Get classic synth sounds with EastWest Iconic EastWest have teamed up with the synth mastermind behind Michael Jackson's 'Thriller', to create a new virtual instrument that captures the sound of some of the most revered sounds in music.

Music Managers Forum sets LA Summit with Spotify, Bandsintown, TikTok, CD Baby & MoreThe Music Managers Forum LA Summit on October 21 promises to be a full day of informative keynotes, panels and networking. Whether you’re an artist manager, self-managed artist, or a. Continue reading
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How to Release Holiday Music SuccessfullyLearn how to release holiday music successfully with expert tips on timing, promotion, and creating music that stands out during the busiest season of the year… How to Release Holiday. Continue reading
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Computer Music the latest music-making magazine to announce its closureUK-based music production magazine Computer Music has announced its closure, confirming that its most recent issue will be its last. 
Computer Music will now be consolidated into MusicRadar.com, which attributes the “substantial” increase in the cost of print in recent years to the magazine ceasing publication. CM follows a similar fate recently experienced by Future Music – another title published by Future plc – which also announced its closure and consolidation into MusicRadar.

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“Back when we first started, computer music-making was still something of a novel new approach for the aspiring producer,” says CM Editor Andy Price. “This magazine saw the echoes of today’s software-dominated landscape in those pioneering early programs. We weren’t wrong, were we?”
He adds: “I can’t help but wonder how much music Computer Music has had a hand in bringing to life over the years. What a magazine.”
An official statement shared on MusicRadar and to Computer Music’s Facebook page says the magazine – which first launched in 1998 – was “spurred by the giddy excitement about the music production power of desktop computers”.
“The momentum built further by the snowballing of home computing, the speed-up of processors and the swelling interest in creating and producing music at home, Computer Music magazine soon became a must-buy for many.”

We’re sad to announce that Computer Music's most recent issue will be the final issue of the magazine.First launched…
Posted by Computer Music Magazine on Tuesday, October 15, 2024

MusicRadar confirms existing Computer Music subscribers will be contacted by its subscriptions team in order to arrange refunds of the remainder of their subscriptions.
For more information, head to MusicRadar.
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SOS Awards 2025: Cast your vote! Once again, we need your help in selecting the most outstanding audio products from the past year across a variety of categories.

A second Sphere will be built in Abu Dhabi, “echoing the scale of the 20,000-capacity Sphere in Las Vegas”It’s official: The city of Abu Dhabi will soon be home to a second Sphere venue.
Sphere Entertainment Co., the owner and operator of the Las Vegas Sphere, and Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism have agreed to build a new Sphere in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital city.

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Located in a “prime spot” in Abu Dhabi and “echoing the scale of the 20,000-capacity Sphere in Las Vegas”, the new Sphere is expected to be a major year-round draw for both residents and visitors from around the globe.
“The vision for Sphere has always included a global network of venues, and today’s announcement is a significant milestone toward that goal,” says James L. Dolan, executive chairman and CEO of Sphere Entertainment.
A second Sphere location is expected to provide significant growth potential and drive new revenue streams for the company. It will also offer Dolan and his team a chance to recoup some of their production costs from a new audience via projects like Postcard from Earth, a multi-sensory film produced specifically for the Dome-shaped venue that   helped generate more than $1 million in average daily ticket sales on the days it ran in the latest fiscal quarter.
Concerts can also be staged at both the Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi Spheres to lower the costs of producing content for the venue.
H.E. Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of DCT Abu Dhabi, says: “This partnership aligns with our Tourism Strategy 2030, further establishing Abu Dhabi as a vibrant hub for culture and innovation. By embracing cutting-edge entertainment like Sphere, we’re not only elevating our global profile but also setting new standards in immersive experiences and cultural offerings.”
Under the terms of the partnership, which is subject to finalisation of definitive agreements, DCT Abu Dhabi will pay Sphere Entertainment a franchise initiation fee for the right to build the venue, utilising Sphere Entertainment’s proprietary designs, technology, and intellectual property.
Construction will be funded by DCT Abu Dhabi, with Sphere Entertainment’s team of experts providing services related to development, construction, and pre-opening of the venue.
Learn more about about the Las Vegas Sphere at thesphere.com.
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Baby Audio and Andrew Huang announce Transit 2 (40% OFF Intro Offer)
Baby Audio and Andrew Huang have announced Transit 2, which is available with a massive 40% discount (limited-time offer). Transit 2 is the ultimate all-in-one transition designer, multi-fx plugin, and motion designer. If you act fast, you can grab a 40% discount. During the intro sale, you can buy Transit 2 for $79 (usually $129). Owners [...]
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Why Mutek is the perfect festival for music producers with an audiovisual edgeMutek festival now has events in Mexico City, Tokyo, Barcelona, Dubai, Buenos Aires and Santiago, but its true home is Montreal. Not only was the celebration of electronic music and digital arts founded in the Canadian city in 2000, but Montreal has since become an internationally-renowned hub for the production and export of emerging cultural experiences, bringing together live performance and audio-visual tech.

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Unsurprisingly, then, the 25th anniversary of Mutek Montreal is no small affair. Heavy on Canadian artists, and artists from Quebec in particular, there is also an international presence from the US and Europe. The likes of Aïsha Devi, Colin Stetson, Marie Davidson, Ela Minus, Factory Floor and Fred Everything are spread across five days of after-dark performances that make the most of the Quartier des Spectacles cultural district.
Largely held across multiple venues within this one area of the city, Mutek is open to passholders but there’s also the free outdoor stage at Esplanade Tranquille. This is an impressive bit of public realm with a wild but well-behaved crowd dancing until close every night of the festival to headliners Octo Octa, Steffi, Virginia, Kode9 and Roman Flügel, with support from AV treats like homegrown highlight [indistinct voices over PA].
Duchesse. Image by Frederique Menard Aubin
Over at the Society of Arts and Technology (SAT) there are multiple levels of experimentation and performance. A spectrum of artists from Daito Manabe to Cobblestone Jazz commands the stage and screens in the concrete warehouse of the ground floor, while upstairs in the dome venue there are eye-popping 360-degree visuals featuring DJs and live motion-tracked dancers, alongside experimental art films made for the immersive screen.
Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet fill the room with strobes and smoke, seeking out the audience with flashlights as part of a visceral performance at mid-sized venue MTELUS. It’s a set as memorable as that of Montreal composer Myriam Bleau and Taiwanese-Canadian artist Nien-Tzu Weng over at the largest venue Théatre Maisonneuve de la Place des Arts, who play with screens, masks and movement in a gripping piece of theatrical dance.
The only outlying venue, the charismatic New City Gas, hosts a special event featuring the world premiere of Patrick Watson’s Film Scores for No One. With surprise guests including virtuoso saxophonist Colin Stetson it is, unsurprisingly, oversubscribed immediately.
Patrick Watson. Image: Frederique Menard Aubin
Alongside the performance is a free arts trail which lights up around the Quartier des Spectacles district each evening throughout the festival, and for some time either side. Village Numérique (or Digital Village) features 23 installations which use audiovisual technology, and in some cases interactivity, to give audiences a range of experiences. Courtesy of individual artists, collectives, and mammoth local companies like Moment Factory, there’s the chance to make music with a playground, explore a laser forest, and experience live music with visuals from a VR headset.
Mutek Montreal is currently on a kind of tour, having taken a selection of artists to Transart festival Bolzano Italy, Sonica festival in Glasgow and Lunchmeat festival in Prague. In October alone, Mutek has celebrated other anniversaries in Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Santiago.
Mutek Montreal 2026 is already being billed as A New Cycle but, whatever it has in store, we can expect more of the same bold human-meets-machine experimentation that is its speciality.
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Managing Hit Songwriters and ProducersThis week, Ari talks to Lucas Keller, the Founder/President of Milk & Honey management about the ins and outs of the publishing industry.

How Tesla’s plans for ‘unsupervised FSD’ and robotaxis could run into red tapeDuring Tesla’s much-hyped robotaxi reveal event last week, CEO Elon Musk said he expects Tesla to release an “unsupervised” version of FSD, the automaker’s advanced driver assistance system, in Texas and California in 2025 on certain Model 3 and Model Y vehicles.  He also said Tesla would begin production on its robotaxis – which are […]
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Ethereum price shows strength, but a 23% drop in DApps activity raises concernDeclining DApp activity and lackluster demand for the ETH ETFs could limit Ethereum’s recent price rally.

Triller preps for NASDAQ listing this week, as TikTok rival completes merger with financial firm AGBAFormer Citigroup executive Mark Carbeck has been named as the new Chief Financial Officer
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Black Lion Audio to launch Revolution 14x16 Black Lion Audio have announced an upcoming 14-in/16-out audio interface equipped with their Auter preamps. 

A Phone? A Ham Radio? Relax! It’s Both!A lot of hams like to carry a VHF radio. Of course, nearly everyone wants to carry a phone. Now, thanks to the kv4p HT, you don’t have to carry both. The open-source device connects to your Android smartphone and turns it into a radio transceiver. You can build it yourself for about $35. Check out the video below.
The device uses an ESP32 and only transmits one watt, but it has lots of features like APRS and scanning.

The brain is an ESP-WROOM-32. There’s also a ham radio “module” that is easily imported.  The rest is fit, finish, and software. The PCB is fairly simple and inexpensive. A 3D-printed case completes things.
There is a new version of the PCB that hasn’t been tested as of this post, but the older version (1.5) seems to work ok, too, if you don’t want to risk trying the 1.6 version and you don’t want to wait.
We always marvel at how many building blocks you can get now. Grab a computer and a radio, and use your phone for power and a user interface. This would have been an enormous project to complete not long ago and now it is an hour’s time and $35. You’ll probably spend as much time ordering parts as building.
If your phone mostly trades cat memes, it fits right in with old ham tech. Just watch the antenna.

Your Battery Holder Is Also Your Power Switch With ToggleSlotWe really like PCB-level hacks, especially ones that show ingenuity in solving a real problem while being super cheap to implement. Hackaday.IO user [Steph] wanted a cheap way to switch a wearable on and off without having to keep popping out the battery, so they came up with a tweaked battery footprint, which is also a simple slide switch.
Most people making badges and wearables will follow the same well-trodden path of just yanking out the cell or placing some cheap switch down and swallowing the additional cost. For [Steph], the solution was obvious. By taking a standard surface-mount CR2032 button cell holder footprint, extending its courtyard vertically, and moving the negative pad up a smidge, the battery can be simply slid up to engage the pad and slid down to disengage and shut off the juice. The spring section of the positive terminal keeps enough pressure on the battery to prevent it from sliding out, but if you are worried, you can always add a dummy pad at the bottom, as well as a little solder bump to add a bit more security.
Now, why didn’t we think of this before? The KiCad footprint file can be downloaded from the project GitHub page, imported into your project and used straight away.
Many of our gadgets are powered by CR2032 cells—so many so that eliminating the need for them leads to interesting projects, like this sweet USB-powered CR2032 eliminator. But how far can you push the humble cell? Well, we held a contest a few years ago to find out!