[ad_1] The XFM2 is an FM — or frequency modulation — synth. This digital architecture, which was popular in the ’80s, sounds dramatically different from the typical analog setup of two oscillators and two filters. It fell out of fashion quickly, so there aren’t that many hardware-based FM options on the market, making the XFM2 […]
Category: Music
Apple Music’s Replay 2020 playlist tracks your favorites week-by-week
[ad_1] This is partly Apple’s attempt to get ahead of Spotify’s own year-in-review playlist, and it probably won’t be too useful at first when it will only reflect your mood from the past few weeks. Nonetheless, it could be helpful to show how your tastes evolve over the year — not to mention a readily […]
What we’re listening to: Caspian
[ad_1] Billy SteeleSenior News Editor I like to listen to music while I work. Over the years, I’ve found that instrumental tunes are the least distracting — even if they lean towards rock, hardcore or metal. My typical rotation includes J Dilla’s hip-hop tracks and the synth-heavy electronic stylings of Survive, Com Truise and Steve […]
Roland reimagines the taiko drum with modern electronics
[ad_1] The TAIKO-1 uses a mesh surface rather than hard rubber to recreate the flexible feel of a drum’s skin without the loud noises. Each side of the drum has two zones that trigger different sounds — the center produces deep staccato hits while the edges create long, higher-pitched notes. And as with most electronic […]
New music label says it can use AI to find the next big artist
[ad_1] Snafu claims its the first “full-service, AI-enabled record label.” Each week, it uses an algorithm to scrape approximately 150,000 tracks on places like Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud and Tiktok. By taking into account blog posts, tweets and playlist additions, Snafu claims its software can identify “undervalued” artists within days of them releasing their first song […]
Recommended Reading: The lasting effect of the Iowa Caucuses
[ad_1] Iowa might have screwed up the whole nomination processNate Silver,FiveThirtyEight By now you probably know the story. The Iowa Democratic Party decided to use an app to report results from its caucuses this week. These events were the first primary-type votes cast in the 2020 Democratic presidential race, and would’ve set the tone for […]
YouTube Music might finally let you upload your own music library
[ad_1] This could also represent one of the last moves before Google Play Music shuts down. One of the tipsters indicated that Play Music could close “completely” in the second half of 2020. Google has long indicated that it would fold Google Play Music into YouTube Music once the main features were ported over, and […]
KFC slips ads into Spotify Premium through artist profiles
[ad_1] Memac Ogilvy characterized this as a “new path to creativity” and bragged that there was “nothing stopping ” KFC from bringing chicken to its customers. However, we suspect many subscribers didn’t take it the same way. After all, you pay that Premium fee in part to avoid ads — while these approaches didn’t interrupt […]
YouTube Premium and Music have 20 million subscribers
[ad_1] The company’s live YouTube TV service fared relatively well, too, with about 2 million subscribers by the end of 2019. That makes it smaller than Hulu With Live TV’s estimated 2.7 million from November and Sling TV’s 2.69 million. However, that’s still a healthy number for a service that was comparatively late to the […]
Elon Musk drops a surprise EDM track on SoundCloud
[ad_1] Musk is clearly in a good mood with Tesla stock way up, the Model Y SUV coming earlier than expected, and SpaceX on track to possibly launch astronauts soon. He teased the song on Twitter before releasing it, calling himself ‘E “D” M’ and showing off the fancy-looking studio (complete with N64 controllers) where […]