The Torso S-4 sculpting sampler: A complete guide
Here's everything you need to know to get started with the Torso S-4 sculpting sampler.

Signing Stories: N8NOFACE Date Signed: March 2025 Label: Stones Throw Records Type of Music: Synth-Punk Management: Daniel Hall (Worldwide) Booking: Nick Storch Legal: Bryan Christner A&R: Peanut Butter Wolf Web: n8noface.la Anyone who has seen N8NOFACE (pronounced Nate No Face) live won’t forget the experience in a hurry. The synth-punk provocateur (think L.A. pioneers the Screamers, but more unhinged) has mastered the ability to grab a melody and then twist it round his hairless cranium and impressive moustache, the result emerging from his tear-filled ocular cavities like a dancing Basket Case mutant. It’s a mad, unpredictable situation, and yet it all started with MySpace. “When MySpace first started, I made really weird songs and posted them on there, being too shy to tell people it was me, constantly changing the ‘band name’ of the page,” he tells MC. “People in my city started to dig the page, making some noise among artists and bands of my city. I finally settled on the name N8NOFACE (Nathan being my real name) when I came out and revealed myself. The idea being no face or any particular sound—do what I want, which is everything.” N8NOFACE was a fan of Stones Throw Records, long before signing on with them himself. “Being a hip-hop head who also loves different styles of music, Stones Throw was that label,” he says. “Then in L.A., finally meeting and becoming friends with Peanut Butter Wolf, getting to send him stuff from time to time and then him remixing a song of mine. The relationship was building, then I sent him the latest project produced by Chico Mann, he was like ‘Let’s do some stuff.’ I was with it.” His latest release is “Waiting to Wait for You.” “Chico Mann produced, performed, and wrote all the music on this,” he says. “I just came up with the words and singing. I wrote the song about someone waiting for their partner to get dressed before they both step out. ‘I watched you try five outfits on, I'd wait and watch five thousand more,’ is the first line." N8NOFACE will celebrate the Stones Throw deal with an EP this summer, and he’s hitting the road with Eyedress in July before going back into the studio to record a debut album for release in 2026. The man just won’t stay still. The post Signing Stories: N8NOFACE first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

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2025 One-Hertz Challenge: It’s Hexadecimal Unix Time[danjovic] came up with a nifty entry for our 2025 One-Hertz Challenge that lands somewhere between the categories of Ridiculous and Clockwork. It’s a clock that few hackers, if any, could read on sight—just the way we like them around here!
The clock is called Hexa U.T.C, which might give you an idea why this one is a little tricky to parse. It displays the current Unix time in hexadecimal format. If you’re unfamiliar, Unix time is represented as the number of non-leap seconds that have ticked by since 1 January 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC. Even if you can turn the long hex number into decimal in your head, you’re still going to have to then convert the seconds into years, days, hours, minutes, and seconds before you can figure out the actual time.
The build relies on an ESP32-S2 module, paired with a 7-segment display module driven by the TM1638 I/O expander. The ESP32 syncs itself up with an NTP time server, and then spits out the relevant signals to display the current Unix time in hex on the 7-segment displays.
It’s a fun build that your programmer friends might actually figure out at a glance. As a bonus it makes an easy kicking-off point for explaining the Year 2038 problem. We’ve featured other similar Unix clocks before, too. Video after the break.

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MIDI Innovation Awards 2025: Vote Now! With the final list of entrants now confirmed, The MIDI Association are inviting the public to cast their votes in this year’s MIDI Innovation Awards.

Meta rejects EU’s AI Code of Practice, even as AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI say they will sign onThe EU's Code of Practice restricts how tech companies can collect copyrighted content to train their AI
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Is playing live worth it? Two questions help decideIs playing live worth it? It's harder than ever to perform live and tour profitably. The reasons are many, but the main culprits are rising costs and increased competition.
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SOUNDRAW launches “Beat the Future” contest with $2,500 in prizes and free access
SOUNDRAW has launched Beat the Future, a global beatmaking contest with a $2,500 prize pool and a free trial for its AI-powered music creation platform. The Tokyo-based developer describes SOUNDRAW as an ethical, artist-first AI music generator, built entirely on original, in-house content. There’s no scraped data. With this contest, they’re inviting beatmakers, vocalists, and [...]
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You can get 90% off the entire Sonnox catalogue right now at Plugin BoutiqueDid somebody say new plugins? We producers all know that you can never have too many, and right now Plugin Boutique is hosting a big sale on Sonnox plugins, with up to 90% off the brand’s entire catalogue.
Yep, the British brand’s entire catalogue is now massively discounted, but here are some of our favourites.
Check out the Oxford Inflator – often regarded as a “secret weapon” for mixing and mastering engineers – now priced at only £14 down from £138. Able to deliver instant sonic enhancement to your mixes when conventional compression and EQ just aren’t cutting it, the Oxford Inflator is a worthy addition to any producer’s arsenal. And for only £14, you’d be crazy not to, quite frankly.
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While you’re at it, why not grab the Oxford Limiter, which allows you to effortlessly grant your masters top-notch loudness, dynamics, density and presence. Plugin Boutique says this is the Oxford Limiter’s “lowest price ever”, at just £23, down from £234.
“You’ve worked hard to perfect the dynamics of your track – the thump of the kick, the snap of the snare, the space and depth in the mix. The last thing you want is to crush the life out of it at the final stage. With the Oxford Limiter, you don’t have to choose between loudness and life,” says Plugin Boutique.
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But perhaps the best deal of the lot is Sonnox’s Essential Plugin Bundle, which comprises four classic Sonnox plugins – Oxford EQ, Oxford Dynamics, Oxford Reverb and Oxford SuprEsser. This bundle is usually priced at £684.60, but you can get it for just £68 right now. That’s a massive 90% off, or £616.60 straight back in your pocket.
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These deals – along with everything else in Plugin Boutique’s Sonnox sale – are available until 30 August, 2025. But don’t wait around, your best mix ever could be one purchase away.
For more information, head to Plugin Boutique.
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How to Find Music PR Teams That Actually Understand YouA PR firm can help a music career skyrocket, but only if you choose the right one. Learn how to find music PR teams, the key traits to look for and red flags to avoid before making this critical investment.
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Get the Lifeline Lite Bundle FREE at Plugin Boutique (Limited Time Offer)
Excite Audio has recently released the Lifeline Lite Bundle, which includes a pair of creative multi-effect plugins: Lifeline Console Lite and Lifeline Expanse Lite. You can get the bundle for free for a limited time at Plugin Boutique. We recently featured the Lifeline Format Multiband Bitcrusher, which is also free on Plugin Boutique (when you register a [...]
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Boris FX acquire Sequoia, Samplitude & Music Studio Visual effects specialists Boris FX have announced that they have acquired Magix Sequoia, Samplitude & Music Studio.

Ryu Yabana releases Taped Drum Kits, a FREE analog drum sample pack
Ryu Yabana has released Taped Drum Kits, a free collection of analog drum samples processed through cassette tape. It’s been a while since we’ve covered a simple WAV drum pack on BPB, but this one grabbed my attention right away. I’m a massive fan of retro drums and cassette tape saturation, so any combination of [...]
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Lese HikariHikari Stochastic Reverberator Hikari is an ocean-themed random reverb. Emulating uncommon digital reverbs from the 1990s and early 2000s, Hikari aims to create something unconventional. Adding in Hikari's navigation & anomaly system, where moving to different positions makes the reverb behave differently according to the topology of the ground below, Hikari is made for sound exploration. Highlights Navigate the Ocean Floor Central in Hikari's interface is the "navigator", which lets you move around in two dimensional space. The contours of the terrain beneath the navigator are sampled and used to subtly alter various settings in the reverb algorithms. The two dimensions of the current navigation position can be used to modulate various parameters, using the same workflow that is available in Glow. The navigator can also enter "autopilot" mode, where the movement is automated & adjusted by various controls. Picking up an Anomaly... The navigator also points to multiple positions of interest, called anomalies. When you get close to the anomaly positions, the sound will change. Anomalies are randomly generated in-between plugin states, so the positions of them, and what they do is largely random. There are additional audio processes that only occur during anomaly states. Illusion & Fathoms Along with a reverberator, Hikari also features multiple additional processors to add ambience & create texture on top of what is already being processed. Illusion is a short, granularized reverse-audio effect that reads from an audio buffer. It essentially makes your sound come back again, but very disjointed. The fathoms control adjusts the "depth" of the signal (that's why it's measured in fathoms). It does multistage filtering, subtle decorrelation, and light noise adjustments. More Features Anomaly system, allowing for unpredictable processing in special states. Feedback Delay network modelling reverberation. Input tone controller (filtering, de-correlation, noise processing). High-quality diffusion network & damping system. Super cool visualizer / controller system. Vectorized, resizable interface. YouTube.com/watch?v=rq42hRbEuV8 YouTube.com/watch?v=fklpRmB395A YouTube.com/watch?v=mBJhxF9dQrE Read More