Amy Nicola McBride Fishtail makes generative MIDI feel more like composition than AI prompting because it does not ask the producer to describe a song and wait for a black-box model to return music. It builds MIDI from rule-based musical…

Electronic Music Production Made Practical

Amy Nicola McBride Fishtail makes generative MIDI feel more like composition than AI prompting because it does not ask the producer to describe a song and wait for a black-box model to return music. It builds MIDI from rule-based musical…

Absynth 6 Legacy returns with hybrid synthesis, MPE support, spatial routing, and a preset library built for modern sound design.

HyFi Online Mastering gives producers browser-based mastering with pay-as-you-go credits, revisions, and clear limits worth checking.

Parish Audio Aethon turns granular processing into a texture capture engine because it does not ask producers to load a sample, prepare a sound, or leave the track to build atmosphere somewhere else. It listens to the audio already moving…

Komplete 26 Features get a cautious producer review, from Kontakt 8 tools and Absynth 6 to drums, effects, and bundle value.

Fanan Domina makes seeded MIDI arpeggios feel like repeatable composition because it treats an arpeggiator pattern as something more structured than a note-cycling trick. A normal arpeggiator usually takes held notes and moves through them in a predictable direction. Domina…

How the Iris van Herpen exhibition links couture, biology, space, and craft into measurable shifts in contemporary visual culture.

David Lynch Photography comes into focus through Pace Gallery’s 2026 L.A. show, with cautious notes on influence, light, and process.

sonible smart:chain turns AI mixing from track fixing into session control because it does not treat a mix as a pile of isolated channel problems. It combines intelligent EQ, compression, de-harshing, gating, input riding, saturation, clipping, and leveling inside one…

Spotify AI Persona labels may shape discovery by identifying AI-generated artist identities, not mix quality or mastering methods.