Taylor Swift, Nikki Sixx, Dave Matthews, Rick Allen Donate to Raven Drum Foundation AuctionFor the third year in a row, Raven Drum Foundation (RDF) brings together an all-star group of musicians to raise funds for Veterans, first responders, and others dealing with trauma. In addition to RDF co-founder Rick Allen (legendary drummer of Def Leppard), celebrities who have contributed items include Taylor Swift, Nikki Sixx & Tommy Lee (Motley Crue), Todd Sucherman and Styx, Matt Sorum (Guns N’ Roses, The Cult, Velvet Revolver), Fred Armisen, and many more. Through a partnership with Musicians on Call, a Dave Matthews guitar featuring his one-of-kind hand-drawn artwork will be offered to help fund an ongoing partnership with Raven Drum to bring live music to bedsides in VA hospitals around the country.

Founded in 2001 by Allen and his wife, singer-songwriter and healing arts practitioner Lauren Monroe, Raven Drum Foundation serves, educates, and empowers trauma survivors and communities in crisis, with a focus on Veterans and First Responders. By integrating advocacy, storytelling, music, and arts programs and events, the organization brings the tools and experiences of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to support and inspire mental health, resiliency, and unity.

“I recently had the chance to attend a Raven Drum Foundation event and was really impacted by the healing effect the drum circle and joining together in a shared rhythm with a community of people had on me. I’m happy to support Raven Drum’s mission by donating one of my signature bass guitars, along with a few other items, including a scarf worn on stage with Mötley Crüe, some signed books, and my custom picks.” - Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe)

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Synthesizer Evolution zines by Oli Freke Oli Freke has produced two new pocket-sized A6 zines based on his 2021 book, Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back).

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AI-powered loop stacking tool Splice Create has been revampedCloud-based sample library platform Splice has launched a new version of Splice Create, an AI-powered tool that generates arrangements using loops and sounds from its library.

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With Splice Create, the company aims to simplify the creative music-making process by offering ideas that can kickstart projects quickly. It shifts the focus from sample searching to creative flow and inspiration, drawing from Splice’s vast library of over 300 instruments and 130 music genres.
It works by letting you build ‘Stacks’ of loops to see which combinations might work together. You simply drop in loops and can swap them out in exchange for others.
While this feature is not wholly new to Splice (the initial version let you create sound combinations based on genre-based seeds), this updated version lets users create Stacks from any available loop. This version is more flexible as the BPM of a loop will instantly quantise to your chosen tempo, and you can create stacks by combining sounds related to a variety of genres, and shuffle sound layers, reducing the need for manual loop searches and increasing user control.

“We invited artists and creators deep into our development process to build Create, and they’ve been clear, they wanted this experience integrated across core workflows,” says Splice CEO, Kakul Srivastava. “The result is a new entry point into the world of Splice sounds, where any loop can be the start of a new creative journey. And we’ve only scratched the surface of what’s possible.”
In July, Srivastava appeared on the Music Ally Focus podcast to talk about how the technique of sampling has changed music production. She says, “It’s just how people create now. It’s become mainstream and it’s definitely gone past those initial genres to every genre. If you look at someone like Taylor Swift and folk music or Americana or country and the use of samples in all of these things that were not traditionally sample-based music genres.
“It’s part of how music is done and we don’t see that slowing down. In fact, we see it accelerating. For that same reason it was used in hip-hop, it just makes music creation that much more fun – that much more accessible.”
Find out more at Splice.
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Find your spark in seconds: Now you can create Stacks with Splice loops while you browse the catalog
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1010music launches the nanobox | tangerine for “extreme sampling” in a product the size of “a juicebox”1010music has launched a new, ultra-compact sampler – the nanobox | tangerine – which allows for “extreme sampling” from a product which the brand compares to the size of a juicebox.
This small, orange wonder launched just yesterday on 10 October, to celebrate 10/10 day (a nod to the brand name), and it ships in November this year.

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1010music is already known for its range of samplers, including bitbox, blackbox, and nanobox | razzamatazz. But the nanobox | tangerine is described as an “übersampler” which can handle complex, dense, multi-sampled sound sets.
Users just need to plug in a sound source and hit record. A Multi-sample Wizard lets you easily sample other synths and drum machines, and you can also import banks of instrument sounds complete with keyboard splits and sample layers.
The aim of nanobox | tangerine is to offer an easy and fun way to sample like days gone by, but with today’s sound quality, processing and storage all in a pocket-sized format.
Check out more in the video below:

Other features include:

24 voice polyphony
16 velocity layers
576 simultaneous streaming samples via microSD
Multi-sample and melodic playback via touchscreen, internal sequencer or MIDI
1.7GB piano from makers of well-known, industry-standard piano libraries
4GB of versatile one shot samples, loops, sampled instruments and sound effects
Automatic sample slicer with editing with synced clips/loops
Sequencer with realtime recording and input quantization
Reverb and delay effects
Eight touchscreen sample pads
Colour coordinated USB cable
One stereo audio input and output

Back in August, we listed the nanobox | lemondrop in our roundup of the best synths under £600 to buy in 2023. The compact polyphonic granular synthesiser offers touch-based control, and has four-voice polyphony, dual granulators, and an oscillator.
The nanobox | tangerine is listed at $399 USD, and is available from November.
Find out more via 1010music.
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QFX Color By 2B Played Music Is FREE Until October 16th
2B Played Music offers the QFX Color (€17 value) one-knob plugin as a FREE download until October 16th. I consider one-knob plugins a classic example of a love-it-or-hate-it concept. Some producers love plugins with dozens of control parameters so they can fine-tune every little detail. Others (myself included) love streamlined plugins that let you transform [...]
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Spotify issues guide to help Artists to ‘Get Ready For Wrapped’Spotify’s annual Wrapped year-end recaps have become a common cultural moment for fans and the artists they love. To help artists prepare to make the most of the moment, Spotify. Continue reading
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How Roc Nation streamed a last-minute Victory rooftop showcaseSingle shares how they helped Roc Nation and Victory tackle the challenge of planning, promoting, and putting on a last-minute livestream show for Victory. from Single Roc Nation recently held. Continue reading
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Minimal Audio unveil Current synthesis platform Current promises to be much more than another soft synth, offering a virtual instrument and effects suite that integrates with Minimal Audio's cloud-based content platform.

Plugin Boutique Offers FREE Exclusive Mixing Bundle For A Limited Time
Plugin Boutique’s Mixing & Mastering Bundle is a collection of three plugins that will make your mixing life easier at no cost. The bundle is available to download for free, but only for a very limited time. If you’re wondering how limited it is, Plugin Boutique put the words “extremely limited time” in a bold font, [...]
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AudioDeluxe Celebrates Its 13th Anniversary With Epic Deals!
AudioDeluxe is celebrating its 13th anniversary with lots of great plugin deals running up until October 17th, so act soon to save! As bedroom music producers on a budget, we love freebies (who doesn’t, after all!) as much as grabbing some premium plugins for a fraction of their price. Some of the best deals on [...]
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“We need a radical intervention”: Ticketmaster adds Music Venue Trust donation optionTicketing platform Ticketmaster is set to add a new charity upsell feature to its site that will let users donate directly to Music Venue Trust (MVT), a charity set up in 2014 to preserve grassroots venues in the UK.

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The feature, which will appear on customer checkout pages before purchasing tickets to gigs, will start on Music Venues Day 2023 on 17 October, an event sponsored by Ticketmaster since 2016.
This initiative will be implemented for one month, with Ticketmaster planning to run it again year on year. All donations received will go to charity, and Ticketmaster will match all donations.
Speaking to IQ Mag, the CEO of MVT, Mark Davyd, says: “This upsell provides a practical method for fans to support grassroots music venues, and we are incredibly grateful to the Ticketmaster team for putting it in place.
“Ticketmaster matching all fan donations is a powerful message for the whole industry about the support our sector needs and the will of the music community to provide it.”

BREAKING NEWS: Under the month-long initiative, anyone buying a ticket on @TicketmasterUK will be given the option to donate directly to the Music Venue Trust.
You can read more here: https://t.co/2iwqYnNBIC – @IQ_Mag pic.twitter.com/7q9inISGsB
— Music Venue Trust (@musicvenuetrust) October 10, 2023

The move follows Ticketmaster’s introduction of a booking fee rebate in 2021, which means venues receive a 50 percent rebate on all booking fees.
“Ticketmaster has been a long-term and committed partner of MVT,” says Davyd, “and their core support has been vital in developing us as the authentic voice of grassroots venues, artists, and fans.
“We believe that live music fans understand exactly how vital these venues are to the future of our whole music ecosystem and how much financial difficulty they are currently facing,” he adds.
“127 grassroots music venues have closed in the last 12 months – more than one is permanently closing every week. We need a radical intervention by everyone: the government, the music industry, artists and fans, to stop these closures and turn this around.”
This positive move by Ticketmaster in many ways echoes Bandcamp’s Bandcamp Fridays initiative, launched in March 2020. This scheme was started to help artists during the COVID-19 pandemic, and for the first Friday of every month, the platform takes a zero per cent cut from music or merch sales, letting artists take 93 per cent of the revenue.
The annual Venues Day event hosted by MVT is set to take place at The Fireworks Factory in London on 17 October 2023. Grassroots venue owners from across the UK will be in attendance.
Find out more about the Venues Day 2023 event at musicvenuetrust.com.
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PSPaudioware upgrade PSP ConsoleQ plug-in PSP ConsoleQ has gained cosmetic and functional improvments, with a new spectrum analyser view accompanied by additional operation options and an overhauled preset system.