Arturia FX Collection 5 now available As well as gaining a pair of existing plug-ins, FX Collection 5 also includes two completely new offerings in the form of Bus PEAK and Bus EXCITER-104.

Spotify’s New Release Guide is a how-to manual for launching new musicSpotify For Artists has compiled its growing marketing toolkit into a New Release Guide, which offers a step-by-step manual for launching new music. The New Release Guide begins with free. Continue reading
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A2IM Libera Independent Music Award winners 2024 [Full List]A2IM (American Association of Independent Music) crowned the 2024 Libera Award winners at Gotham Hall in New York City on Monday. Here is the full list of winners
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Indie music pioneer Molly Neuman is CD Baby’s new PresidentDowntown Music has named Molly Neuman as President of its d.i.y. music distribution division, CD Baby, as part of a greater reorganization.....
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Spotify to launch pricier Premium music tier that includes high-fidelity audio (report)New tier will cost "at least $5 more per month", Bloomberg reports
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Trilix Studio: Demystifying Dolby Atmos & more Trilix Studio have announced that they will be hosting a two-day workshop featuring sessions dedicated to Dolby Atmos, home studio acoustics, music marketing and producing guitar tracks. 

Soundly’s Shape It 10-band EQ is Now Available for Free Download
On Sunday, Soundly made its Shape It parametric EQ free for all Windows and macOS users. Previously, Soundly’s flagship 10-band EQ was behind a subscription paywall, but now they’ve transitioned to freeware.  Soundly decided to release Shape It as a standalone plugin due to popular demand.  The Norwegian developer stated that the EQ’s “cuts and [...]
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“I haven’t seen a studio session like that before – it was like a party”: Flamingosis recalls the time Marc Rebillet invited fans into the studioProducer Flamingosis has recalled the time Marc Rebillet AKA Loop Daddy invited fans into the studio and the “interesting” recording session that ensued.
Speaking to MusicTech, Flamingosis reveals that he got to sit in on one of Rebillet’s studio sessions in Brooklyn prior to their collaboration on the track Feel Yourself on his new album Better Will Come.

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“I caught Marc at a good time to work on the track [Feel Yourself]. Because he’s a very, very busy guy,” Flamingosis recalls. “But, yeah, this happened in 2022. He’s been working on his solo album, which isn’t out yet, and he was doing some studio sessions in Brooklyn and [producer and Flamingosis collaborator] The Kount is helping record and arrange and produce everything for his album.”
“So, during that time, The Kount hit me up and told me what they were doing. They said I could come through if I wanted to.”
“It was a really interesting recording session because they invited fans to come and see the recording process,” the musician explains. “And they brought a bartender to serve drinks to the fans as they watched it unfold. I haven’t seen anything like that [laughs] — it was kind of like a party.”
After the sessions, Flamingosis seized the opportunity to work with Rebillet on his own project: “I said to Marc, ‘Hey, I’m working on something myself, would you like to be a part of it?’ And he said yes so we found a date and recorded in person. We didn’t have a lot of time — like I said, he’s a busy guy. He only had maybe a couple hours, so we really had to come up with an idea quickly.”
The urgency of the session also pushed both artists to tap into their spontaneous side: “I showed him some ideas, plus a beat I started working maybe like, an hour before going to the studio. And he liked that the most,” says Flamingosis. “So we’re like, ‘Okay, just sing whatever!’ Improvisation is his thing, so I told him the whole theme of the album and he got the gist of that in the lyrics. And he’s basically singing the hook a hook. But it worked, I think.”

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RME announce M-1620 Pro & HDSPe AoX RME's pro-audio range will soon gain a two new converters as well as a pair of PCIe cards that offer up to 512 x 512 channels of I/O. 

Fred again.. to hold first-ever stadium concert at LA Memorial ColiseumUK producer, DJ and singer-songwriter Fred again.. has announced his first-ever stadium show at the 77,500-capacity LA Memorial Coliseum.

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Slated for 14 June, Fred again.. reveals that the concert is something he and his team have been working on for months.
“It’s definitely the maddest live show we’ve ever tried to do so far,” says the musician. And for those who can’t make it to the gig, Fred also hints at more shows coming to the “rest of America”’, stating: “I know I said this like 2 weeks ago but rest of America I got you. Just bear with me for later this year lol I promise.”
Tickets to the concert are now on sale at the Ticketmaster website.

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Fred’s upcoming show at the LA Memorial Coliseum arrives on the heels of an epic rave the musician recently hosted with Skrillex at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. Tickets were announced just a week before the event, and were sold out within an hour. With 25,000 people in attendance, the show lasted an electrifying three hours and included the tracks Rumble, Turn On the Lights, RATATA, and a whole lot more.
The artist also recently completed his three-day Frost Amphitheatre residency in Stanford, California, during which he previewed unreleased songs like Side By Side. Check out the new track below:

In other news, Fred again.. is set to appear as one of six headliners for Reading & Leeds, where he will perform on Sunday at Leeds, and on Saturday at Reading this August. The DJ will also be making an appearance at Helsinki’s Flow Festival.
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Tourist reveals his “holy trinity of synths”: “I don’t need anything more than these three”More isn’t always better when it comes to gear, and for Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Tourist, his “holy trinity of synths” delivers pretty much everything he needs to make the music he wants.
Speaking to MusicRadar in his new London studio, Tourist shares his love for keeping things simple when it comes to music-making, having recently gotten rid of a bunch of gear he wasn’t using.

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“I’ve just sold a [Sequential] Prophet-6, I’ve just sold a Moog Matriarch, I’ve sold loads of stuff that I just didn’t use, because I think I really love a knob per function,” he says.
“I love the immediacy of that, I love the ability to see the sound in the faders, to know there’s no menus behind anything. Some people love that, and I’m just not of that mind. I try to work really quickly and I want to be able to make sounds without any kind of hesitation.”
As far as his go-to synths are concerned, Tourist names the Roland Juno-106, Minimoog, Sequential Prophet-5 as his “holy trinity of synths” – each one serving a “completely different purpose”.
The synths all “have completely different sounds,” says the musician. “I don’t want any overlap in my synths. They all serve a specific purpose for me. If I need a bass sound, it’s the Moog or the Juno, if I need a mono pad sound, it’s the Moog, if I want a poly pad sound, it’s the Juno or the Prophet. They all feel different, they all have loads of different character.”
“The Juno-106, that was the first ever expensive gear purchase for myself… Then I bought the Minimoog after I finished my first album. That thing I can’t go without now. Then the Prophet-5 I bought probably a year after this,” Tourist continues.
“The Juno is out of action at the moment, it doesn’t work. It’s a battered, bruised thing. My first album was all Juno, my second album was the Juno and the Moog, and all the following albums were a mixture of all three. I never get bored of them. That, to me, is the holy trinity of synths – I don’t need anything more than those three.”
“I’m obviously not doing FM synthesis, or anything like that, and I do have a modular synth, but it’s just a nightmare for me — I spend too much time messing with the synth and not making music.”

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Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple’s ChatGPT integrationsElon Musk is threatening to ban iPhones from all his companies over the newly announced OpenAI integrations Apple announced at WWDC 2024 on Monday. In a series of posts on X, the Telsa, SpaceX and xAI exec wrote that “if Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level,” Apple devices would be banned from his businesses […]
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SEC considers spot Ether ETF application from ProSharesThe commission approved 19b-4 filings from eight asset managers in May, but they won’t begin trading on U.S. exchanges until the SEC signs off on the S-1 registration statements.

Bidirectional Data Transfer Through Mud?We take easy communications for granted these days. It’s no bother to turn on a lightbulb remotely via a radio link or sense the water level in your petunias, but how does a drilling rig sense data from the drill head whilst deep underground, below the sea bed? The answer is with mud pulse telemetry, about which a group of researchers have produced a study, specifically about modelling the signal impairments and strategies for maintaining the data rate and improving the signal quality.
If you’re still confused, mud pulse telemetry (MPT) works by sending a modulated pressure wave vertically through the column of mud inside the drilling tube. It’s essential to obtain real-time data during drilling operations on the exact angle and direction the drill bit is pointing (so it can be corrected) and details of geological formations so decisions can be made promptly. The goal is to reduce drilling time and, therefore, costs and minimize environmental impact — although some would strongly argue about that last point.

One challenge with MPT is that the transmission media can be inconsistent. It may contain rocks and gas, leading to variations in physical properties like density, compressibility, and viscosity throughout the column, which can affect signal transmissibility. The MPT system includes a pressure transducer at the drill head that encodes data about local parameters such as temperature and pressure. The paper also describes other sources of noise that can distort the signal, including vibrations from the drill head and pressure pulses from the drilling mud pumps.

From what we can gather the MPT system is bidirectional, using mechanical means via ‘poppet valves’ to create positive or negative pressure pulses and a rotating slotted disk to generate continuous waves. It’s possible to achieve a data rate of 20 bps from depths of over 6 km. The paper also discusses other data transmission methods as part of the logging-while-drilling (LWD) system, some of which are used alongside MPT in specific circumstances. All of these methods face challenges when transmitting data through this complex medium.
We couldn’t find much on Hackaday about this topic, but we did recall an interesting piece about dealing with oil spills and who could forget this one about fracking?
Thanks to [Derek] for the tip!

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Spotify co-founder Martin Lorentzon sells $81m of company’s sharesMusic streaming company Spotify has seen a 310% runup in its share price over the past 18 months
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