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"A massive expansion of its abilities as a modulation and automation powerhouse": Bitwig Studio 6 review

This sizeable update to Bitwig Studio expands on its strengths, and locks it in as the creative sound designer’s ultimate home base

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Bad Gyal Talks New Album ‘Más Cara,’ Fangirling Over Rihanna & Meeting Bad Bunny, All Over KBBQ | Takes Us Out

Bad Gyal opens up about the meaning behind ‘Más Cara’ and her journey from underground artist to global star at Cote Miami. She shares the recording session with Chencho at Luny Tunes' studio in Puerto Rico, the emotional story behind the Jadiel remix, her sisterhood with Tokischa, and reflects on h

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Baby Audio Turns Granular Synthesis Into a More Playable Tool With Grainferno

Baby Audio is stepping further into instrument design with Grainferno, a new granular synthesizer that turns samples into playable source material for synthesis, texture design, and more unstable digital experiments. It releases March 11, 2026, and from the way the company is positioning it, this fe

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Get a FREE Bitwig 6 8-Track license exclusively with MusicRadar

To mark this week’s release of the latest version of Bitwig Studio, we’re offering MusicRadar readers a limited supply of codes for the 8-Track version of the DAW. But be quick!

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John Legend & Mike Jackson Join 'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' Broadway Producing Team: 'It Takes a Beloved Musical & Infuses It With a New Cultural Energy'

The EGOT winner & Tony-winning producer are headed to Broadway's buzziest ball.

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William Orbit’s three Grammys broken in transit by DHL: “A heap of brass and plastic”

The producer earned the awards for his work with Madonna

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Gotobeat’s AI tech helped it sell over 150k tickets in 2025

We reported on startup Gotobeat’s funding round in April 2024, after the AI-powered ticketing firm had sold more than 30k tickets in London the previous year. Now it has provided an update on its growth, announcing that it sold more than 150k tickets in 2025, adding that its business saw 400% growth

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‘Playful’ music instrument Tembo smashes Kickstarter target

Stick with us on this one… what if music sequencers were more like boardgames? Tembo is a new device bringing a draughts / backgammon aesthetic to electronic music-making. Described as “a playful magnetic step sequencer + sampler”, it launched on crowdfunding website Kickstarter yesterday with a del

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‘The Legend Of Zelda’ soundtrack turned into classical hits for new remix album

The 16-track release is also coming to vinyl

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How Daft Punk’s ‘Discovery’ reshaped dance music for the digital age

Released on 12th March 2001, ‘Discovery’ remains Daft Punk's most visionary work. Blending disco grooves and vocoded hooks with pop, soul and soft rock flourishes, the album rewired dance music for the digital age, set new benchmarks for production, and unveiled the duo’s now-iconic robot personas.

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Quentin Tarantino announces “swashbuckling epic” play ‘The Popinjay Cavalier’

The production is coming to the West End in 2027

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Kim Gordon – ‘Play Me’ review: the godmother of alt-rock fearlessly turns to beats

Life begins at 72 as the Sonic Youth icon deconstructs these doom-scrolling times via a trip-hop driven nightmare

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“I have a little bit of a love-hate relationship with my Prophet ’08”: Art School Girlfriend on the synths, software and studio secrets behind new project Lean In

Download the stems for Art School Girlfriend's track The Peaks and create your own remix

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Selena Quintanilla's Sister Sues Shein Over Knockoff Merch Bearing Late Singer's Likeness

The lawsuit alleges the e-commerce giant is infringing multiple Selena-related trademarks owned by Suzette Quintanilla and her company, Q Productions.

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Excite Audio announces latest sample-based synth, Evolve Air

The ambient-friendly soft synth is inspired by the likes of Tim Hecker, Jon Hopkins and Brian Eno

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Bad Bunny beats copyright lawsuit over 'Enséñame a Bailar' sample

Producer's copyright claim over 'Un Verano Sin Ti' track ends in dismissal. Source

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Live Nation Settlement, Dionne Warwick Lawsuit, Bad Bunny Victory & More Top Music Law News

In this week's Legal Beat newsletter, Live Nation cuts a deal, Dionne strikes back, Bad Bunny wins a case and much more.

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“A lot of people got a hard drive full of music and they don’t know how to finish… just tell everybody, ‘Hey, that’s what I got – hope you like it!’”: Watch Saba, No ID and Jimmy Douglass build a track from scratch

The next edition of Universal Audio's Apollo Creators series documents Chicagoan rapper Saba's free-flowing session with two veteran producers

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Bad Bunny Wins Dismissal of Sample-Clearance Lawsuit

Nigerian artist Dera and his label failed to pursue their claim over “Enséñame a Bailar”

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Bitwig Studio 6 is here with improved automation, Clip Aliases and tons of workflow enhancements

Promising users a "big step up", Bitwig Studio 6 builds on core DAW functions to help music-making become faster and more intuitive