Revealed Recordings Revealed Spire Pronoia PadsRevealed Spire Pronoia Pads is a collection of 50 presets to bring aesthetic tension and atmospheric storytelling options to your tracks. Filled with Space Ambient, Cinematic, and Sci-Fi Soundscapes, this suite delivers a rich palette of cosmic fields, evolving pads, ethereal drones, and interstellar textures. Each preset is equipped with modwheel controls and intuitive macros, giving you enhanced flexibility in shaping your sound just how you want it. With Revealed Spire Pronoia Pads, you gain source sounds that make your tracks feel inevitable. You don't force them to work. They just do. Reveal Yourself. Revealed Spire Pronoia Pads - Details DRONE (9) PAD (41). 50 presets Core synthesizer patch mapping and programming All presets assigned intuitive modwheel parameters All presets assigned all four macro controls for easy tweaking and multiple sound variations. Preset format(s): .fxp Preset format(s): .swzip (Full Bank) + .spf2 (Individual Presets) Note: Presets Require Full Retail Version of Spire 1.5.16 or later. Read More

What is soul music? History, key artists, and ongoing legacy
Learn about the deep history of soul music, its pioneering artists and bands, influence on other genres, and more.

Independent Musician News: Community, Cringe, and Getting PaidListen up! Last week’s collection of independent musician news and helpful tips includes a guide on converting listeners to fans, cringe becomes a commodity, and more… Independent Musician News
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Scaler 3.1 update from Scaler Music Scaler 3.1 benefits from new synchronisation features, improvements to the way chords and MIDI are handled and a number of other enhancements. 

Out Take: Grayson SandersFounder of ChordalWeb: chordal.comMusic licensees often face this problem: a song or a piece of music has multiple rightsholders, and all of them have to give their approval before the music can be licensed. This can make music clearance a cumbersome, costly and/or completely prohibitive process for licensees, as well as prevent an artist’s music from reaching a broader audience. To address this common issue, music licensing platform Chordal created InstantClear, a technology designed to streamline the licensing process by getting music licenses approved in advance so licensees can tap into a wealth of music they otherwise would not be able to access.  “Too often we hear, ‘Well, we’d like to license that song, but we’d have to find all the rightsholders and get them on board, so it’ll never happen,’” says Chordal founder Grayson Sanders. “InstantClear builds upon Chordal’s existing technology that allows different song owners to be hands-on with how they control their shares of music rights. Our format kind of creates a happy medium between giving the rightsholders agency and licensees a pathway forward.” InstantClear doesn’t have set pricing models for songs for several reasons, including giving rightsholders more power. “In some areas of the music business, it makes sense to have unification around rates, but there is a lot more nuance to sync licensing,” Sanders says. Sanders sees a lot of potential for growth on the horizon for music rightsholders, particularly in the social/video game space, where music integration is expanding and creating unprecedented opportunities for fans to discover and engage with music. “There are a lot of possibilities for platforms to take advantage of user data to integrate music in more personalized ways, where it’s a central part of the user experience, and the user is empowered to listen to the music they want to hear.”The post Out Take: Grayson Sanders first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

Crypto backers eye New York City mayoral race as next battlegroundZohran Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for New York City’s mayoral election, but he’ll be competing in a field where digital assets could be an issue.

Congress might block state AI laws for a decade. Here’s what it means.A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other lawmakers work to secure its inclusion into a GOP megabill ahead of a key July 4 deadline. Here's what's at stake.

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Standing Desk Uses Pneumatics To Do The JobMost standing desks on the market use electric motors or hand cranks to raise and lower the deck. However, [Matthias Wandel] found a Kloud standing desk that used an altogether different set up. He set about figuring out how it worked in the old-fashioned way—by pulling it apart.
The Kloud desk relies on pneumatics rather than electrical actuators to move up and down. Inside the desk sits a small tank that can be pressurized with a hand-cranked mechanism. A lever can then be used to release pressure from this tank into a pair of pneumatic cylinders that drive the top of the desk upwards. The two cylinders are kept moving in sync by a tensioned metal ribbon that ties the two sides together. The mechanism is not unlike a gas lift chair—holding the lever and pushing down lets the desk move back down. Once he’s explained the basic mechanism, [Matthias] gets into the good stuff—pulling apart the leg actuator mechanism to show us what’s going on inside in greater detail.
If you’ve ever thought about building your own standing desk, this might be a video worth watching. We’ve featured some other great pneumatics projects before, too. Video after the break.

Stereo widening: What it is and 4 techniques for a wider mix
Learn about four stereo widening techniques that can help you achieve an effective mix, including the Haas effect, mid-side EQ, and more.

AI music platform Suno acquires browser-based DAW WavToolDespite being in the midst of a class action lawsuit led by an independent artist who claims it used his music to train its AI models, Suno has just acquired browser-based DAW WavTool.
Back in December, the AI-powered DAW went offline – now seemingly in preparation for Suno’s acquisition.
“Although the product has been taken offline, we are far from done with [our] mission,” WavTool teased in a statement. “Everything you love about WavTool will return soon, and let us assure you: it will be worth the wait.”

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The purchasing of WavTool marks the AI music platform’s first venture into the DAW market. It will see WavTool being integrated into Suno’s existing platform.
CEO and co-founder of Suno, Mikey Shulman, discusses the acquisition with Music Business Worldwide: “We’re finding that many of Suno’s early adopters are professional songwriters and producers who are seeing immense value in integrating AI into their creative process.”
“Our ultimate goal is to empower musicians, build tools that amplify human creativity and open up access to making great music,” he continues.
“By bringing in WavTool’s elite DAW technology, and their team of experts, we’re in a position to better deliver on our mission.”
The WavTool team are also excited to join forces with Suno.
“Once we came to understand how Suno operates, and how aligned the Suno team is with our vision for AI in the music creation process, we knew joining forces was the right move,” Sam Watkinson, co-founder and former CEO of WavTool, explains.
“It’s a great privilege to be part of a team with such deep passion for music and a shared commitment to advance the future of music production – I can’t wait to show off what we’ve been building together.”
Despite the current lawsuit against Suno and the divisive nature surrounding AI as a creative tool, a lot of artists use AI in the studio. Though few like to admit it, Timbaland wears his AI love on his sleeve, even claiming to use Suno for up to 10 hours a day.
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Gallery: Out West, presented by Milk & Honey with LaPolt Law, Music Business Worldwide and other friendsHosted by Milk & Honey CEO, Lucas Keller, Out West was a 'Social Sunday' for LGBTQ+ creatives and executives in the music industry.
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Klevgrand introduce Walls reverb plug-in Klevgrand have announced the release of a new algorithmic reverb plug-in which they say deconstructs the traditional ideas of what a reverb should be.

“It’s like, ‘Okay, I’m the drummer now and I’m a bit of an arsehole and I’m feeling angry’”: Emma-Jean Thackray on her vocal mixing tricks and going “full method” in the studioAward-winning artist, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Emma-Jean Thackray has never been one to follow a conventional playbook, not least when it comes to mixing.
Fresh off the release of her new self-produced album Weirdo, Thackray stopped by MusicTech’s My Forever Studio podcast (made in partnership with Audient) to share her mixing secrets and the delightfully “method” approach she takes to building the different parts of her songs.

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“When I’m mixing, it’s about placement more than anything else,” Thackray explains.
“So I’ll usually have the lower harmonies slightly wider center, and then as things get higher, they’re going further and further away from the centre. Which is, I think, always a good way to kind of approach stuff first of all in terms of where your frequencies are sitting.”
“And then I like to double everything, minimum. So you’ve got left and right, and then sort of double them again and have one of them slightly closer to you, one of them slightly further away.
“So you can mess with how much is being sent to the reverb, and it just creates not just space this way, but space this way. You’ve got the depth and you’ve got the wideness of it.”
She also uses a go-to room reverb to help build a convincing sense of space: “The amount that I send to each person is very slightly different to help me sort of create a 3D image of the room.”
“And then that on top of me singing the stuff with slightly different texture of my voice or being in slightly different positions – away from the microphone or to the side or whatever – to make it seem like it’s one mic, like this AE ribbon capturing a bunch of people,” Thackray adds.
Technical tricks aside, the musician also reveals that she goes “full method” when laying down parts for her records – sometimes even dressing the part.
“When I made my Ley Lines EP years ago, I literally was doing all the performances and I was like, ‘Okay, I’m the drummer now and I’m, you know, a bit of an arsehole and I’m feeling angry,’” she laughs.
“And then I’m the bassist. I’m cool, I’m a chill person, it’s fine, I’ve got a cup of tea and it sort of helped me be a little bit further behind the beat.
Whereas the drummer, who’s angry, is a bit further ahead of the beat.”
These days, she doesn’t necessarily need the costume changes to get into character.
“I can just sort of try and embody, like, okay, where am I going to sit in terms of the groove? Am I ahead? Am I behind? Am I this or am I that? I do go a bit method,” Thackray concludes.

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