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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Zerb and Sofiya Nzau on “Mwaki” and the power of a sample
Zerb and Sofiya Nzau discuss their unique collaboration on "Mwaki," insights into the production process, and more.

How To Identify Botted Playlists and Protect Your MusicLearn the signs of bot-boosted playlists, that are bound to waste your marketing efforts, and ensure your streams come from real listeners who matter.
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Telepathic Instruments’ Orchid: All the details about Tame Impala’s new synth revealedAfter months of teasers, Tame Impala’s new instrument company, Telepathic Instruments, has officially announced Orchid, a digital synthesizer with an emphasis on chord generation.
Kevin Parker conceived Orchid over 10 years ago, according to the company, intending to create an instrument for songwriters to “find what’s on their mind”. The celebrated Aussie producer, multi-instrumentalist and Tame Impala mastermind co-founded Telepathic Instruments this year with a group of friends, and Orchid marks the brand’s debut product.
What is Orchid?
Telepathic Instruments’ Orchid. Image: Telepathic Instruments
Orchid is a 12-key, 16-voice polyphonic synth with three separate synth engines and a chord logic system for quickly building chords and chord progressions. A collection of onboard effects are onboard, including reverb, chorus and delay, plus four LFOs and envelope generators for modulation. There’s also a separate bass engine for low-end duties.
The synth was physically designed by one of Telepathic’s co-founders, Ignacio Germade, and also has a rechargeable battery and dual stereo built-in speakers for portable use.
Orchid’s chord generator comprises a matrix of eight chord-type selecting and chord-modifying keys. To play a chord, you play the root note on the keyboard and use the generator to trigger the chord, selecting its voicing and using a rotary encoder to re-pitch and reposition the chord. Check out the video below for a demonstration and a warning to not get too jazzy.

You can play Orchid in a handful of ways. Five performance modes are on offer, plus MIDI connectivity for hooking Orchid up to your DAW and other instruments. The performance modes are Strum, Slop, Arpeggiator, Pattern and Harp. The latter mode “mimics a harp being strummed to the sound of a given chord across a four-octave range,” says the brand.
Meanwhile, a built-in Loop Mode lets you capture ideas and build upon them with overdub in a set loop.
You can, of course, also play Orchid like a keyboard with its 12 velocity-sensitive keys. Telepathic Instruments stresses that the chord generation system effectively expands the keyboard to a full-size keyboard, not just the 12 keys on the unit.
Telepathic Instruments’ Orchid. Image: Telepathic Instruments
When will Telepathic Instruments’ Orchid be released?
On 18 December 2024, Telepathic Instruments will make 1,000 units available to US customers. You’ll be able to order one at the Telepathic Instruments website.
This limited edition run gives the first 1,000 owners the option to join Telepathic’s online community, The Garden. Here, users can “shape and refine” Orchid before its wider release in 2025.
Telepathic Instruments’ Orchid. Image: Telepathic Instruments
How much is Telepathic Instruments’ Orchid?
The first 1,000 Orchids will be priced at $549 USD.
What has Tame Impala said about Orchid?
We’ve not heard any official word about the instrument from Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, other than he and the team calling Orchid “an ideas machine”. The Telepathic Instruments brand was founded by Ignacio Germade, Chris Adams, Charl Laubscher, Tom Cosm and Kevin Parker.
Charl Laubscher has provided some insight:
“Orchid isn’t just about how much you know or don’t know — it’s about shaking up your creative process…It’s a tool for anyone who wants to step outside their musical comfort zone, to experiment and to find what’s on their mind.”
Telepathic Instruments’ Orchid. Image: Telepathic Instruments
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Grammy Camp Expands to New York, Miami and LAThe Grammy Museum has announced that the Grammy Camp is expanding with sessions in New York, Miami, and LA, opening doors for the next generation of emerging artists.
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ProPatch 128R from Wolff Audio The ProPatch 128R manages to pack 128 patch points into a 1U chassis, and offers an electronics-free, ‘straight-wire’ signal path that’s been designed to deliver the most transparent sound possible.

Diplo says Major Lazer “would be cancelled before we started” if the project began in 2024Diplo feels that if Major Lazer were to start out today, they’d be “cancelled” from the get-go.
The project, which was launched in 2008 by both Diplo and London-based producer Switch, grew off the back of their work with M.I.A. Their first record, Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do, landed 15 years ago, and was recorded in Jamaica. Influences of Jamaican dancehall music can be heard throughout, and Jamaican artists were featured on all tracks.

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The album hosted hits such as Hold The Line and Pon De Floor, the latter of which was later sampled on Beyonce’s Run The World (Girls). In an interview with Billboard in honour of the debut’s anniversary, Switch recalls, “The first time in Jamaica there [were] a few raised eyebrows [laughs].”
Diplo adds, “In Jamaica there was a bunch of progressive producers at the time so they were doing interesting things, so people were actually leaning towards whatever stands out. Our records were really standing out. We would record them how we had them and then we’d go back in the studio and [Switch] was a pioneer at remixing his own records, so by version six or seven, it was totally insane music. For instance, Hold The Line, it just gets weirder and weirder and we [were] like, ‘okay, this is just weird enough. This is going to raise eyebrows.’”
Asked if the two ever felt like they were outsiders to the musical community that existed there already, Switch responds, “We heard Pon De Floor on the radio in the gas station, and that was a little moment…It was penetrating this market that we felt was very special.”
“We realised they were supporting us,” adds Diplo. “We were committed. We were going there a lot. We weren’t just dropping in, we were there every month.”
He later adds, “With our videos and everything we did, [Major Lazer] would be cancelled [nowadays] before we even started, because people wouldn’t have given us a chance. They would have been like ‘We don’t really understand this and this isn’t correct.’ But back then, nobody really gave a shit. They were like, ‘I like the way this sounds.’ Today there’s too many tastemakers and rules.”
In case you need a reminder of what Diplo is hinting at, you can check out the video for Pon De Floor below:

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Anthrax drummer says “Spotify is where music goes to die”, and that Metallica were right about NapsterAnthrax’s drummer Charlie Benante has spoken out against music streaming platforms, arguing that they are where “music goes to die”.
Benante, who also plays as part of Pantera’s touring band, feels that musicians get financially taken advantage of the most out of any industry. Though understanding of the fact that times change, Benante wishes the move to digital hadn’t been so drastically different compared to the days of physical mediums only.

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Speaking to The Irish Times, he says, “I don’t subscribe to Spotify. I think it is where music goes to die. We have the music on there because we have to play along with the fucking game, but I’m tired of playing the game.
“We get taken advantage of the most out of any industry. As artists, we have no health coverage, we have nothing. They fucked us so bad, I don’t know how we come out of it. You’d probably make more money selling lemonade on the corner.”
Further in the interview, Benante also shares solidarity with Metallica, who famously took peer-to-peer file sharing site Napster to court back in 2000, and faced backlash from music fans who believed them to be greedy. The lawsuit became known as the first highly publicised case of an artist suing a P2P company, just as tides were turning in the industry and music was becoming available online, rather than just on CD.

“They were absolutely right about it,” says Benante. “You see where it went. All those people who said, ‘Fuck Metallica. They are rich bastards.’ They were protecting their art, their intellectual property so that some asshole does not come along and take your art. They make the money while you just make the art and you just give it away. People don’t know anything about this. Until you have lived the way we live and do what we have done, then you can comment on it,” he states.
As for the days when music was solely physical, Benante adds, “Those times were so important. You open it up and you can smell it. You are listening to it as you are reading the liner notes and everything that band or artist put into that record. It was so valid and it is not valid any more.”
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EVE Audio introduce All Black SC205 & SC207 EVE Audio have announced that two of their popular ‘all-rounder’ SC-series studio monitor models are now available in a new matte black finish.