Fresh distortion just landed, and it is clearly trying to tempt sound designers into twisting everything in sight.
InShaper targets music and post users
Sound Particles built inShaper for music and post-production creators.
The plug-in wraps wild distortion tricks inside a clean interface.
Single mode sticks to one curve for tighter shaping.
Dual mode layers two curves for thicker, weirder textures.
Curve engine and modulation tricks
InShaper packs over 65 selectable shaping curves.
Users tweak Drive, Modifier, Bias, and Gain for tone control.
An onboard LFO moves parameters for evolving grit.
Tempo sync locks modulation to the DAW’s groove.
Extra sound design flexibility
Drive can link with Gain to keep levels steady.
Separate...
A fresh Live 12.4 beta just flipped the script on how Ableton users move audio around their setups.
Link Audio shakes up routing
Ableton Live 12.4 Beta lets users pass audio across a local network in real time.
Link Audio pipes external sound straight into Live as an input.
Latency fixes handle themselves, and extra gear stays on the shelf.
Other apps show up inside the session without messy wiring.
Erosion and device tweaks
Ableton refreshed Erosion and dropped it onto Move and Note.
Push users get live spectrum visuals and smoother modulation blending.
A new Erosion device replaces the old one, which sits as Erosion Legacy.
Chorus-Ensemble and Delay both snag deeper modulation controls.
Stem Separation and Learn View
Version...
A fiddly piano miking headache just got shrink-wrapped into a grab-and-go stereo kit.
DPK2015 targets piano capture pain
DPA Microphones packaged two 2015 Wide Cardioid Microphones together.
Bundle carries the DPK2015 Piano Stereo Kit name.
Setup aims to speed up piano recording jobs.
Kit claims tighter imaging than typical plug-and-play rigs.
The mounting system keeps things stable
DPA Microphones built it around a matched 2015 pair.
Custom mounts lock mics in place without rattling.
Goosenecks allow quick placement with the lid open or shut.
The whole rig can be positioned within minutes.
Sound focus stays natural
DPA Microphones tuned it for balanced stereo spread.
Engineers get detail across soft classical passages.
Jazz and...
A giant touchscreen just barged into the audio interface lane and made tiny knobs look prehistoric.
Touch 8 goes full touchscreen flex
Icon Pro Audio just rolled out the Touch 8 interface.
The company built it around a 10 inch multi touch LCD.
The screen shows virtual faders that slide with light taps.
Buttons respond with soft presses from any viewing angle.
Hands-on control without menu diving
Icon Pro Audio is packed in 15 segment-level meters.
Each channel gets a minus 20 dB pad.
Input switching flips between mic, line, and instrument.
Phantom power and polarity flip per channel.
Connectivity leans studio ready
Icon Pro Audio fitted four Neutrik XLR TRS combos.
The rear panel carries four quarter-inch TRS outputs.
ADAT ports...
Turning a cult pedal into a DAW plug-in just handed producers a freaky reverb lab without touching hardware.
Virtual NightSky lands in DAWs
Strymon ported the NightSky pedal into software form.
NightSky plug in mirrors its hardware twin completely.
Developers pitched it as a wild reverb lab.
Sound designers get deep tweak options right away.
Reverb engine goes off script
Strymon NightSky lets users bend pitch inside the reverb.
Parameters adjust pitch, processing speed, and virtual space size.
Incoming audio gets twisted by scale-locked shifts.
A resonant filter bank reshapes tone with moving waveforms.
Three texture modes shape space
Strymon NightSky ships with Sparse, Dense, and Diffuse modes.
Sparse mode spaces echo wide apart...
Revenue shot up while profits fell off a cliff at HYBE, even as concerts almost caught up with recorded music for the first time.
Revenue up, margins crushed
HYBE posted 2.65 trillion KRW in FY 2025 revenue.
That equals about 1.86 billion dollars.
Operating profit slid 72.9% to 49.9 billion KRW.
Operating margin shrank from 8.2% to 1.9%.
EBITDA takes a hit
EBITDA landed at 154 billion KRW.
That figure dropped 47% year over year.
Profitability weakened despite strong topline growth.
Filing covered both Q4 and full-year 2025.
Concerts nearly match recorded music
Concerts generated 763.9 billion KRW in 2025.
Recorded music brought in 773.0 billion KRW.
The gap between the two lines was just 9 billion KRW.
In 2023, recorded music far...
China’s indie scene just flooded one platform as NetEase Cloud Music crossed one million direct artist signings and pumped up profits hard in 2025.
Indie army tops one million
NetEase Cloud Music reported over 1 million indie artists.
Those creators uploaded more than 5.6 million tracks.
August 2025 showed 819,000 artists on the roster.
As of the end of 2022 counted 611,000 independent acts.
Subscription and music revenue climb
Subscription income rose 13.3% to RMB 5.1 billion.
Online music services generated RMB 6.0 billion.
Monthly ARPPU dipped due to subscriber mix changes.
The company said retention and activity levels improved.
Profit jumps despite revenue dip
Total revenue slipped 2.4% to RMB 7.8 billion.
Social...
A 180 million dollar merch bet is getting flipped as Warner Music Group moves to unload EMP and tighten its grip on core music assets.
EMP was put on the auction block
Warner Music Group signed a non-binding letter to sell EMP.
Filing says the unit sits inside the Recorded Music segment.
The company labeled EMP as held for sale.
Closing is targeted for fiscal Q2 2026.
Impairments and timeline shift
WMG previously projected a fiscal Q1 2026 close.
The annual report logged a 79 million dollar impairment.
The latest quarter added another 9 million dollar write-down.
Earlier filing flagged long-lived assets after a triggering event.
What EMP actually is
EMP was acquired in 2018 for 180 million dollars.
Sycamore Partners sold the...
Streaming speed just went turbo, and billion-play milestones that once took years are getting smashed in months.
Billion stream race hits warp speed
Chartmetric reports that 2,729 days were needed in 2015.
By 2025, the average dropped to 197 days.
Jungkook’s Seven hit one billion in 108 days.
Die With A Smile reached the mark in 96 days.
Hit churn and fragile superstardom
Chartmetric found 2024’s Top 10 leaned heavily on fresh tracks.
In 2025, older songs dominated Spotify’s Top 10.
Bad Bunny topped Spotify’s most-streamed artist list again.
Three times more acts reached the Superstar tier in 2025.
Regional sounds fuel global growth
Bollywood and K-pop rank among the fastest climbers since 2020.
India’s Top 1,000 share jumped from...
