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Suno leans into customization with v5.5

Suno v5.5 enhances user control with new features: Voices, My Taste, and Custom Models for personalized AI music creation.

fromTechCrunch

Music production

ElevenLabs releases a new AI-powered music generation app | TechCrunch

ElevenLabs launched ElevenMusic, an iOS app for creating and discovering AI-generated music, aiming to expand beyond voice models and compete in the music space.

fromPitchfork

1 day ago

An Idiot's Guide to Music AI Companies

AI-generated music is rapidly growing, with major labels partnering with startups to create diverse genres and automate songwriting processes.

fromwww.scientificamerican.com

1 week ago

AI music is booming, and the player piano saw it coming

Listeners struggle to distinguish AI-generated music from human-made, indicating AI's serious role in the music industry.

Django

Suno leans into customization with v5.5

Suno v5.5 enhances user control with new features: Voices, My Taste, and Custom Models for personalized AI music creation.

fromTechCrunch

ElevenLabs releases a new AI-powered music generation app | TechCrunch

ElevenLabs launched ElevenMusic, an iOS app for creating and discovering AI-generated music, aiming to expand beyond voice models and compete in the music space.

more#ai-music

3 days ago

Casio Just Built a $270 Sampler the SK-1 Always Deserved - Yanko Design

The SXC-1 is built for serious work, running on a 16-bit/48kHz sampling engine with 64GB of onboard eMMC storage, supporting WAV, MP3, and FLAC files.

Gadgets

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2 weeks ago

Teenage Engineering might be getting into instrument amps next

Teenage Engineering's KO-Amp 35 is a new mid-range instrument amp with Bluetooth and a rechargeable battery, indicating a potential entry into budget guitar amps.

1 week ago

AKAI MPC for Nintendo Switch? This concept turns a gaming console into a live production rig - Yanko Design

The Akai MPC Switch concept transforms the Nintendo Switch into a music production tool, merging gaming and music creation capabilities.

fromThe Atlantic

2 weeks ago

The Guitar Sounds New Again

Mk.gee is a revolutionary guitarist whose debut album showcases innovative sounds, earning him recognition as a modern guitar hero.

Roland Go:Mixer Studio review: Portable, professional and plenty of polish

The Go:Mixer Studio offers premium features and design for portable audio recording, including multitrack output and onboard effects.

London music

fromPitchfork

Vince Clarke Launches New Analog Synth Covers Project

Vince Clarke collaborates with Neil Arthur and Benge for a covers album titled Doublespeak, featuring analog synth renditions of various classic songs.

fromFast Company

3 weeks ago

The future of music is human-generated

The music industry's value is shifting from songs to the human connection behind performances as AI-generated music becomes abundant.

The Korg Handytraxx Play finally got me learning to scratch

The Korg Handytraxx Play enables easy scratching and sampling in a compact, portable design.

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Gadgets

The $399 MPC Sample Finally Makes Beatmaking Beautifully Portable - Yanko Design

Gadgets

portable retrofuturistic sampler plays tracks through embedded speaker for on-the-go DJ set

Gadgets

Akai just released a portable and relatively budget-friendly MPC sampler

The $399 MPC Sample Finally Makes Beatmaking Beautifully Portable - Yanko Design

The MPC Sample combines portability and functionality, drawing inspiration from the iconic MPC60 while offering modern features for music production.

portable retrofuturistic sampler plays tracks through embedded speaker for on-the-go DJ set

MPC Sample is a portable sampler with retro design, built-in microphone, and over 100 drum kits for on-the-go music creation.

Akai just released a portable and relatively budget-friendly MPC sampler

Akai's MPC Sample is a portable sampler and groovebox with advanced features and a retro design, catering to music creators and finger drummers.

Kraftwerk Announce 50th Anniversary Reissue of Radio-Activity

Kraftwerk releases a 50th anniversary reissue of Radio-Activity in three formats with new Dolby Atmos mix, accompanied by their first UK and Ireland tour in nine years.

Synth Modular Controller Treats Music Making Like Building with Blocks - Yanko Design

A modular synth system uses snap-together physical blocks for each function, making synthesis tangible, teachable, and scalable from beginner toy to serious performance instrument.

fromTechCrunch

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model | TechCrunch

Google released Lyria 3 Pro, allowing users to create longer music tracks with enhanced customization and control compared to Lyria 3.

fromOpen Culture

Meet the "Telharmonium," the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897

Cahill invented the Telharmonium, also known as the Dynamaphone, to broadcast music over the telephone, making it a precursor to what we know today as 'Muzak.'

Music production

#ai-music-generation

fromTNW | Music

Artificial intelligence

Google's new music tool, Lyria 3 is here

Google's Lyria 3 Pro can now generate AI music (slop) up to 3 minutes in length

Google's Lyria 3 Pro generates full three-minute songs with enhanced customization and understanding of musical composition.

fromEntrepreneur

Music production

AI Is Changing Music Production - But It Can't Fill Creative Gaps

fromTNW | Music

Artificial intelligence

Google's new music tool, Lyria 3 is here

Google's Lyria 3 Pro can now generate AI music (slop) up to 3 minutes in length

Google's Lyria 3 Pro generates full three-minute songs with enhanced customization and understanding of musical composition.

fromEntrepreneur

Music production

AI Is Changing Music Production - But It Can't Fill Creative Gaps

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vintage reel-to-reel tape player returns as modern wooden synthesizer by love hulten

A wooden RGB synthesizer combines vintage reel-to-reel visual cues with stepper-motor-driven red, green, and blue rotating discs and three stacked keyboard rows.

Google Lyria 3 Pro makes longer AI songs

Google's Lyria 3 music-making AI now creates tracks up to three minutes long with enhanced features for user control and integration with other Google products.

fromDesign Milk

The Harmoni Guitar From Openhagen Taps in to Our Need to Riff

The Harmoni guitar blends hand-tuned mahogany craftsmanship, rosewood and D'Addario components, and sustainable upcycled accessories with a magnetic stand for accessible, balanced playing.

The secret story of the vocoder, the military tech that changed music forever

The vocoder was never supposed to be a revolution in music. Its development began a century ago, when an engineer at Bell Labs was looking for a simpler way to send phone calls across copper telephone lines.

Music production

Ableton Live is adding audio streaming for real-time musical collaboration

Ableton's Link Audio enables real-time audio streaming collaboration over local networks but is limited to audio and has restricted device support.

Roland's $299 Pocket-Sized Audio Interface Was Designed Specifically For TikTok and Instagram Music Creators - Yanko Design

Portable mixer delivers studio-grade 24-bit/192kHz recording, onboard EQ, compression, reverb, battery power, and compact design tailored for livestreaming creators.

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Gadgets

Tembo is a playful drum machine that thinks it's a checkerboard

Tembo might just be the world's cutest drum machine

Musical Beings unveiled Tembo, a drum machine using magnetic pucks for tactile beat sequencing, designed to make music creation accessible to beginners while offering professional features for experienced musicians.

Gadgets

Tembo is a playful drum machine that thinks it's a checkerboard

Tembo might just be the world's cutest drum machine

Quad Cortex mini amp modeler: All the power, half the size

Neural DSP uses machine learning and impulse response technology to create lifelike guitar amp modeling software and hardware that replaces thousands of dollars worth of traditional gear.

fromWIRED

These Hackers Are Turning Dead Vapes Into Musical Synthesizers

We started from a very silly place,

Gadgets

chess-like instrument mixes drum machine, sequencer and sampler in one wooden device

Tembo is a wooden drum machine, sequencer, and sampler that uses magnetic pieces placed on a grid to create and manipulate rhythmic patterns and sounds.

fromWIRED