Klevgrand dropped their wildest plugin yet, and Parrot basically chops up live audio into tiny bits before looping them through a step sequencer that can spit out anything from light groove tweaks to total digital chaos. The thing grabs sound on the fly, lets you mess with pitch and volume for each of the 16 steps, and can either lock to your DAW tempo or just run wild on its own time.
The plugin packs a resonant filter, panning tricks that follow the sequence pattern, and a humanize function that loosens up the timing so it sounds less robotic. There's also a randomize button that throws different pitch and direction values at each step if you want controlled mayhem, plus a separate filter just for the dry signal coming in.
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A bunch of opposition party leaders from POLAD just announced they want back into Zanu PF after spending years outside the ruling party. The group's acting spokesperson, Welcome Shumba, told a crowd at party headquarters in Harare that 17 political outfits are ready to rejoin because they believe President Mnangagwa's economic plans will actually work for the country's Vision 2030 goals.
The Political Commissar said the returning members need to hit up the Chitepo School of Ideology first to learn party principles before they get fully welcomed back. Apparently, around 437,000 opposition members have already made the switch in recent years, and the party sees this as proof that everyone's picking Zanu PF as their preferred choice.
Zimbabwe's president is wrapping up the year with his final cabinet session at State House in Harare as the government shifts gears from its first national development plan to the next phase. The economy apparently hit 6.6 percent growth, and they just wrapped up their best wheat harvest ever at over 640,000 metric tonnes, marking three straight years without needing imports.
The government got some major infrastructure done like finishing that massive traffic interchange in Harare that used to be a nightmare roundabout, and they expanded the international airport to handle more passengers. They also kept their new currency stable with tight monetary policy, upgraded key highways connecting trade routes, and ditched the death penalty...
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe wants out of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, and the telco plans to break off its towers and real estate into a separate company called Econet Infrastructure Company Limited before listing that new entity on the US dollar-based Victoria Falls Stock Exchange instead. The board says the company trades at a massive discount compared to other African telecoms that have already split up their infrastructure assets, which apparently get valued way higher when they're standalone businesses.
Shareholders who don't want to hold stock in a private company can bail out through a voluntary exit deal that pays partly in cash and partly in shares of the new infrastructure spinoff. Econet will keep 70 percent of the...
Artists Rights Enforcement Corporation is going after Dionne Warwick in federal court, saying the 85-year-old legend is trying to dodge payments that could hit millions of dollars. The firm claims it set up the deal that let Doja Cat sample Walk On By for Paint the Town Red back in 2023, and it says Warwick is attempting to cut them out after decades of handling her royalty collections.
The company says it worked under a 2002 agreement that gave them half of whatever they recovered from her Scepter Records catalog, and they claim they bumped up her royalty distributions by about 60 times what she was getting before. They say they covered legal costs for her Warner Bros. lawsuit, fixed her dormant Sony account after a tax lien mess, and...
Mirelo, a Berlin startup, just closed a $41 million seed round from Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz to build AI models that generate sound effects for videos. The company was founded by CJ Simon-Gabriel and Florian Wenzel, who both did AI research at Amazon Web Services Labs before launching the startup in 2023.
The team claims their tech can pump out matching audio for video content in seconds, which beats the traditional method of digging through stock libraries for hours. They recently dropped Mirelo SFX v1.5, and they say it uses way less computing power than typical large language models while delivering better quality than competitors.
Simon-Gabriel wants Mirelo to become the audio layer for everything visual, from gaming...
Uganda just threw a whole day-long workshop where almost 40 current and retired athletes got schooled on money management, business fundamentals, and keeping their heads straight after competitive careers wind down. Stanbic Business Incubator teamed up with Legends Marathon to run sessions covering investment vehicles like unit trusts, mental wellness support, and how to stop mixing personal cash with business funds at their Kololo spot.
Two-time Commonwealth gold medalist Moses Kipsiro admitted he learned the hard way about making dumb investment choices when money was flowing, and he runs a training camp with over 50 young runners who could benefit from this knowledge. Rugby star Winnie Atyang Alexander said the bond investment...
Zimbabwe's opposition heavyweight Nelson Chamisa basically told the ruling party they can shove their constitutional amendments where the sun doesn't shine after ZANU-PF tried pushing through plans to keep President Emmerson Mnangagwa in office past his term limit. The former Citizens Coalition for Change boss warned authorities against playing games with the country's founding document at a charity event in Harare, and he claimed Zimbabweans could freeze the entire nation if politicians keep messing around with term extensions.
Some people are side-eyeing Chamisa, though, because his dinner went off without police interference, while other opposition figures like Job Sikhala got their events shut down by security forces. Critics keep...
Uganda's police spokesperson, Rusoke Kituuma, told reporters his officers keep trying not to gas crowds but reminded everyone that cops have legal authority to break up rowdy political gatherings when safety gets sketchy. He confirmed security forces grabbed a priest recently after the military put out their statement about it, and he pushed back against claims that police target specific politicians or their supporters during campaign events.
The force deployed every available officer across the country because voting season overlapped with holiday chaos, but Kituuma refused to specify which units got assigned where. Tear gas gets deployed when crowds turn aggressive, and he stressed the goal stays focused on letting everyone campaign...
