Get the UVI Shade Creative EQ and Filter for only $29 (70% OFF)
UVI is now offering the Shade creative EQ and filter plugin for just $29 (previously $99), in a 70% off deal exclusively available at Plugin Boutique.  The deal expires on March 31, 2026.  Shade is a 64-bit-only macOS and Windows plugin for AU, AAX, VST, and VST3.  When you buy Shade, you can also score [...]
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BMG sues Anthropic for infringement, alleging AI firm’s $380B valuation was built on ‘stolen copyrighted works’BMG Rights Management has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic, the AI giant behind the Claude AI chatbot.
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Music modes: What they are and how to use them
Learn about what musical modes are, the seven common diatonic modes, and how you can use them to achieve new colors in your music.

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says smartphone apps will disappear as AI agents take their placeNothing CEO Carl Pei says AI agents will eventually replace apps, shifting smartphones toward systems that understand intent and act on a user's behalf.

Repurposing Old AMD APUs For AI WorkThe BC250 is what AMD calls an APU, or Accelerated Processing Unit. It combines a GPU and CPU into a single unit, and was originally built to serve as the heart of certain Samsung rack mount servers. If you know where to find cheap surplus units of the BC250, you can put them to good use for AI work, as [akandr] demonstrates.
The first thing you’ll have to figure out is how to take an individual BC250 APU and get it up and running. It’s effectively a full system-on-chip, combining a Zen 2 CPU with a Cyan Skillfish RDNA 1.5 GPU. However, it was originally intended to run inside a rackmount server unit rather than a standalone machine. To get it going, you’ll need to hook it up with power and some kind of cooling solution.
From there, it’s a matter of software. [akandr] explains how to get AI workflows running on the BC250 using Ollama and Vulkan, while noting useful hacks to improve performance like disabling the GUI and tweaking the CPU governor. The hardware can be used with a wide range of different models depending on what you’re trying to achieve, it just takes some careful management of the APU’s resources to get the most out of it. Thankfully, that’s all in the guide on GitHub.
We’ve already seen these AMD APUs repurposed before for gaming use. Unfortunately the word is out already  about their capabilities, so prices have risen significantly in response to demand. Still, if you manage to score a BC250 and do something cool with it yourself, be sure to let us know on the tipsline!

Toontrack Transistor Organ EKX Toontrack’s staggering collection of EZKeys 2 expansions has grown once again, and the latest instalment delivers a one-of-a-kind instrument that’s been created using a mixture of sampling and synthesis. 

Temecula DSP releases MDV-II, a FREE Alesis Midiverb II emulation
Temecula DSP has released MDV-II, a free Alesis Midiverb II emulation for macOS and Windows. When it comes to sought-after studio gear, Alesis isn’t a brand name that instantly comes to mind. But the typically budget-friendly manufacturer has produced a few models that have become must-haves for many producers over the years, and none more [...]
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Tonal Balance Control 3 from iZotope iZotope’s powerful mix-referencing plug-in now includes a new capture process that’s compatible with popular streaming services such as Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music. 

“Make the internet weird”: This new Chrome extension lets you control YouTube videos with a surfing cat“What if you could control YouTube with a surfing cat?” It’s a question posed by music software label A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, as it launches its new Chrome extension, Speed Surfer.
So, what is Speed Surfer? Well, it basically offers you the ability to control audio in your Chrome browser – including audio speed and filter levels – with a tiny surfing cat as your interface. That’s pretty much it.

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“Slow it down. Speed it up. Make the internet weird,” the company says, as it urges users to play with audio while watching YouTube videos like never before.
Naturally, such an extension was just begging to be experimented with, so in the name of journalism, I added it to my Chrome browser myself and tried my hand at some on-the-fly YouTube DJing.
The interface is super simple; your surfing cat sits on a grid, with audio speed on the X axis and filter level – which spans between low-pass and high-pass – on the Y axis. You can adjust the speed of audio between 0.50x and 1.50x the original. 
The Y axis offers no filter frequency value, which actually feels refreshing, as it’s all too easy as a producer to work with your eyes and not your ears, as you should. I am not calling myself a producer for clicking on a surfing cat while a YouTube video plays in the background, to be clear. Or should I?
There’s also a Chaos button in the bottom right corner, which seems to randomise the values of both the speed and filter without any rhyme or reason. As a consequence, it doesn’t serve much artistic benefit while listening to your favourite tunes, but hey, why not.
And that’s pretty much it. I found it surprisingly fun to add filter sweeps to some of my favourite songs, and the gamified interface makes things all the more entertaining.
Speed Surfer is totally free, so head to the Chrome Web Store to try it out for yourself.
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Lese TeuriTeuri is for Distortion Morphing. Teuri's "Cellular Distortion" system puts multiple distortion models at different points on an XY pad and lets you live in the tension between them. Drag through the grid and blend through textures that were never meant to coexist. ragged fuzz bleeding into clinical overdrive, soft saturation collapsing into bitcrush. No snapping, no quantizing, just continuous, organic layers of deterioration. Since the different models can produce sound at different levels, Teuri internally handles these differences to give you a smooth morphing experience. Highlights Model Selection Teuri comes with a broad palette of distortion characters; from analog circuit models to experimental processes that have no hardware counterpart. Whether you're reaching for the warmth of a pushed tube stage, the grind of a germanium fuzz distortion, or something that treats your audio less like a signal and more like a material to be torn apart, Teuri's model selection is built to cover the full range of what distortion can mean. Distortion Cells Different distortion models are added on an XY pad, and the internal "Positional Blending" system handles smooth blending between them, regardless of model. The "blender" also attempts to balance between the gain differences that the models have in real-time. Modulate More Teuri has a modulation system, similar to the one in Glow and Smear. Offering up to four modulators which can be optionally synchronized to the DAW's BPM & retriggered by the DAW's playback state. More Features Input / output balancing system. A bunch of different distortion models. Some are tailored to experimental sound design, some are reminiscent of classic style distortion. A selection of embedded demo presets. Vectorized, resizable interface. YouTube.com/watch?v=DZyURXEKu1w YouTube.com/watch?v=5Bic7Pm7kKM Read More

How This UK Indie Label Sold 25K Records For 1 Band First WeekThis week, Ari is joined by Mark Orr, founder of Lab Records, to break down modern indie label deals, marketing, and artist strategy.

SEC will consider most crypto assets not securities under federal lawThe interpretative notice included information on token taxonomy and what digital assets the regulator would consider a security under federal law.

Music Row Piano from Wiltone Productions Wiltone Productions have announced the release of Music Row Piano, a deeply sampled Yamaha C7 piano library that’s been created for Native Instruments’ Kontakt platform.

Ghost at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CAGhost played the second to last show of their Skeletour World Tour at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA on Saturday, February 21. This tour is in support of their latest album release Skeletá which came out last year. The 21-song setlist began with “Peacefield,” and included “Cirice,” “Satanized,” and “Rats.” The first song of the encore was “Mary On Cross"—their most streamed Spotify song with 900,000,000 plays and counting—followed by “Dance Macabre” and “Square Hammer.”

Ghost formed in Sweden in 2006 with frontman Tobias Forge and the current band has been together since 2018. To experience a Ghost show is to experience a grand, theatrical spectacle—an immersive, one-of-a-kind production fueled by explosive pyro and stunning visual effects.

Ghost has won an AMA, six Bandit Awards, four Grammis awards, a GRAMMY, an iHeart Music Award, three Loudwire awards, and Metal Hammer Golden God Award.

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Kalshi’s legal troubles pile up, as Arizona files first ever criminal charges over ‘illegal gambling business’It's the latest salvo in an escalating battle between state regulators and an industry that claims it's not beholden to them.