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“We hate AI slop. We don't want the fun to be taken out of music making": We tried to vibe code a custom looper pedal with Polyend Endless – here's what happened

Polyend founder Piotr Raczyński explains the tech behind the company's eye-catching effects pedal and its text-to-code ...
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"The first thing, Maurice walked in and said 'You're the guys who stole our song!' He was just joking – he said, 'Thanks for making us cool again!'”: Kevin O’Toole ...

Best known for Set You Free, their ‘90s rave anthem, electronic music outfit N-Trance also had a string of hits with adapted ...
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Relive the golden era of the DX7, Jupiter-8 and Prophet V with this mega-pack of free '80s synth samples

The '80s was a transformative period for music, spawning countless artists and sounds that remain vastly influential in the ...
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“You shouldn't even know about that. I’d rather not speak about it”: The contentious origin of the David Guetta monolith that brought Sia to mainstream attention

In 2011, Titanium was inescapable, but its many millions of listeners probably didn’t know that its powerhouse Sia vocal was ...
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I just stumbled on a treasure trove of free glitch plugins

Inear Display has generously made its entire catalogue of audio tools available as pay-what-you-want downloads ...
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“The perfect marriage of brilliance and brute force”: With high-output humbuckers, an onboard Lumen Filter, compound radius fingerboards and a contoured body, Gr…

Meet the Jet with the Luminlay markers, the contoured body, the Twin Six humbuckers and a filter for percussive high-gain ...
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“Our determination to achieve a sustainable future is strengthened and energised by your support”: Native Instruments releases update on insolvency proceedings

CEO Nick Williams writes that the company has seen “strong interest from multiple parties with deep roots in audio and ...
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“Who would have thought we'd be having full Ableton running on an iPhone chip? That's kind of crazy”: The first reviews of the MacBook Neo are in, and it looks like g…

Producer L Dre is one of several YouTubers who have been taking the machine for a spin. In his video, we see him firing up ...
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“The truth is that a 12-year-old girl pre-sold her creative output before she knew what it would be like, and before she knew what she was signing away”: Lorde confirms ...

Her previous contract expired at the end of 2025, and she says that she now has a feeling “of openness and possibility” ...
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“You’d have Mark talking about strings, Our Kid talking about amplifiers. Whereas me and Bez would just walk in and be ourselves. So nobody wanted to talk to them”: Shaun ...

“You’d have Mark (Day, guitarist) talking about strings, or Our Kid (Paul Ryder, bass) really trying to be the pseudo-intellectual, talking about amplifiers. Whereas me and Bez would just walk in and ...
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“I would have to do the mental work… I think I could find it in myself”: Miley Cyrus says that, although she “loves and misses live shows,” she still has no plans to ...

Miley Cyrus hasn’t embarked on a major world tour since 2014, when she performed in support of her Bangerz album, but unfortunately for her fans, it sounds like she still has no plans to go out on the ...
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“That was a Juno-DS keyboard – it was literally plugged into Logitech computer speakers, not running into a board or an interface even”: Jim-E Stack reveals the lo-fi ...

That project was co-produced by Vernon with Jim-E Stack, a producer and songwriter that's previously worked with Lorde, HAIM, and Caroline Polachek. In a new episode of Mix with t ...