Xylo Audio XyloWidthXyloWidth is a professional multi-band stereo wideness and phase decorrelation tool. Video Guide Key Features : 3-Band Linkwitz-Riley Crossover Uses 4th-order (LR4) filters to split your signal into Low, Mid, and High bands. Sums perfectly flat with zero phase distortion, letting you widen highs while keeping lows tightly centered. Sustain-Only Stereo Widening Separates dry transients from sustaining reverb and pads, applying widening only to the sustain tails to preserve transient punch in the center. Mono-Safe Decorrelation All-pass filtering Cascade creates lush width out of mono tracks that sums perfectly back to mono without comb-filtering. Read More

SmallRun.net Enters the Marketplace MarketSo you have a project that you love, and everyone else loves too. People start saying “you should sell this” but where? Well, there’s a new marketplace you might want to consider called called SmallRun, aiming at makers and their, well, small production runs.
SmallRun will absolutely host your custom PCBs, on-demand 3D prints, and other traditional maker products — but they’ll also happily sell your merch, too. Along with electronics and hardware, they aim to allow you to sell products in categories like tabletop gaming, sciences, and yes, accessories/apparel.
For sellers, they offer automatic payouts and promise to take care of the taxes by integrating with Stripe. That said, they’re still working on getting the whole VAT thing set up for products imported to the EU. EU to EU sales are apparently OK. They’ll host build logs, which may drive engagement with your product. There’s even a handy tool to import your existing listings from eBay, Tindie, Lectronz, Etsy, Shopify, or Crowd Supply if you’re already in the biz. They make their money by taking a cut of your sales: eight percent, plus forty cents per listing.
Depending on your perspective, you might wonder if we need another marketplace, To that we can only say: “Let a thousand flowers bloom!” Competition should drive these marketplaces to continuously improve and we all win.
If you’re selling online, even packaging can become a project. If you’re not, but are interested in starting, our “From Project to Kit” series from ten years back remains surprisingly relevant.
Thanks to [Aron] for the tip!

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John Walden’s Cubase Video Tutorials Regular SOS contributor and Cubase workshop columnist John Walden has just released a new Cubase video course that is now available on the Udemy platform.

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Seeing the World in Radio Waves with the QuadRF
Although the basic principle of radio direction finding is easy to understand (measure the phase difference between different antennas, then calculate the angle of arrival from this difference), the radio hardware to actually implement this has historically been hard for hackers to access. The QuadRF project aims to change this by building a phase-coherent four-channel SDR which makes direction mapping easy (GitHub repository).
The QuadRF uses two boards: one to receive and pre-process radio waves, and a Raspberry Pi 5 for additional processing. The RF board has four patch antennas, each capable of either transmitting or receiving in the 4.9 GHz to 6.0 GHz range, with switchable right- or left-hand polarization. For on-device processing, it uses a Lattice ECP5 FPGA, which uses two MIPI cables to connect to the camera and display interfaces on the Raspberry Pi. These form a very high-speed data exchange, and after further processing, the Pi can pass data on over Ethernet or Wi-Fi. Individual QuadRF boards can connect together in a lattice grid to form larger phased arrays.
The QuadRF’s software shows off its real strength: it’s compatible with standard programs like GNU Radio, but it also hosts a few of its own programs. The most striking of these is an “RF camera” which scans its entire frequency range at 30 fps, tracking the direction of detected signals and visualizing them on a spatial plot. When overlaid on a camera feed, this plot lets one easily see the radio signals emitted from electronics; as an example, the creators tracked a drone in flight, even distinguishing the two radio transmitters on the drone.
This isn’t the first multi-antenna SDR we’ve seen, though this is the first that could transmit. It’s important to be careful, though: some applications of this kind of hardware run afoul of arms regulations.

Thanks to [Swake] for the tip!

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WAVDSP Primary VxPrimary Vx is a real-time, low-latency AI vocal cleanup product line from WAVDSP Neural Labs. It detects and separates the human voice from background noise and stage bleed, helping speech and singing stay clear in demanding environments. Keep the voice. Push the noise away. Primary Vx is designed for vocal microphones surrounded by real world sound: loud instruments, reflections, ambience, and unwanted bleed that normally follows the voice into the mix. Voice-aware cleanup in three stages. 1. Vx Source Detection. Identifies the vocal source in real time so the engine follows the performance, not the bleed around it. 2. Source Separation. Wipes unwanted background instruments, ambience, and bleed away from the vocal path. 3. Feedback Protection Helps you push more gain before feedback, with lower risk of ringing from the PA system. Designed with a multi-stage processing chain while keeping internal latency under 4.7 ms. This makes it practical for Front of House (FOH) workflows and other live vocal applications where response time matters. Read More

IK Multimedia introduce ReSing Doubling Available as a paid add-on for all versions, ReSing Doubling has been designed to help users create wider lead vocals, thicker backing parts and larger ensemble-style vocal arrangements without having to record multiple takes.

The Freddie Mercury Quote That Had Nothing to Do With MusicFreddie Mercury had everything the world could offer — and called himself the loneliest man alive. The quote that reveals who he really was when no one was performing for.

"In Times of Dragons" by Tori AmosUniversal/FontanaProducer: Tori Amos

Tori Amos’ 18th album sees the alt-pop veteran in full myth-maker mode, spinning political dread into fire-breathing allegory, where tyrants lurk like serpentine villains and hope flickers stubbornly underneath. It’s a sprawling 76-minute velvet coup that demands total surrender to its intricate, moss-covered melodies and, despite the record’s sheer density and occasional self-indulgence, it impressively navigates that tension between ancient folklore and modern chaos. In essence, it’s shadowy and just unhinged enough to remind us why she remains a high priestess of the avant-garde. Few artists could craft a campfire story for the end of the world that feels quite this essential. 

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FruityAlfred Software Track ManagementTrack Management is an offline audio workstation that turns your own track library into a production resource: database, analysis, stem separation, loop extraction, VST3 processing, BPM matching, mix discovery and export — in one continuous workflow. Import and analyze thousands of tracks locally (BPM, key, beats). The proprietary Loop Finder uses pure DSP — musical beat scoring, zero-crossing snap, bar quantization — to pull the best loops out of any track in your collection. Splice searches their library; Track Management searches yours. Split tracks into drums, bass, other and vocals with intelligent caching, then mix stems across tracks: drums from song A, vocals from song B — with per-stem 5-band EQ and VST3 inserts on every level (per-stem, master bus, single-track). Lock stems to a target BPM with high-quality time-stretching. Record your stem mix live, exactly as you hear it. The Mix Recommender finds compatible tracks by BPM, key, groove and energy. Offline-first: no subscription, no cloud. One-time purchase with lifetime updates. EN, DE, ES, FR, IT. Free unlimited trial. Works on any modern PC; NVIDIA GPU (CUDA) accelerates AI features. Read More