Chartmetric 2024 Report: new Superstars, Glocalization, MoreDiscover the highlights from the Chartmetric 2024 Report including new superstars, trigger cities, glocalization and more: One of several shockers: of the 11 million Spotify profiles tracked by Chartmetric, only 1.58 million (14%) have more than 10 listeners per month.
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Junk Ticket Fee Protections: NITO Pushes FTC for Stronger RulesThe National Independent Talent Association (NITO) and its member booking agencies and managers and the thousands of artists they represent, has asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to expand its ticket junk fee protections.
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Side Door helped artists earned $1.7M at small venue gigsSide Door helps musicians and small venues connect, market and sell tickets. The number of shows it facilitates and the dollars earned don't make great headlines.
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Get IK Multimedia’s T-RackS Mastering Processor for $29
Until January 23rd, you can grab IK Multimedia’s T-RackS One exclusively on VSTBuzz for $29. This plugin regularly sells for $99, so this deal is a 70% discount. Months ago, we covered the VSTBuzz Closing Down Sale. However, the website was later re-launched with new owners and new deals. T-RackS One is designed to make [...]
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“A collection of the greatest reverbs in recorded history”: Softube launches Dimensions reverb pluginSoftube has unveiled Dimensions, a new reverb plugin kitted out with six dynamic, adaptable reverb algorithms.
Dubbed a “transcendent tool for your sound”, Dimensions offers a variety of colours and sounds via six distinctive reverbs: Spring, Plate, Concert Hall, Room, Random Hall, and Cathedral. “From vibey and colourful mechanical reverbs, such as the Spring and Plate reverbs, to recreations of the most coveted reverb designs in music production, such as the ethereal Concert Hall and the famous Random Hall, with its beautiful spatialisation that glues together any source,” says Softube.

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Elsewhere, Dimensions features a Reverb Tail Visualiser, which, inspired by the Fairlight CMI sampler workstation and synth from 1979, and Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover, enables users to see exactly what’s happening with their reverb tails. There’s also a Shimmer Effect, which turns any of the six included reverbs into a shimmer reverb, and a comprehensive preset collection which aims to help producers get creative right away.

Each reverb mode can be easily tweaked within the plugin. Users can adjust the bass and treble, as well as the time and pre-delay. There’s also the ability to adjust wet/dry balance, or tweak how dark or bright it feels.
“When it comes to creating equipment that enhances workflow and offers supreme sound quality, our reputation is rock solid and illustriously long,” says Softube. “Our partnerships with premium brands like Tube-Tech, Solid State Logic, Chandler Limited, Weiss Engineering, and Trident have spanned decades.
“Dimensions was built on this legacy of creativity, passion, and obsession with details. Because to create tools that innovate and elevate, you have to have heart, soul, and Rock & Roll Science.”
Dimensions is available now, at an introductory price of €99, down from €149. For more information, head to Softube.
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The Leverhulme Amplification Project: PhD Scholarships The Department of Media, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Huddersfield are currently inviting applications for 12 full scholarships for PhDs as part of the Amplification Project.

Supercritical launch Redshift 6 desktop synth Bringing together the technology behind Supercritical's Demon Core Oscillator and Neutron Flux Filter Eurorack modules, Redshift 6 is said to be a versatile instrument that’s capable of delivering everything from classic analogue polysynth sounds to modern digital tones. 

Robinhood agrees to pay $45M in SEC settlementRobinhood has agreed to fork out $45 million to settle an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission over several alleged violations, reported the Wall Street Journal on Monday. The settlement is being made via two of Robinhood’s brokerage units. One of the violations relates to Robinhood’s November 2021 confirmation that it was hacked “with […]
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Why is Ethereum (ETH) price down today?Ether price is down up today after the altcoin lost its weekly support at $3,200, leading to a sharp increase in selling pressure.

Mikey Reaves (Luke Combs, Jelly Roll) gives an exclusive studio tour
Mikey Reaves (Luke Combs, Jelly Roll) gives us an exclusive studio tour, discussing his favorite gear and showcasing how he starts a track with Create.

Electromechanical 7-Segment Display Is High Contrast BrillianceThe seven-segment display is most well known in LED form, but the concept isn’t tied to that format. You can build a seven-segment display out of moving parts, too. [tin-foil-hat] has achieved just that with a remarkably elegant design.
As you might expect, the build relies heavily on 3D-printed components—produced in white and black plastic to create a high-contrast display. It’s a simple choice that makes the display easy to read in a wide variety of lighting conditions, and far less fussy than toying with LEDs and diffusers and all that.
Actuation of each display segment is achieved electromagnetically. Effectively, each segment behaves like a flip dot, with the orientation controlled by energizing one of two electromagnets per segment. Controlling the electromagnets is an ESP32, which is hooked up to the various segments via a Darlington transistor array, with multiplexing used to minimize the number of IO pins required. A shift register was also employed to let the microcontroller easily drive four of these electromechanical digits.
It’s a simple build, well explained—and the final result is aesthetically pleasing. We’ve seen a few builds along these lines before, albeit using altogether different techniques. Lots of different techniques, in fact! Video after the break.

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Universal cancels all Grammy-related events; major will redirect funds to those affected by Los Angeles wildfiresOver 50 UMG employees have lost their homes or been displaced in the Los Angeles wildfires
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Clever PCBs Straighten Out the Supercon SAO BadgeWhen we decided that Simple Add-Ons (SAOs) would be the focus of Supercon 2024, it was clear the badge would need to feature more than just one or two of the requisite connectors. We finally settled on six ports, but figuring out the geometry of getting all those ports on the badge in such a way that the SAOs wouldn’t hit each other was a bit tricky. In early concept drawings the badge was just a big rectangle with the ports along the top, but it was too ugly.
In the end we went with a somewhat organic design — an electronic “flower” with the radially arranged SAOs forming the petals, but this meant that that none of the SAOs were in the traditional vertical orientation. Luckily, [Adrian Studer] designed a couple of PCBs that not only resolve this issue, but add a seventh SAO port for good measure.
In the project repository you’ll find two PCB designs. The first, “SAO Up” is essentially a little arm that turns the SAO port 90 degrees. This doesn’t exactly get them vertical, in fact, whether or not the new orientation is actually an improvement for the top two SAOs is perhaps debatable. But it definitely helps on the lower SAOs, which are essentially upside down in their original configuration.
The real star of the show is “SAO Bridge”, a wavy board that connects across the two midline SAO ports on the Supercon badge and turns it into a set of three (nearly) horizontal connectors across the front. The center port is particularly helpful in that it gives you a place to put unusually wide SAOs.
As a reminder the Supercon SAO badge, and the winners of the 2024 SAO Contest, will be making the trip across the pond for Hackaday Europe in just a few months. That means you’ve still got plenty of time to have a few of these CERN-OHL-P licensed boards made up.

Waves now shipping next-generation (X14) Titan and Titan-R SoundGrid DSP serversWaves Audio, the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, is now shipping the latest versions (X14) of Waves’ most advanced plugin servers: the Titan andTitan-R SoundGrid servers. These next-generation models bring unprecedented DSP power for running plugins in real time to your live mixing setup and are now available for purchase.Equipped with Intel’s powerful Gen 14 CPU, these servers deliver more than 1.5 times the processing power for real-time plugin use in Waves’ SuperRack SoundGrid and Waves’ eMotion LV1 Software Mixer and the eMotion LV1 Classic, compared to the previous Gen 10 CPU version.Live engineers can now experience flawless live mixing and low-latency processing of hundreds of Waves plugins. The new Titan server’s powerful DSP ensures smooth real-time plugin performance, handling even the most demanding shows at sample rates of up to 96 kHz.Titan’s sleek, rugged industrial design features LED indicators for easy network and temperature monitoring, along with sturdy RAM positioning to ensure a reliable mixing experience that can withstand the challenges of any setup, wherever you are.The Waves Titan-R is the ultimate and most powerful choice for massive plugin processing tasks. While identical to the Titan SoundGrid Server in performance, the Titan-R offers dual power supplies, providing unmatched reliability and redundancy in critical situations. Delivering an extra layer of dependability, this ensures continuous operation, making it the ideal choice for professional environments where sonic excellence and stability is paramount.The post Waves now shipping next-generation (X14) Titan and Titan-R SoundGrid DSP servers first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

Grammy Awards to ‘proceed as planned’ despite Los Angeles wildfiresLive telecast to raise funds to support wildfire relief efforts
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