the start of the next bar.
You could feasibly have several instances set up in a live set, and then easily trigger an array of dramatic transitions with simple button presses. As Transit is an audio effect, you’ll have to set up any MIDI mapping via your DAW. Hopefully, we’ll see an AU MIDI effect version in a future update.
The motion sequencer has a switch to turn on looping, which transforms the whole plugin into more of an LFO tool, and also another switch to make the loop go back and forth instead of just forwards.
This opens up an extra bag of tricks, including options for adding subtle, repeating modulations to synth lines or beats, or crazy looping effects that can be brought in and out using the wet/dry control. We’d love Baby Audio to bring more flexibility to this in a future update with additional LFO-style shapes and a slope control as with the other parameters. It would also be helpful if the wet/dry slider could be sent to the Transition Control.
Elsewhere, the plugin has useful features such as the ability to turn on tails for the delay and reverb, which means that when you return the macro to zero, the decays will still echo out. You can also switch on an ‘Infinity Icon’ button, which keeps the effects engaged even when the dial is set to 0 per cent. This helps when you want to have some modules on permanently, and then smoothly transition into a modulation or sweep.
Baby Audio Transit FX list part 2
We’ve saved one final feature for the end, and it’s quite an impressive one. Transit includes a comprehensive and flexible randomisation engine that lets you set specific ranges or lock individual modules and controls. You can then randomise each module separately or the entire plugin, which can lead to some amazing happy accidents. Huang shows off a fun use of the feature in one of the product videos, where he rhythmically clicks to generate random presets over a beat, with the effects mix set to 50/50 to add a shifting background texture.
When a brand claims its latest plugin simplifies music production processes, there are often multiple comments online that imply that the same can be done using stock tools in any particular DAW. You could argue that tools that simplify tasks can lead to a more homogenised sound when many producers use the same effects. But Transit is more than deep enough to be a creative powerhouse that you can make your own.
There are other multi-effects plugins that can be used for transitions such as Sugar Bytes’ Turnado, Devious Machines’ Infiltrator 2 and more recently, Toolroom Infinite, but Transit’s focus on macro control, flexible programming and fluid workflow make it stand out from the crowd.
There’s still room for improvement, and we’d love to see some extra modules like a buffer repeat, impulse response loader, and the ability to load your own noise samples. Thankfully, Huang has mentioned that the team is already working on adding more modules and preset expansions, so we look forward to seeing how the plugin develops.
Key Features

Multi-effects plugin designed for transitions and movement
300+ presets created by Andrew Huang and friends of Baby Audio
Control multiple parameters in up to seven effects using one dial
18 effects: Delay, reverb, flanger, chorus, phaser, tremolo, autopan, distortion, bitcrusher, 12- or 24-slope multimode filters, pitch shifter, stereo spreader, sidechain pump, OTT compression, utility, noise and oscillator generators
Transit Control can have macro dial or motion sequencer
Loop mode turns motion sequencer into LFO
Light and dark GUI modes
Resizable user interface
VST, VST3, AU, AAX
Price: $99 (intro price $59)
Contact: babyaud.io

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SWIFT enrolls 3 central banks in CBDC interoperability beta test, expands sandboxThe bank messaging network has seen a dramatic increase in processing speed and is developing technology to connect CBDCs.

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Aarow Releases Dyst FREE Dynamic Saturation Plugin
Aarow releases Dyst, a free (pay what you want) dynamic saturation plugin for Windows and macOS. I’ve honestly lost track of how many distortion and saturation plugins I have residing on my hard drives. You can’t help it after a point. All those different flavors of harmonics might come in useful on a snare or [...]
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