Audient opens its first USA Showroom in Los Angeles, with gear demos and hands-on workshops to comeAudient has finally opened its first showroom on American soil, bringing its high quality British audio equipment straight to the people of Los Angeles, California.
Set up in Burbank’s CenterStaging’s rehearsal studio and artist relations compound, the showroom will allow US citizens a hands-on Audient experience. Packed with the company’s full range of equipment, it will be a chance for visitors to freely experiment with everything from the ASP4816-HE mixing console to Audient Oria’s Dolby Atmos-minded immersive audio interface and monitor controller.

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Audient has also ensured that the showroom was designed to emulate a studio environment; the space is fully functional and acoustically treated to allow the public to experience gear in realistic studio conditions. Its an attention to detail that seems simple, but makes all the difference if you want a sense of how fresh tech will feel in your studio.
The showroom will also host a slew of demonstrations and exclusive workshops to showcase each piece of gear’s full potential. There’s also plenty of Audient specialists on site to provide support and answer any specific engineering, production or technical queries.
“Opening our own dedicated space in LA is a milestone for Audient here in the US,” Tim Jones, U.S. Market Representative for Audient, says. “As a working engineer myself, I know how hard it can be to make decisions on pro audio gear without getting some quality hands-on time with it.”
“I’m excited to connect directly with fellow creatives and help them discover how Audient can support their workflow and elevate their sound, all within a space purpose-built for critical listening,” he concludes.
Audient’s expansion out to the USA has been made possible thanks to the company’s partnership with Korg USA. “Our partnership with Audient has always been built on a shared belief in providing creators with tools that inspire and perform at the highest level,” Joe Castronovo, President & CEO of Korg USA, explains.
“The opening of Audient’s first U.S. showroom represents an important step in expanding that vision, giving artists, producers, and engineers the opportunity to experience Audient’s products in a professional studio environment while benefiting from the expertise and support of both of our teams,” he adds.
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Spotify to crackdown on AI “slop” in bid to protect artistsBack in June, Spotify announced that it was in no rush to purge AI music from its platform. However, the company’s stance has since changed; Spotify has just announced a mass crackdown on artificially generated “spammy” tracks.
On 25 September, the streaming giant shared its plans to “strengthen AI protections” for its artists. In a bid to “aggressively protect” creatives, Spotify notes that it has already removed 75 million tracks from the platform over the last 12 months, and will continue to do so.

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In order to crack down on AI tracks, the company shares that it will be implementing a more rigid ‘impersonation policy’ to remove tracks with unauthorised AI generated voice clones. “Unauthorised use of AI to clone an artist’s voice exploits their identity, undermines their artistry, and threatens the fundamental integrity of their work,” the company explains.
“Some artists may choose to license their voices to AI projects – and that’s their choice to make,” Spotify continues. “Our job is to do what we can to ensure that the choice stays in their hands.”
Elsewhere, the announcement also notes that a new spam filtering system will be in place. The new filter will restrict “mass uploads, duplicates, SEO hacks, artificially short track abuse, and other forms of slop” which are often ways generative AI can exploit Spotify’s algorithm. To tackle this, the company will be introducing a new system that will “identify uploaders and tracks engaging in these tactics, tag them, and stop recommending them”.
The new system will hopefully benefit genuine artists, as AI uploads can massively dilute Spotify’s royalty pool. “Our new music spam filter will help prevent spammers from generating royalties that could be otherwise distributed to professional artists and songwriters,” Spotify explains.

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Spotify will also introduce a new “AI disclosure” agreement, forcing artists to disclose whether AI has been used in the creation process. Developed through standards-setting organisation DDEX, the new agreement will allow users to see what aspects of a track were created with forms of AI.
Of course, some artists might use AI tools as an aid rather than a way of generating “spammy slop”, so the new system will add some nuance to the discussion of AI in music. “This standard gives artists and rights holders a way to clearly indicate where and how AI played a role in the creation of a track, whether that’s AI-generated vocals, instrumentation, or post-production,” Spotify says. “This change is about strengthening trust across the platform. It’s not about punishing artists who use AI responsibly or down-ranking tracks for disclosing information about how they were made.”
“Ultimately this preserves trust across the entire music ecosystem, as listeners can understand what’s behind the music they stream,” the company adds. “We see this as an important first step that will undoubtedly continue to evolve.”
While Spotify is starting to tackle AI tracks, the streaming platform seems to be following in the footsteps of Deezer, which has been firm about its stance on AI tracks over the past year, sidelining AI tracks and making sure no AI generated content is diluting its royalty pool.
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LCO Producer Strings from Native Instruments The latest Kontakt instrument to join Native Instruments’ ever-growing Komplete collection captures the sound of one of the world’s most adventurous ensembles.

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Decorate Your Neck with The First Z80 BadgeOver the years, we’ve brought you many stories of the creative artwork behind electronic event badges, but today we may have a first for you. [Spencer] thinks nobody before him has made a badge powered by a Z80, and we believe he may be right. He’s the originator of the RC2014 Z80-based retrocomputer, and the badge in question comes from the recent RC2014 Assembly.
Fulfilling the function of something you can write your name on is a PCB shaped like an RC2014 module, with LEDs on all the signal lines. It could almost function as a crude logic analyser for the system, were the clock speed not far too high to see anything. To fix this, [Spencer]’s badge packs a single-board RC2014 Micro with a specially slow clock, and Z80 code to step through all memory addresses, resulting in a fine set of blinkenlights.
Thus was created the first Z80-based event badge, and we’re wondering whether or not it will be the last. If you’re curious what this RC2014 thing is about, we reviewed the RC2014 Micro when it came out.

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NEC V20: The Original PC Processor UpgradeIn the early 1980s, there was the IBM PC, with its 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor. It was an unexpected hit for the company, and within a few years there were a host of competitors. Every self-respecting technology corporation wanted a piece of the action including processor manufacturers, and among those was NEC with their V20 chip and its V30 sibling. From the outside they were faster pin-compatible 8088 and 8086 clones, but internally they could also run both 8080 and 80186 code. [The Silicon Underground] has a look back at the V20, with some technical details, history, and its place as a PC upgrade.
For such a capable part it’s always been a surprise here that it didn’t take the world by storm, and the article sheds some light on this in the form of an Intel lawsuit that denied it a critical early market access. By the time it was available in quantity the PC world had moved on from the 8088, so we saw it in relatively few machines. It was a popular upgrade for those in the know back in the day though as it remains in 2025, and aside from its immediate speed boost there are a few tricks it lends to a classic PC clone. The version of DOS that underpinned Windows 95 won’t run on an 8086 or 8088 because it contains 8016 instructions, but a V20 can run it resulting in a much faster DOS experience. One to remember, if an early PC or clone cones your way.
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