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Antares launch Spanish website & tutorials Antares have announced the launch of a dedicated Spanish language version of their website, along with a series of tutorial videos.

“Many media outlets and ‘influencers’ have decided not to support us anymore”, Behringer claimsMusic tech company Behringer has claimed that a number of media outlets and influencers refuse to support them because it doesn’t pay for advertisements or give out free products to reviewers.

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In a Facebook post published on Sunday, the brand writes, “Many media outlets and ‘influencers’ have decided not to support us anymore, because we don’t pay for ads, don’t provide free products for reviews or they simply don’t like us for whatever reason.”
Behringer does, however, go on to write that this lack of support is not consistent across all media outlets. “In all fairness,” the brand writes, “there are also many other outlets that share our content or review our products in an unbiased and honest manner, because they do what is best for you, the customer. We truly appreciate those people and we’re happy to support and feature them on our channels.”

Many media outlets and “influencers” have decided not to support us anymore, because we don’t pay for ads, don’t provide…
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The post comes not long after Loopop, a music tech product reviewer, was accused of refusing to review Behringer’s new gear because it wouldn’t send them to him for free.
In a response to a negative take on Behringer’s Toro by a Facebook user, Behringer responded: “Interesting comment. [The Toro] is the fifth best-selling product, not sure this is called a flop.
“I’m sure Starsky [Carr] will be reviewing it as, while Loopop is not reviewing products as we don’t send out free units. [sic]”
Loopop hit back, saying, “Hey Behringer this is Ziv – Loopop, please stop spreading the lie that I stopped reviewing your units because you wouldn’t send me any for free.
“I first reviewed your synths without any contact with you (Model D, Neutron). At that point you offered to send me a few others, which I accepted and disclosed.
“When you made the offensive video about Peter Kirn and started copying affordable products from existing manufacturers with zero innovation (swing), I became disgusted with your corporate culture, which I see now includes spreading lies like you did now.”
Behringer has just started shipping its Mutable Instruments Marbles clone, the Behringer Chaos. In August, the brand’s JT-4000 Micro and the Kobol Expander were also made available officially.
Keep up with every synth, drum machine and sequencer being released or teased by Behringer by heading to musictech.com.
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BandLab rolls out new Airbit integration, allowing producers to share their beats with a far wider pool of creatorsStarting today (Monday 2 October), BandLab has begun rolling out new integrations with Airbit, the leading global beat marketplace it acquired back in February.
Users can now embed their beats directly in Bandlab posts from Airbit, allowing them to amplify their beats to a broader audience. Additionally, they can now benefit from BandLab Boost to promote their posts to trending feeds, meaning they can better tap into BandLab’s community of over 60 million creators.
“With a unified commitment to amplifying the reach and potential of music creators, this collaboration not only enhances the connection between beat creation, sharing, and promotion but also bridges the gap between sellers and buyers,” BandLab says.
Aside from native embeds on BandLab, Airbit users can now natively “Share to BandLab” any beat on Airbit’s catalogue of over 1 million beats which are available to licence or purchase.
Once this option is clicked, BandLab opens with the beat already embedded in a new post, resulting in a seamless process for producers looking to promote their creations.
As BandLab explains, native embeds are only available on web upon initial release, with mobile compatibility coming in future releases.
Last month, Airbit eliminated marketplace commissions, enhanced its free Basic plan, and made it possible for users to register with and log into Airbit using their BandLab account.
“Our goal has always been to empower creators by providing tools to amplify their voice and vision,” says Meng Ru Kuok, CEO & Co-founder of BandLab Technologies.
“This is just another step in bringing Airbit’s expansive beat marketplace to BandLab’s passionate community and a testament to our dedication to creating a seamless and rich ecosystem for creators worldwide.”
Wasim Khamlichi, CEO & Founder at Airbit, adds, “This is a monumental step for both Airbit and BandLab. Our objective remains clear as we continue to integrate – providing creators a platform where their work gets the spotlight it deserves.”
Airbit, which has over 800,000 users worldwide, has so far seen over 2 million beats sold, with producers collectively earning more than $50 million to date.
BandLab acquired the company earlier this year, in a union that was followed by a successful $25 million Series B1 funding round that raised BandLab’s valuation to $425 million post-money.
For more information, head to BandLab.
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Behringer’s Chaos, an analogue random sampler module, is now shippingBehringer is now shipping the Chaos Eurorack module, a random sampler that’s a replica of Mutable Instruments’ Marbles.

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Chaos is an analogue Eurorack module that lets you quickly experiment with unexpected sequences and sounds. It lets you create “intricate melodies, complex beats, and evolving soundscapes”, the brand says with control over clock speeds, trigger probabilities, CV scaling, and more.

The Chaos module consists of two sections: ‘t’ and ‘X’. The ‘t’ section generates synchronised random gates, while the ‘X’ section produces random voltages. Both sections are customisable, allowing the creation of unique sequences.
It fits seamlessly into standard Eurorack cases, connecting to the power supply and coexisting with other synth modules, making it an essential tool for modular synthesizer enthusiasts.
Behringer is a company synonymous with gear clones, such as the Behringer RD-8, a Roland TR-808 replica, and the Poly D, an affordable take on the classic Moog Model D synth. Keeping up this theme, Chaos is based on Mutable Instruments’ Marbles unit, a relatively modern product compared to Behringer’s other synths, drum machines and controllers.
Mutable Instruments sadly announced it was discontinuing its modules in April 2022 after its founder, Émilie Gillet, wrote in a forum, “I won’t design new modules and production is progressively stopping. Modules are marked as discontinued when the last shipment is sent to dealers. I can’t predict when it happens as it depends on how fast a batch is made, and how fast it gets sold. It might happen in a week, in a month or in a quarter. There is no easter egg, no plot twist, no teaser.”
Many of Behringer’s highly-anticipated products are starting to become available for shipping. In August, we saw the Kobol Expander synth, and Behringer’s “super portable” JT-4000 Micro synth officially launch.
Order your Chaos module via behringer.com.
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Get Yum Audio’s Spread Light FREE With Any Purchase @ ADSR Sounds
ADSR Sounds offers the Spread Light stereo enhancer plugin as a free add-in with any purchase this month. Spread Light by Yum Audio is a stereo enhancement plugin that has popped up on our radar several times over the last couple of years. The handy plugin has already been available as a freebie in several [...]
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Berghain has reportedly replaced its sound system after 20 years of serviceIconic Berlin venue Berghain has reportedly replaced its sound system, which had been in use for 20 years.
According to social media posts from enthusiasts of the nightclub, the new sound system offers a different formation and its output is leaving some attendees with mixed opinions.

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Berghain has a history for hosting an array of iconic artists through its vital sound system, as well as its 48hr parties, strict door policy and adult escapades. In October, Skrillex is set to perform at the venue for record label PAN’s 15th-anniversary party.
On X (formerly Twitter), DJ and producer Objekt shared that Berghain has undergone a big change in its sound system, writing: “Apparently Berghain have replaced their sound system. The old one put in 20 years of service, which means, assuming it was running 40 hours a week at an average of 135 bpm (always 4 to the floor, obviously), it played approximately 340 million kick drums during its lifetime.”

Apparently Berghain have replaced their soundsystem. The old one put in 20 years of service, which means, assuming it was running 40 hours a week at an average of 135bpm (always 4 to the floor, obviously), it played approximately 340 million kick drums during its lifetime
— Objekt (@keinobjekt) October 1, 2023

Others have taken to the r/Berghain_Community subreddit to share their thoughts on this reported change up. One user under the name of Fifth_geaR has weighed up the pros and cons of the new sound system from their perspective.
“Aesthetically they are not as sexy and iconic as the old dance stacks as they miss that peculiar ‘3 pieces’ shape with back protrusion in the central part and front tilt in the upper part,” they say. “Basically it’s now the bass cube at bottom, I think not as tall as before.”
They also shared that the top half now consists of two separate vertical rectangular speakers placed next to each other, and the overall shape of the stack from the side is now a two piece configuration. “The stacks are now rotated to all fire towards the centre of the floor in an X configuration and are no longer parallel to the walls and this impacts the layout,” they say.
“I’ve had moments of enthusiasm and moments of perplexity,” the user later explains, discussing how they feel about its new sound. “When I went past wardrobe and started climbing the stairs I felt a bold and louder than before bass, but when I arrived at BH floor that boominess disappeared and I felt it again only at the main bar.
“As first impressions I feel the sound is now more full and even on the left side of the floor, where standing in line with the stacks is really pleasurable for the mind and standing in line with the bass cabinet is as pleasurable for the body. On the right side of the floor I didn’t feel the same fullness or there seemed to be more zones where the sound experience was ‘flat’.”
View more in the subreddit below:
Berghain new sound system – “official” thread byu/Fifth_geaR inBerghain_Community

Keep up with the latest happenings at Berghain at the venue’s official website.
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Women in Music: Building a Strong Music Community for Gender EqualityFreelance writer and psychologist Amber Parkin dissects gender inequality in the music industry and how we can implement ways to empower women in music. by Amber Parkin for Byta Music. Continue reading
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How to add music to Instagram Photo CarouselsBack in August, Instagram announced users can now add music to photo carousels in their main profile grid! This post explains why this is cool for musicians and shows how. Continue reading
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#MUSICIANS: 5 tips for planning a successful tourPlanning a tour can be daunting, so this simple guide is just what you need to get on the road with less stress and on the way to more success.. Continue reading
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Kali Audio October Sales Kali Audio have announced the launch of two bundle offers running throughout October 2023.

Las Vegas Sphere opens its first show with U2 – and it’s a mind-melting cocktail of visual effects, to say the leastLast weekend marked a significant milestone in live entertainment as the long-awaited Las Vegas Sphere finally revealed itself to the public through two U2 shows that will absolutely blow your mind.

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The shows mark the first in a series of 25 performances U2 will be putting up at the venue through the end of December, all of which are centred around the band’s 1991 album, Achtung Baby.
As you can probably tell from the videos circulating online, the Sphere experience defies easy description: It’s immersive, disorienting, and borderline sensory-overloading for starters, given the massive high-resolution LED screens that wrap around the audience members like IMAX on steroids.
A review on CNN describes those wraparound screens as “impressive, and so dominant that it sometimes overwhelms the live performers.” The overall effect, though, is “both scale and intimacy”, as the projections alternate between close-ups of the band members — who performed on a Brian Eno-inspired turntable stage — and other trippy animations and optical effects.
While U2 were performing The Fly for example, the Sphere transformed into a wormhole-esque tunnel covered in colourful numbers and texts, with a ceiling that appeared ‘fall’ towards its audience. Mind-bending, to say the least.
The video below from TikTok user casinocompwallet also reveals what the LEDs look like up close. According to Sphere Entertainment, each of these 1.2 million LED pucks contains 48 individual diodes and is capable of displaying 256 million different colours.

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♬ original sound – The Vegaspaulyc show

With a price tag of $2.3 Billion, the Sphere is Las Vegas’ most expensive venue to date and is billed as the world’s largest spherical structure. At the time of writing, tickets to U2’s upcoming shows at the dome-shaped venue are still available for sale, with prices starting at around $500.
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Peter Gabriel says he was in the studio with Skrillex: “I think it is good for me to be taken outside my normal comfort zone sometimes”Peter Gabriel reveals that he’s spent time in the studio with DJ and producer Skrillex in the making of his new song This Is Home.

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Released as the tenth track from his upcoming album i/o, This Is Home is written and produced by Gabriel himself and is what the singer describes as ‘a love song’.
Speaking about the song’s making, Gabriel says that while Skrillex doesn’t feature on the final track, the artist was actually involved in some of the early brainstorming.
“I’d had a call from Skrillex, who’s a very talented musician, and I thought it would be interesting to see what he had in mind,” Gabriel says of their unexpected partnership. “So he came to my home studio and we sat down and talked and tried to evolve bits and pieces and it was mainly for this song.”
“He was trying to encourage me to write a song about staying up all night in a night club and that sort of thing, but that’s not really my life so I made it more about family and home and I like it.”
“Though we took the song in this other direction it was an interesting experience nonetheless, and I think it is good for me to be taken outside my normal comfort zone sometimes.”
In other news, Peter Gabriel has weighed in on the inevitability of AI in music, saying artists would do better to work with it than ignore its existence.
“I think it’s a bit like King Canute on the beach, unfortunately,” Gabriel told Uncut. “It’s coming. We’re only just building it. We have no idea what it’s going to achieve. I can’t think of anyone whose job couldn’t be done better by AI in 10 years’ time, maybe five.”
He added that “With some of the AI, half the artists want to play with it and half want to shut it down. But I think you do better if you work with a powerful new tool than just grumble or pretend it doesn’t exist.”

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Focal Bathys – true audiophile headphones with incredible perks, at a price£699, focal.com
French audio expert Focal has a proud history of designing high-end hi-fi speakers and pro audio monitoring systems. It also makes premium wired headphones. With the new Bathys, the brand finally steps into wireless terrain – but with a twist. The headphones boast a wireless option, a wired analogue connection and more unusually, a fully digital USB-C connection providing up to 24-bit, 192kHz listening.

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Focal is striving to cover all bases by offering the convenience of wireless and the fidelity of full-quality audio transmission. Their £699 price tag might seem extravagant but some of Focal’s other models cost over £4,000, and audiophile headphones rarely come at under £1,000. So what’s Focal’s play here?
The headphones come in a hard carrying case and are supplied with two 4-foot cables, one 3.5mm jack and one USB-C, which can also be used for charging. The Bathys’ battery life is impressive, with 30 hours of full noise cancelling playback, 35 hours over analogue connection (they still need to be powered on), and a stunning 42 hours when used in USB DAC mode. They’re fast-charge compatible too, so a 15-minute top-up will give you five hours of use; handy if you’ve forgotten to charge them before a journey.
Focal bills the Bathys as portable headphones and, while they don’t fold down to a very small size like some models, they certainly don’t feel bulky, weighing just 350g. The finish is excellent too, with an aluminium and magnesium frame, leather and microfibre headband, and soft, replaceable earpads. In use, they feel comfortable to wear even for long periods while also securely fitting to the head.
Focal Bathys headphones. Image: Sylvie Bessou
Google fast pairing is supported and the headphones sport Bluetooth 5.1 – it’s not the newest, but Bluetooth 5.2 and 5.3 standards mostly contain features that aren’t relevant for the Bathys. What it does provide is a signal range of up to 15 metres and, crucially, multipoint connectivity. The latter lets you switch between several different devices without re-pairing. So switching between a laptop and a smartphone, for example, is a seamless experience..
Happily, the Bathy’s companion app is relatively simple compared to the likes of Anker’s app, which packs a ton of tweaking options, hearing test personalisation and more. With the Bathys, it’s more straightforward. Noise cancelling can be set to off, ambient, medium or strong, and there’s also an EQ section with six adjustable bands of +/- 6dB. There are a couple of presets and you can also store your own.
The EQ here is quite subtle and while some competitors’ EQs produce fierce boosts or cuts, this one makes sympathetic changes. It’s nicely implemented and you may find a few small nudges will tailor the sound to your personal preferences.
The headphones have eight microphones built-in for making phone calls – where we find voice clarity to be excellent – and noise cancelling, which can be toggled either from the app or using buttons on the headphones.
Focal Bathys headphones. Image: Sylvie Bessou
A transparency mode lets some ambient sound through for when you’re using them while travelling, for example. Soundguys’ review found the noise cancelling less impressive, but we find the noise cancelling on the Silent setting to be immensely effective, helped by the over-ear design – sound isolation is comprehensive even in noisy environments. The medium cancelling setting works as described, though we find no real use for it.
The Bathys use 40mm drivers with a frequency response of 15Hz-22kHz, slightly wider than the 20Hz-20kHz found in many models. The sound reproduction is superb, exhibiting quite a revealing, neutral character. Like many of the best headphones, they stay true to the source material without colouring it in any appreciable way. Differences between albums, in terms of stereo separation, the loudness levels and so on, are quite apparent but that’s a positive – there are plenty of ‘phones that will simply approximate every track down to the same tonal shape for playback. The Bathys’ low end in particular is robust and rich without ever becoming boomy or overwhelming.
So what about connectivity? It’s there aplenty, but it’ll depend on your device. SBC, AAC, aptX Adaptive and aptX codecs are supported, but Apple products only support SBC and AAC; these sounded up to scratch in our tests. Switching to the 3.5mm wired connection sounded essentially the same except for a noticeable drop-off in the maximum volume achievable.
Turning to the USB-C connection and switching into DAC mode, you have to remember firstly to go into your computer’s audio settings and manually switch up the sample and bit rate for the headphones to use the maximum 24-bit/192kHZ option (by default, they run at 16-bit, 48kHz).
Focal Bathys headphones, Image: Sylvie Bessou
Remember also that you’ll only notice the full benefit if your source material reflects these high rates – lossless files, full-quality WAVs and even DAW projects that have been recorded at higher-quality settings. USB mode sounds impeccable, and when playing back lossless files we can discern a noticeable increase in the overall depth and sharpness of the playback.
The Bathys are excellent headphones that actually sit at the more affordable end of Focal’s lineup. In its review, Wired concurs that we’re sort of playing in a different league where Focal is concerned. They are relatively unusual in offering three methods for connection – wireless is commonplace but fewer wireless headphones have a wired option, and even then, it’s almost always analogue rather than digital. Apple’s ageing AirPods Max (£549) have an optional USB-C to Lightning cable though the Lightning standard is likely about to be phased out. Master and Dynamic’s MW75s come with USB-C to analogue and digital cables for up to 24-bit, 96kHz playback, also for £549. So you’ll pay a premium over those models for having this choice but, if you want it, you probably will do so willingly.
The Bathys straddle a line between premium consumer headphones – like Airpods Max – and the more rarefied arena of audiophile hi-fi, where people consider paying thousands for a product. They could be an entry point to the audiophile world, for people who appreciate excellent fidelity but aren’t ready to go all-in with a huge investment.
Sonically, these are gorgeous headphones. For the price, you will be serious about your audio and want the unusual offering of three different connection methods. They’re a taste of the higher end of the hi-fi world without the full cost of admission, and with enough tech to satisfy today’s listeners.
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