Mi-03 Bassline Is A FREE 303 Synthesizer Plugin
Music Instinct released Mi-03 Bassline, a free synthesizer plugin that revitalizes the classic 303 sound. Few synthesizers have the same sort of fame and renown as Roland’s TB-303. Like it or not, it’s carved out a place in the likes of techno, trance, house, and even some of Massive Attack’s output. That said, you can [...]
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“I’m hoping I have to press a play button”: Gary Neville shares nerves ahead of DJ set as G-Dog at Kendal CallingFootball pundit and former Manchester United player Gary Neville is set to make his DJ debut at Kendal Calling this summer, as none other than DJ G-Dog B2B.
We’re still a good few months away from his set alongside The Charlatan’s vocalist Tim Burgess on 4 August, the closing day of the festival, but Neville’s already feeling the nerves it seems as he’s joked he’s hoping to “wangle his way out of it”.

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Appearing on the Football, Music and Me podcast, Neville shares how he thinks it’s hugely important to step outside of your comfort zone, explaining (via Mixmag), “When I finished my football career, there were many things I did to put myself out of my comfort zone.
“I’m actually DJ-ing with Tim at Kendal Calling, I mean… what the hell am I doing?” he laughs. “I’m trying to wangle my way out of it, but I can’t once I’ve said yes to something…”
At this point, Neville starts laughing as Geoff Shreeves reminds him that he can’t quite escape the festival now he’s already branded himself with such a mighty stage name. “Is that what it says [on the festival bill]?” he laughs, remembering this is not a fever dream.
“Tim just said we’d play a group of songs on the Sunday night after the final acts are on, but obviously there’s loads of people still there,” he says. When asked if he’s ever done any DJ-ing before, Neville replies, “Never in my life! I’m hoping I have to press a play button.
“Obviously Tim has [played] thousands of times, I’ll just be accompanying him. I’m just worried about what I’m actually gonna do, to be honest,” he states.
Listen to the full podcast below:

If you fancy catching the one and only G-Dog at Kendal Calling, you can do so on 4 August this summer.
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Roland update SP-404 MKII firmware Rolands compact sampler has just gained a set of new features including loop capture capabilities derived from the SP-555, multitrack file exports, mobile app integration and more.

Facebook’s Oculus acquisition turns 10Every year, Time Magazine issues a list of the 200 best inventions of the past 12 months. Frankly, I don’t know how the editors do it. The dirty secret of this job is that true, game-changing inventions rarely cross your desk. In fact, you’re extraordinarily lucky if you average one a year. Oculus’ Rift prototype […]
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Vibratory Rock Tumbler Bounces on Printed SpringIf you’re reading Hackaday, there’s a good chance you had a rock tumbler in your younger days. Hell, we’d put odds on a few of you having one rumbling away in the background as you read this. They’re relatively simple contraptions, and a common enough DIY project. But even still, this largely 3D printed rock tumbler from [Fraens] is unique enough to stand out.
To make a basic rock tumbler, all you really need to do is rotate a cylindrical chamber and let physics do its thing. Such contraptions are known as, unsurprisingly, rotary rock tumblers. But what [Fraens] has put together here is a vibratory tumbler, which…well, it vibrates. If this was Rockaday we might go farther down this particular rabbit hole and explain the pros and cons of each machine, but the short version is that vibratory tumblers are more mechanically complex and are generally better suited to fine finish work than rotary tumblers which take a brute force approach that tends to round off the rocks.

Anyway, while you could use a motor with an offset weight to generate the necessary vibrations, [Fraens] decided to go with a similar electromagnet arrangement to what he used in the vibratory bowl feeder he built last year. Pulsing the electromagnet pulls down the large 3D printed spring, which imparts not only the vertical motion you’d expect, but a touch of horizontal as well.
The end result is a “tossing” motion that gets the rocks inside the printed chamber moving around nicely. The motion can be fine tuned by adjusting the tension on the non-printed springs, which limit the range of the mechanism’s movement.
To drive the electromagnet, [Fraens] is using an Arduino and a L298N H-bridge motor controller. A pair of potentiometers serve as the controls, allowing the user to dial in the duty cycle of the magnet. Interestingly, despite being only rated for 12 V, the electromagnet is being fed off of 24 V for this project. This gives the tumbler a bit more oomph, but at the cost of heating up the magnet. To combat this, the Arduino code implements a 10 minute cool-down period for every hour of runtime. It sounds a little sketchy, but [Fraens] has had this thing cranking for four months now, and the Magic Smoke hasn’t escaped yet.
If you don’t have a 3D printer, or just don’t want to part with the amount of plastic it would take to extrude a machine of this scale, you could always take the easy way out and make a rotary tumbler out of an empty tomato sauce jar and a scrap motor.

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Penteo 6 now available Penteo Audio Plugins have announced the launch of the latest version of their award-winning upmixing and downmixing plug-in

Leo Z Picks TELEFUNKEN for Handpan Virtuoso Davide FrielloGifted composer, pianist and producer Leo Z has employed his personal collection of TELEFUNKEN microphones to record Italian handpan virtuoso David Friello. The handpan consists of two metal half-shells welded together, a center tone field surrounded by a circle of at least seven tone fields on the upper side, with an opening in the bottom side.

Listen to a preview of Davide Friello's new album "Amplexus"https://www.davidefriello.com/telefunkenhandpan

Davide Friello, born in Florence, Italy, is an acclaimed handpan artist, known worldwide as a prolific touring and recording musician, composer, and percussionist. Friello has three previous studio albums: "Ritmatika", "Violin & Hang" and "5 Elements." The majority of the handpan selections on "Amplexus" were co-composed by Friello and producer Leo Z.

For the new "Amplexus" album, Leo Z employed two M60 FET pencil mics on the side of the pan, two ELA M 260 tube mics with omni capsules above the pan, and an M82 dynamic mic underneath the pan. "The combination of these Telefunken mics beautifully captures the spacious and ethereal sound of the handpan," says Leo Z, "while retaining the unique percussive qualities of this remarkable instrument."

Handpan is the term for a group of musical instruments that are classified as a subset of the steelpan. Several handpan makers and brands have emerged in recent years, resulting from a growing worldwide interest in the sound that is based on the physical properties of the Trinidadian steelpan, Indian ghatam, Thai gong and Indonesian Gamelan.

"The overhead ELA M 260's bring an airiness and transparency to the way we capture sound," says Leo Z, "especially for this type of impressionistic, acoustic, and intimate type of music." The 260 Stereo Set features two perfectly matched ELA M 260 microphones and a custom dual power supply powering both microphones. In previous recordings, Leo Z has used his 260s on piano, viola, violin, and woodwinds. 

Pictured at the Steinway grand piano at EastWest Studios in Hollywood is Leo Z with his matched pair of TELEFUNKEN ELA M 260 microphones. Photo by David Goggin.

IMPALA sides with UMG in TikTok dispute, calls on Spotify, Apple, Deezer to address ‘negative consequences’ of royalty changesEurope’s trade association for indie labels says there is “an urgent need to secure fair revenues” from services like TikTok
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Christian Luiga, veteran of defense firm Saab, named new CFO of SpotifyLuiga will start his new gig at Spotify in October, the company said in a statement Thursday
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3D Navigator for BlenderIf you work with high-end CAD workstations, you may have encountered a SpaceMouse or similar devices. Sort of a mouse with an extra dimension, they aren’t cheap. So [meisterodin1981] decided to build a do-it-yourself version for use with Blender. You can check it out in the video below.
The device uses an MPU6050 accelerometer and a spring. It also has some buttons for special features. The device uses a Teensy 2, although any controller that can provide an HID device could probably do the job. Of course, a nice 3D printed case is part of the design. A printed pair of plates holds a 3D printer bed spring to provide the device’s Z-axis movement. The wires to the encoder are routed through the center of the spring, so neatness counts.
We’ve seen other 3D mice like the Orbion. Your other option is to pick up the old-fashioned serial port versions and convert them. Until you can do your designs in virtual reality, these mice are just the ticket.

Dynaudio unleash Core 5 & Core Sub Compact monitors The latest Core monitors aim to provide an ideal solution for smaller studios, as well as forming part of larger immersive setups.

Trent Reznor: “The terrible payout of streaming services has mortally wounded a whole tier of artists”Did you know that Trent Reznor helped to build Apple’s music streaming service? The Nine Inch Nails frontman once worked as an executive for Beats and later at Apple, and it most certainly opened his eyes to the difficulties that face artists trying to make money through streams.
Although Reznor enjoyed working with Apple, he says the experience made him “realise how much I want to be an artist first and foremost”.

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In a new interview with GQ alongside bandmate and friend Atticus Ross, Reznor says that the opportunity was “unique” and “interesting” adding, “The scale of the people that you reach through those platforms, just the global amount of influence those platforms can have was exciting”. But on the other hand, “the political situation I was dropped into was not as exciting.”
Expanding on the latter statement, Reznor goes on to add, “I think the terrible payout of streaming services has mortally wounded a whole tier of artists that make being an artist unsustainable. And it’s great if you’re Drake, and it’s not great if you’re Grizzly Bear.
“And the reality is: Take a look around. We’ve had enough time for the whole ‘All the boats rise’ argument to see they don’t all rise. Those boats rise. These boats don’t. They can’t make money in any means. And I think that’s bad for art.”

He explains, “I thought maybe at Apple there could be influence to pay in a more fair or significant way, because a lot of these services are just a rounding error compared to what comes in elsewhere, unlike Spotify where their whole business is that. But that’s tied to a lot of other political things and label issues, and everyone’s trying to hold onto their little piece of the pie and it is what it is. I also realise, I think that people just want to turn the faucet on and have music come in. They’re not really concerned about all the romantic shit I thought mattered.”
Apple Music’s royalty rate reportedly sits around $0.007 and $0.01 per stream. Artists such as James Blake are currently trying to think of other ways they can generate income – the electronic musician recently launched his own platform called Vault, which allows artists to upload unreleased music, which fans pay a monthly subscription fee set by the artist for.
Over in the States, a Living Wage for Musicians Act was put to US Congress which would compensate artists at a minimum of a penny per stream.
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CD Baby operations have been merged with Downtown MusicDowntown Music announced on Thursday that it has completed the merger of CD Baby’s operations into Downtown.....
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Infamous Record Stall Crawl returns for a 7-City Comeback TourMusic lovers, record enthusiasts, and audiophiles are checking their collections and ironing their CBGB t-shirts in anticipation of the upcoming Record Store Crawl tour, making a comeback after a four-year pandemic-induced hiatus.....
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