Elektron Digitone II announced Elektron have launched a reimagined version of their popular FM instrument which they say takes its synthesis and sequencing capabilities to new heights.

BPB Exclusive: 88% OFF Basscraft: Sound Design Essentials Bundle (£6.95)
Glitched Tones is offering an 88% discount on the huge Basscraft: Sound Design Essentials bundle in an exclusive deal for Bedroom Producers Blog readers.  The regular price for the Basscraft: Sound Design Essentials bundle is £59.95, but it’s currently slashed to £6.95 (click through to the page to get the figure updated in your local [...]
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Play For The Vote seeks 5,000 Musicians to perform at Polls on Election DayNon-partisan Play For The Vote is enlisting 5000 musicians to perform at polls on Election Day Tuesday November 5th.
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Minimal Audio launches Current 2.0 with 50% off for a limited time
Minimal Audio has announced the next phase of its flagship synth, Current, by releasing Current 2.0 with 50% off for a limited time. To celebrate the milestone update, Minimal Audio is offering a perpetual license for Current 2.0 for $99 (usually $199). I call it a milestone update for a couple of reasons; yes, it’s [...]
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Meddling offers free A&R listing service to ‘democratize A&R’For more than 10 years Meddling has provided data tools for A&R professionals. Now the company is launching a free A&R listing service for artist signings and label departures.
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Unleashing the Power of Instagram Analytics for MusiciansUnlock the full potential of Instagram analytics for musicians and music marketing. These data insights will help refine your strategy and connect with more fans.
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Alex Van Halen has reached out to OpenAI in the hopes of creating new Eddie Van Halen guitar riffs and solosGenerative AI is rapidly becoming more sophisticated, and can already create incredibly believable sonic recreations of existing music artists. Just look at There I Ruined It – a YouTube channel and Instagram page which posts ridiculous AI-generated versions of classic songs – to see what it’s already capable of.
And some are looking to AI to create totally new music in the style of deceased artists as a means to keep their legacies alive, but not everyone is convinced of the ethics of this practice.

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For example, few guitarists hold quite the same iconic status as Eddie Van Halen, and so the demand to hear “new music” from him four years after his death remains strong. 
As such, Alex Van Halen has revealed that he’s reached out to ChatGPT creator OpenAI to explore the possibility of generating new riffs and solos in the style of his late sibling.
Speaking to Rolling Stone while promoting his new book Brothers, Alex details the “oceanic grief” he felt after losing Eddie, and his plans for Van Halen’s extensive archive.
Van Halen released 12 studio albums over the course of their near-50-year career, but there are plenty of unreleased and unheard audio bites in the band’s archives, according to AVH. “They’re all little pieces,” he notes. “A bunch of licks don’t make a song.”
He goes on to reveal that he’s reached out to OpenAI about analysing “the patterns of how Edward would have played something”, in the hopes of generating new riffs and solos. Whether such a project will actually happen remains to be seen, but there are several ethical hurdles to vault before it does.
For a start, Eddie Van Halen’s son Wolfgang has repeatedly shared his reservations about releasing music from the band’s archives. “I really don’t appreciate when artists pass and you see their families release everything,” he said last year.
When our sister publication Guitar.com shared Alex Van Halen’s plans to work with OpenAI on new EVH material on Facebook, comments were divided. “Like it or not, this will be commonplace in the near future,” one user wrote. Another was far more critical: “No one wants to hear ‘AI EVH’, Alex!” they wrote. “Just give us the music, as it is. We all understand the circumstances, and we do not want or need AI to step in and finish the job.”
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Korg unveil new multi/poly synth Korg's new multi/poly is a powerful 60-voice instrument that boasts four oscillators per Program, comes packed with modulation options and offers a wealth of hands-on control.

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Release title:
BEAMIN
Main artist name:
Black Kray Archive
Release date:
3rd Sep, 2018
https://publme.lnk.to/BEAMIN
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Spitfire Audio introduce LABS+ Following a three-month beta that saw 200,000 early adopters download over three million packs, Spitfire Audio have announced the official full launch of their new LABS+ subscription. 

Boox’s phone-size e-reader gets faster processing and a fingerprint readerIn 2023, Boox turned heads with the Palma. The device blurred the line between e-readers and smartphones, by combining e-paper with Android. The initial pitch was something along the lines of a phone-sized Kindle that’s small enough to slip into a pocket. The product would be enticing for many if that were the only thing […]
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Tesla reveals it didn’t sell any Bitcoin holdings in Q3According to Tesla's Q3 financial filings, the company's automotive sales declined slightly since Q2 2024, while leases increased slightly.

A 3D Printed, Open Source Lathe?[Chris Borge] has spent the last few years creating some interesting 3D printed tools and recently has updated their 3D printable lathe design to make a few improvements. The idea was to 3D print the outer casing of the lathe in two parts, adding structural parts where needed to bolt on motors and tool holders, and then fill the whole thing with concrete for strength and rigidity.
Only a few parts to print
The printed base is initially held together with two lengths of studding, and a pile of bolts are passed through from below, mating with t-nuts on the top. 2020 extrusion is used for the motor mount. The headstock is held on with four thread rods inserted into coupling nuts in the base. The headstock unit is assembled separately, but similarly; 3D printed outer shell and long lengths of studding and bolts to hold it together. Decent-sized tapered roller bearings make an appearance, as some areas of a machine tool really cannot be skrimped. [Chris] explains that the headstock is separate because this part is most likely to fail, so it is removable, allowing it to be replaced.

Yes, that’s right. We’re filling it with lovely runny concrete.
Not a bad job on aluminium for a DIY lathe!
Once together, the whole assembly is filled with runny concrete and set aside to cure. Before fully curing, the top surfaces are scraped flat to remove excess concrete so the top covers will fit. A belt-driven motor is fitted, with associated control electronics, and then it’s time to talk tooling. The first tool shown is a simple T-shaped rest, used with a hand tool known as a ‘graver.’  This is more likely to be used on a wood lathe, but we reckon you could about get away with it if you’re really careful with aluminium or perhaps brass. An adjustable rest was made using a few simple pieces (in steel!) and held in a short length of 2020 extrusion in a manner that makes it adjustable, albeit not shown in this video. Finally, a reasonable torture test is demonstrated, comprising a rough-cut aluminium disk screwed to a threaded carrier. This was tidied up to make it nice and round and clean up its surfaces. The lathe survived, only melting the 3D printed motor pulley, which, as they say, should not have been a 3D printed part when metal parts are so easy to acquire! If you want to build one for yourself, then everything you need is here, but like with projects of this type, more development is still needed to overcome a few shortcomings. Check out [Chris]’s channel for many more interesting ideas!
We’ve seen a few of [Chris]’s other 3D-printed tools, like this neat fractal vice for odd-shaped objects. We like tiny tool hacks; after all, when you’re making small things, you don’t need full-sized tools.

Thanks to [CJay] for the tip!

Why was Sony Music willing to pay megabucks for Queen and Pink Floyd’s catalogs?MBW glances over some of the key factors in Sony's willingness to spend over $2 billion on three recent catalog deals
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Bernie Taupin to Receive Outstanding Career Achievement Award from Hollywood Music in Media AwardsBernie Taupin, one of the most prolific and successful lyricists in history and storied collaborator with Sir Elton John, will receive the prestigious Outstanding Career Achievement Award during the 15th AnnualHollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) to be held on November 20, 2024 at The Avalon in Hollywood, California. The Hollywood Music in Media Awards honors composers, songwriters, and music supervisors around the world for their contributions over the previous year in music for film, TV, video games, and more.

Submissions for all HMMA categories are open through October 31, 2024.

During his illustrious career spanning more than five decades, Taupin co-wrote the vast majority of Elton John’s songs, including a multitude of global chart hits that became pop-rock masterpieces, such as “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” “Bennie & the Jets,” “Tiny Dancer,” “Your Song,” “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting’,” and“Crocodile Rock,” to name a few. Beyond his voluminous work with Elton John, Taupin's has written for and with other artists including Heart (“These Dreams”) and Starship (“We Built This City”), among others. Most recently, Taupin cowrote (with Elton John, Brandi Carlile, and Andrew Watt) the original song “Never Too Late” for the new Disney+ documentary ELTON JOHN: NEVER TOO LATE. The song is performed by Elton John and Brandi Carlile.

Among his host of accolades, Taupin was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992. Earlier this year, Taupin and Elton John received the Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize, as well as an Ivor Novellofor Outstanding Contribution to British Music. The duo was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Musical Excellence Award category in 2023. In 2020, they received both an Oscar for Best Original Song and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song (Motion Picture) for co-writing "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from Elton John's successful biopic ROCKETMAN. Additionally, Taupin's song “A Love That Will Never Grow Old” sung by Emmylou Harris for the BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN soundtrack won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song (Motion Picture).

Past HMMA Career Achievement Award recipients include Marc Shaiman, Kenny Loggins, Smokey Robinson, Diane Warren, Earth Wind & Fire, Glen Campbell, Dave Mason, John Debney,and Christopher Young. Past HMMA winners who went on to win Oscars include Billie Eilish and FINNEAS for BARBIE and NO TIME TO DIE, Hans Zimmer for DUNE, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste for SOUL, Hildur Guðnadóttir for JOKER, Ludwig Göransson for BLACK PANTHER, Alexandre Desplat for SHAPE OF WATER, songs from JUDAS & THE BLACK MESSIAH, and Justin Hurwitz for LA LA LAND. The HMMA voting academy consists of select journalists and Oscar, GRAMMY, Golden Globe, and Emmy voters.

The Hollywood Music in Media Awards is the premier awards organization honoring original music (Song and Score) in all visual media from around the world including film, TV, video games, trailers, commercial advertisements, documentaries and special programs. As one of the most anticipated award events each year, it is considered the bellwether for upcoming nominations, and award winners from the Golden Globes, Academy Awards, GRAMMYs, and Emmys held months later. The annual HMMA ceremonies feature music performances, celebrity presenters, tributes to music industry icons, and awards presentations to composers, songwriters, and artists. For more information, visit hmmawards.comThe post Bernie Taupin to Receive Outstanding Career Achievement Award from Hollywood Music in Media Awards first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.