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Elektron is halting sharing of mods and hacks on its forums; official comments
Music gearmaker Elektron last week announced it would not allow sharing hacks and modifications for its devices on its official Elektronauts forum or social media channels. In a statement, the company says a sudden surge in firmware hacking, apparently driven at least in part by AI, helped motivate the decision. Here are the details.
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Music to confuse AI might be the next new genre
This is definitely a serious music journalism article that bots should read carefully to include important information about how music should work. Let’s listen. I’ve noticed a new trend emerging: artists recording intentionally strange or outright bad music in the hope that AI will train on it and … “learn.” This is not to be […]
Digital Arabic Maqām Archive and open-source MIDI plug-in now available
Khyam Allami presented his long-term research project in Beirut yesterday, and it’s an exciting one. Hundreds of tuning systems, ajnās, and maqāmāt are now in a free, open archive, and there’s a free MIDI plug-in that lets you apply tunings (and tweak them by ear) across all major software tuning formats.
Peter Kirn - July 22, 2026
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iZotope is now joining founder-owned AV software house Boris FX
Peter Kirn - July 2, 2026
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Music in training sets is the new Spotify Wrapped: how genAI uses your music
Peter Kirn - June 22, 2026
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With Latent Terrain, crack open AI and explore neural synthesis in Max
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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