‘If streaming doesn’t disrupt itself, social will’ – Mark MulliganStreaming services are focusing on optimization, but is that enough to stay ahead? Mark Mulligan of MIDiA digs into why innovation in music streaming is crucial to avoid disruption.
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iZotope launch Cascadia delay plug-in Cascadia has been designed to provide engineers and producers with a wealth of echo and slapback effects without compromising the clarity of their mixes.

Anatres Black Friday Sale Anatres' Black Friday Sale, sees discounts of 50% applied to both perpetual and subscription-based licenses for the company's popular vocal-production tools. 

The best Black Friday deals on music tech gear at ReverbIf you’re looking to expand and enhance your studio setup, bringing new and exciting gear to your performances or workflow, we’ve gathered the best music technology deals at Reverb ahead of Black Friday, so you don’t have to. From top-quality microphones to hardware synthesizers, portable MIDI controllers to modelling guitar amps, there’s something here for producers and performers of all kinds. Read on to get the best seasonal deals on pro audio hardware for your studio.

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Perfect for producers working in any genre, the Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 provides four inputs and outputs, making it perfect for recording several sources at the same time. Recording at up to 192kHz, it offers pristine audio quality, MIDI functionality and works over a USB connection which also sends power to the interface. Portable yet powerful, this is a great system for recording and producing for just $150.
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This ultra-portable MIDI controller has MIDI, CV/Gate and sync features, as well as an onboard sequencer and flexible I/O. it’s equally at home controlling soft synths or analog or modular gear. Plus, it’s super portable to boot. Here’s your chance to grab one at a significant discount, for just $75.
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Putting incredible DJ power in your backpack, the Traktor Kontrol F1 is among the most compact controller units NI has ever made. Its 16 multicoloured backlit pads provide hands-on control of your performances, linking directly to the Traktor software’s Remix Sets and letting you capture loops and samples in real time. Grab one now for the bargain price of just $110.50.
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This refurbished Launchkey Mini Mk3 is the perfect way to control and perform with your DAW, integrating beautifully with all modern music software and even with external hardware as well. With 25 keys and 16 sensitive pads it also has eight encoders and multiple transport buttons for getting tactile, hands-on control of your projects. The bundled software is available on registration of the hardware.
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Korg’s Wavestate wave sequencing hardware synthesizer uses wave sequencing to transform raw samples into new sounds and textures. Containing multiple GBs of samples it also includes modelled filters from the MS-20 and Polysix synths among others, has 64 stereo voices and 14 effects. Get it now for $500.
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There’s 36% off this small but powerful fuzz stompbox that can create some seriously heavy doom, sludge and buzz tones. With its tiny size, it powers over the mains and has just three super simple controls. As well as using it in a live situation why not consider employing it as a live effect in your studio to dirty up all kinds of sounds other than guitars and basses.
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There’s 41% off this excellent digital mixer from Soundcraft, with a whole mixing system inside a rugged stage box perfect for taking on tour. In addition to onboard graphic EQ, noise gate compression, reverb and other effects it is controllable wirelessly from a computer or mobile device. As well as a bunch of XLR ins and outs it has a USB audio player and the ability to record performances.
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Get crystal clear recordings with Warm Audio’s high-end studio condenser mic, now on sale for $729. This refurbed mic uses a true reproduction of the K47-style capsule in the original 47 tube mic and features nine polar patterns – cardioid, omnidirectional, figure-8, and six intermediate patterns. It comes with accessories including a wooden box, power supply, shockmount and more.
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Line6 is legendary for its modelling amps that can give you a wealth of different effects, amps and cab simulations all inside a single unit. This 1×12 combo model provides 100 watts of power and features six original amp designs, dedicated boost and reverb secitons as well as a MIDI and USB input for device management. It even works as a four channel audio interface for your computer or mobile device. All for just $199.99.
And if you want to go and have a browse for yourself, head straight to Reverb.
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Drake accuses Universal Music and Spotify of artificially boosting streams of Kendrick Lamar’s diss track against himDrake has taken legal action accusing Universal Music and Spotify of artificially boosting the streams of Not Like Us, the diss track made against him by Kendrick Lamar.
The track marked the fifth Drake diss song Lamar had released since their feud first escalated back in March. It reached the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart upon its release, and earned over 70 million streams in the first week alone.

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Drake has filed a petition, which according to the BBC is not a full lawsuit, but a so-called “pre-action petition”. Under this, Drake’s lawyers can ask the court to order Universal and Spotify to preserve all relevant documents and information, ahead of potential further legal action in the future.
In this filing, Drake’s company, Frozen Moments LLC, accuses the companies of engaging in an illegal “scheme” to promote Lamar’s song. His lawyers claim that Universal “conspired with and paid currently unknown parties” to “artificially” boost the prominence of Not Like Us, and also claim that the label cut its royalty rates for the song by 30 percent in exchange for Spotify recommending it to users.

The filing also cites alleged claims from a “whistleblower” on a podcast, who claims they were paid $2,500 to set up “bots” that would stream the song on repeat. It also further cites online reports which claim that fans who asked Apple’s voice assistant to play Drake’s album Certified Loverboy were instead played Not Like Us.
Lawyers claim that Drake tried to address these allegations in private but allege that the label had “no interest”. They even claim that Universal tried to “conceal its schemes”, including firing staff “perceived as having loyalty to Drake”.
A spokesperson from UMG told the BBC, “The suggestion that UMG would do anything to undermine any of its artists is offensive and untrue. We employ the highest ethical practices in our marketing and promotional campaigns. No amount of contrived and absurd legal arguments in this pre-action submission can mask the fact that fans choose the music they want to hear.”
Representatives of Spotify and Lamar have not yet responded to the outlet. MusicTech has also reached out for comment on these allegations.
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Polyverse Filterverse now available Polyverse have announced that the public beta of their new Filterverse plug-in has now been replaced by a full-release version. 

The 2024 AllMusic Gift GuideEach year, we share our hand-picked recommendations of books, accessories, gadgets, recordings, and more, sure to please even the most discerning audiophile.

Bitcoin price slips to $93K as liquidations soar and long-term BTC holders take profitLong liquidations and profit-taking from long-term Bitcoin holders are the primary factors in today’s sell-off. When will the dip buyers show up?

Save the Date: ASCAP Experience 2025ASCAP Experience is back in 2025. Save the date for Thursday, February 27 in Los Angeles. 

The ASCAP Experience conference has been inspiring and empowering music creators with the tools and connections to achieve their creative aspirations for almost 20 years. At the 2025 edition you’ll get:Candid advice from today’s most successful music makers

A deeper understanding of where the music industry is headed

Opportunities for face-to-face feedback on your music

Hundreds of talented creators to meet and collaborate with This is the only event that puts the needs of music creators at the center of every session. If making music is your life, you belong at the ASCAP Experience.ascapexperience.comThe post Save the Date: ASCAP Experience 2025 first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit’s $200m lawsuit over alleged unpaid royalties is ‘based on a fallacy’ says Universal Music, in motion to dismissUMG told the court that the lawsuit "should be dismissed with prejudice"
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Rocket Lab nails two missions within 24 hours – one in each hemisphereRocket Lab set a new speed record for launch turnaround time, successfully executing two Electron missions in 24 hours. The company added in a statement that this is also the first time any launch operator has completed a mission from each hemisphere within that time frame.  Rocket Lab, which was founded in New Zealand, maintains […]
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E-Ink Screen Combined With Analog Dial Is Epic WinAnalog dials used to be a pretty common way of displaying information on test equipment and in industrial applications. They fell out of favor as more advanced display technologies became cheaper. However, if you combine an analog dial with a modern e-ink display, it turns out you get something truly fantastic indeed.
This build comes to us from [Arne]. The concept is simple—get an e-ink display, and draw a dial on it using whatever graphics and scale you choose. Then, put it behind a traditional coil-driven analog dial in place of the more traditional paper scale. Now, you have an analog dial that can display any quantity you desire. Just update the screen to display a different scale as needed. Meanwhile, if you don’t need to change the display, the e-ink display will draw zero power and still display the same thing.
[Arne] explains how it all works in the writeup. It’s basically a LilyGo T5 ESP32 board with an e-ink screen attached, and it’s combined with a MF-110A multimeter. It’s super easy to buy that stuff and start tinkering with the concept yourself. [Arne] uses it with Home Assistant, which is as good an idea as any.
You get all the benefits of a redrawable display, with the wonderful visual tactility of a real analog dial. It’s a build that smashes old and new together in the best way possible. It doesn’t heart that [Arne] chose a great retro font for the dial, either. Applause all around!

At $45.5bn in 2023, music copyright now worth more globally than cinema, new report findsMusic copyright's value is up a “jaw-dropping” 26% since 2021, and nearly double the $25 billion in 2014
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Square Roots 1800s Style — No, the Other 1800s[MindYourDecisions] presents a Babylonian tablet dating back to around 1800 BC that shows that the hypotenuse of a unit square is the square root of two or 1.41421. How did they know that? We don’t know for sure how they computed it, but experts think it is the same as the ancient Greek method written down by Hero. It is a specialized form of the Newton method. You can follow along and learn how it works in the video below.
The method is simple. You guess the answer first, then you compute the difference and use that to adjust your estimate. You keep repeating the process until the error becomes small enough for your purposes.

For example, suppose you wanted to take the square root of 85. You can observe that 9 squared is 81, so the answer is sort of 9, right? But that’s off by 4 (85-81=4). So you take that number and divide it by the current answer (9) multiplied by two. In other words, the adjustment is 4/18 or 0.2222. Putting it together, our first answer is 9.2222.
If you square that, you get about 85.05 which is not too bad, but if you wanted closer you could repeat the process using 9.2222 in place of the 9. Repeat until the error is as low as you like. Our calculator tells us the real answer is 9.2195, so that first result is not bad. A second pass gives 9.2193, You could keep going, but that’s close enough for almost any purpose.
The video shows a geographical representation, and if you are a visual thinker, that might help you. We prefer to think of it algebraically. You are essentially creating each adjustment by adding the guess and the square divided by the guess and averaging them.
The ancients loved to estimate numbers. And Hero was into a lot of different things.

Bandsintown High Notes 2024: 1 Week left to update Artist profiles!Bandsintown High Notes 2024, the popular live music year in review for both artists and fans, will be released early next month.
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