GearFest UK Update: Panel Talks Programme A programme of 10 Panel Talks taking place across both days at this year's GearFest UK has now been announced. 

Register For The 20th Annual IAMARegistration is now open for the 20th Annual IAMA (International Acoustic Music Awards), which provides an opportunity for acoustic artists everywhere to get prominent radio and web exposure and compete for awards in eight categories including Best Male Artist, Best Female Artist, Best Group/Duo Folk, Americana/Roots/AAA, Instrumental, Open (any musical style or genre), and Bluegrass/Country, as well as an Overall Grand Prize award worth over US$11,000.00, which includes radio promotion on over 250 radio stations in the U.S. and Canada.

Sponsored by New Music Weekly, Loggins Promotion, Airplay Access, Sirius XM Radio, Solid State Logic (SSL), Ditto Music, Acoustic Café Radio, Paige Capo, Make Music Matter, Kari Estrin Management & Consulting, and Sonicbids, IAMA has a history of winners getting signed and moving up the Billboard charts. Past awardees include Meghan Trainor, Zane Williams, Jeff Gutt, Charlie Dore, Bertie Higgins & Bellamy Brothers, Ryan Sheridan, Pat Byrne, and Deidre McCalla. Entry deadline is November 20, with details at: inacoustic.com/The post Register For The 20th Annual IAMA first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

5 common Music Marketing MistakesA look at common music marketing mistakes and many misconceptions that are holding musicians and the people that help market them back. by CRISTINA CANO of CD Baby’s DIY Musicians. Continue reading
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Casio Sessions singer-songwriter competition Casio Sessions is a new competition aimed at piano-playing artists which will see finalists invited to perform at an intimate live event at Casio’s G-SHOCK store in Carnaby Street, London on 21 September 2023. 

5 free and affordable tools for independent musiciansThese five tools have been proven by users to be integral in a successful independent music career. Keep reading to see how they can help you. By Sara-Lena Probst of BlackbirdPunk. Continue reading
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Acoustica Mixcraft 10 released The latest version of Mixcraft aims to make creating music easier and more enjoyable for all users, with a range of new features focusing on inspiration, ease of use and stability.

Waves Audio SuperTap Delay Plugin Is FREE Until June 24th!
Waves Audio and YouTube personality Sky Jordxn offer the SuperTap ($29.99 sale price) delay plugin as a FREE download until June 24th. The offer expires in less than 24 hours. SuperTap takes inspiration from analog multi-head tape delays but expands on the concept with modern features. It’s not a very new plugin. If I remember [...]
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Continuum Space Systems wants to make space mission management easySpace mission management is a complicated beast, too often characterized by complex workflows and information siloes that cost organizations time and money. Continuum Space Systems, a two-year-old startup based in Pasadena, is looking to change that with its unified platform to support the entire life cycle of a space mission.
To further that goal, Continuum announced today that it had closed a $3 million seed extension round, bringing its total funding raised to date to $6 million. This latest tranche of funding was led by Prophetic Capital Partners, with additional participation from Mandala Space Ventures, Explorer 1 Fund, Freeflow Ventures, and Unlock Venture Partners.
The company is still receiving interest in the round, which could increase that amount, Continuum CEO Marc Fagan told TechCrunch in a recent interview.
The startup has close associations with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology, the university that founded and manages the lab. Nearly all of Continuum’s employees are from JPL, Fagan said, and the startup’s platform is building upon technology licensed from JPL, though it is not formally affiliated.
On its website, the company describes its cloud-based platform as one that can see mission management through from “concept-to-completion.” The platform suite includes simulations for spacecraft design, deployment and operations, and spacecraft performance analysis and is suitable for single-satellite missions or constellations.
“Our platform enables space teams to plan, design and test more effectively throughout the lifecycle of a mission so customers can focus on their main mission priorities,” Fagan said in a statement.
Among the company’s customers include Radian Aerospace, Accion Systems and the U.S. Space Force.
Continuum Space Systems wants to make space mission management easy by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

10 sound design techniques that will change how you sample
From convolution to multi-band effects processing, here are ten timeless sound design techniques that will help you reimagine your samples.

TranSplit From Noiseworks Is FREE For A Limited Time
Noiseworks offers the TranSplit transient shaper plugin as a FREE download for a limited time. Ah, transient designers. These are probably the rarest to get good-quality freebies out of all the many mixing processors to cross the plugin folder. I’d wager most users are used to something like Kilohearts’ transient designer, which was once a [...]
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Fiedler Audio Spacelab 1.5 pubic beta The public beta of Spacelab 1.5 allows users to employ the Fiedler Audio's reverb plug-in on their immersive mixes without the need to manually setup any complex routing.

European Parliament working on music streaming market reportArtists' remuneration from music streaming expected to “dominate” the study, reports Politico
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Native Instruments Is Giving Away Irish Harp For FREE Until July 3
Native Instruments offers the Irish Harp sample library for Kontakt Player as a free download until July 3rd, 2023. It certainly isn’t Christmas, but who can turn down a free present from Native Instruments? If you’ve been looking to complement the LABS bagpipes we showcased recently, then look no further than Irish Harp from Native [...]
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Aux 2.0: Apple’s SharePlay lets everyone queue up a song in the carGone are the days of turning off your iPhone’s Bluetooth at a red light to allow your friend to wirelessly connect to your car and play some tunes. Say goodbye to passing the USB cable to a passenger so they can have a turn streaming their podcast. New Apple SharePlay features will make fighting for sharing control of in-car entertainment easier for iPhone users.
“Now when the driver’s iPhone is connected to CarPlay, any passenger’s iPhone will automatically suggest joining their session. Just tap to connect,” said Anne Park Shedlosky, director of software program management at Apple, at the company’s 2023 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) Monday. “From there, it’s easy to play your favorite music, control playback and enjoy the ride together.”
SharePlay is Apple’s new solution to watching a TV show or a movie with someone who’s not in the same room as you. It allows friends and family to watch, play games or listen to music together across Apple devices during a FaceTime call. With simultaneous playback and shared controls, users can see and hear everything at the same time on separate devices.
With SharePlay in the car, instead of FaceTime being the conduit for shared content, it’ll be through CarPlay, the Apple platform that runs on the user’s phone and projects navigation, music apps, messaging, phone calls and voice commands to the vehicle’s display screen.
During WWDC, Apple also announced other updates to SharePlay. Instead of connecting through FaceTime, users can bring devices together to instantly start a shared activity using SharePlay. For example, if you’re going on a run with a friend and want to jog to the beat of the same tunes, you can link up your music. Apps that support SharePlay, like Twitch, will also now allow users to bring their iPhones together to watch the same livestream.
Apple didn’t share much car-related news at its developer conference. By contrast, a month ago at Google’s developer conference, the Big Tech giant pushed further into the automotive foreground with a number of new features and services designed for cars, including video conferencing, gaming and YouTube.
Google said that it expects Android Auto, the Android counterpart to Apple’s CarPlay, to be available in around 200 million vehicles by the end of 2023. The company also said it expects the number of cars with the Android Automotive operating system built-in to double by the end of this year. Already, brands like Chevrolet, Polestar, Renault, Honda and Volvo have Google built-in, allowing them to be integrated directly with Google apps like Assistant, Maps and Play.

Apple challenges Google for a larger slice of your dashboard

Aux 2.0: Apple’s SharePlay lets everyone queue up a song in the car by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Chartmetrics relaunches free OneSheet artist EPKsMusic data and analytics firm Chartmetric debuted it’s recently relaunched OneSheet program at the Music Biz in Nashville, after acquiring the startup last year. By David Benjamin De Cristofaro To create. Continue reading
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