Brainworx release bx_pulsar delay plug-in The latest addition to the Brainworx line-up aims to offer a little more than your average delay plug-in, with its five distinct delay types complemented by an eight-step sequencer, a ducking compressor, diffusion networks and swing controls.

Position Music Signs Artist & Songwriter Britton To Worldwide Record Deal(L-R) Garrett Ream (VP Artist Strategy & Promotion, Position Music),  Britton &  Chris Tecca (A&R Position Music)Tyler Bacon, President & CEO of Position Music, announced on Wednesday the signing of Britton to a record deal, coinciding with the release of the “clawmarks” single on Friday, July  25th."Britton is an alt-pop artist from Toledo, OH who moved to Los Angeles five years ago to pursue music full-time," a statement reads. "Always meticulous in building her musical world, she has a strong hand in writing, recording and producing, making tracks that are raw, poetic, and emotionally unflinching and whose sound lives at the intersection of dark pop confessionals and cinematic vulnerability.""Having already been featured on numerous playlists like New Music Friday, All New Pop, sad hour, New Music Daily and more Britton comes to Position with an impressive following across streaming and social media with 1.4M+ on Tik Tok, 316K+ on Instagram, 220K+ on YouTube and 200K+ on Spotify," they added.“Britton has a rare gift for writing lyrics that stand out. In a world of transient trends, her music is timeless and always hits on a raw emotional level. She’s the kind of artist and person worth going the extra mile for, and we’re thrilled to be part of that journey.”  Garrett Ream, VP Artist Strategy & Promotion.“For years, I’ve poured myself into making and releasing music independently with the goal of someday finding a team who would embrace my artistry and help take it to new heights. Meeting Garrett Ream was a breath of fresh air at a time when I really needed it — our connection was instant, genuine, and effortless. That same authenticity and spirit extends throughout the entire team at Position; I am truly so excited to see what the future holds.” BrittonThe post Position Music Signs Artist & Songwriter Britton To Worldwide Record Deal first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

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Soldered RAM Upgrades Finally Available for Mac-PPCIn the retrocomputing world, [DosDude1] is a name spoken with more than a little respect. He’s back again with a long-awaited hack for PowerPC Macintosh: soldered RAM upgrades!
[DosDude1] is no stranger to soldering his way to more storage– upgrading the SSD on an M4 Mac Mini, or doubling  the VRAM on an old GPU. For a PPC Mac, though, it is not enough just to solder more RAM onto the board; if that’s all it was, we’d have been doing it 20 years ago. Once the RAM is in place, you have to have some way to make sure the computer knows the RAM is in place. For a WinTel machine, getting that information to the BIOS can be as easy as plugging in the right resistors.
This is part of the BootROM dump. It’s easy to see why nobody figured this out before.
PowerPC Macintoshes don’t have BIOS, though. Instead, what’s required is a hack to modify the machine’s BootROM, and write an edited version back into the motherboard’s EEPROM. No one knew how to make that work, until now. [DosDude1] credits a document discovered by [LightBulbFun] on “Boot Flash System Configuration Block” for the secret sauce to hacking the HEX configuration. For example, adding four more 128 MB DIMMS to max out an iBook G3 was a matter of finding the Hex value for number of soldered chips–apparently it was at offset 0x5C. Change this from 0x01 to 0x02 tells the board to look for all 6 chips. Then it’s a matter of flashing the edited hex dump EEPROM, which can be done with a programmer or the flashrom command under Linux.
 
Solder, flash, reboot– RAM. That’s not the only upgrade in this clamshell. This wasn’t G4 from the factory!
While a few extra hundred MB of RAM isn’t exactly bringing this machine into the 21st century, it is a great quality-of-life upgrade to make old budget hardware match the best of the era. This isn’t magic: if you’re increasing the density, rather than filling up footprints as [DosDude1] demonstrates, you’ve got to make sure the board has got address lines to spare or there’s a way to bodge them in. (128 MB was the max for this one.) The footprints obviously have to match, too, and so do the specs. You’re not going to be putting extra gigabytes of DDR5 into a machine designed with OS9 in mind, but then, you probably don’t need to. It’s already got more than 640 KB, after all, and that’s enough for anybody.
 
Found via r/VintageApple on Reddit.

What is neo soul? History, artists, and legacy
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Pubbas releases free Vallhund Binaural Panner for Windows and macOS
Pubbas has released Vallhund, a free binaural panning plugin for Windows and macOS. We previously featured Pubbas’ Sheepadoodle Phaser, and to be honest, I’ve used it way more than expected since then. It earned a regular spot in my cinematic sound design toolkit, so I’m thrilled to see another creative effect drop from the same [...]
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Pubbas Vallhund Binaural PannerVallhund provides precise, independent control over the factors that shape human perception of audio directionality. By closely emulating how our ears naturally interpret spatial cues—subtle variations in volume, timing (latency), and frequency response (filtering) - Vallhund allows you to create immersive mixes that place sounds anywhere in a virtual soundscape. Key Controls Direction: Set the perceived location of your sound source. Virtually place it left, right, or anywhere in between. Latency: Adjusts the strength of the timing difference between the left and right channel, this is essentially a control for the Haas effect. But be careful with this since it can introduce phase issues for playback in mono. Volume: Fine-tune the loudness difference between the left and right channels to reinforce the perceived direction of your source. A subtle shift can add depth and realism, while an exaggerated setting can create a striking directional emphasis. Filter: Control how strongly the HRTF-based filtering is applied. This lets you refine the tonal character of your panned sound, from a neutral balance to a richly emphasized directional signature. YouTube.com/watch?v=pXNlWYah6dM Read More

In The Trenches with Rachel Hunt of indie music venue Grog ShopRachel Hunt is the Marketing Director for independent Cleveland music venues Grog Shop and B-Side Lounge. Her love of music runs deep including a 16 years-and-counting as a non-comm radio DJ. Hunt shares her story as well as what's working in her daily battle to help fans discover new artists and sell more tickets.
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Massive X Player is a new soft synth from Native Instruments – and it’s freeNative Instruments has launched Massive X Player, a free soft synth offering an intro to sound sculpting.
Available to download right now, Massive X Player comes loaded with 60 presets including basses, pads and leads, so regardless of your skill level with synth programming, you can get creative straight away. READ MORE: Here’s an unprecedented pre-show look at the console setup of Slipknot’s front-of-house engineer

At the heart of Massive X Player’s UI is the Morpher XY pad, which lets you shift between parameters in real time. You can also draw a path on the XY pad, which introduces “evolving movement and rhythmic modulation”, which can loop and sync with a project.
Additionally, the Player’s Animator tool is on hand to provide you with a few preset pathway shapes to choose from, like a square or circular path.
There’s also a Randomize function, which can be hit in each corner of the Morpher XY pad to help spark new creative ideas.
“Whether you’re exploring synths for the first time or looking for a fast and fun way to sculpt sounds, Massive X Player makes synthesis simple,” says Native Instruments. “This is your backstage pass to the music that shapes scenes. From growling basses to shimmering leads and floating pads, explore a vast library of presets for quick inspiration and then make them your own. No steep learning curve, no cost, just playful sound design.”

Massive X Player comes loaded with 60 presets, with more on the way via expansion packs built by expert sound designers.
Massive X Player is included with Native Instruments’ Komplete Start bundle, a free plugin suite loaded with synths, instruments, effects, and loops.
Learn more at Native Instruments.
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How to Build a Fan Community that lastsBefore artists try to make money from superfans, they need to understand what really makes people feel part of a community. These core ideas on how to build a fan community can turn short-term attention into long-term fan loyalty and career growth.
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Here’s an unprecedented pre-show look at the console setup of Slipknot’s front-of-house engineerWhile there’s plenty of chaos when Slipknot take to the stage, there’s a precise formula when it comes to capturing their heavy metal carnage live. And the band’s front-of-house engineer, Bob Strakele, has given an unprecedented tour of his mixing console.
Strakele, who was also worked with AWOLNATION, Avenged Sevenfold and Erasure, explains that he has recently switched to Yamaha’s PM5 Rivage after 11 years on a Solid State Logic console. “I was just kind of ready to make a change,” he tells Kohle Audio Kult. “I went to the PM5 Rivage series by Yamaha, and I’ve done maybe 15 shows on it.”

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The console is a Rupert Neve Designs collaboration, featuring tech from Bricasti and Eventide. As Strakele shows the host around, he explains: “It’s not just a GUI that looks fancy – it’s the real deal.”
While the number of channels coming out of the PA around “the high 60s, low 70s”, with 96 channels of inputs, Strakele only mixes the groups mid-show. “The fader levels pretty much stay flat,” he explains. “The groups… that’s where I spend the show.”
“I just pretend it’s an analogue console with 4-band EQ,” he says. “Just touch it and turn it and when it sounds good, it sounds good. Whatever, right?”

A handy stream deck helps the engineer easily roll through any intro recordings,. But there’s no backing tracks or click tracks once the band are in full-swing. “There’s no tracks,” Strakele says. “It’s all live. It’s 100% live.”
All fine tuning, EQs, reverbs, and effects are done on the console, with the outboard essentially just being compression. Once the show is in motion, his job is tweaking faders, keeping an eye on the drum buses, aforementioned Bleeps groups, effects, and so on. The outboard is all fixed settings. “I don’t mess with any of it,” he says.
The outboard features a Governer dual slope optical compressor, designed by Hungarian company Gainlab Audio, which Strakele notes “doesn’t really behave like an optical compressor” due to the fact “it can be very gentle if you want it to be – but it’ll get gnarly if you want it to be as well”.
The Governer also boasts an inductor-based passive EQ, which Strakele explains is “similar to a Pultec, but not a clone”, with its own “cut and boost” abilities.

The outboard also has a Dictator flexible compressor, another Gainlab Audio creation. “The Dictator is handling everything electronics-based,” Strakele says. “Sometimes things can get out of control in the electronics world because they’re just tweaking mixers and gain stages and stuff – this thing just works. It gets fatter, but you don’t necessarily hear it hit a knee or a threshold.”
“Everything electronics-based goes to a group, which I call ‘Bleeps’,” Strakele laughs. “It works killer!”
There’s also Wes Audio 1176-style Mimas compressors. “I’ve toured with real 1176s and all sorts of clones, and, for the size and the form factor, it’s perfect,” he explains. “And I honestly prefer it to a real 1176. It does the thing that you want!”
Vocally, Strakele again splits lead singer Corey Taylor, stage right, and percussionist Shawn Crahan (Clown) into three different groups. “I like to do everything on the channel in the box, and this is all the groups,” he explains. “So I know that the round trip is all going to be in phase… If it’s latent, it’s like 0.4 of a millisecond… it’s no big deal.”
Strakele also uses The Wizard as his choice of multiband saturator – a brand new offering from Gainlab Audio. “It’s really interesting, because every part of it interacts with a different part,” Strakele explains. “You have your thresholds for the very mute part, but that’s a feedback off of the output. So you can make it do really cool soundscape-y stuff if you are using synths. I’m using it on guitars, and it’s just locking it all together and adding some warmth.”
“A little saturation, a little compression, and a little bit of EQ,” he continues. “The EQ is pretty gentle. I think at max it’s only a 6 dB boost. So I’m just adding a little pinch of it here. A touch.”
An API 2500 Bus Compressor rounds everything off. “This thing reacts a little bit harsh to low frequency information… so I just add length to the toms, essentially, and some distortion,” he says.
“I keep it pretty simple,” Strakele admits. “A lot of people like to overcomplicate things, but that’s just like not how I work. And I mean, a show like this doesn’t really change that much. It’s mostly the room… That’s what we spend the most time on, the room acoustics.”

Slipknot aren’t ones to carry out excessive sound-checking, so Strakele usually plays back a recording from another show to gauge the room acoustics. “That way, I can basically tune the room the night before a show,” he explains
The Prodigy multifunction audio processor handles all the IO for the outboard and PA drive system. PA-wise, Strakele discussed the band’s Cohesion PA system back in April.
Slipknot’s live set utilises six Cohesion CP218 II+ systems behind each main hang, as well as eighteen CP218 II+ in six ground stacks of three, according to Lighting & Sound America.
“We had a lot of subs, but more for coverage,” Strakele told the magazine. “Brian and I had an agreement that we were going to get most of the low end from what was in the air. It’s honestly impressive that a 12″ goes that low, and you felt that energy. I liked the people in the front row to have a visceral feeling, not an oppressive one. When the guitars were chunking, you felt it on Cohesion.”
“This system was killer,” he added. “It made things easier for me where the guitars and vocals live. I’m a mid-range guy. Heavy metal tends not to have mid-range in the guitars, and it can be a conundrum of pushing the guitars too loud to hear them, but you still don’t hear them. With this system, I didn’t have that problem. This PA is a keeper.”
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Excite Audio goes metal with its new synth, Evolve AlloyExcite Audio is venturing into new sonic terrain with Evolve Alloy, the first synth in its Evolve series – a line of instruments that each explore the “sonic characteristics” of a different material. This one’s all about metal.

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Evolve Alloy combines over 250 sound sources, ranging from tuned percussion like glockenspiels and bells to industrial foley recordings and modern, metallic-sounding synth tones.
The result is a sharp, expressive sound palette that spans cinematic shimmer and tough, digital clang.
The plugin’s interface centres around four sound blocks, each with the option to toggle between sample or synth sources. These four layers feed into a central XY pad, designed for intuitive, real-time morphing between sounds, making dynamic expression just a flick or drag away.
Just below, a rack of effects – including filters, saturation, phaser, delay, and a limiter – gives users even more control to sculpt their sound. A modulation section, meanwhile, rounds things out with envelopes, LFOs, velocity and key tracking.
If you’re on the hunt for more creative tools, the MusicTech team has also rounded up some of our favourite free and paid-for plugins in our rolling guide of the best plugins available right now. And for fans of Excite Audio, there’s more good news: the brand’s Complete Collection is currently 50% off on Plugin Boutique until the end of the month.
The discounted bundle includes 18 plugins, now going for just $259 from the usual $518. Among them are Lifeline Console, the acclaimed all-in-one channel strip praised for its mix-ready warmth; KSHMR Chain, a time-saving utility for syncing FX chains across multiple tracks; and Vision 4X, an award-winning visual analyser developed with feedback from electronic veterans like NOISIA.
Learn more at Excite Audio.
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RodeCasters gain CallMe function Rode have teamed up with Vortex Communications to bring remote, low-latency audio connectivity to users of their RodeCaster interfaces.

TikTok’s ‘Add to Music App’ feature has fuelled ‘billions’ of streams. Now it’s linked up with YouTube Music.YouTube Music joins Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Melon, Anghami and SoundCloud in TikTok's music-saving feature
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