Spotify has achieved a historic milestone in 2024, reporting its first annual profit since its 2008 launch with a net income of €1.14 billion, record-breaking user growth reaching 675 million monthly active users.
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In 2016, Bob Dylan became the first musician to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for transforming songwriting into profound poetic expression with classics like Blowin’ in the Wind and The Times They Are A-Changin’.
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Billie Eilish's "Birds of a Feather" reached new heights just before the start of the new year, as the Hit Me Hard and Soft track was named Spotify's most-streamed song of 2024.
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Retired officer uncovered a remarkable find in a Van Nuys storage unit. The unit, once owned by producer Bryan Loren—who collaborated with icons like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston—contained rare tapes and cassettes.
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Sonible has launched prime:vocal, an AI-driven software designed to enhance and clean vocal recordings.
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Kevin Parker of Tame Impala has introduced a groundbreaking new instrument called Orchid with Telephathic Instruments. Available for $549, Orchid launches on December 18, promising to be a versatile and creative tool for musicians.
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Sony Music is sending the letter to AI companies and streaming platforms, urging them to implement best practice protocols safeguarding artists, songwriters, and their music from unauthorized scraping, mining, and training by AI developers.
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Sonarworks has launched SoundID VoiceAI, the inaugural AI voice changer plugin for your DAW, which transforms vocal tracks to mimic entirely different voices. (📷: Sonarworks)
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Spotify has announced it's adding video learning content to its streaming platform, including music instrument learning, performance, and music production tutorials.
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Hardwell released a producer pack for the iOS versions of GarageBand and Logic Pro for iPad.
youtu.be/hrZz_MHzIBw
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British artist James Blake has launched Vault, a streaming platform that connects artists directly with their fans for the release of unreleased music.
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Forever 89 have released their first product, a sample-modelling drum machine, Visco.
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TikTok has introduced SoundOn, a new music distribution platform, changing the way artists share their music and connect with global audiences.
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The Laboratory of Music Informatics (LIM) at Milan University in Italy has unveiled a set of free plugins created by students enrolled in the 'Development of Technologies for Music Production' course.
Free Plugins: www.lim.di.unimi.it/demo_vst_eng...
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Hearth and Hollow Plucked Folk Ensemble, a library of deeply sampled acoustic folk instruments, has been launched by Spitfire Audio in collaboration with Hunter Rogerson.
More info: www.spitfireaudio.com/hearth-and-h...
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Oeksound has launched a new plugin called Bloom, an adaptive tone shaper.
youtu.be/D5QSPr9hlK0
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Spotify has begun to roll out music videos feature from a select catalog for Premium users in the U.K., Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Brazil, Colombia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Kenya.
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iZotope has unveiled its iconic distortion engine, Trash, featuring a completely redesigned interface and boasting over 600 distortion types and impulse responses.
More info: www.izotope.com/en/products/...
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Analog Obsession has launched a free saturation plugin MoMa.
More info: www.patreon.com/analogobsess...
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Avid has just released Pro Tools 2024.3. This version introduces several new features, including MIDI effects plug-ins, tailored live re-renders for integrated Dolby Atmos, compatibility with macOS Sonoma, and a variety of fixes and enhancements.
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Watch Grammy Award-winning producer Jack Antonoff's interview with Zane Lowe at Electric Lady Studios on Apple Music.
youtu.be/_uNQKMmNf8g
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Factoid 2, released by Anemond, employs machine learning to divide sounds into separate layers. These layers can then be remixed and randomized, producing thousands of rhythmic and melodic variations from any sample or loop.
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Sony Computer Science Laboratories has created an AI bassline generator that responds to the style and tonality of the music you input.
Research Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2402.01412
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Ableton has recently released Live 12, featuring lots of new features.(📷: Ableton)
More info: ableton.com/live
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Roland and Serato are jointly celebrating this year with a double control vinyl set that pays tribute to both the classic TB-303 Bass Line and the TR-606 drum machine. (📷: Roland & Serato)
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DataMind Audio has revealed the Combobulator, which resynthesizes incoming audio through neural networks to recreate the style of other artists using your own sounds.
youtu.be/TJr9BY7HLdQ
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Suno AI, a music generation tool, has released version 3 Alpha for premium users.
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Google recently released an update for its generative text-to-music AI, MusicFX, allowing users to layer and mix music generated from multiple text prompts into a single evolving composition.
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Adobe has revealed upcoming project Music GenAI Control, a new prototype tool that will be able to create music from text prompts as well as reference melodies.
youtu.be/J6jhWyU5lBY
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xMEMS showcased its audio chip, Cypress, which utilizes ultrasonic waves. This new ultrasonic audio chip could pave the way for digital headphones with improved noise cancellation and spatial audio capabilities. (📷: xMEMS)
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