Calvin Harris eats raw eggs while in-flight to avoid jet lagScottish DJ and producer Calvin Harris has revealed a bizarre in-flight ritual he engages in to avoid jet lag.
On a recent episode of BBC Radio 2’s Breakfast Show, the 40-year-old powerhouse DJ tells co-host Zoe Ball: “I was on a British Airways flight only a couple of weeks ago, and the air hostess told me she’d never seen anybody crack eggs and pour them into their mouth in their seat before.”

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“But that was me. That’s what I do,” he adds.
For you brave souls out there looking to test out Harris’ flying tip, the DJ reveals that he uses six eggs in total: “I like to get rid of the whites, so I just do the raw yolk. I find it gets rid of jet lag.”
As for how he manages to get half a dozen eggs onto the plane without breaking any, Harris says: “You just stick them in your bag.”
“I’m surprised they get through security because for me, that’s liquid. But it’s never, ever been flagged.”
Watch the full exchange below.

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MusicTech bears no responsibility for any salmonella infection that may arise from trying this bizarre ritual yourself. You’ve been warned.
Unusual in-flight rituals aside, Calvin Harris recently mentioned that he might put a stop to his DJing career once he hits 50. Speaking to MistaJam on Capital Dance, Harris said, “I always said that, once I get past 50, I can’t see me DJing, man.”
Instead, fans can expect the man to be “in the studio making tunes,” something he much prefers over being on stage.
“I think that’s where the majority of my talent lies — making something sound good. So I would like to make other people’s records sound good.”
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You can now put Splice’s library of sounds in your pocket with its new mobile versionSplice has launched a mobile version, meaning users can now access their library of samples and AI tool Splice Create wherever they are, whenever inspiration strikes.
Splice Mobile is available now on iOS and Android, making it possible to browse and create from the cloud-based sample library’s 300 instruments across 140 genres of music while on the move.

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To launch the mobile version, the company has partnered with producer Terrace Martin, who has previously worked with the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and Stevie Wonder. “I didn’t even need band members. What makes Splice’s Create function amazing, you don’t need a keyboard, you don’t need a computer, you don’t even need a studio. So long as your phone is charged,” he says in a press release.
“We believe that great ideas should never be confined by time or space,” adds Splice CEO, Kakul Srivastava. “We continue to be led by our customer’s desire to integrate Splice sounds deeper in their workflows. This new mobile experience is another path for our customers to bring new ideas to life anytime, anywhere – without losing any of the quality they’ve come to rely on from Splice.”

Users are able to browse, audition and create using the full Splice catalogue, curate sounds into Collections to make “mobile moodboards”. It’s also possible to add, swap and delete up to eight instrumental layers and fine-tune the mix using volume and BPM controls.
The mobile version is also designed to support collaboration, with a function to share creations with friends, followers and collaborators. Splice Mobile also promises to make it easy to save, share and export sounds to work on in any DAW and for users to be able to pick up where they left off whether working on mobile or desktop.
The launch of Splice Mobile follows the introduction of a new version of Splice Create, an AI-powered tool that generates arrangements using loops and sounds from its library.
For more information, head to Splice.
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Flandersh Tech Releases FREE Substitute Modular Synthesizer For Windows
Flanders Tech released Substitute Modular, a free semi-modular virtual analog synthesizer for Windows. Substitute Modular is a FREE semi-modular virtual analog synthesizer for Windows VST3 (64-bit). I will readily admit I likely have way too many subtractive synths. You probably do, too, and there’s no shame in that. They just multiply in my plugin folder, [...]
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99Sounds Releases FREE Nature Sounds Sample Pack
Our indie sound design label 99Sounds has just released a new FREE sound pack called Nature Sounds, made by Free To Use Sounds, and it’s available for you to enjoy. It’s a collection of royalty-free nature field recordings recorded in Taiwan divided into the following categories: Animals, Forest, Rain, Water, and Wind. It can be [...]
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New AI bassline generator by Sony can create accompaniments that match the “style and tone” of your input musicA team of researchers from Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Sony CSL) have developed a new AI model that focuses solely on bass accompaniments.
According to a paper posted on the arXiv preprint server, Marco Pasini, Stefan Lattner, and Maarten Grachten at CSL have created a Diffusion model capable of producing realistic basslines that match the style and tone of existing music pieces.

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“At Sony CSL, we aim to assist music artists and producers in their workflow by providing AI-powered tools,” Lattner tells Tech Xplore. “However, we have noticed that the most common approach of AI tools generating complete musical pieces from scratch (often controlled only by text input) is not very interesting to artists.”
Given that existing music generative tools often fail to take into account users’ unique preferences and style, the team wanted to come up with something more tailored and specific to the individual.
“Artists require tools that can adjust to their unique style and can be utilised at any point in their music production process,” Lattner said. “Therefore, a generative music tool should be able to analyse and take into account any intermediate creation of the artist when proposing new sounds.”
The new model is thus designed to generate basslines that complement existing material, regardless of the elements it contains: “Our system can process any type of musical mix that contains one or more sources, such as vocals, guitar, etc,” Lattner explained.
In addition, the tool is capable of generating “coherent basslines of any length”. Users can also control the timbre and playing style of the generated bass by providing a reference audio file.
Researchers added that similar models could be created for drums, piano, guitar, strings, and sound effects parts in the future.
“More broadly, we plan to collaborate directly with artists and composers to refine further and validate these AI accompaniment tools to best enhance their creative needs,” said Lattner.
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BOB ABP plug-in from McDSP McDSP have announced that the most recent addition to their APB hardware platform, is now available for users to download.

Late Philosopher Alan Watts Lands Publishing Deal with Third Side MusicIndependent music publishing powerhouse Third Side Music (TSM) continues to expand its eclectic roster with one of the most unique additions yet - the late Alan Watts, the legendary philosopher, scholar, speaker, writer, and seminal figure in the counterculture of the Beat Generation who continues to impact culturally worldwide more than 50 years after his death.

Through a new global creative publishing deal with The Alan Watts Organization, TSM is fostering unique creative music opportunities with Watts’ treasure trove of 500+ hours of audio commentary, lectures, and radio programing for use in new songs by contemporary artists, and in films, TV series, advertising, and other media.

As one of the first to interpret Eastern philosophy and make it relatable to Western audiences, Watts’ commentaries, and aspirational lectures on themes of unity, self-realization, and the spiritual world have proven to be not only way ahead of their time, but evermore mainstream. He is perhaps best known for a multitude of famous quotes such as, “What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?” and "I wonder, I wonder, what you would do if you had the power to dream at night any dream you wanted to dream.” “Way Beyond the West,” his legendary Bay Area radio show that started in the 1950s, is still broadcast on KPFK in Los Angeles. By the early sixties, Watts’ radio talks aired nationally, and the counterculture movement adopted him as a spiritual spokesperson.

Mark Watts, Director and Co-Founder of the Alan Watts Organization, said: “Working with the wonderful team at Third Side Music brings abundant real-world experience and great talent to our focus on crafting creative relationships with musicians and labels. It will also help us foster conversations in the areas of filmmaking and commercial use. We are excited about the possibilities!”

For more information, visit: thirdsidemusic.com

Saildrone’s first aluminum Surveyor autonomous vessel splashes down for Navy testingOcean intelligence company Saildrone has just put the first of a new generation of Surveyor autonomous vessels in the water: an aluminum version that the Navy is keen to take advantage of. But don’t worry – they aren’t putting guns on them. Founder and CEO Richard Jenkins told TechCrunch that the demand for vessels like […]
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Warner Music Group shuts down office in EstoniaWarner's operations for the Baltics to be handled from Helsinki and Stockholm, MBW understands
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The NMPA isn’t planning to renew its deal with TikTok. Will any indie publishers join Universal Music Group’s boycott?NMPA offers to help indie pubs take legal action against ByteDance's platform
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The $16 PCB RobotIt is a fun project to build a simple robot but, often, the hardest part these days is creating the mechanical base. [Concrete Dog] has a new open source design for stoRPer that uses a PC board as the base. The board has a Raspberry Pi Pico and motor drivers. The modular design allows you to add to it easily and use custom wheels. The video below shows some treaded wheels and some mechanum wheels with gears.
There are mounting holes for sensors and also a way to put another deck above to hold other circuits, power, or whatever you like. There’s lots you could do with this as a starting point.

Some of the parts are 3D printed, like the motor mounts, for example. This offers some flexibility on motors. There are even files for printing PLA wheels with TPU treads that look like they would work well.
The idea is that with a 3D printer and the PC board, you should be able to build something easily. Obviously, you’ll need to find options for motors. Still, with a populated board, many other parts are printable or easy to repurpose. For example, the video mentions using repurposed vape batteries as a power source.
We were a little disappointed there was no video of the little robots doing anything, but if you’ve programmed these sorts of robots before, you know they can be a lot of fun and very capable, especially with a Pi Pico on board.
You could argue that you don’t need four wheels to do this. That does require strange wheels, though, and we bet the stoRPer will do better on terrain with the right wheels, too.

How Powerful Should An Electric bike Be? The UK Is AskingAs electric drives sweep their way to dominance in the automotive world, there’s another transport sector in which their is also continuing apace. Electric-assisted bicycles preserve the feeling of riding a bike as you always have, along with an electric motor to effortlessly power the rider over hill and dale. European electric two-wheelers are limited to a legal top speed of about 15 miles per hour and a 250 watt motor, but in a post-Brexit dash for independence the British government are asking whether that power should be increased to 500 watts.
The Westminster politicians think such a move will make electric bikes more attractive to consumers, and along with a move to motorcycle-style throttles rather than pedal-to-go throttles they want it to accelerate the take-up of greener transport in a country with plenty of hills. Meanwhile cycling groups and safety groups are concerned, the former whether the move is needed at all, and the latter over the fire risk from more powerful battery packs.
The Hackaday electric bike stable gives us a bit of experience on the matter, and our take is that with a 15 mile-per-hour limit there’s little point in upping the motor power. There’s a 350 watt European limit for three-wheelers though, which we could see would really benefit from a raise if applied to cargo bikes. We can however see that a readily-available supply of cheap 500 W motors would be worth having.

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