The risks and rewards of cover songsPerforming and releasing cover songs can be a great way to excite fans and even reach a new fanbase, however there are some important things you should know before doing. Continue reading
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This software can turn spreadsheets into musicDoes the word ‘spreadsheet’ send shivers down your spine? Here’s a piece of software that might make your workdays a little better by transforming those tiny numbers into music instead.

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The brainchild of producer and developer Noah Pred, Sonification Tools is a trio of Max for Life devices that can help you create new musical ideas using real-world data sets.
Just type or copy and paste raw numeric data into the text entry field of all three devices to turn them into music, modulation, effects and audio. Data MIDI will convert any string of numbers into a MIDI sequence to create melodies and harmonies; Data Mod will turn data into modulation sequences; while Data FX allows you to control three audio effects – spectral filtration, wavefolding distortion, and impulse convolution – or even to generate raw audio using the input data.
Data can be typed in manually, randomly generated, or copied and pasted from pretty much any source. After which, select and loop the data as you like, with the lowest data value automatically corresponding to your lowest allowed output, and the highest data point automatically corresponding to your specified upper output limit – be it note pitch, velocity, length, or modulation.
Users can also adjust how the raw data is processed and transformed using the parameters featured in each device. Data MIDI and Data Mod allow you to trigger data at any factored or fractional metrical base rate with optional cycle reset for a wide variety of rhythmic patterns. Offset delay and swing further enhance MIDI output timing. You can also trigger data at a millisecond rate for more abstracted results, or via arbitrary note input.
Data MIDI is also equipped with a variety of ‘trigger modes’, allowing you to engage with its output in a variety of ways, all of which can be constrained via 69 scales in any key. Better yet, you can expand or contract the range of data pitch, velocity, or length output in real time to dynamically express the data in highly musical ways.
Data MIDI and Data Mod can also be Gated to only output MIDI above or below a certain threshold for more rhythmically complex output.
Available now for Windows and Mac, Sonification Tools is priced at €50.

Learn more at manifest.audio
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"If a number of popular "artists" today would follow even a handful of these, I think that the music of today would be much much better!" - one posted comment in 2012.
Advice to Young Musicians, by Robert Schumann.
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Rick Ross and Maybach Music Group strike partnership with Larry Jackson’s $1bn-backed gammaAlso joining gamma is Breyon Prescott, including his Chameleon Entertainment label and catalog
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Roland unveil GAIA 2 synthesizer Roland’s latest synthesizer features a user-friendly panel layout that aims to make learning synthesis easy and fun.

Daft Punk to release drumless edition of Random Access MemoriesDaft Punk have announced the release of a drumless edition of Random Access Memories as part of the celebrations for the album’s 10th anniversary.

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The reworked version is set to arrive on 17 November, and will completely strip away all drum and percussive elements from the 13 tracks.
“Doing so brings out a timeless quality to the album, giving listeners the ability to dive deeper into the layers of each track,” a statement from the band reads.
Fans can also preview a percussion-free edition of Within, which is now out. The new version is said to highlight the track’s “timeless structure”, while lending Chilly Gonzales’ piano an even more “pensive, self-reflective quality”.

Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition) is now available to pre-order. The record will be released on CD, Double LP and digital formats including a Dolby Atmos spatial audio version.
As part of the 10 year anniversary of Random Access Memories, Daft Punk has also unveiled “Memory Tapes,” a look back at the album’s creation by collaborators including Julian Casablancas, Chilly Gonzales, DJ Falcon and most recently, producer Todd Edwards.
Discussing his experience working with the French duo, Edwards says that he wasn’t surprised when Daft Punk announced their split in 2021 due to creative differences between members Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo.
“When they broke up, they were already going in different directions musically,” he says. “Guy-Man seems to be drawn more to the hip-hop realm. And Thomas was, you know, also a director.”
“It kind of felt like they weren’t on the same page anymore, anyway, so I wasn’t shocked.”
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Songtradr acquires Bandcamp from Fortnite maker Epic GamesNews arrives a year and a half after Epic Games acquired Bandcamp
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Charta Launches to Simplify Music ContractsNew company Charta has launched with the intention of revolutionizing how modern music contracts are drafted and executed. Before an artist or their label releases a song, every collaborator on that song has to sign a "clearance" agreement assigning their rights in the master sound recording to the artist. This covers producers, featured artists, audio engineers, session musicians and backing vocalists. In an era where over 100,000 new songs are being released on DSPs daily and collaboration is increasingly at the core of music creation, entertainment lawyers have been tasked with drafting and executing an insurmountable amount of clearance agreements necessitated by that collaboration. The result is that artists are often kept waiting for their lawyers to draft these agreements in order to finalize music for release. Once drafted, artists and their lawyers are kept waiting for months for their collaborators and their representation to review documents and return redlines, a process that often takes multiple rounds of revisions to reach an agreement mutually agreeable to both parties. With each passing year, the volume of music being released and the degree to which artists are collaborating with one another continues to grow rapidly while the number of entertainment lawyers does not, creating an ever-growing backlog of these agreements to execute without a solution in sight. Zachary Bohlender saw this problem firsthand as an entertainment lawyer and recognized that the problem was not only going to worsen with time, but that he and his peers were spending a disproportionate amount of their time executing relatively simple legal documents on behalf of their clients, inhibiting their ability to devote time to more skilled, strategic work. With no solution in sight, Bohlender took it upon himself to address the issue, leaving his post at the firm at which he was working to co-found Charta with his friend Arash Rashidi, an engineer with deep experience in AI.Charta's mission in the music industry is simple: to automate the process of getting clearance agreements done so artists can release music faster. Charta achieves this by building custom solutions for lawyers, labels and managers that fit their particular workflow and needs. Utilizing Charta’s intuitive interface, one can draft a clearance agreement and share that document with their collaborator or their representation in minutes or even negotiate all the terms of a clearance agreement on platform and subsequently sign the final document after it’s generated. Charta’s patent-pending process doesn’t rely on one-size-fits-all templates, and it can accommodate in excess of 800 unique scenarios for a producer agreement alone.. The result is a streamlined process that expedites the timeline on which artists can finalize these types of agreements in order to be able to release music with less delay and, in turn, alleviate their lawyers of the most onerous work placed on them. Charta’s solution to the ever-growing backlog of agreements to be executed in the music industry addresses a key pain point that ultimately aids all major stakeholders involved in the release of new music, from artists to labels, managers and lawyers alike.The benefits of alleviating this well-documented, ever-growing problem within the music industry is manyfold. Speaking to the implications of what Charta can do for artists and their lawyers, Bohlender shares:“There’s no single bigger pain point in the industry than clearance agreements. The backlog is immense and it prevents artists from releasing music, labels from achieving revenue, managers from focusing on creative and strategic guidance, and lawyers providing high value services. Gone are the days where every commercial artist is signed to a record deal and releases an album every couple years with a handful of collaborators. Charta is the missing link the music industry needs to come into the 21st century.”Other music industry veterans see the clear benefit, too. Tim Smith, CEO and founder of Blood Company shares: “I’ve known Zach for many years; beast of an attorney and amazing human. His many years of experience at leading firms in corporate / VC law and also entertainment law have positioned him uniquely to create this ingenious platform.”Charta launches with key industry support already under its belt. Its early adopters already include the record label APG, superproducer Kenny Beats, Colture and other international music companies already utilizing the platform. Ty Baisden, founder of Colture, sees the benefits of Charta as well:"Charta will be a turnkey solution for start-up producers, artists and writers who can't afford to pay for the expensive cost of having a lawyer review everything. It will help them be smarter business owners."The company also counts key members of the music industry as investors and advisors, including Che Pope, Matt Colon, Aloe Blacc, Boys Noize and Milana Lewis of Stem, whose own company's focus of affording artists more autonomy and transparency in their careers dovetails with Charta. Speaking to why she invested in Charta, Lewis shares:“Charta has built a platform that seamlessly translates between three languages — plain English, legalese and code. Applying those capabilities to the music industry is an incredibly powerful tool towards building a better future where artists can be paid more expediently and accurately, a vision that is shared with my companies Stem and Tone.”With Charta's launch, artists have the ability to take control of a process that has increasingly proven to be a major pain point in the music industry at large and alleviate entertainment lawyers of the most tedious part of their jobs. While Charta’s focus at the outset is clearance agreements, the company’s ability to expand to all varieties of agreements in the future has massive implications for streamlining the process of releasing music for the industry at large.For more information about Charta head to getcharta.com.

L-R: Zachary Bohlender and Arash Rashidi

“Denon’s development and mine didn’t align”: Laidback Luke ditches Denon DJEDM DJ and producer Laidback Luke has revealed his reasons for parting ways with Denon DJ, a brand he’s been an ambassador for since 2017.

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In a video posted to his YouTube page, he says that since introducing Algoriddim’s AI-powered Djay Pro app into his setup, he’s tried to work with the brand to integrate its user interface into Denon DJ’s hardware as with Serato, to no avail. He also pushed for “stem use in the Denon environment”, he says, with no luck.
Laidback Luke became a partner with Denon DJ in 2017, signing a deal to exclusively represent its Prime range of DJ decks and controllers, including them as an essential part of his DJ rider.
“At a certain point, Denon’s development and mine didn’t align anymore and the gear that seamlessly connects with Djay Pro AI is Reloop. It doesn’t matter what it is, if it says Reloop it can connect to my phone and I’m able to DJ off my app.
“So, when my contract with Denon ended, I started to really embrace my new setup publicly. I’ve always been in love with innovation and the next step is Reloop.”

Also in the video, the revered DJ goes on to state the many benefits of DJ apps on our phones, saying, “We communicate through it. We even find love through this device. Why can’t we DJ from our phones?”
InMusic, the owner of Denon DJ, has been in the spotlight for a number of reasons recently. The company, which owns Denon DJ, Moog Music, AIR and Akai Professional and more, responded to criticisms in a statement recently after it laid off over 30 Asheville team members of the Moog Music Camp in Asheville, North Carolina.
It said, “We’re making certain changes to ensure our long-term financial health and continued innovation and would like to share important and accurate information with you.
“First, our headquarters will remain in Asheville where we will continue to design, innovate, and manufacture instruments of the highest standard, such as [the] Moog One, Minimoog Model D, legacy modular [gear], and our newest innovative products, the first of which you will see early next year.”
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