From Universal’s acquisition in the UAE to BMG’s $447m in H1… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-upFive of the biggest stories from MBW's pages this week...
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Full Bucket Music Ny Ny is a software instrument for Microsoft Windows (VST2/VST3/CLAP) and Apple macOS (VST2/VST3/CLAP/AU) simulating the classic KORG Lambda ES-50 Polyphonic Ensemble from 1979. It is written... Read More

Singular Audio unveil Tubedrve Mastering saturator Singular Audio's new Tubedrve model offers the same circuitry as the original but adds stepped controls, allowing for easier recall and stereo matching of channels.

MBW and Curve Royalty Systems to host ‘fireside chat’ event in London on September 13, featuring Various Artists’ David Bianchi and Rebecca DixonA very limited number of tickets are available for the event now
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Music Tectonics reveals 10 strong music tech startup semi-finalistsThe upcoming Music Tectonics conference has named ten music tech startups as Swimming With Narwhals Pitch Competition 2023 semifinalists. Each will pitch during the September 13th Music Tectonics online pre-conference before a panel of. Continue reading
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What every songwriter needs to know about the BMI sale [Chris Castle]Musicians and other music professionals are understandably nervous about the likelihood of BMI being sold to venture capitalists. Attorney and artist advocate Chris Castle offers answers. by CHRIS CASTLE from. Continue reading
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On-demand audio is finally more popular than Radio, new study showsA recent Edison Weekly Insights report reveals important, but not surprising, changes in listening habits in the U.S. with on-demand streaming finally taking the lead over radio. by Bobby Owsinski. Continue reading
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“Now you can make anything perfect… you’re erasing yourself from the record”: James Ellis-Ford on Pro ToolsJames Ellis-Ford has spoken about how advanced, modern DAWs make it easier to over-perfect your music and essentially “erase yourself” from a project.

READ MORE: Mac DeMarco: “I like to respect the way that recordings come to be”

Speaking to MusicRadar, the producer, who’s worked with Simian Mobile Disco, Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, and Gorillaz, and released his debut album in May, discusses his love for musical imperfections and the Korg Arp 2600 synth.
“The problem with something like [Avid] Pro Tools,” he says, “is that now you can fix and tweak and make anything perfect and you’re almost erasing yourself from the record.”
He expresses his preference for using Pro Tools as a “tape machine”, implying that he tries to avoid excessive editing and manipulation of recordings, keeping “editing to a minimum”.
“I spent all my time trying to make things sound worse, whatever worse means. With Pro Tools there’s just too much information there. We’re used to hearing all those records where there’s so much harmonic distortion and the bandwidth is so limited and it’s sometimes hard to remember that as you’re going through. I think it’s sometimes annoying to reverse engineer that on a computer and it’s better to use the gear that does it automatically.”

The producer moves on to his love for the Korg ARP 2600 synth, a classic analogue instrument launched in 1971. “Part of what makes it so cool is not the oscillators, it’s the way it distorts. For me, most of the new synths haven’t quite got how cranky that old gear actually is.”
Circling back to DAWs, Ellis-Ford goes on to say that Ableton Live is better than Pro Tools for MIDI programming, but Logic Pro is “slap-bang in the middle of the two”.
“I use Pro-Tools for everything. For MIDI programming, it’s streets ahead of Pro Tools, but I’m just really used to arranging and mixing in Pro Tools and I could never particularly get my head around finishing a track in Ableton in the same way.
“Same with Logic. I feel like Logic is slap‑bang in the middle of the other two. It’s probably better in terms of MIDI and its samplers and tools but the way I use Pro-Tools is pretty old-school like a tape‑machine. I’m so used to it that I don’t even have to think about it.”
This isn’t the first time Ellis-Ford has spoken out about his love for human imperfections in music. In March 2023, he told The Cue newsletter, “human-ness and that wonkiness is what I love to hear in records”.
Check out James Ellis-Ford’s debut album, Hum, via jamesellisford.com.
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Ukrainian-Russian producer Wyro on finding solace in production: “When you open Ableton, it chills you out”For Ukraine-born, Russia-raised producer, music mentor and label owner Wyro, music production isn’t just a creative act, but a place of safety and solitude – a brief escape from the tribulations of real life.

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Wyro – real name Kirill Kalashnikov – is now based in London. He says hello over Zoom, and tells us about the past few years, which have been nothing short of a whirlwind. He left Russia just before the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and lost his home. Instead of returning, he was forced to – in his words – “float around the planet like some rock in open space”, embarking on a nomadic adventure spanning countries such as Sri Lanka, Bali, Thailand, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania, Vietnam, Turkey, Serbia, and beyond, leaving behind his synth-clad studio in St. Petersburg. This chapter, lasting 15 months, marked a period of both exploration and introspection, as he collaborated with various musicians and vocalists for the first time.
Wyro – Focus by Wyro
Making music on the move was not a massive change for him: “If I’m being completely honest, I always used a lot of software because that’s how I started.” He says. “It’s what I was accustomed to. For instance, I really love Xfer’s Serum because it’s incredibly fast and visually comfortable.”
In terms of modular gear, he has had to adopt a digital replacement, however, in the form of VCV Rack, using Mutable Instruments’ plugins such as Clouds and Braids. “It’s not quite the same,” he says, “given that you’re constantly working with headphones and a laptop, hunched over. It’s not as enjoyable as having a physical instrument.”
For Kirill, who wants to make music as quickly as possible and not spend hours making new drums and such, he’s keen to reveal his love for helpful Ableton Live templates It’s sped up his process and allowed him, he says, to focus on the other elements of the track that build emotion, so that the drums simply support this core element of the track.

“There’s about eight minutes of separate tracks for the kick, hi-hat, clap, and percussion – you know, all in different drum racks.” He explains. “I have my favourite stuff ready to make the process quick, you know? There’s a dedicated section for the kick, around eight minutes long, with a high-pass filter already applied. Why add a kick every time you start a track? Doing this every time got tiring, so I did it once, saved the template, and now I don’t start tracks with drums.”
We chat on and on about sticking with the ‘perfect’ kick drum and not worrying about over-using a drum if it works. However, there’s a more real elephant in the room that Wyro isn’t scared to address. He goes on to open up on the unique challenges he faces as someone with ties to both Ukraine and Russia and what it meant to lose his home.
“Many musicians lost studios and motivation”
“When you read the news, you don’t feel like creating.” He says. “I mean, you definitely don’t want to make dance music. Sometimes you lean towards ambient music, just to unwind. That’s been my approach lately. Escaping these thoughts, diving into sound work – it’s like meditation. Focusing on one thing, the sound, silencing the noise and random thoughts. When you open Ableton Live and start doing a new track, you just have one path. It chills you out for some time…. but once it ends, the weight returns.
Wyro performing live
“Many musicians lost studios and motivation,” Kirill says. Noticeably emotional, he tells us about how he still has friends in Russia and Ukraine whose only way of making money is through putting on parties. The risks are high and he doesn’t envy them, he says. Luckily for him, the dance music production school he teaches students at, Tramplin, can be operated remotely.
Using this platform, students can learn how to make a variety of dance music sub-genres, and Kirill can utilise his own diverse knowledge to help get ideas over the line. The most exciting moments, he says, are when students have big ideas “burning inside” and just need that small technical nudge to get them where they need to be. “That’s super inspiring”, he gleams.
Wyro making music using modular gear
We say our goodbyes and agree to go to a rave in the city together one day, having discovered a shared love for minimal electronic sounds. Kirill smiles. After a globe-trotting, chaotic two years of using music and technology to escape turbulent times, Wyro is finally happy and settled in one of the most music-rich cities in the world.
Listen to Wyro’s latest album, Focus, made during the past two years, out now on his own label Engineer, via Bandcamp.
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RELEASE DETAILS
Release title:
Romantic dinner
Main artist name:
Faygoplexine
Release date:
6th Oct, 2023
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Best free plugins and freeware of the month: September 2023It’s always nice when you uncover some useful or creative tools online – and it’s even nicer when they turn out to be free.

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We’ve rounded up a handful of this month’s free releases for you to check out, including a chord-based ROMpler, a transparent limiter, a fully-featured spatial 3D instrument, an epic, endless reverb, and a fun sample chopping sequencer.
Polyverse Music – Filtron
Polyverse Music – Filtron

macOS and Windows
VST, VST3, AU, AAX
Download: Polyverse Filtron

Let’s start things off with the excellent Filtron from Polyverse, which is a vibrant-sounding, 12dB state variable filter plug-in, with state of the art zero delay filter design. It can smoothly transition between low-pass, band-pass and high-pass cutoff, is capable of self oscillation, and includes a fat sounding internal saturation.

There are also Cold and Hot post overdrive modes for some additional bite, and the parameters can be modulated via the sidechain signal. This means you can do some very cool “CV” style modulation, and each channel in the stereo pair is treated as a separate modulation source.
Artists in DSP – Transpanner
Artists in DSP – Transpanner

macOS and Windows
VST3, AU
Download: Artists in DSP – Transpanner

Transpanner is a simple but effective way to control and experience 3D audio panning through stereo speakers. The concise interface offers a main 360-degree Panning dial to control where the sound is placed around your head through clever use of phase. There’s also a Rear Filter slider that enhances the effect when it’s panned behind your, plus a button that flips the input between mono and stereo.

Although Transpanner works on headphones, it’s been primarily designed with speakers in mind, and features a Loudspeaker Distance slider to help optimise the crosstalk cancellation delay. It’s available as free/pay-what-you-want, so it’s worth considering supporting the developer.
Bertom Audio – EQ Curve Analyzer v2
Bertom Audio – EQ Curve Analyzer v2

macOS, Windows and Linux
VST3, AU, AAX
Download: Bertom Audio EQ Curve Analyzer v2

If you’ve ever wondered exactly what your analogue-modelled EQs are doing to your audio, then this could be the plug-in for you.
EQ Curve Analyzer is an analyser and signal generator tool that can show the magnitude and phase of any plug-in. You simply insert it on either side of the plug-in that you want to examine, then set the first one to act as a signal generator and the second as an analyser.

New features for version 2 include a Freeze button for the graph, latency estimation and level calibration features, persistent GUI scaling and resizing, and more. This one is also available as free/pay-what-you-want.
Ohmforce – Legacy Plug-ins
Ohmforce Legacy Plugins. Image: Ohmforce

macOS and Windows
VST, AU,AAX
Download: Ohmforce Legacy Plugins

Ohmforce has decided to make eight of its legacy plug-ins available for free.
The collection includes Ohmicide (4-band distortion), Quad Fromage (4-band filter bank), Hematohm (frequency shifter), Mobilohm (phaser), Symptohm (synth), Ohmygod (comb filter), Predatohm (distortion), Ohmboyz (delay).
Ohmicide and Quad Fromage in particular are fully featured products, so we love that they’re now available for free, and many of the plug-ins include innovative features like the ability to perform preset morphing via a MIDI keyboard. As with other announcements of this sort, there’s a possibility that they may not run on recent operating systems, and there’s no ongoing support, but they’re still worth a look.
Wide Blue Sound – Audio Plugin Uninstaller
Wide Blue Sound Audio Plugin Uninstaller

macOS
Standalone
Download: Wide Blue Sound Audio Plugin Uninstaller

How many times have you installed demos or bits of freeware, only to decide down the line that you no longer want them on your system? Our final piece of free software is a useful macOS-only utility for cleaning up your unwanted plug-ins.
Unfortunately, uninstalling a plugin often results in a number of unwanted files scattered across different folders. Audio Plugin Uninstaller reads the installation receipts and then reverses the process to uninstall all related files for a particular plug-in, while leaving all the other files intact.
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IK Multimedia release iRig HD X IK Multimedia's new flagship iRig interface boasts improved technical performance along with a more advanced feature set.

Robotics sales decline for second straight quarter amid economic woesSooner or later, the numbers were going to contract. Broadly speaking, the pandemic has been a gamechanger for automation broadly and robotics specifically. But not even those categories are immune from macro trends. Per new numbers from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) — whose job it is to track such things — North American […]

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BMI London Awards to Honor Gary Kemp, P2J

 BMI® (Broadcast Music, Inc.®) announced that Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet will be named a BMI Icon at the 2023 BMI London Awards held 2nd October at The Savoy Hotel. The renowned singer/songwriter and accomplished actor will be honored for his illustrious career and enduring musical contributions, which have inspired legions of fans and music creators around the world. In addition, globally acclaimed producer Richard “P2J” Isong will receive the BMI Impact Award, a recognition given for ground-breaking artistry, creative vision and impact on the future of music. This marks the first time a producer has received this honor. The private event will be hosted by BMI President & CEO Mike O’Neill.

The ceremony also pays tribute to the UK and European songwriters and publishers of the previous year’s most-performed songs on US streaming, radio and television from BMI’s repertoire of over 20.6 million musical works. The Million-Air Awards, Song of the Year, and awards for Pop, Film, Television and Cable Television Music will also be presented throughout the evening.

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