Sony generated $2.55bn from recorded music and publishing in Q3, up 9.6% YoYCompany's global recorded music revenues were up over 10% YoY
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From Ed Sheeran’s speech to UMG vs. TuneCore… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
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The Cue by Polarity Audio is a FREE audio cue sequencer
The Cue by Polarity Audio is an audio cue sequencer that can be yours for free! We’ve looked at tons of creative plugins lately, such as the new SSL X-Orcism II and Soundtoys PhaseMistress. However, not all plugins are created equal. Some transform your tracks into something entirely new, while others are more of a [...]
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Get Groovemate ONE by UJAM for FREE for a limited time
Black Friday month continues, and we’ve been looking at amazing freebies for you! Today’s freebie, available for a very limited time, is the Groovemate ONE percussion plugin from UJAM. We recently covered fantastic free offerings from Waves, Air Music Tech, Mixwave, and more, which are definitely worth grabbing. For this one, all you need to [...]
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CD sales are down again… or are they?Physical music sales are still an important revenue source for most indie artists. Despite recent optimism CDs sales are down again. Or are they?
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Rise+ helps musicians find community, resources and educationLooking for help taking your music career to the next level? Learn how Rise+ helps musicians find community, tools and support.
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Broken Mini: This Minimoog emulation is free and totally bugged out – by designFull Bucket Music has unveiled an intriguing new plugin called Broken Mini, a free emulation of the iconic Minimoog synthesizer – if that Minimoog in question is broken and has missing knobs and quirks that make it feel like a repair is in order.
Confused? You might be. Just imagine a Minimoog that doesn’t quite work like one and you’ll grasp the essence of the Broken Mini.

READ MORE: Soundtoys’ PhaseMistress analogue phaser plugin is available totally free until 15 November

As mentioned, the Broken Mini is not just another Minimoog clone; it is designed to simulate a “malfunctioning” synthesizer experience. In fact, Björn Arlt, the developer behind Full Bucket Music, describes it as a nod to an “unknown and obscure synthesizer from the past,” with no mention of the original Minimoog at all.
Despite its playful premise, Broken Mini retains some core functionalities of the original. It features three multi-wave oscillators, a noise generator, the classic ladder filter, and two envelope generators, all arranged in a familiar layout. But this is where the similarities end.
The plugin’s interface includes intentional omissions that enhance its “broken” aesthetic — certain graphical elements are missing, such as the C3 key on the keyboard and the sustain button on the ADSR envelope generator.
The peculiarities extend beyond visuals. For instance, the noise generator sometimes emits radio signals instead of standard noise, as if a radio wave receiver were interfering. The oversampling feature, meanwhile, allows users to turn down the sample rate to 0.25 times only, resulting in a deliberately “dirty” sound quality.

Broken Mini is now available as a free download in VST, VST3, CLAP, AAX, and AU formats for both Windows and macOS.
More information is available at Full Bucket.
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How to become a successful Classical Musician: Paola Prestini Composer Paola Prestini has been named a Top 35 Female Composer in Classical Music by the Washington Post, a Top 100 Composer in the World by NPR and a Top 30 Professionals of the Year by Musical America. One can learn a lot about how to become a successful Classical Musician from Paolo Prestini.
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Pete Townshend says “somebody needs to occasionally slap Rick Rubin”: “One minute he’s telling us to do whatever we like and the next he’s telling us we mustn’t do this”Pete Townshend has taken a swipe at legendary producer Rick Rubin for the latter’s supposedly mixed messages on creativity.
Speaking on the Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt podcast, the Who guitarist and principal songwriter shares his thoughts on the creative process and how creativity doesn’t just belong to those who make a living with it.

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“You see a lot of stuff on YouTube and Instagram, people nagging you about the way that you have to be creative,” Townshend begins [via Ultimate Guitar]. “Somebody needs to occasionally slap Rick Rubin, because, one minute he’s telling us that we need to do whatever we like, and then, on the other hand, he’s telling us that we mustn’t do this, and we mustn’t do that.”
“The book of rules for me is… I’ve dabbled with all of those methods. I’ve carried complete big, recording studios on the road with me sometimes, and then sometimes I’ve used little cassette machines. I’ve recorded in all kinds of different ways. And if I fancy going into a studio with a huge orchestra, I’ve done that too. But what’s most interesting is the paper. The paper, the photograph, the writing.”
Townshend adds that creativity is “not just about rock stars, pop stars, singers, musicians, artists, or whatever. It’s about everybody.”
“This is why I think so many people who are successful in the arts and music tell people [that] everybody is creative. I think everybody might well be creative. It’s just that they don’t necessarily feel creative,” he explains. “And a lot of them, I think, feel lucky that they don’t go through the kind of trials and tribulations that they see big stars go through.”
That said, if there’s one thing Rubin and the other “pundits of creativity” have gotten right, it is that whatever you do has to spark joy.
“As Rick Rubin so rightly says, and many other pundits about creativity, it has to be fun,” Townshend says. “It has to be enjoyable. It has to be something that you love to do, and it also has to be something that you like what you do. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that anybody else will like it.”

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‘The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet’ has been identified thanks to RedditAttention: The internet just solved a 17-year-old mystery that’s been puzzling audiophiles and Reddit sleuths alike.
For nearly two decades, music enthusiasts and internet detectives have been captivated by a mysterious tune known as “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet”. This enigmatic track, which first emerged in 2007 after being digitised from a cassette recording made in the 1980s, has sparked a global hunt for its origins, leaving countless theories and dead ends in its wake.
But thanks to the relentless efforts of a dedicated, resourceful and global group of online detectives aka the Internet, the mystery has finally been unravelled: the song is titled Subways of the Mind, performed by the little-known German band FEX.

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Back in 2004, a teenager named Darius S. who recorded the song from a radio broadcast in Germany posted it on a website along with other unknown songs in hopes of identifying them. The search for the song’s origins gained significant momentum in 2019, when Reddit got involved and a Brazilian teen uploaded the track to YouTube.
The breakthrough came earlier this week when user Marijn1412 from The Mysterious Song subreddit discovered the band FEX while sifting through the archives of a Hamburg local music festival.
He reached out to one of the band members, who confirmed his involvement with FEX and shared several recordings, including a version of Subways of the Mind. With the mystery solved, this elusive piece of music is now set to reclaim its place in the spotlight — much to the surprise of its original creators, who were completely unaware of their song’s enduring legacy.
68-year-old Michael Haedrich, who played keyboard and guitar for FEX, tells Der Spiegel magazine that the members were “completely overwhelmed” by the news. He adds that the band are keen to reissue Subways of Your Mind and are trying to track down the original recording of the song.
“I thought it was amazing that someone was interested in music by a band that was only successful regionally, if at all, and that was over 40 years ago,” Haedrich says.

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Waves is giving away a new plugin this Black Friday – here’s how you can sign upWaves Audio is set to spice up your Black Friday with a brand new plugin coming your way! That’s right – the audio software company is back with its annual Black Friday giveaway, and this year, as with the last, it is keeping the details of the new plugin a mystery.

READ MORE: Soundtoys’ PhaseMistress analogue phaser plugin is available totally free until 15 November

As part of its Cyber Weekend celebration, 10,000 copies of the plugin will be given away for free on 29 November 2024. And while we don’t know exactly what it does yet, Waves has teased that it’s going to be “very exciting.”
For those who recall, past years’ Cyber Weekends have seen the company drop a bunch of freebies ranging from lo-fi reverbs and delay plugins to vocal processors. So act fast, and head over to the Waves website and sign up with your email to be notified when the plugin is available for download.
But that’s not all! Waves has already kicked off its Black Friday season with a selection of plugins starting from just $19.99. So while you wait for the big day, you can snag some incredible deals on their existing lineup.
Earlier this year, Waves announced a new trio of plugins, the Curves Spectral Series, which it claims can do your EQ for you. The first plugin in the trilogy, the Curves Equator, focuses on resonance suppression and is now available for purchase. The next two plugins will arrive next year and are set to focus on traditional audio equalisation and EQ matching respectively.
“If you think about EQ technology, it hasn’t really advanced in the last 30 years,” says Product Manager Shai Fishman in a launch video. “We thought there had to be a better way to get rid of Q’s and frequencies and nodes and all that stuff that’s really tedious and technical about EQ. Why not have the technology do the work for you? Go where you want to go, without worrying about the technical aspects?”
Visit Waves Audio to learn more.
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IK Multimedia unveil T-Racks Triad Chorus The latest addition to IK Multimedia’s ever-growing plug-in collection delivers some modulation effects inspired by a popular 80s rackmount unit.

AI-powered parenting is here and a16z is ready to back it AI wants to help us drive better, write better and diagnose diseases faster. Now imagine AI helping you be a better parent. 
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Asian crypto traders profit from Trump’s win, China’s 2025 CBDC deadline: Asia ExpressAsian investors trade overnight to catch the Trump-fueled Bitcoin surge, China accelerates digital yuan push: Asia Express

Disposable Vape Batteries Power eBikeThere are a lot of things that get landfilled that have some marginal value, but generally if there’s not a huge amount of money to be made recycling things they won’t get recycled. It might not be surprising to most that this is true of almost all plastic, a substantial portion of glass, and even a lot of paper and metals, but what might come as a shock is that plenty of rechargeable lithium batteries are included in this list as well. It’s cheaper to build lithium batteries into one-time-use items like disposable vape pens and just throw them out after one (or less than one) charge cycle, but if you have some spare time these batteries are plenty useful.
[Chris Doel] found over a hundred disposable vape pens after a local music festival and collected them all to build into a battery powerful enough for an ebike. Granted, this involves a lot of work disassembling each vape which is full of some fairly toxic compounds and which also generally tend to have some sensitive electronics, but once each pen was disassembled the real work of building a battery gets going. He starts with testing each cell and charging them to the same voltage, grouping cells with similar internal resistances. From there he assembles them into a 48V pack with a battery management system and custom 3D printed cell holders to accommodate the wide range of cell sizes. A 3D printed enclosure with charge/discharge ports, a power switch, and a status display round out the build.
With the battery bank completed he straps it to his existing ebike and hits the trails, easily traveling 20 miles with barely any pedal input. These cells are only rated for 300 charge-discharge cycles which is on par for plenty of similar 18650 cells, making this an impressive build for essentially free materials minus the costs of filament, a few parts, and the sweat equity that went into sourcing the cells. If you want to take an ebike to the next level of low-cost, we’d recommend pairing this battery with the drivetrain from the Spin Cycle.\
Thanks to [Anton] for the tip!

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