Concert Ticket Breakdown: Who Wins, Loses & Why It MattersHave you wondered where your ticket dollars really go? Justin Kantor looks at the surprising concert ticket breakdown of costs, profits, and challenges faced by independent artists and venues.
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The Sound Ape offers the Noizebreaker, sci-fi-inspired Kontakt library FREE for a limited time
Noizebreaker is a new Kontakt library from Sick Noise Instruments, and you can download it free for a limited time. You should note that Noizebreaker requires the full version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher. The sci-fi-inspired library has a regular price of $57, but for the next couple of weeks (almost – at the time [...]
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Process.Audio releases FREE Protility plugin for cleaner mixes
Process.Audio has introduced Protility, a free utility plugin available in VST, AU, and AAX formats for Windows and macOS. Protility is designed as an all-in-one audio correction tool for mixing and sound design. It offers essential tools that help refine individual tracks before mixing. It’s basically a toolkit for cleaning up your audio before you [...]
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Get Audiomodern Freezr or Heavyocity MicroFX Refiner for FREE with any purchase
Plugin Boutique offers a choice between two premium plugins as a free add-on with any purchase throughout March 2025. You can select Audiomodern Freezr or Heavyocity MicroFX Refiner at checkout with any purchase at Plugin Boutique, so it’s an excellent opportunity to further expand your plugin collection at no additional cost. Heavyocity MicroFX Refiner Heavyocity [...]
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Singapore arrests alleged Nvidia chip smugglersSingapore just arrested 3 men for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips.
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Klamper Audio Tropical HouseDive into the vibrant world of Tropical House with this carefully crafted sample pack. Featuring a wide range of high-quality sounds, this collection includes: 6 Clap samples One-Shot... Read More

Why This Sound Engineer Lost The TourWhenever I’m out at a local show I always pay attention to who’s mixing.  Good FOH sound engineers are hard to come by. I get it. It’s not a glamorous job. It doesn’t pay well for most of the ladder climbing. And the hours are tough. You have to put up with all sorts of […]

ASCAP CULTIVATES SONGWRITER COMMUNITY AT SXSW WITH SXSW SONGS WRITING CAMP AND INDUSTRY HAPPY HOUR ON MARCH 12 AND 13Dedicated to supporting music creators throughout their career, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) returns to South by Southwest (SXSW) with events designed to connect the music community. The performing rights organization is a presenting sponsor of the SXSW Songs 2025 writing camp and listening party, and will host a happy hour for industry and music creators alike. SXSW Songs 2025ASCAP, the original innovators in performing rights, advocacy and service for music creators, is a sponsor of the SXSW Songs 2025 writing camp, which takes place from March 10 - 12. The song camp was created for established producers, songwriters and artists with commercial co-writing credits. It brings together a curated group of 15 - 20 songwriters from all over the world for a three-day collaboration to create new potential hit songs and wraps up with an official SXSW listening party on Thursday, March 13.SXSW Songs' first five editions have produced eight commercial cuts and identified up-and-coming songwriters and producers such as Grammy Award-winner and 2024 ASCAP London Songwriter of the Year Peter “Lostboy” Rycroft (Kylie Minogue) and global hitmakers James “Yami” Bell (Tiesto) and Victoria Zaro (Tate McRae).Rising stars participating in SXSW Songs 2025 include innovative Italian songwriter-producer Fudasca, Canadian powerhouse vocalist and songwriter Kassidy, unconventional UK pop artist Ruby Duff and Swedish singer-songwriter Zikai. ASCAP Happy Hour and PerformancesWednesday, March 12 from 5:00 - 7:00 PMRules & Reg at The Fairmont, 101 Red River St in AustinHosted by the ASCAP Rhythm & Soul team, this networking event gives music creators a chance to connect with ASCAP membership representatives, enjoy some special guest performances and build their musical community during a laid-back industry happy hour.Admission to the party is free with a SXSW badge or wristband.For more information on ASCAP at SXSW, visit: www.ascap.com/sxsw25. Music Mentor Session with Brooke EpleeThursday, March 13 from 1:00 - 2:15 PMAustin Convention Center, Room 15, 205 Trinity St in AustinThe SXSW Mentor Program is an opportunity for education professionals, students, innovators, and entrepreneurs to connect with seasoned mentors and gain invaluable guidance. As a SXSW Music Mentor, ASCAP SVP of Strategy and Business Development Brooke Eplee will be available to share valuable industry insights with SXSW attendees. Advance sign-up is required and will be limited to SXSW badge holders with primary access. For more information on this mentorship session, visit: https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP1147536SXSW Songs Listening Party and ShowcaseThursday, March 13 from 6:00 - 8:00 PMMarlow on Sixth, 700 E. 6th St in AustinThe SXSW Songs 2025 Listening Party invites SXSW attendees to hear newly recorded creations, hot from the studio, and enjoy live performances from some of the writing camp’s artists. Participating producers, songwriters and advisors share their experiences from the three-day intensive and discuss the current state of songwriting with SXSW attendees.Admission to the party is free with a SXSW badge or wristband.The post ASCAP CULTIVATES SONGWRITER COMMUNITY AT SXSW WITH SXSW SONGS WRITING CAMP AND INDUSTRY HAPPY HOUR ON MARCH 12 AND 13 first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

Streamer Amouranth claims she was robbed at gunpoint over crypto fortuneIn November, Amouranth, real name Kaitlyn Siragusa, revealed that she owned around 211 Bitcoin — worth over $20 million.

Here’s A Spy Movie-Grade Access Card Sniffing ImplantSome of our devices look like they’re straight out of hacker movies. For instance, how about a small board you plant behind an RFID reader, collecting access card data and then replaying it when you next walk up the door? [Jakub Kramarz] brings us perhaps the best design on the DIY market, called The Tick – simple, flexible, cheap, tiny, and fully open-source.
Take off the reader, tap into the relevant wires and power pins (up to 25V input), and just leave the board there. It can do BLE or WiFi – over WiFi, you get a nice web UI showing you the data collected so far, and letting you send arbitrary data. It can do Wiegand like quite a few open-source projects, but it can also do arbitrary clock+data protocols, plus you can just wire it up quickly, and it will figure out the encoding.
We could imagine such a board inside a Cyberpunk DnD rulebook or used in Mr Robot as a plot point, except that this one is real and you can use it today for red teaming and security purposes. Not to say all applications would be NSA-catalog-adjacent pentesting – you could use such a bug to reverse-engineer your own garage door opener, for one.

Roland offers FREE TB-303 plugin but only 3,030 licenses are available
Roland announced that they’re offering 3,030 free licences of the TB-303 plugin for Roland Cloud to celebrate 303 day. Before you continue reading, please note that a very limited number of free licenses is available. I’m very sorry if you don’t manage to claim your free license on time, but as they say… don’t kill [...]
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Drake reaches settlement with iHeartMedia in legal dispute over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’However, Drake's legal petition against Universal Music Group will remain active in a Texas court
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Rick Beato has a theory that “all babies can develop perfect pitch up to nine months”Musician and YouTuber Rick Beato believes all babies can develop perfect pitch up to nine months old.
Beato came up with this theory after watching a TED talk from Patricia Kuhl, a professor known for her research on early language learning, which he recently discussed on Rick Rubin’s Tetragrammaton podcast. 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.

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Beato feels a baby’s detection of language may also be similar to their detection of pitch. During the podcast, he explains, “I saw a video on YouTube called The Linguistic Genius of Babies. There’s a woman Patricia Kuhl and she had this theory, it’s pretty much proven out, that babies have this ability in the first nine months of their lives – she calls them citizens of the world – where they can hear the sounds of all [over 7,000] languages on earth, so they have all the synapses available and their ears can detect these things.
“Starting at nine months they begin to lose the ability and then they become culturally bound listeners so they can only hear the sounds of the languages spoken in the household. But if you expose a child to, let’s say Mandarin, only a few times within that first nine months, they can hear those sounds of Mandarin forever. So I have a theory that all babies can develop perfect pitch up to nine months of age if they have a certain threshold of this high information music played for them [where] they hear all 12 notes,” he says.
Beato, who previously worked as a college professor, worked on ear training with his students. He found it fascinating that some found it especially hard to pick up on pitch. He to goes on to suggest that old recordings, which may not have been as technically polished as music today, may have had a positive impact on how some people might have developed good relative pitch: “When I meet people with perfect pitch there’s so many different levels of that, and relative pitch is far faster, so people that have good relative pitch, they’re not confused if things are in tune or not, because so many old recordings are out of pitch.”
You can check out the full podcast below:

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Sample Logic release Morphestra Ultra With over 650 multi-sampled orchestral instruments and morphed presets, this tool brings together traditional orchestral timbres and cutting-edge cinematic design.