Nembrini Audio Cali Reverb Amp is FREE for Limited Time
Nembrini Audio is currently offering the Cali Reverb modern high gain amp plugin (normally $137) for free for a limited time.  The guitar amp freebie is available for macOS and Windows in VST2, VST3, AAX, and AU formats.  Cali Reverb is also available as an iOS release on the App Store for $10. Nembrini Audio [...]
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Matty Healy: “If you took a piece of ’90s Aphex Twin back 30 years, they would go, ‘This isn’t even music.’ If you took a piece of music now back 30 years, they’d be struck by how not different it is”The 1975 frontman Matty Healy says progress in terms of musical creativity has been stifled by the lack of revolutionary new physical technology, and how the modern musical landscape has driven a greater need for commercialisation for music making to be viable.
In a lengthy new conversation with Joshua Citarella for the Doom Scroll podcast, Healy speaks on how new technologies defined the sound of the decades preceding the ‘90s, but how “physical technologies disappearing” means music hasn’t changed that much since then.

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Citing writer and cultural theorist Mark Fisher, Healy explains: “If you took a piece of music from the ‘90s – if you took a piece of Aphex Twin back 30 years, they would go, ‘This isn’t even music. I am so stunned by how unrelatable this is.’
“If you took a piece of music now, even from the far leftfield, and you took it back 30 years, which is the ‘90s, and you played it to them, they’d be struck by how understandable, how relatable and how not different it is.”
He postulates that “neoliberalism” and “horizonless progression” with regard to commercialisation are reasons for creative stagnation. He explains that they “started to erode art funding, any space where a squat or a rave or anything truly culturally generative could happen”.
“That is partly to do with economics, but it’s also to do with physical technologies disappearing,” he adds.
“Very simply, the ‘60s: Jimi Hendrix and the overtly distorted guitar.  The ‘70s: Brian Eno and the synthesizer. The ‘80s: the Fairchild, with Peter Gabriel and Throbbing Gristle. And then the ‘90s: Aphex Twin and the DAW, and basically Logic and Pro Tools.
“In music, since the mid ‘90s, since a DAW – a platform where you can create music on your computer – there have been no new physical technologies. Everything is software and everything is codified. Everything happens on a screen.
Elsewhere in the interview, Matty Healy does concede that revolution has happened lately in the music world, but “only in the space of distribution”. “It hasn’t happened recently in the space of creation…” he says. “In the ’60s and ’70s, young artists were really interested in changing the world. Now, you’re not really encourage to do that.”
Listen to the full conversation below. The above segment can be heard from 41:35:

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New NOIZ Hub subscription from KIT Plugins KIT Plugins have announced the launch of a new subscription service that provides users with access to their entire processing and effects plug-in collection, as well as three new one-knob processors.

Billboard Exec on Linkin Park and the state of Music JournalismThis week, Ari is joined by Jason Lipshutz, the Executive Director of Music at Billboard to discuss the current state of music journalism.

Komainu targets Singapore custodian Propine for first acquisitionThe acquisition of its competitor will net Komainu a Singapore Capital Markets Services License and hope for a Major Payment Institution license in the future.

Ro CEO Zachariah Reitano says the benefits of being a private company are growingRo co-founder and CEO Zachariah Reitano said while he’d “never say never” about potentially taking the seven-year-old telehealth company public, he thinks the benefits of being a private company are growing. Reitano dodged multiple questions from Axios reporter Dan Primack about whether or not the company has plans to IPO in the near term — […]
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UA Introduces UAFX Knuckles '92Dual Rec Amplifier PedalUniversal Audio Inc. announces the Knuckles '92 Dual Rec Amplifier emulator to the award‑winning UAFX guitar pedal lineup.

Built on powerful dual‑engine processing and world‑class UAD modeling, Knuckles '92 Dual Rec Amplifier gives guitarists the searing high‑gain tone that powered legendary punk, alt rock, and metal bands from Foo Fighters and Incubus to Nevermore, Dream Theater, and more.*

By authentically capturing the original amp's famed green, orange, and red channels, Knuckles '92 Dual Rec Amplifier gives players the same perfect cleans, bone‑crushing crunch, and smoldering lead sounds of arguably the most versatile multi‑channel amp ever made – right on their pedalboard.

"The "Recto" is a modern day rock and metal classic that delivers inarguably the most powerful, larger‑than‑life tones ever to come out of a guitar speaker", says UA Sr. Product Manager Tore Mogensen. "As a long time user of the original amp, I couldn't be more excited to add Knuckles '92 Dual Rec Amplifier to the UAFX line of amp‑in‑a‑box pedals."

Learn more about UAFX guitar pedals: uaudio.com/guitar-pedals.html

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A Wobble Disk Air Motor with One Moving PartIn general, the simpler a thing is, the better. That doesn’t appear to apply to engines, though, at least not how we’ve been building them. Pistons, cranks, valves, and seals, all operating in a synchronized mechanical ballet to extract useful work out of some fossilized plankton.
It doesn’t have to be that way, though, if the clever engineering behind this wobbling disk air engine is any indication. [Retsetman] built the engine as a proof-of-concept, and the design seems well suited to 3D printing. The driven element of the engine is a disk attached to the equator of a sphere — think of a model of Saturn — with a shaft running through its axis. The shaft is tilted from the vertical by 20° and attached to arms at the top and bottom, forming a Z shape. The whole assembly lives inside a block with intake and exhaust ports. In operation, compressed air enters the block and pushes down on the upper surface of the disk. This rotates the disc and shaft until the disc moves above the inlet port, at which point the compressed air pushes on the underside of the disc to continue rotation.
[Resetman] went through several iterations before getting everything to work. The main problems were getting proper seals between the disc and the block, and overcoming the friction of all-plastic construction. In addition to the FDM block he also had one printed from clear resin; as you can see in the video below, this gives a nice look at the engine’s innards in motion. We’d imagine a version made from aluminum or steel would work even better.
If [Resetman]’s style seems familiar, it’s with good reason. We’ve featured plenty of his clever mechanisms, like this pericyclic gearbox and his toothless magnetic gearboxes.

Suno, with a $500m valuation, has admitted training its AI on copyrighted music. It just named Timbaland as a strategic advisor.'We're going to open up the floodgates for generations of artists to flourish on this new frontier.'
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For Desalination, Follow the SunIt’s easy to use electricity — solar-generated or otherwise — to desalinate water. However, traditional systems require a steady source of power. Since solar panels don’t always produce electricity, these methods require some way to store or acquire power when the solar cells are in the dark or shaded. But MIT engineers have a fresh idea for solar-powered desalination plants: modify the workload to account for the amount of solar energy available.
This isn’t just a theory. They’ve tested community-sized prototypes in New Mexico for six months. The systems are made especially for desalinating brackish groundwater, which is accessible to more people than seawater. The goal is to bring potable water to areas where water supplies are challenging without requiring external power or batteries.
The process used is known as “flexible batch electrodialysis” and differs from the more common reverse osmosis method. Reverse osmosis, however, requires a steady power source as it uses pressure to pump water through a membrane. Electrodialysis is amenable to power fluctuations, and a model-based controller determines the optimal settings for the amount of energy available.
There are other ways to use the sun to remove salt from water. MIT has dabbled in that process, too, at a variety of different scales.

Sequential unveil Prophet-10 Special Edition As part of their ongoing celebrations, Sequential have announced the launch of a Special Edition version of the Prophet-10 finished with stunning South American lacewood panels.

Veteran music exec Peter Rudge to step away from artist management after 55 yearsRudge has managed bands such as The Who, The Rolling Stones, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, among many others
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How To Succeed in Sync: 4 tips for top Music CreatorsMusic industry experts recently came together for UK PRO's PRS Members’ Day including a session on tips from top creators on how to succeed in sync.
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Human Artistry Campaign seeks signatures for AI Training statementThe Human Artistry Campaign is working to ensure that AI works for musicians, artists, and other creators rather than against them. As part of that effort, the coalition has launched a new campaign soliciting sign-ons to a simple public generative AI training statement.
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Vinyl Sales are up in 2024: Luminate report of 33% decline under fireAfter music sales data leader Luminate published data showing a 33% decline in 2024 vinyl sales, those directly involved in the sector offered stats showing that vinyl sales are up and an explanation for the discrepancy.
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