Ravine DSP update Inter::State Ravine DSP's latest Inter::State update kits the plug-in host out with a Slot Scenes function that offers yet more modulation and control possibilities. 

Suno Studio 2.0 puts an AI assistant in the DAWSuno has upgraded its Suno Studio DAW to version 2.0, introducing new features such as advanced stem separation, MIDI tools, and even the ability to converse with the DAW itself.
Suno Studio launched in 2025, combining the generative AI technology Suno is notorious for with the typical features you’d find inside a DAW. MusicTech reviewed the platform earlier this year, rating it 6/10.

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What’s new in Suno Studio 2.0?
Starting with the most on-the-nose addition for Suno, Studio 2.0 now lets users chat with the DAW itself “like you would any other collaborator”. You can ask ‘Chat’ to create instruments and vocals from scratch, collaborate with it to design new plugins, or even request that it tidies up your session.
Chat is said to understand music production, so you can speak to it like you would “any other member of the band”. At launch, creating new plugins won’t require credits, “though a credit structure may be introduced in the future”, states Suno.
On a more requested note, users of Studio 2.0 can now import, record and edit MIDI directly on the timeline, and design their own sounds with a new wavetable synth. MIDI clips can also be used as a prompt for new audio generations. If you don’t have a MIDI controller, you can play notes using your typing keyboard.
Suno has also updated Studio with its latest advanced stem separation tool, letting users extract stems with “amazing audio fidelity”. And, for the first time, users can alter track and plugin parameters over time by drawing automation curves.
As a Premier subscriber, users can also export multitracks and stems from Studio without limitations.

How to access Suno Studio 2.0
Suno Studio 2.0 is available now for its Premier users. Its Premier subscription plan costs £18 per month.
Find out more about Suno Studio 2.0 via the Suno website.
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Spotify to label AI-generated artists and exclude them from editorial or algorithmic recommendations by defaultSpotify is introducing ‘AI persona’ labels to identify artist profiles that do not represent real humans, and will not include their music in its editorial or algorithmic recommendations by default.
These new identification labels will roll out from mid-September. Profiles can self-disclose themselves as AI Personas – and Spotify “hopes artists will be transparent” – but it will also start applying badges to relevant users through its own review team.

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In a blog post shared to the Spotify Newsroom, it says that artist identity and trust is one of its “very top priorities” this year, and that while it believes “all artists have creative choice in determining how they present themselves, Spotify’s programming is focused on elevating music from authentic artists building careers in music.”
Profiles that are flagged by Spotify’s review team will be notified and given the opportunity to self-disclose or appeal. In the coming months, listeners will also have the ability to report artist profiles for review team themselves. Users will be able to see whether an artist has transparently shared that they’re an AI Persona, or if Spotify had to review and make an informed determination itself by clicking on the badge.
Spotify will be reviewing profiles that appear to represent photorealistic AI-generated identities only. The badge is solely about the artist’s public identity, not about how their music was made. With that in mind, it urges users to look at its AI Credits and SongDNA features for further information on this.
Earlier this year, Spotify also rolled out a feature allowing artists to review music releases before they go live on their profile in response to tracks landing on the wrong pages and the growing number of AI music. It has also, however, launched a number of other new features that embrace AI tech, such as an AI remix tool made in partnership with Universal Music Group.
For further information, head to the Spotify Newsroom.
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What happens when a plugin finally meets its users
When VATRA launched, it finally stopped living in a vacuum of my own ideas. I knew v1.0 wasn’t the end, but after almost two years of development, it felt like the plugin had finally left my hands as the thing I wanted it to be. Then the customer feedback started coming in. People loved VATRA, [...]
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MathSynth is a free iOS synth that turns mathematical equations into instrumentsWhat if your next synth patch started with an equation? That’s the idea behind MathSynth, a new iOS app that turns mathematical functions into musical instruments.
Rather than treating maths and music as two separate worlds, MathSynth puts the two together in a single creative playground. Users can write mathematical equations, turn them into waveforms in real time and then use those results as sounds you can actually play.

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The idea is to explore the relationship between mathematics and sound, but MathSynth isn’t just a glorified graphing calculator with a synth attached. It’s designed as a “creative hub” for learning and making music, experimenting with synthesis, and sharing what you come up with.
Once you’ve generated a waveform, you can sculpt it into a playable sound and bring it to life using MathSynth’s integrated MIDI synthesizer. The app also supports “virtually unlimited polyphony”, allowing you to take those mathematical creations beyond one-note experiments and build something more substantial with them.
And once you’ve made something suitably weird, you can save and publish it for others to hear. Users can also browse and download sounds created by other MathSynth users.
Credit: MathSynth
There’s an educational side to the app too. MathSynth includes a series of interactive lessons hosted by a virtual teacher named Kai, which use sound to make mathematical concepts easier to understand. Quizzes are also built into the lessons, giving users a way to test what they’ve picked up along the way.
MathSynth is currently available in Beta v1.2 for iOS through Apple’s TestFlight. The core experience is free, while beta testers can use the code BETATESTER to unlock three months of Premium access.
There’s also a little incentive to get experimental: publish 10 original sounds during the beta and you’ll qualify for an exclusive Founding Member reward when MathSynth officially launches.
Learn more at MathSynth.
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KNALWERK Hard Techno Sample Pack BundleGet all 3 KNALWERK Hard Techno Sample Packs for the price of 2. The complete Vol. 1–3 collection gives you 165 production-ready samples built for aggressive Hard & Industrial Techno, plus 5 bonus Serum 2 presets. What's inside 30 Industrial Kicks. 30 Rhythmic Kicks. 30 Rumble Kicks. 45 Top Loops. 30 Screaming Vocal Phrases. 5 Bonus Serum 2 Presets. Built for Hard Techno · Industrial Techno · Schranz · Bochka. Each sound is crafted with club and festival playback in mind. Powerful, clean, and designed to hold its weight on large sound systems. Read More

Pittsburgh Modular’s Lifeforms SV-2 arrives after a decade of research on synthesisPittsburgh Modular Synthesizers has launched Lifeforms SV-2, a new version of its Lifeforms SV-1 synth, following a decade of developmental research.
Lifeforms SV-2 offers new oscillators, waveshapes, overdrives, filter character modes, envelopes, and a new spring reverb. The company describes it as an “instrument that offers the organic warmth and power of vintage analogue alongside the expanded creative potential of modern ideas”.

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As for its key features, the oscillator core has been redesigned to include Thru-zero FM and Phase Modulation, allowing the new triangle core oscillator to stay in tune “even under extreme frequency modulation”.
Further expanding its sound palette, a Pulse Symmetry waveform adds a second ‘vertical’ dimension of modulation to pulse waves, and a proprietary Blade Wave creates a sawtooth variant that is said to offer a dense, natural chorus effect.
The synth also hosts the Pittsburgh Filter, a critically acclaimed state-variable, multimode analogue filter. Its architecture ensures that signal amplitude and harmonic warmth remain stable throughout the entire sweep, eliminating dead spots.
Lifeforms SV-2 also introduces a pair of Character modes and customised Overdrive for vintage-inspired grit and harmonic saturation. The Character modes recontextualise legacy signal-processing techniques to dynamically reshape the filtered waveforms, further enhanced by the integrated overdrive circuit.
Find out more in the video below:

Lifeforms SV-2 is priced at $1,499. Learn more via the Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers website.
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Immanent Audio releases IA De-Esser, a FREE de-essing plugin
Immanent Audio has released IA De-Esser, a free de-essing and resonance suppression plugin for macOS and Windows. IA De-Esser does things a bit differently. Instead of a single module, it has four filter slots for taming sibilance, harshness, and resonant peaks. Each slot can work in De-Ess mode, where it automatically responds to sibilance, or [...]
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Hawaii crypto ATM ban to take effect on Oct. 1Hawaii will join Minnesota, Tennessee and Indiana in becoming the fourth US state to completely ban the use of cryptocurrency ATMs and kiosks in response to scams.

Northrop’s robot space mechanic is a new way to keep satellites at work longerThe Mission Robotic Vehicle is making the first attempt to attach a new thruster to an aging satellite.

"CONFESSIONS II" by MadonnaWarner RecordsProducer: Stuart Price

The queen of pop returns to rule the dancefloor with CONFESSIONS II. The highly anticipated sequel to Confessions on a Dance Floor reunites Madonna with British producer Stuart Price. Like the 2005 release, all 16 songs of CONFESSIONS II blend together like a DJ set. Spoken word monologues are sprinkled throughout each song, bringing us closer to Madonna’s world. The album opener “I Feel So Free” reveals her struggles of being in the public eye and finding comfort in a crowded club.

The album is ultimately a love letter to the dance floor as she asserts, “The dance floor is not just a place/ It’s a threshold, a ritualistic space where movement replaces language” in the track “One Step Away.” The album delves deeper into her life as the French touch electronic song “Danceteria” is named after the New York club where she worked and got discovered by DJ Mark Kamins.

The latter half of the album takes a more somber tone as “Fragile” is a heartfelt nod to her late brother. She also duets with her daughter Lourdes “Lola” Leon in “The Test.” The raw track highlights their strained relationship and the pressures of living in the spotlight. The album perfectly captures and revitalizes Madonna’s signature sound. The post "CONFESSIONS II" by Madonna first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

The Agony of Packaging Linux AppsOne of the great things of Linux as an ecosystem is that there is so much choice. Yet this is also its greatest weakness, as unlike on MacOS and Windows this means that simple questions often do not have a simple answer. The topic of distributing software is one of these vexing topics that never really goes away, with [Noam Lewis], as author of the Fresh editor, recently expressing their frustrations on this topic.
This is a familiar topic that we have covered before, mostly in the context of cross-platform installers. Whereas on MacOS and Windows you just pick any of a handful of standard installer frameworks that do roughly the same thing, on Linux you are dealing with a dizzying number of package managers, including distro-specific ones, NPM, Homebrew, Rust crates, third party repositories like Arch Linux’s AUR or stray APT repositories for Debian, and of course AppImage and Flatpak along with a host of other options.
After going through the entire list with help from the Fresh community, [Noam] ended up creating packages for all of them, and has a lot of thoughts. Since Fresh is a TUI-based editor, something like Flatpack is not a really good fit, while AppImage is just very slow due to mounting the image, which is annoying.
Overall, distro-specific solutions are just unpleasant in general, as they mean repeating the same work over and over, even if you can even get into a distribution channel. Ultimately the solution that [Noam] ended up at was to have a static binary with the musl runtime, along with an integrated updater, which is a solution that should be quite familiar for Windows users. Yet even if it fails some kind of purity test for certain Linux users, is it really a bad solution if it works for users of the software?