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MicroStrategy to raise $1.75B with 0% interest notes to buy BitcoinMicroStrategy’s 0% senior convertible note means it will not need to pay regular interest to bondholders. 

MusiCares & Moms in Music Partner to Host Free Women’s Wellness ClinicMusiCares, the leading charity supporting the health and wellbeing of the music community, is partnering with Moms in Music to host a free Women’s Wellness Clinic on Thursday, November 21, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at MusiCares HQ, 3030 Olympic Blvd in Santa Monica, CA. The clinic will offer essential health and wellness services to women working in the music industry, including mental health resources and support in navigating the unique demands of balancing career and family life. The event will feature a range of wellness services, including: Mental health screenings 

Physical therapy screenings 

Holistic chiropractic services 

Custom ear molds for hearing protection 

Massage therapy 

Yoga 

Information about MusiCares and Moms in Music services 

A chance to connect with other women in music Throughout the event, information about MusiCares services specifically for women, covering areas such as mammogram support, cervical cancer screenings, childcare, and more will be available. MusiCares is proud to partner with women-owned businesses and providers to offer these services. The upcoming Women’s Wellness Clinic represents a significant step in making wellness accessible for women at all stages of their careers in the music industry, where they often face distinctive challenges. This clinic is a natural extension of MusiCares' mission to create a supportive environment for women to prioritize their health. In collaboration with Brittney Brock, founder of Moms in Music and a prominent advocate for working mothers in the industry, MusiCares aims to address gaps in women’s access to preventive care, mental health support, and other vital wellness resources, making this event both meaningful and impactful. Together, MusiCares and Moms in Music are creating a nurturing, accessible environment for women in music. Both Theresa Wolters of MusiCares and Brittney Brock of Moms in Music are available for interviews to discuss the event and the importance of fostering support systems that allow women to thrive in the music industry. Event Details What: MusiCares Women’s Wellness Clinic, in partnership with Moms in Music When: Thursday, November 21, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. PST Where: 3030 Olympic Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90404  The post MusiCares & Moms in Music Partner to Host Free Women’s Wellness Clinic first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

“It’s a dangerous job to be a young artist”: Skrillex shares sentiments on the music industry and plans for new music in 2025Dance music titan Skrillex, real name Sonny Moore, has spoken about the struggles new artists face in the music industry, meeting Quincy Jones, and his upcoming release on Atlantic Records.
“The industry is like politics…It’s designed to be almost impossible [to] understand. I’ve seen so man[y] artist[s] get caught up in the illusion and delusion of the business. It’s a dangerous job to be a young artist,” the nine-time Grammy-winning artist says on X, formerly Twitter.
READ MORE: Take a look at the Orchid, the first product from Tame Impala’s Telepathic Instruments
“I’m blessed and lucky to have lived through what I’ve lived through and will continue to do my best as an artist and just make things that provoke beauty and emotion.”
Moore goes on to share how he met Quincy Jones, who passed away earlier this month at age 91 from pancreatic cancer, which he lived with for years. “He came to one of my shows and spent the time to chat after… I’ll never forget that,” says Moore. “He’s my absolute hero and his passing has definitely put some things into perspective.”
The producer continues to share details about an imminent release which he hints will arrive in 2025. Moore adds that the new music will be released as an “independent artist” — a term which he says makes him feel “very existential.”

The industry is like politics , it’s designed to be almost impossible for I understand. I’ve seen so man artist get caught up in the illusion and delusion of the business. It’s a dangerous job to be a young artist.
— Skrillex (@Skrillex) November 18, 2024

“I’ve never felt more inspired and in lockstep with my intentions as an artist. As I’m nearing completion of my next work and my final project for Atlantic Records I can’t help but feel very existential about it all,” Moore says. “I’m thrilled to get this out and focus on more release[s] in [2025] as an “independent” artist. But “independent” is such a strange term because I still depend on my team as well as all the other creatives and executors to do what I do…But now I’m able to rethink/relook at how the structures are designed. I want to find ways to simplify decimating music and art. I see lots of artists in a constant panic.”
In the same thread, Moore appears to give thanks to his fans and offers some advice:
“Knowing how much you care inspires me every day to be a better person and make better music”, he ays.
“It really is in the journey ..and the best things come when they aren’t expected…Make things for smile.”

Make things for smile
— Skrillex (@Skrillex) November 18, 2024

Earlier this year, Moore’s regular collaborator Four Tet — a revered producer himself — said that watching Moore use Ableton is like “alchemy.”
“Just watching him use Ableton is the highest level I’ve ever seen,” says Four Tet. “The pace he works at and the way he knows how to use plugins and make sounds, it’s very overwhelming actually.
“I don’t really understand why his stuff sounds so insanely good, I watch him do it and it seems like alchemy to me, it’s another level. And I learn bits and pieces from him but mostly I look at it and it’s just all happening too fast for me to really replicate the ideas but it’s so brilliant to have him be like, ‘Oh, hang on let me sort this out I’ll make the drop really really good’ you know? … He just does it in this amazing way.”
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Crowdsourcing Ionosphere Data with PhonesHow do you collect a lot of data about the ionosphere? Well, you could use sounding rockets or specialized gear. Or maybe you can just conscript a huge number of cell phones. That was the approach taken by Google researchers in a recent paper in Nature.
The idea is that GPS and similar navigation satellites measure transit time of the satellite signal, but the ionosphere alters the propagation of those signals. In fact, this effect is one of the major sources of error in GPS navigation. Most receivers have an 8-parameter model of the ionosphere that reduces that error by about 50%.
However, by measuring the difference in time between signals of different frequencies, the phone can estimate the total electron current (TEC) of the ionosphere between the receiver and the satellite. This requires a dual-frequency receiver, of course.

This isn’t a new idea. There are a large number of fixed-position stations that make this measurement to contribute to a worldwide database. However, the roughly 9,000 stations can’t compete with cell phones everywhere. The paper outlines how Android smartphones can do calculations on the GPS propagation delays to report the TEC numbers.
Hams often study the ionosphere. So do sounding rockets.

Introducing the Chroma USB Drive for DJs: our drive syncs DJ libraries quicklyWe like solving problems for DJs. A lot of the time, they’re our own problems. DJTT’s store manager Josh wanted a nicer-looking USB drive, and I wanted one that wouldn’t take forever to sync my Rekordbox library. We’ve watched Reddit threads and the Pioneer DJ forums and seen DJs frustrated with not knowing what USB […]
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All the music gear to buy instead of Teenage Engineering’s $2,300 OP-XYIt’s sleek, it’s smart, and it’s sophisticated. But it’s $2,300. Can Teenage Engineering’s OP-XY really be worth the eye-popping price tag? We’re reviewing the new synth, sampler and sequencer later this month to find out but, in the meantime, we’ve been looking at what else producers can get for the cash, instead of feeding their GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome). Spoiler: it’s a lot.
READ MORE: “We dare say it’s probably the most complete, portable sequencer ever built”: Teenage Engineering introduces the OP-XY
An entire bedroom studio setup
Please, for the love of god, do not buy the OP-XY as your first piece of music gear. I don’t care if you’re a rich and overzealous newbie — just don’t do it. Find a space in your house, whether it’s an office space or just a section of your bedroom, and set up a desk (this $95 Amazon desk will do) and cram it with gear. Even if you don’t have a laptop or computer yet, a $2,300 budget will get you everything you need from a mouse to a vast plugin bundle.
Here’s everything you might need to start making music, coming in at $2,272. There’s no skimping here either — you can get alternatives to the below for a much lower price, but these selections are for maxing out the budget.

Apple M4 Mac Mini: $574
Samsung 27 Inch Curved Computer Monitor: $130
Logitech wireless mouse & keyboard: $20
Desk $95
Apple Logic Pro: $200
Arturia KeyLab Essential 61 (software bundle included): $270
IK Multimedia T-Racks 6 Pro software bundle: $202
IK Multimedia iLoud MTM monitor speakers: $250
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4: $280
Rode NT1 Microphone: $250

Image: IK Multimedia
All of Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operators, an OP-1, an OP-Z, and an EP-133 K.O II.
Yep. This comes in at around $2,230. You could buy all nine of Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operators and its EP-133 K.O II sampler direct from the Swedish brand and pick up a second-hand OP-1 and OP-Z for that price. And there’s some serious power in that bundle. Check it out:

Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O.II: ~ $299
Teenage Engineering OP-Z: ~$400
Teenage Engineering OP-1: ~$700
All 9 Pocket Operators: $79 to $99 each

Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O.II. Image: Simon Vinall for MusicTech
An amazing synth, a powerful sampler, and an intuitive sampler…plus some plugins
Ok, let’s say you have a studio setup but you’re desperate for what the OP-XY can offer: deep synthesis, easy sampling, and effective sequencing. At $2,300, you can get this in droves.
Recommending ASM’s Hydrasynth is practically a meme to many synth nerds at this point, but it really is a powerhouse. For $800, you can get the desktop version, which you can play with a MIDI keyboard or using a sequencer, such as the Akai MPC Key 31. That’ll set you back $900, which leaves us $600 in the budget for a powerful sampler. Easy — you can get a second-hand Elektron Digitakt for that. If you prefer more old-school workflows, go for a Roland SP-404 MKII

AKAI MPC Key 37: $900
ASM Hydrasynth Desktop version: $800
Eletrkon Digitakt: ~$600
Roland SP-404 MKII: ~$500

Image: Akai Professional
Studio time at a gear-packed space with a producer
Maybe you don’t want to buy new gear but you want a place that inspires you and lets your creativity flourish. For $2,300, you can spend some quality time in a studio space near you, which will likely be packed with gear and could even have an engineer or producer as part of the hire.
As an example, a look at The Room Melrose in Los Angeles is currently $300 per 12 hours. For a more casual solution, Pirate Studios has locations in London, New York, Houston, Chicago, Berlin, Dublin and more — you’re looking at around $25 per hour in one of its studio spaces.
Years of musical instrument and music production lessons
Knowledge is power, right? Why spend all that money on gear that you don’t really need when you can learn how to play an instrument and make your music sound impeccable?
Picture this: Over the next three and a half years, you spend a few hours a week learning how to play keyboard and guitar, and watch and learn from some of the best products in the world, all online. How good would your music sound if you committed to that?

Melodics annual subscription: $135
Fender Play annual subscription: $150
Mix With The Masters annual subscription: $319

Six years of Suno Premier
Maybe you don’t care about making music at all and you just want an AI to do it for you. Suno Premier is $30 a month, so $2,300 will get you a solid 76 months of not making your own music.
Save it
Or don’t buy anything and save it, invest it, give it away — whatever. It’s $2,300. You could hire a professional accountant for an hour, who will probably tell you to save the remaining $2,200 you have after the session.
Just buy it
If you’ve scrolled all the way here and you’re still not convinced that you shouldn’t buy the OP-XY, then just buy it. I clearly can’t convince you and you must need it for something right? So buy it and, please, send me the tracks you end up making with it. I should probably see what I’m missing out on.

Go on, then…Head to Teenage Engineering to learn more about the OP-XY. 
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Gloriously Impractical: Overclocking the Raspberry Pi 5 to 3.6 GHzThe Raspberry Pi 5 board strapped to a liquid nitrogen cooler with an ElmorLabs AMPLE-X1 power board attached. (Credit: Pieter-Jan Plaisier, SkatterBencher.com)
As impractical as most overclocking of computers is these days, there is still a lot of fun to be had along the way. Case in point being [Pieter-Jan Plaisier]’s recent liquid nitrogen-aided overclocking of an unsuspecting Raspberry Pi 5 and its BCM2712 SoC. Previous OCing attempts with air cooling by [Pieter] had left things off at a paltry 3 GHz from the default 2.4 GHz, with the power management IC (PMIC) circuitry on the SBC turning out to be the main limiting factor.
The main change here was thus to go for liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooling, with a small chipset LN2 pot to fit on the SBC. Another improvement was the application of a NUMA (non-uniform memory addressing) patch to force the BCM2712’s memory controller to utilize better RAM chip parallelism.
With these changes, the OC could now hit 3.6 GHz, but at 3.7 GHz, the system would always crash. It was time to further investigate the PMIC issues.
The PMIC imposes voltage configuration limitations and turns the system off at high power consumption levels. A solution there was to replace said circuitry with an ElmorLabs AMPLE-X1 power supply and definitively void the SBC’s warranty. This involves removing inductors and removing solder mask to attach the external power wires. Yet even with these changes, the SoC frequency had trouble scaling, which is why an external clock board was used to replace the 54 MHz oscillator on the PCB. Unfortunately, this also failed to improve the final overclock.
We covered the ease of OCing to 3 GHz previously, and no doubt some of us are wondering whether the new SoC stepping may OC better. Regardless, if you want to get a faster small system without jumping through all those hoops, there are definitely better (and cheaper) options. But you do miss out on the fun of refilling the LN2 pot every couple of minutes.
Thanks to [Stephen Walters] for the tip.

Suno, after being sued by the majors for copyright infringement, preps launch of V4, claimed to mark ‘a new era of AI music generation’The company has also hired Jack Brody, formerly of Snap, as its Chief Product Officer
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Take a look at the Orchid, the first product from Tame Impala’s Telepathic InstrumentsDetails surrounding Tame Impala’s synth brand Telepathic Instruments are still pretty vague, but we do officially have the name of its first product – the Orchid.
Kevin Parker, the man behind Tame Impala, launched the company back in June this year, keeping details super limited. He then gave another teaser in August by sharing an Instagram video of him playing what we now know to be the Orchid.

READ MORE: Tame Impala says the Sequential Pro One is his favourite synth: “It sounded like crying in outer space”

Telepathic Instruments has teased the launch in a brand new (and very short, 21-second) video that plays a snippet of its sound.  The video declares that the product is “for chords”, and an accompanying email says that “Orchid is a new kind of instrument that helps songwriters and musicians find what’s on their mind.”
Take a closer look below:

No specifications or information on its official launch and pricing have yet been shared, though you can sign up to a mailing list to be informed of any new details. From the glimpse we get in the new video, we can see a keyboard, a small display screen, plus a range of dials. These include bass, loop, BPM, options, and volume on the right side, plus controls for sound, perform, FX, and Key on the left.
There’s also two jog wheels on the left side, and though the text is a little blurry, it looks as though these control voicing. There’s also eight buttons, which seem to allow users to select between major, minor, or other types of chords.
MusicTech will share more details on Orchid as soon as we have them. In the meantime, you can sign up for email alerts over at Telepathic Instruments.
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New Live Nation lawsuits, investor action signal turbulent times aheadEven as Live Nation basks in a record breaking concert season and the likelihood that a Trump led DoJ will take a less aggressive posture, new lawsuits and investor activity point to a turbulent year ahead for the concert giant.
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Spotify gave every Musician a Gift: They have 3 Days To Use ItOn Friday, Spotify extended the deadline to update Artist profiles to take full advantage of the popular Spotify Wrapped promotion.
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Taylor Lindsey promoted to Chairman and CEO of Sony Music NashvilleKen Robold also named President and Chief Operating Officer of Sony Music Nashville
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Get up to 25% off select FabFilter plugins and bundles in Plugin Boutique’s early Black Friday dealsFabFilter plugins offer some of the best functionality and user experience in the biz, and Plugin Boutique is kicking off Black Friday early with generous deals across a range of its products.
Early festive shoppers can now get up to 25 percent off across a number of FabFilter gems, including seven bundle offers. As part of Plugin Boutique’s Black Friday promotions, deals are also available on Universal Audio, Excite Audio, Sonnox, and many more. Most promotions are running until late November/early December.

READ MORE: Best reverb plugins 2024: Our favourite free and paid-for reverb plugins

FabFilter, based in Amsterdam, has been releasing products since 2004. Its Pro-R 2 reverb plugin was rated 9/10 by us last year, and its Volcano 3 filter plugin was awarded our 10/10 Excellence Award back in 2021. Currently, you can save over £36 on the following tools, which are all priced at £107.95:

Pro-L 2 limiter
Pro-C 2 compressor
Pro MB compressor
Pro-G gate
Pro-DS de-esser
Pro-R 2 reverb

You can also snag deals on these tools:

Timeless 3 delay – now £81.95 down from £109
One synth – now £28.96 down from £39
Simplon filter – also £28.96, marked down from £39
Micro filter – now £18.95, down from £25

As for bundle deals, these come packaged as Mastering, Essentials, Mixing, Creative, FX, Pro, and Total collections. Let’s take a look at each:

Mastering Bundle: For £283.96, you’ll get the Pro-MB compressor, the Pro-L 2 limiter, the Pro-Q 3 equaliser, and the Pro-C 2 compressor.
Essentials Bundle: For £223.96, you’ll get access to the Pro-C 2, the Pro-Q 3, and the Pro-R 2.
Mixing Bundle: This is a pretty hefty one. For £396.95, you’ll get a generous seven plugins. These are the Pro-R reverb, Pro-Q 3, Pro-C 2, Pro-DS, Pro-G, the Saturn 2 distortion, and Timeless 3.
Creative Bundle: For £208.96, get a quad of tools including Saturn 2, the Twin 3 synth, Timeless 3, and Volcano 3.
FX Bundle: With 10 plugins in this collection, your FX needs may just be met for the foreseeable. Or, until you get that itch for more, that is. In this bundle you’ll find the Pro-R 2, Pro-MB, Pro-L 2, Pro-Q 3, Pro-C 2, Pro-DS, Pro-G, Saturn 2, Timeless 3, and Volcano 3 – all for £516.95.
Pro Bundle: For £418.96, you’ll get – as the name suggests – a collection of FabFilter’s Pro plugins, such as its R-2, MB, and more.
Total Bundle: This one comes in at £577.96, and it’s a little more pricey for a good reason. This bundle comes with a whopping 14 plugins. You’ll get complete, unfiltered access to all of FabFilter’s plugins with this one.

To check out the full range of FabFilter deals or find more Black Friday savings, head over to Plugin Boutique.
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How To Find Your Fans: Use data to find where music fits\Where does my music fit? By applying modern marketing concepts like track-market fit and audience analysis, learn how to find your fans and use data to promote music and cut through the noise.
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