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AFEM Joins Call for Artist Consent in AI Music Deals

AFEM has signed the EMMA-led joint industry statement calling for artists and songwriters to retain meaningful consent, control, transparency and fair compensation in AI music deals.

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AFEM Joins Call for Artist Consent in AI Music Deals

AFEM has signed the EMMA-led joint industry statement calling for artists and songwriters to retain meaningful consent, control, transparency and fair compensation in AI music deals.

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ReFX Releases Rippler Synthesizer

Rippler brings together dual-layer physical modelling with subtractive synthesis, deep modulation, effects and performance controls

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AFEM Endorses EMMA-Led Call for Artist Consent in AI Music Deals

AFEM has signed the EMMA-led joint industry statement calling for artists and songwriters to retain meaningful consent, control, transparency and fair compensation in AI music deals.

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ReFX Rippler: Advanced Physical Modelling Synthesizer

Rippler brings together dual-layer physical modelling with subtractive synthesis, deep modulation, effects and performance controls

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AFEM signs EMMA-led call for artist consent in AI music deals

AFEM has signed the EMMA-led joint industry statement calling for artists and songwriters to retain meaningful consent, control, transparency and fair compensation in AI music deals.

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ReFX Releases Rippler Synthesizer with Physical Modelling

Rippler brings together dual-layer physical modelling with subtractive synthesis, deep modulation, effects and performance controls

Feature AFEM

AFEM Endorses Call for Artist Consent in AI Music Deals

AFEM has signed the EMMA-led joint industry statement calling for artists and songwriters to retain meaningful consent, control, transparency and fair compensation in AI music deals.

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ReFX Releases Rippler Plugin with Advanced Physical Modelling

Rippler brings together dual-layer physical modelling with subtractive synthesis, deep modulation, effects and performance controls

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Karol G Invites Listeners to Embrace the Dramatic with New Album

The Colombian artist’s sixth studio album arrives on Aug. 7.

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Karol G Invites ‘Everyone To Be A Little More Dramatic, A Little More Extra’ With New Album ‘No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto’

The Colombian artist’s sixth studio album arrives on Aug. 7.

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ReFX Launches Rippler Synthesizer with Advanced Physical Modeling

Rippler brings together dual-layer physical modelling with subtractive synthesis, deep modulation, effects and performance controls

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Jenni Pfaff promoted to Chief People and Transformation Officer at HYBE.

In this week's Executive Turntable, Sony Music Publishing, K-LOVE and Secretly Distribution are among those to hire and promote people to senior roles.

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Executive Turntable: HYBE Elevates Jenni Pfaff to Chief People and Transformation Officer

In this week's Executive Turntable, Sony Music Publishing, K-LOVE and Secretly Distribution are among those to hire and promote people to senior roles.

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Review of Ariana Grande's New Album

On her eighth studio album, Grande reaches for darker, more experimental territory, but uneven writing and restrained vocals prevent it from fulfilling its promise. Ariana Grande’s petal Never Fully B

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Dangerous Music Makes BAX Earn Its Plugin

The easy version of this story is that Dangerous Music has turned the BAX EQ into a plugin. That undersells the actual tension. Plenty of hardware brands have moved classic studio boxes into software. Sometimes it works. Sometimes the plugin becomes a convenient approximation with the name, the face

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PRAANA Talk Insight Out, Presence, And Looking Inward

PRAANA (@praanamusic) return with Insight Out, their second studio album, out now on Colorize. The 16-track project follows 2023’s Supernal Dawn and pushes Chad Cisneros and Dave Reed further into the reflective, melodic side of progressive house, where glowing synth work, hypnotic grooves, a

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Ariana Grande’s petal Never Fully Blooms: Review

On her eighth studio album, Grande reaches for darker, more experimental territory, but uneven writing and restrained vocals prevent it from fulfilling its promise. Ariana Grande’s petal Never Fully Blooms: Review Kofi Mframa

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Best Desktop Studio Monitors For Producers Working In Small Rooms

The best desktop studio monitors for small rooms need to solve a problem that monitor companies have ignored for years. Producers are creating music in bedroom corners and converted home offices, yet many speakers are still designed around longer listening distances and rooms with dedicated acoustic

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Best Granular Plugins For Electronic Music: What I Use When A Sound Needs To Become Something New

Best granular plugins for electronic music are worth covering on their own because granular processing solves a specific kind of production problem. Sometimes I do not need another reverb, another delay, or another synth preset. I need one sound to break apart, smear, freeze, repeat, stretch, or tur