L-Acoustics reveal HYRISS immersive system L-Acoustics have announced the launch of a new ground-breaking audio system which they say will redefine how we experience spaces through sound.

Roland’s new AIRA Compact P-6 offers high-quality sampling on-the-goOver the past few years, Roland has been busy crafting compact, portable synths, vocoders and drum machines. The AIRA Compact series offers an ideal solution for creatives on the move, and Roland has just unveiled its latest addition to the series.
An uber-portable creative sampler, the AIRA Compact P-6 is meek enough to fit into your pocket, the piece of gear can easily be brought on the road or in between home and the studio. It’s even battery-powered, meaning you charge it up and use it anywhere without worrying about a power source.

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The AIRA Compact P-6 boasts eight banks of six pads, meaning you can load it up with 48 unique samples.
Roland has also ensured the AIRA P-6 has a mass of live sampling capabilities thank to the built-in mic, making it simple to capture sounds from the world around you – or you can import wav samples directly onto the sampler.
The gear is also kitted with a slew of features to tweak and customise your samples. Pitch-shifting is of course standard, but there’s also a resampling and granular synthesis engine within the AIRA P-6 – you heard that right, granular synthesis from Roland!

Each sample can be looped, reversed, and even be played with an alternate loop. You can also manipulate your samples with reverb and delay, and there’s also a multi-FX processor. The processor will allow you to choose between lo-fi, scatter, resonator, vinyl simulator effects and more.
The step sequencer also boasts 64 steps in total and a memory of a maximum of 64 patterns. Users can experiment and tweak the velocity, length, sub-steps, probability, micro-timing, off-grid sequencing and motion recording.
If you’re eager to get your hands on this portable sampler, it’s currently available for $219 in the US.
More info can be found via Roland.

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Pressing Your First Vinyl Record: A Step-by-Step GuideBefore pressing your first vinyl, make sure you’ve covered these five crucial steps to avoid costly mistakes. From mastering audio to choosing the right pressing plant, this guide has everything you need to know for a flawless vinyl release.
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Plasma: Intelligent saturation plug-in from iZotope Using a new technology that iZotope refer to as Flux Saturation, Plasma analyses incoming signals and applies dynamic processing that promises to add warmth, depth and character. 

Save up to 95 percent on Universal Audio plugins with Plugin Boutique’s new manufacturer focus salePlugin Boutique is currently running a manufacturer focus sale on a bunch of Universal Audio goodies, with up to 95 percent off.
The sale includes a generous bundle of six electronic music-focused tools, down from over £1,500 to just a two-figure sum. Plugin Boutique has run a variety of focus sales in the past, with one just recently which offered an iZotope plugin for free. This particular UAD sale runs until 30 September.

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The Universal Audio Electronic Music Bundle MKII has the biggest offer of all, with its price having dropped from £1,693.99 to just £73. Plugin Boutique describes this deal as “a ticket to a vastly more professional and high-quality plugin collection”.
Inside, you’ll get the Pultec Passive EQ Collection, which let’s you “breathe analogue life into your vocals, drums, guitars, and synths” with vintage tube EQs used to sculpt over 70 years of popular music. This is inspired by classic gear used by the producers of John Mayer, Daft Punk, Mariah Carey, and more.
There’s also the Opal Morphing Synth, the Moog Minimoog, a Studer A800 Tape Recorder,  a 1176 Classic Limiter Collection, and the Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb in this bundle.

If you’re looking for an even cheaper offer though, the UAD Essentials Edition collection or the Triple Crown Compressor bundle are both just £45 each. In the Essentials, you’ll get The Teletronix LA-2A Leveler Collection and the Pultec Passive EQ Collection, plus the Century Tube Channel Strip, Oxide Tape Recorder, Galaxy Tape Echo, Pure Plate Reverb, and PolyMAX Synth.
The Triple Crown Compressor bundle simply offers the Teletronix LA-2A Leveler Collection, the 1176 Classic Limiter Collection, and the Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection, all in one, so you can mix and master with vintage flair.
To view the full selection of UAD deals, head over to Plugin Boutique.
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Void & Vista update STRANDS STRANDS has been kitted out with a number of powerful new features that were developed for Void & Vista's more recent FOLDS instrument.

The new multitrack recorder via built-in mic in #Apple iPhone16 with #AI recorded-tracks-separation is rather interesting go-to solution for drafts in #musicproduction. Good feature but the cost idk... #Tech #Musicians #Producers

Apple’s new iPhones apparently have four “studio-quality” mics and multi-track recording in Voice MemosIt’s that time of the year again, as Apple unveils its latest generation of iPhones at Monday’s ‘It’s Glowtime’ keynote event.
Between the new A18 chip, an added Camera Control button, and the arrival of Apple Intelligence — the Cupertino giant’s very own artificial intelligence software, the iPhone 16 boasts a slew of exciting hardware and software upgrades for both serious and casual users alike.
For musicians and producers who rely on their iPhones for music-making and capturing song ideas, the new lineup introduces a range of audio enhancements designed to level-up your creative process.

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To start, the brand’s top-of-the-line iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max models are said to deliver a “big leap in audio performance” with not just one, but four “studio-quality” mics for higher-quality recording. The mics provide a lower noise floor so you get more true-to-life sounds without the need for extra gear.
Multi-track recording will also be coming to the Voice Memo app later this year. Users can now layer another track on top of existing recordings, which will come in handy for when you want to record your singing over guitar instrumentals, for example.
According to Apple, Voice Memos plays the guitar track through the iPhone speakers while simultaneously recording your voice. The system then uses “advanced processing” to isolate your new vocals and cancel the background audio for a professional result — without the need for headphones, or another app.

The iPhone 16 will hit the shelves officially on Friday, 20 September, with prices starting at $799 for the base model and $999 for the Pro model.
Grammy-winning producer and songwriter Tourist previously spoke about his love for Apple’s Voice Memos app, calling it an “absolute no-brainer” for music production.
“I mean there’s even a part of me that’s really happy with that built-in iPhone mic because it has such a character,” he said on MusicTech’s My Forever Studio podcast. “It sounds like the year that the phone was made. And the compression, whatever they do with that compression… I think people can hear an iPhone mic. I like that.”
Learn more at Apple.
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Amazon starts testing ads in its Rufus chatbotRufus, Amazon’s recently launched, shopping-focused chatbot, is getting ads soon. That’s according to a changelog published by Amazon this week (first spotted by AdWeek), which states that sponsored ads could soon start appearing in placements for Rufus users in the U.S. Ads will be shown based on Amazon search and conversational context, Amazon says, and […]
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OpenAI fundraising could push valuation to $150BAs fundraising unfolds, OpenAI’s valuation is expected to reach $150 billion. Several tech giants, including Apple and Nvidia, are reportedly backing the round. 

IBM’s 1969 Educational ComputingIBM got their PCs and PS/2 computers into schools in the 1980s and 1990s. We fondly remember educational games like Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain. However, IBM had been trying to get into the educational market long before the PC. In 1969, the IBM Schools Computer System Unit was developed. Though it never reached commercial release, ten were made, and they were deployed to pilot schools. One remained in use for almost a decade! And now, there’s a new one — well, a replica of IBM’s experimental school computer by [Menadue], at least. You can check it out in the video below.
The internals were based somewhat on the IBM System/360’s technology. Interestingly, it used a touch-sensitive keypad instead of a traditional keyboard. From what we’ve read, it seems this system had a lot of firsts: the first system to use a domestic TV as an output device, the first system to use a cassette deck as a storage medium, and the first purpose-built educational computer. It was developed at IBM Hursley in the UK and used magnetic core memory. It used BCD for numerical display instead of hexadecimal or octal, with floating point numbers as a basic type. It also used 32-bit registers, though they stored BCD digits and not binary. In short, this thing was way ahead of its time.
[Menadue] saw the machine at the IBM Hursley museum and liked it so much that he proceeded to build a prototype machine based partially on a document shown at the museum that showed the instructions. Further research revealed a complete document explaining the instruction set. The initial prototype was made on a small PCB with a Raspberry Pi Pico W, an OLED display, and key switches, which proved that he understood the system enough to replicate it.
An inside view
After that prototype, work began on the replica. It’s a half-scale model, but it does use a touch keyboard like the original. The attention to detail is nice, with the colours of the case matching and even a small IBM logo replica on the front! It’s made from a metal chassis, with the keyboard surround being plastic (as on the original) so as not to interfere with the touch keyboard. It’s programmed using the same set of instructions as the original — a combination of low-level commands, similar to assembly for microprocessors, but with an extra set of slightly higher-level instructions that IBM called Extra Codes. For a more in-depth explanation, check out the video going over the original system and the prototype replica!

Photos courtesy of IBM Hursley Museum

As Live Nation stares down antitrust suit, here’s what CEO Michael Rapino says is the real ‘secret sauce’ for Ticketmaster’s successRapino says Ticketmaster's success stems simply from having built a better product.
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 800: Champagning the Ladybird BrowserThis week Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird, the new browser in development from the ground up. It was started as part of SerenityOS, and has since taken on a life of its own. How much of the web works on it? How many people are working on the project? And where’s the download button? Listen to find out!

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UMG India launches Vedam Records, a wellness music label alongside Grammy Award winner Ricky KejVedam is embarking on a "transformative journey" to improve the accessibility and effectiveness of wellness music
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CARMEN AND CARNIVAL WITH DUDAMEL at the Hollywood BowlAfter a three-month absence, Gustavo Dudamel, longtime musical director of the LA Philharmonic, made a triumphant return to the Hollywood Bowl in late August to launch the orchestra’s final two weeks of the season with six different programs.

So potentially popular that it merited two nights (September 3 and 5) on the schedule, Carmen and Carnival with Dudamel made for a wonderfully alliterative marketing title but a very unusual and offbeat tonal pairing. From casual conversations between patrons, the audience responses and the fact that some folks left at intermission (after the glorious Carnival left town), it seemed that many in the audience were fans of either Camille Saint-Saens’s classic, often whimsical parade of animal inspired pieces OR the dramatic Bizet opera.

Fortunately, I felt like I was perhaps one of the minority who embraced both for different reasons. I enjoy the boisterous prelude to Carmen and the sly vocal expression “Habanera” because these pieces were soundtrack music to one of my favorite all-time films, The Bad News Bears.

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I love Carnival of the Animals not only because Saint-Saens so artfully captured the personalities of each member of the animal kingdom, but because one of his pieces, “The Swan” is. IMHO, one of classical music’s most beautiful and transcendent compositions, all at once capturing the bird’s majestic, divinely sculpted beauty and its graceful glide through water. This piece was the highlight of the Carnival, with cellist Robert deMaine’s elegant, lyrical and richly emotional cello melody gliding on the angelic wings of Karen Lechner’s soft hypnotic piano.

Under Dudamel’s ever nuanced and intuitive guidance, the LA Phil created a dramatic, flourish-filled instrumental equivalent of a brisk 25-minute trip to the zoo or a wild animal park. Along the way, we met lions (“Royal March of the Lion”), “Hens and Roosters” (with pecking simulated by playful string accents), “Wild Donkeys” (featuring fast piano flurries), “Tortoises” (slow and measured chording, naturally), “Elephants” (with percussive, stomping piano and a low toned cello quarter), graceful, hopping “Kangaroos,” and “The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods.” The cuckoo piece and “Aviary” simulated the sounds of their subjects with quickly fluttering flutes. Amidst the whimsy were caressing moments of immersion in the elegant fluidity of the “Aquarium” segment and, as mentioned, the dreamy, ballet-like beauty of the suite’s showstopper, “Swan.”

The narrative elements introducing some of the individual pieces of Carnival of the Animals between its 2019 performance at the Bowl and this one was pretty much night and day. While the earlier one featured Emmy winning actor Sean Hayes hamming it up and adding lighthearted humor to the show, Dudamel found a magnificent way to replace that shtick with a much more reverent and appropriately childlike approach. Sounding a bit like Linus in the classic Peanuts TV specials, the conductor’s 13-year-old son Martin provided the charming voice narration to a series of animated videos for many of the animals, creating a colorful and thoughtful feast for the eyes and ears even before each piece was performed.   The post CARMEN AND CARNIVAL WITH DUDAMEL at the Hollywood Bowl first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.