#music tech

The $1.4 Billion ‘No-Brainer’ Opportunity The Music Industry Is Missing

Soundtrack, the music streamer used by restaurants and retailers globally, estimates billions are lost in revenue every year in the U.S. from businesses that unwittingly stream music illegally.

Billboard · EN

Mixxx could unlock free and open standalone DJing — but, like, stable

Daniel Schürmann of the long-running libre/free DJ software project Mixxx has a compelling proposal for uniting efforts to develop their DJ software on embedded hardware, from emerging cheap "open" hardware to DIY projects. It could mean a chance for openness to have a moment -- while avoiding the chaotic slop of countless separate forks and hacks. The post Mixxx could unlock free and open standalone DJing — but, like, stable appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN

NI’s new Massive XL is nicely overstuffed but easier to morph, mutate, and play

What do you get the music synth user who's got everything? Here's what: mutation and generation options that actually lead you into more tweaking, not away from it. Plus goodies from the original Massive and PPG, and some of our favorite NI effects. Massive XL feels like the sequel Massive X wanted to be. Here's a first hands-on -- at just the right time, with a $99 intro price. The post NI’s new Massive XL is nicely overstuffed but easier to morph, mutate, and play appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN

HAND is a Eurorack module that is also a disembodied crawling hand

As a firm believer in technosolutionism, I am here to tell you, authoritatively, that you need a disembodied glowing hand that creeps around your house and plays spooky music. Not want. Need. Those who do not buy this disembodied hand will surely be left behind, or at least it will crawl after you. Instrument builder and inventor Gijs Gieskes is back at it again. The post HAND is a Eurorack module that is also a disembodied crawling hand appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN

XEN FX LAB: sequel to Zen Delay adds tweakable spring tank, dub mode

XEN FX LAB is a follow-up to a software hit (and hardware, before that), adding a modeled spring reverb, strike for "knocking" the virtual tank, and a dub button for adding dub-style throws, plus significant performance optimizations all round. And yeah, it's time for more wild drones and dubs and echoes and the lot. macOS, Windows; VST3, AU, standalone; also on iOS. The post XEN FX LAB: sequel to Zen Delay adds tweakable spring tank, dub mode appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN

Mangle everything: modulated mayhem in circuit-bent Sinevibes Malfunction v3

This is why you get intimate with code, line by line. Artemiy at Sinevibes obsessed over details, breaking a filter model by rewiring its internal connections -- and now, with v3, giving it precise modulation in a wide variety of shapes. Now, like kids kicking over a sandcastle, we can take that handiwork and apply it to total, absolute destruction. The post Mangle everything: modulated mayhem in circuit-bent Sinevibes Malfunction v3 appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN

sndstation will transform cheap gaming consoles into music handhelds

Cheap handheld gaming consoles now often pack surprising processing power. But many risk ending up as e-waste. A new open-source project is turning them into powerful Linux music workstations, instead, complete with the ability to run plug-ins—and original games, too. Oh, and the project has some familiar faces involved. Here's an exclusive first look. The post sndstation will transform cheap gaming consoles into music handhelds appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN