You’ve written a song, now what? How to sell your musicMaking great music is only half the battle. Here’s how to get your songs off your computer and into the hands of your fans. by Philip Kinsher of Disc Makers. Continue reading
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Crypto community jubilant over Grayscale decision, but uncertainty remainsThe court’s decision that the SEC has to consider Grayscale’s Bitcoin spot ETF application is good news for crypto but maybe not as impactful as some hoped.

Universal Audio unveil Apollo Twin X USB With the launch of the Apollo Twin X USB, all of the features of UA's popular compact desktop audio interface are now available to Windows users via USB 3.

Universal Audio launches the new Apollo Twin X USB audio interfaceUniversal Audio has released the Apollo Twin X USB, a desktop audio interface that gives Windows-based musicians and producers “elite-class” audio conversion with the tone, feel, and flow of analogue recording.

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According to UA, the new Apollo Twin X USB improves upon the original Apollo Twin’s audio quality with revamped A/D and D/A conversion — giving you extra dynamic range and ultra-low THD.
The unit comes with 10 x 6 USB 3 audio interface for Windows, and has two Unison preamps which offer “stunning models” of classic tube and transformer-based preamps, guitar amps, and stompboxes. It also features UAD-2 DUO Core Processing that allows for tracking through vintage compressors, EQs, tape machines, mic preamps, and guitar amp plug-ins with “near-zero latency”, says UA.
Apollo Twin X USB works with your Windows DAW via rock solid ASIO drivers, and runs UAD Powered Plug-Ins via VST & AAX in all major DAWs.
Out of the box, each interface comes complete with UA’s Heritage Edition UAD plug-in bundle, featuring Teletronix LA-2A and 1176 compressor collections, 610-B Tube Preamp & EQ Collection, Pultec Passive EQ Collection,Pure Plate Reverb, and more
The Apollo Twin X USB is now available for $999.
In related news, Universal Audio has launched four new single-footswitch stompbox effects pedals that emulate vintage effects from ’50s to ’80s. They are: the Orion Tape Echo, 1176 Studio Compressor, Heavenly Plate Reverb and the Evermore Studio Reverb.
Each pedal costs $219, apart from the 1176 Studio Compressor, which will set you back $199.
Learn more at uaudio.
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Abbey Road Studios returns to back MBW’s A&R Awards on Tuesday, November 7… with Platinum tables now sold outShortlists will be announced for the event next month
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JKBX, music royalty trading platform, will launch September 12, aiming to become ‘transformative force in music and investing’Songs that will appear on the platform on day one will include a run of chart hits performed by artists like Beyoncé, Major Lazer, and Taylor Swift
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LSi’s PLASA Show returns LSi’s annual PLASA Show is fast approaching, with a total of 239 pro audio, staging and lighting brands set to exhibit the latest products and technologies at Olympia London from 3 - 5 September 2023.

ViatorDSP Releases LV-50A FREE Equalizer Plugin
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Man reported missing after Boomtown found safe and wellA man who was reported missing following Boomtown Fair earlier this month has now been found safe and well, police have confirmed.
Cameron Crowhurst, aged 31 and from Birmingham, disappeared after attending the music festival in Hampshire’s South Downs. It was known that he left the festival a day early on Saturday, August 12 after losing his phone, and he had last been seen at Basingstoke rail station boarding a train to Bournemouth at around 7pm on August 13.
His disappearance prompted appeals from his family, who placed posters around Winchester city centre in the hopes someone would recognised him. It was believed that he had travelled there to pick up his belongings.
Now, Birmingham Police has confirmed that Crowhurst has been found, nearly two weeks after he was last seen. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the force wrote: “We have some wonderful news to bring you. Missing Cameron has been found safe and well. We would like to thank everyone who shared our appeal. We really do appreciate it.”

#FOUND | We have some wonderful news to bring you.Missing Cameron has been found safe and well.We would like to thank everyone who shared our appeal.We really do appreciate it. pic.twitter.com/LFsLr08ut3
— Birmingham Police (@BrumPolice) August 24, 2023

ITV reports that a relative also confirmed on Thursday that Crowhurst had been found safe.
Posting on social media, they shared: “Cameron has been found safe. Thank you everyone who has helped in the search for Cameron.”
“I had a random Facebook message request from someone saying ‘Call me I’m with Cam’. I didn’t believe it until I heard his voice. But he is safe and well. He has been through a massive ordeal, and we are just so happy that he is safe.”

The 2023 edition of the Boomtown Fair music festival took place at Matterley Bowl near Winchester from August 9-13 and was headlined by acts including The Prodigy, Sister Sledge, Nia Archives, Cypress Hill, Interplanetary Criminal and Mungo’s Hi Fi.

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“We left the studio without saying anything, like the whole thing was natural”: DJ Falcon on the making of Daft Punk’s ContactDJ Falcon has spoken of what it was like working alongside Daft Punk amid the 10th anniversary of Random Access Memories.
In a new video for the Memory Tapes on the Daft Punk YouTube channel, DJ Falcon, also known as Stéphane “Bob” Quême, recalled that the first song he worked on with the duo was the album’s closing track, Contact.

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DJ falcon met both Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo through skateboarding, a hobby which they also did alongside Pedro Winter (Daft Punk’s former manager). They were all around 17 at the time they met, he recalls, and they discovered electronic music around the same time, too.
Contact, he shares, later became the first song he worked on with the duo as Daft Punk: “Basically, we had the track ID, I’d say, 10 years before they went into the studio for Random Access Memories,” he begins.
“I remember working at this studio with them, we spent a day working on something, doing some arpeggio to add on the track. I think they were forcing themselves to be in a situation where they had to learn.
“They keep moving forward all the time. I think it’s also part of the process, to keep experimenting. They’re always searching for some magic moment and when it’s happening it’s kind of a release,” he explains.
The high energy sound that is heard at the end of the track “broke the system” in the studio, according to DJ Falcon: “I remember looking at Thomas, we looked at each other and we just said nothing. We just had a little smile on our face. We left the studio without saying anything like the whole thing was natural.”
Watch the full episode below:

The 10th anniversary edition of Random Access Memories is out now. Find out more on the Daft Punk official website.
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