According to Liz Pelly’s findings in Harper’s Magazine, the ghost artists are appearing on all sorts of popular playlists from jazz and classical to lo-fi hip-hop. It effectively lowers the amount of royalties Spotify pays genuine musicians while increasing their overall profit margins.

Yesterday, Voice-Swap – an AI platform which allows users to make their vocals sound like other artists – took to Instagram to announce its new partnership with the music platform, proclaiming that “soon Voice-Swap users will be able to upload their songs and demos directly to SoundCloud with a new integration”.

https://musictech.com/news/music/namm-2024-soundcloud-partners-with-voice-swap-ai

The perfect MIDI visualizer keeps growing by leaps and bounds. New open-source tool ShowMIDI shows MIDI data in a structured, readable way. And now it’s got a slick new UI and runs on iOS as well as macOS, Windows, and Linux, among other features.

SonoBus est une application audio polyvalente disponible pour macOS, Windows, iOS et Linux. Elle fonctionne comme logiciel autonome mais également sous la forme d’un plugin audio, ce qui la rend très pratique pour tous types d’utilisations. Et cerise sur le gâteau, SonoBus est gratuit !

https://korben.info/sonobus-partage-controle-son-groupe-gratuit-multiplateforme.html

US-based manufacturing brand PreSonus has announced the launch of Studio One 6.5, its most recent update for its music production software, now with Dolby Atmos integration.

The free update is described as a “milestone” for the popular DAW, and features new workflow innovations and enhancements.

https://musictech.com/news/gear/presonus-studio-one-dolby-atmos/

You may have already caught the news that PreSonus has launched its 6.5 update for Studio One, and as part of the launch the brand is introducing a new file format which allows for the sharing of sessions across multiple DAWs.

The new file format, which reads as .DAWproject, is currently being provided across Bitwig Studio 5.09 as well as Studio One 6.5.

https://musictech.com/news/gear/presonus-bitwig-new-daw-file-format/

Auckland-based software developer Serato has released Sample 2.0, bringing stem separation technology as a plugin for your DAW for the first time. The new version of the sampling software also boasts a tweaked interface for a workflow that’s “simpler than ever before,” the company says.

https://musictech.com/news/gear/serato-sample-2-0-stem-separation-plugin/