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iZotope is now joining founder-owned AV software house Boris FX
iZotope is now coming to rest post-Native Instruments as the music software maker is acquired by Boris FX. And when they say founder-owned, they mean it: the guy’s name is actually Boris (Yamnitsky). The pairing frankly makes more sense than either NI/Soundwide or inMusic. It makes Boris FX the most interesting software house to watch right now. Here’s why.
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Music in training sets is the new Spotify Wrapped: how genAI uses your music
This has to be peak 2026 music tech. Across every feed, producers I follow are posting the same revelation: they’re finding their own music in training sets used by AI. Investigations by Alex Reisner at The Atlantic are making this more visible — and visceral. And the findings are actually much worse than I think […]
Peter Kirn - June 22, 2026
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With Latent Terrain, crack open AI and explore neural synthesis in Max
“I’m not particularly interested in typing prompts to make stuff, I’m interested in breaking them and dissecting them,” writes Jasper Shuoyang Zheng as he introduces Latent Terrain. Now using an intuitive, elegantly designed open-source Max external and UI, you can play the weird world of neural audio codecs like an instrument, transforming your own sounds into new textures.
Peter Kirn - June 17, 2026
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Synplant’s new PhenoType tech uses neural nets for more alien patches
Peter Kirn - June 10, 2026
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Bandcamp is taking a stand against generative AI; will it work?
Peter Kirn - January 14, 2026
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