Rode VideoCaster gains NDI support With the latest firmware installed, the RodeCaster Video is able to access up to four NDI (Network Device Interface) inputs and one NDI output over its Ethernet connection.

Eldoraudio releases a FREE AI-powered online piano audio to MIDI converter
Eldoraudio has launched a new online Piano Audio to MIDI Converter, a free-to-use service. There are a couple of conditions of use, the first of which is that your file size cannot exceed 50MB. If you’re trying to convert a larger WAV file, you may have to convert it to a smaller MP3 first. The [...]
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UVI ReLayer is FREE with any paid Plugin Boutique purchase in September
Plugin Boutique is offering UVI ReLayer for free with any paid purchase throughout September 2025. If you’ve been curious about this feature-rich delay plugin, now’s a great time to grab it. There’s no need to wait for a future sale or bundle (like the one we featured earlier this year). As long as your purchase isn’t [...]
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“I was making music without ever having been to a venue or club”: Ninajirachi on her formative years as a producerYou might think for an EDM producer to have a solid grasp of the genre in which they are making music, they must have some degree of experience in a club, venue or other dance music setting.
But in the case of Aussie producer and DJ Ninajirachi, she first got into electronic music when she was just 12 years old, as she tells MusicTech in a recent episode of the My Forever Studio podcast, made in partnership with Audient.

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Her musical journey started as young as “six or seven” when she took up piano, before discovering GarageBand a couple of years later, and easing herself into the basics of producing.
“I would just loop the stock loops and record over the top through the MacBook microphone. A lot of the first recordings, I didn’t know how to turn the metronome off, so it would be just completely out of time with everything I was recording over the top. I still have a bunch of those old recordings.
“I eventually started using different software when I got into electronic music when I was in early high school, like maybe about 12 years old. And I realised I kind of needed something more powerful if I wanted to make sounds like the ones I was hearing in my favourite songs.”
Ninajirachi explains that while her taste for “traditional” EDM diminished as she approached her mid teens, she acknowledges that the genre was “kind of like a gateway drug” into discovering more niche “producer music”.
“I was also making music without ever having been to a show or a venue or a club,” she goes on. “And I didn’t know anything about dance music functionality or why there was a build up and a drop. I just thought that sounded cool.”
Ninajirachi’s flavour of ‘girlEDM’ takes inspiration from hyperpop, hard dance, electro house and video game music, and her credentials include remixes for Deadmau5 and The Neptunes and playing with the Charli XCX.
Listen the full My Forever Studio episode with Ninajirachi below:

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Hit the Decks! It's French Producer NoizinskiFrench producer Noizinski started producing in 2012 when he saw his older brother making music with FL Studio 10 on the family computer. "I had no idea it was possible to create music so easily with just one program on a computer," he says. "It was a revelation. I was 13, and I had just found the medium that fit me perfectly. From 2012 to 2016, I experimented and learned a lot, sharing my progress on SoundCloud. Then in 2017, I released my first single on streaming platforms with my first label, 'Tradekraft Collective.' The single is called Wolbretten. Even if it might sound a bit German, it’s a name I completely invented. It was an idea I had for my singles, but right from the first one I realized it would be hard for listeners to remember the title, so I quickly abandoned the idea."The artist describes his sound as, "a mix of Techno, Bass House, Mid-tempo and probably other styles. Some people call it 'Dark clubbing.' It’s dark, with heavy bass and strong rhythms, but also with a touch of melancholy when I use melodies. That contrast is what really defines my style."Noizinski's latest release is the Outer Consequences EP."Outer Consequences is my latest EP, and my most refined work so far. It’s really the project that represents me best," he says. "It continues from my previous EP, Inner Conflict, which is why the artwork looks similar, almost like the two covers were taken just minutes apart. I wanted to make a follow-up that continues the story, but with more energy and rhythm. This new EP shows the result of that inner conflict. Each track is like a different step or change in the mind."As for gear: "I mostly work just with my DAW, which is FL Studio," he says. "I mainly use its native plugins, but for creating almost all my sounds I use Phaseplant by Kilohearts. I really love it. It was a bit tricky to fully understand at first and it’s less straightforward than other synths, but the possibilities are endless and it’s so fun to experiment. As for gear, I only have Beyerdynamic DT-770 headphones, an old Focusrite sound card, a microphone from Thomann, and a ZOOM H1N stereo recorder for sampling."Looking ahead, Noizinski has plenty planned for the rest of 2025."I can’t say much for now but I’m planning to release a new EP before the end of the year, and it will be quite different from Outer Consequences," he says. "It’s more minimal, more raw, more personal. Not really made for dancing, but more for listening alone, maybe while driving, when you just think and nod your head. It’s still my style, but in another way. Fewer layers, more space for each sound. I hope to release it before the end of the year!"

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Live Music Industry News Roundup: Clubs, Festivals, Stocks, MoreFrom guides, to reports, to venue news, we've got it all when it comes to live music music industry news. Check out stories like a new ROSTR and Bandsintown artist showcase, struggling UK venues, Bandcamp predicting tariff troubles, commonly misunderstood gig terms and more...
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Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Spotify DMs, Suno, Anthropic, MoreEpisode 265 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. LISTEN HERE: Episode 265 Listen on your favorite. Continue reading
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Wayne Jones Audio Monitors - special pricing offer Until 30 September 2025, renowned Australian studio loudspeaker designers Wayne Jones Audio are offering a selection of deals across their monitoring line-up.

“A home for Bristol’s nightlife for years to come”: Iconic nightclub Motion is reopening in a new locationJust weeks after iconic Bristol music venue Motion closed its doors, owners have confirmed it’s set to reopen in a new location.
“Motion is evolving,” organisers write in a new post on Instagram. “We’re moving to a new space, designed to be a home for Bristol’s nightlife for years to come.”

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Per Bristol Live, Motion’s new home will be located on Victoria Terrace, St. Phillips, roughly a 10-minute walk from the club’s previous home on Avon Street, near Bristol Temple Meads.
Motion permanently closed its doors on July 20, 2025, 19 years after it first opened. Organisers battled with the venue’s landlord in order to secure a lease extension, but admitted it was becoming “increasingly likely” it would close.
“If Motion goes, Bristol loses more than just a venue. It loses a part of its soul,” organisers wrote at the time. “Watching spaces like this disappear, knowing more could have been done to protect them, is gutting. It’s happening in every major city, and it’s happening here. We’re fighting it with everything we’ve got, but we need the powers that be to step up too.”
While a lease extension on Avon Street was not to be, Motion owners are now moving forward with reopening in the new location, and are kicking things off with a new party concept, Momentum, which will “champion local artists and independent brands”.
“This is our way of letting the new venue grow organically, just like the early days of Motion.
A space for the city’s underground to connect, discover and shape its own future,” they write.
What is Momentum? “A creative lab in our new home, where we test ideas and shape the future of Bristol’s nightlife together.”
Organisers are encouraging artists, brands and collaborators to get involved by emailing info@motion-bristol.com.

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Win over $12k worth of production gear by remixing Madonna’s Ray of Light in Beatport’s Global Remix ChallengeMore than $12,000 worth of production hardware and software is on the line in Beatport’s new Ray of Light Global Remix Challenge. The competition, created in partnership with Warner Music Group and Madonna herself, invites producers around the world to reimagine the pop icon’s 1998 electronic classic.

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From now to 25 September, participants can download the official stems from Madonna and producer William Orbit’s original session and submit their rework through Beatport’s LabelRadar platform. Winners will be announced on 15 October via Beatportal.
As mentioned, the grand prize package is an enviable one worth over $12,000, and features top-shelf studio gear and software, including Lewitt’s Pure Tube microphone, IK Multimedia’s iLoud Micro Monitor Pro, Beyerdynamic DT 1990 PRO MKII headphones, Minimal Audio’s full ‘Everything Minimal’ software bundle, UVI’s SonicBundle, and more. The winner will also receive a signed Ray of Light vinyl from Madonna herself.
Runners-up won’t go empty handed either. The second-place prize features UVI’s Vintage Vault 4, Lewitt’s Ray microphone, and a stack of software bundles and subscriptions, while third place nets UVI’s Falcon Version 3, Lewitt’s Connect 2 audio interface, and other premium software tools.
The contest also lands alongside the long-delayed release of Veronica Electronica, a shelved 1988 companion project to Ray of Light featuring club remixes by Orbit, Sasha, BT, Victor Calderone, and the late Peter Rauhofer. The original album, which sold over 16 million copies and earned Madonna four Grammys including Best Dance Recording, marked her shift from pop into electronic territory with Orbit at the helm.
“My appreciation for the art of remixing has been passionate since I started making music,” says Madonna in a press statement. “The ability to propel boundaries and do the unexpected is something I can relate to as an artist. I look forward to hearing everyone’s interpretation – don’t hold back.”
Here’s how you can enter:

Download the official Ray of Light stems from Beatportal
Redeem a free Excite Audio Bloom Drum Machine Lite plugin (worth $29) with the code rayoflight at checkout.
Submit your remix via LabelRadar by 25 September

Head over to Beatportal for more information on the contest.
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B.S Audio Tools releases FREE B.S Audio Utility for Ableton Live
B.S Audio Tools has released B.S Audio Utility, a free Max for Live device designed to replace and improve upon Ableton’s stock Utility plugin. I don’t use Ableton Live myself, so I haven’t tested this one firsthand, but the developer reached out about it, and I figured it definitely looks like a handy upgrade for [...]
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Ewan Bristow releases LOCD, a FREE phase-lock distortion plugin for macOS, Windows & Linux
Ewan Bristow has released LOCD, a free plugin that offers a fresh and gritty take on distortion and sound shaping for macOS, Windows, and Linux. LOCD (short for Locked Oscillator Correlation Device) is built around a relatively simple idea, but the result is really cool and unlike any other plugin I have tested so far. [...]
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AI will make stocks obsolete, driving investors to Bitcoin: AnalystArtificial intelligence will speed up innovation exponentially, making slow-moving public companies a poor investment vehicle in the future.

UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’tThe U.K. recently started enforcing new age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on traffic to porn sites.

Lightning Talks On Time, With This DeviceAsk a Hackaday scribe who’s helped run the lightning talks at one of our events, and they’ll tell you that keeping the speakers on time is a challenge. Conversely if the staffer is trying to indicate to the speaker how much time they have left, it must be difficult from the podium to keep track while delivering your talk. Fortunately there’s [makeTVee] waiting in the wings with a solution, a cube whose faces each have a custom 5×7 LED matrix on them. The countdown is clear and unambiguous, and should provide no distractions.
The brains behind it all is a XIAO nRF52840 Sense board using the Zephyr RTOS, the LEDs are WS2812s on their own PCBs, and the party piece is only revealed at the end of the countdown. A tilt mechanism triggered by a servo releases a ball bearing down a track, where it hits a telephone bell and provides a very audible reminder to the speaker. The result saw action during the lightning talks at the Hackaday Europe event earlier in the year, but it’s taken a while for the write-up to make it online.