Audio Assault offers Carntens Greys amp sim FREE for a limited time
Audio Assault is offering Carntens Greys, a premium guitar amp module for Amp Locker, as a free download for a limited time. Please note that this is not a standalone amp plugin. Carntens Greys requires Amp Locker, Audio Assault’s amp-sim platform, which lets you load the company’s guitar amp models, cabinets, pedals, and rack effects. [...]
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Maniac Audio DarkStudio Daw Free 1.6 BetaDarkStudio — a modern DAW built from the ground up in C++ for engineers who care about sound and speed. Record, edit, mix and master in one clean workflow: a full-featured MixConsole, sample-accurate automation, warp & comping, ARA/Melodyne support, and rock-solid VST3/AU hosting with full plugin delay compensation. Its GuardEngine anticipative processing keeps sessions responsive at low buffer sizes, even with heavy plugin chains. Open your existing projects via DAWproject import/export and keep working where you left off. Designed and built by Maniac Audio — the same team behind the Dark plugin series. Read More

Gospel Musicians release Gospel Drums The latest release from Gospel Musicians combines a pair of meticulously sampled drum kits with a comprehensive selection of MIDI grooves. 

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imageryThe woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."

Scanning for Lifesigns with ESP32 and Raspberry PiIt’s a sci-fi trope that you can ‘scan for life signs’ and detect if there are humans — or suspiciously human-shaped aliens — present, but in real life it’s harder than that. [The Masked Bear]’s wifisense-pi project isn’t really scanning for signs of life, either, unless you happen to consider breathing a sign of life. Even then, it’s not detecting breathing per se, but the subtle motion that goes with it: it’s a very sensitive motion detector that relies on the fact that we fleshy bags of goo disturb WiFi signals with our presence, and motion alters those disturbances.
We’d probably waste a lot of time watching the signal graphs on the WifiSense-Pi dashboard.
The device uses an ESP32-S3 to measure the radio channel 100 times per second, while a Raspberry Pi 4 provides the signal processing muscle. It can detect the slightest motions, and even determine the presence of a perfectly still human by their breathing, though you can hide your presence for as long as you can hold your breath. A single sensor, no matter how sensitive, cannot give position information, and while multiple humans will distort WiFi more than a single one, [The Masked Bear] reports you cannot reliably extract that signal. So this project answers the question: “are there humans in this room?” Or, even more likely, “are there any large breathing animals in this room?” We can’t imagine a 50 kg Mastiff looking any different to this sensor than an equivalent mass of quivering human flesh.
Before you dismiss this as just another motion sensor, keep in mind that it is sniffing the signals already present on the 2.4 GHz band, and, like the WiFi signals themselves, it can work through walls. So we think it’s pretty nifty. Of course, there are many other ways to detect humans, from machine-learning cameras to millimeter-wave sensors to a simple PIR. This isn’t the first project we’ve seen that uses WiFi like this. It isn’t even the first with an ESP32, but it’s an interesting implementation worth checking out.

Bybit adds Unitree, Moonshot AI to pre-IPO perpetuals lineupThe additions come as Bybit’s TradFi perpetuals lineup grows to more than 200 products spanning equities, ETFs, commodities, indices and private companies.

nervosa PREACHERPREACHER is a glitch/reverb/delay/whatever vst. its free. contains weird feedback/delay stuff, distortion, reverb size, etc. https://youtu.be/fROnrbeOTvo?si=XJ7OT-MfAsAcaOpZ Read More

Okina Audio releases Takumi EQ, a FREE EQ and multiband saturator
Okina Audio has released Takumi EQ, a free equalizer plugin with a Pultec-style section and optional multiband saturation. The product page is originally in Japanese and defaults to that language, but you can easily switch to English using the language selector in the upper-right corner. In short, Takumi EQ is a dynamic EQ, a Pultec-style [...]
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JH Audio expand Universal-Fit range Designed to make their renowned monitoring systems more accessible than ever, JH Audio's Universal-Fit range brings the performance and engineering heritage of the company’s custom IEMs to a broader audience, without the need for custom ear impressions.

Gen Z favors ETFs and trades less than older cohorts: BinanceBinance data showed Gen Z allocating a growing share of equity activity to ETFs while trading less frequently and using less leverage than older working-age cohorts.

AROOJ AFTAB JOINS NORAH JONES FOR PODCAST PERFORMANCEArooj Aftab appeared on Norah Jones’ podcast Norah Jones Is Playing Along, where the two performed selections from their catalogs and a cover of Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?”

The episode highlights their musical chemistry and conversation, arriving as Aftab continues a series of collaborations and sets off to open select dates on St. Vincent’s orchestral tour.

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Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highwaysAurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

Automatic Naptime with BabyBjorn Bouncing ServoAny parent with a baby and deep pockets– or friends with deep pockets– will probably sing the praises of the BabyBjorn rocking sling chair. A simple spring-loaded sling seat allows you to rock a child to sleep like magic– but you do have to rock the child. In the tradition of fathers everywhere since the stone age, [Ceyhun Karataş] saw that as something to tinker around, creating his Automatic BabyBjorn Bouncer/Rocker with a servo, an Arduino, and some 3D printed parts.
You still can’t leave your child unattended with this hack, [Ceyhun] takes pains to point out, but it will free a hand so you can keep junior happy while tinkering up other toys for him or her. Music players are a popular staple, for example.
You should have plenty of time for such projects, because it won’t take long for you to replicate [Ceyhun]’s invention– it’s only as complicated as it needs to be, which is not very. The servo, a Futaba S3003 which is mounted to the bottom of the rocker in a 3D printed case, reels the baby in with a string tied to the bouncing seat portion.  The BabyBjorn’s built-in spring bounces junior back up. As stated, Arduino Nano controls the servo, with two potentiometers in the build allowing you to control the speed and amplitude of the bounce independently to get the perfect naptime ratio. Everything you need to get started — aside from the hardware and the child– is available at the link above. You can see it in action in the video below, which in spite what you may fear from the Turkish thumbnail, does have authentic English audio, not AI auto-dubbing.
If you’ve got the baby but not the bouncy chair, have a gander at this mechatronic crib that does something similar on a much larger budget.
Thanks to [Ceyhun] for overcoming the new-parent sleep deprivation to document this project and send in a tip.

CarbonDSP Carbon CL-610Carbon CL 610 is a compressor and a peak limiter running at once on a single threshold — one slow and musical for level, one fast enough that transients never get past it. Its knee is fixed, so changing the ratio does not change how hard you are hitting it and you can audition ratios without re-setting anything. There is no threshold control at all: you drive material into the knee, and the plugin holds the point of comparison still while you work. Carbon CL 610 sounds like a compressor you stop noticing. The gain change is program-dependent — the release stretches when a passage has worked it hard and shortens when it has not — so dense material settles instead of pumping, and sparse material keeps its space. Underneath it, a second detector responds in under a microsecond and catches the leading edge of a transient rather than the middle of it. You are not choosing between a compressor that breathes and a limiter that holds; both are running, on the same threshold, on the same gain cell. The thing that changes how you work with it is the fixed knee. On almost every other compressor, turning the ratio up also changes how hard you are hitting the detector, so you go back and re-set the threshold, and by the time the level matches again you have lost track of what you were comparing. Here the knee does not move. Set how hard you are driving it once, then audition ratios freely — the amount of compression stays where you put it and only the shape of the curve changes. It is a small difference in description and a large one in practice, because it turns a two-handed adjustment into a one-handed one. Peak control is where the second path earns its place. A limiter with a time constant can always be outrun by something faster than it; this one is measured in nanoseconds and simply is not. Oversampling up to 32× resolves the peaks that fall between two samples, which is the difference between a true peak you catch and one you find later on the master. Everything on the panel is measured rather than decorative. The transfer curve shows your signal riding it live with the knee pinned in place — turn the ratio and watch it not move. The gain-reduction figure changes colour as the plugin works harder, so you can read how hard it is going from across the room. All 32 presets ship level-matched by measurement, not by ear, so switching between them is a fair comparison instead of a loudness contest. Key Features: A knee that does not move — Change the ratio, keep your place: Turning the ratio does not change how hard you are hitting the plugin. Set the drive once and compare ratios freely — the point of comparison holds still. Two detectors, one threshold — Compressor and peak limiter at once: A slow, musical path for level and a sub-microsecond path for transients, sharing one threshold and one gain cell. Not a chain of two plugins. A release that listens — Program-dependent, 50 ms to 10 s: The release stretches when the plugin has worked hard and shortens when it has not, so it breathes with the music instead of pumping to a fixed clock. Peak control in nanoseconds — Up to 32× resolution: Fast enough that transients do not get past it, with selectable oversampling for the peaks that fall between two samples. Parallel compression built in — Blend, with the output after it: Mix processed and untouched sound, with the output amplifier downstream of the blend — where the hardware it descends from puts it. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Format: VST3, Standalone. System: Windows 10 or later, 64-bit. Host: Any VST3-compatible DAW. Sample rates: 44.1 kHz to 192 kHz. Trial: 7-day demo, fully functional. PRICE: Introductory $49.00 (regular $89.00). VST is a registered trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. Read More

Yorkville launch the EL24S With a peak power output of 5000W and a maximum SPL of 143dB, the EL24S promises to satisfy even the most demanding low-end reinforcement requirements.