Xilentch XMEQ Introducing XMEQ Mastering Tone EQ! Shape your sound with carefully selected frequency points. These bands are crafted from years of expertise to help you capture a truly musical tone. As with every series, this plugin never compromises on that classic "Analog" feel—adding a delightful character. Its filter curves are inspired by vintage designs. Put the finishing touches on your music and your sound! With an intuitive user interface, you can effortlessly infuse musical character. You'll be amazed by the silky sheen of the highs, the clarity and punch of the mids, and the weight and fullness of the lows! And, as always, it runs in real time with low CPU usage! Read More

Lawyers could face ‘severe’ penalties for fake AI-generated citations, UK court warnshe High Court of England and Wales says lawyers need to take stronger steps to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence in their work.

In a ruling tying together two recent cases, Judge Victoria Sharp wrote that generative AI tools like ChatGPT “are not capable of conducting reliable legal research."

Let’s Buy Commodore! Well, Somebody Is.When a man wearing an Atari T-shirt tells you he’s buying Commodore it sounds like the plot for an improbable 1980s movie in which Nolan Bushnell and Jack Tramiel do battle before a neon synthwave sunset to a pulsating chiptune soundtrack. But here on the screen there’s that guy doing just that, It’s [Retro Recipes], and in the video below he’s assembling a licensing deal for the Commodore brand portfolio from the distant descendant of the Commodore of old.
It’s a fascinating story and we commend him for tracing a path through the mess that unfolded for Commodore in the 1990s. We tried the same research path with a friend a few years ago and ended up with an anonymous Dutch paper company that wouldn’t answer our calls, so we’re impressed. In conjunction with several other players in the Commodore retrocomputing world he’s trying to assemble a favourable percentage deal for manufacturers of new parts, computers, and other goodies, and we’re pleased to see that it’s for the smaller player as much as for the industry giant.
When looking at a story like this though, it’s important not to let your view become clouded by those rose tinted glasses. While it’s great that we’re likely to see a bunch of new Commodore-branded Commodore 64s and parts, there are many pitfalls in taking it beyond that. We’ve seen the Commodore logo on too many regrettable licensed products in the past, and we fear it might be too tempting for it to end up on yet another disappointing all-in-one video game or just another budget PC. If something new comes out under the Commodore brand we’d like it to be really special, exploiting new ground in the way the Amiga did back in the day. We can hope, because the alternative has dragged other famous brands through the mud in recent years.
If you want an insight into the roots of the original Commodore’s demise, have a read of our Hackaday colleague [Bil Herd]’s autobiography.

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Gallery: Music Business Worldwide x Luminate’s Music Leaders’ Dinner at SXSW LondonLuminate CEO Rob Jonas and MBW founder/publisher Tim Ingham jointly hosted the dinner
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NatLife Sounds Nero Cyberpunk for Roland Zen CoreNero Cyberpunk for Roland Zen-Core is a powerful dystopian soundbank that bridges the gap between past and future. Inspired by Nero's My Eyes, this collection was built entirely from scratch, meticulously recreating the essence and atmosphere of that track. With these presets, you'll be able to make music with a similar mood and intensity. These sounds blend elements from different eras, making them perfect for Cyberpunk, Synthwave, Neuropunk, or any other genre of electronic music. Inside, you'll find some of the most powerful basslines ever produced on this engine, alongside incredibly dystopian and atmospheric pads, expressive leads, unique synth tones, plucks, vocal-inspired textures, and much more. The soundbank contains 64 Zenology presets, which are: 12 Leads. 17 Synth Leads & Plucks. 12 Pads. 12 Basses. 1 Brass. 2 OSC Leads. 2 Plucks. 1 AAH. This soundpack was created using Zenology Pro and is fully compatible with it, as well as the following Roland Zen-Core instruments: JUPITER-X. JUPITER-Xm. JUNO-X. FANTOM EX. FANTOM-0 Series. JUNO-DS Series. V-Stage Series. RD-88 EX. RD-08. AX-Edge. FP-E50. GO:KEYS 5 / 3. MC-707. MC-101. VERSELAB MV-1. Aerophone Pro / AE-20. BOSS GM-800 Guitar Synthesizer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Km2Gcf1bQk https://youtu.be/L08OeQgEMQ0?si=BA4LxBgdyqA0gAY- Read More

Is a Bitcoin price rally to $150K possible by year's end?A bearish RSI divergence, similar to 2021, suggests Bitcoin could face a 50%+ correction toward $64,000, challenging the $150K year-end target.

Music Business News Last Week: AI Scams, Short-lived hits, MoreHere’s a look at what’s buzzing in music business news last week from a new Leadership Music class, to why songs are burning out faster, how P-pop groups like BINI and SB19 are making waves worldwide, and more...
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DIY and Independent Musician News Last WeekHere’s a must-read collection of independent musician news, featuring TikTok’s new artist tools, a simple guide to music copyrights and royalties, and much more...
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Synchron Solo Viola from Vienna Symphonic Library VSL have released Synchron Solo Viola, a new solo string virtual instrument captured at the company’s flagship scoring space, Synchron Stage Vienna.

2025 will be a ‘pivotal year’ for Meta’s augmented and virtual reality, says CTOAndrew "Boz" Bosworth, Meta's CTO, says 2025 will be a pivotal year for Reality Labs, the company's augmented and virtual reality unit.

ETF issuers pen letter urging SEC return to ‘first-to-file’ approvalsETF issuers say abandoning the long-held first-to-file method stifles innovation and rewards lazy behavior on the part of filers.

A Flip Clock Becomes a Flip TimerSometimes it’s nice to have a widget to do a single task and avoid getting distracted by the supposed simplicity of doing it with an app on a smartphone. [Dina Amin] built a timer from an old flip clock to stay focused.
Starting with a disassembly of the flip clocks she found at a flea market with [Simone Giertz], [Amin] decided to change the twenty four hour mechanism to a twenty four minute one which was similar to the amount of time she was already using for several different practices. Since she’s an expert in animation, she planned on turning a set of CT scans into the animation that would play on the section that had previously been the minutes of the clock.
As much of the original clock’s components were damaged, and [Amin] didn’t have a chance to learn clockmaking from scratch in a week, she tried a few different drive mechanisms for the build. The drum from an air fryer timer driven with an electric motor fit the bill, but off enough from proper minutes that [Amin] switched from numerals to a yellow circle that fills in as it approaches the satisfying ding of completion.
If you want to see Simone’s Moon flip clock we’ve covered that project too.

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“I can’t find the hook. It just keeps on going, and then it ends”: Barry Manilow’s issue with modern songwritingBarry Manilow thinks songwriting has changed, and that young artists don’t write the same way he was trained to.
Manilow – known for hits such as Copacabana and Mandy – is currently amid his The Last Concerts tour, and is planning to release a new album by the end of the summer which he says will probably be his last. Manilow also runs the Manilow Music Project, which has provided schools with instruments and equipment for over 30 years.

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In an interview with Billboard, he discusses the forthcoming album: “I’ve been working on it for a long time…for so long that the style of music has changed [laughs]. I had to go back and redo [the songs] so they sounded a little more contemporary.
“I had to take all the strings out, all the background vocals out ‘cause they don’t do that anymore. They don’t use strings and background vocals and all that. Even I heard that it sounded dated, so we had to go back and redo it,” he says.
“The songwriting has changed. Young people don’t write the way I was trained to write. There’s no verse which goes into the chorus which goes back to the verse which goes to [the] ending, and you change keys. They don’t do that.
“They start the song and then they just…it feels like a run-on sentence to me. I can’t find the hook. I can’t find the chorus. It just keeps on going, and then it ends,” Manilow continues. However, he assures his own album will stick to the classic formula. “That’s not what this album is, and that’s not the way I know how to write, and I think my contemporary songwriters and people I work with would say the same.”

Barry Manilow will continue playing shows for his Last Concerts tour in July. He is also playing a number of shows in Las Vegas as part of his residency at the International Theater. You can find out more via his official website. 
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From the majors’ reported AI music licensing talks to Goldman Sachs’ new report… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
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