Look out vocalists! This plugin emulates the human voice right in your DAW. It sounds pretty good! You can add vibrato, tremolo and do glides and all sorts of stuff. You can download a trial version for free, giving you a few notes you can play. If you want the full thing you have to fork over €200 for ‘Lucy’ their first voice. At that price point it’s a bit much for me. But if you’re an EDM producer who’s heavy on vocals? Maybe? I’ll be watching this and hoping for more voices to be released soon.

I wandered into this gem the other day. Wish I had seen this closer to the decade it came out. Would have saved a lot of time. Really precise and informative, and ooooozing with 80’s flavour, trippy maaaan. Not exactly the frontier of music but a must see for any beginning mixer.

The guys at Deezer have uploaded an open source package to Github – and it’s pretty cool! It’s an audio splitting tool using AI tech. They ostensibly developed it for research purposes. I have not yet come across an automated tool that delivers this level of quality. There are still artifacts to be heard but nothing an experienced mixer shouldn’t be able to handle. I’d be excited to see this turned into a VST or a standalone application. Have at it!

Have you ever wondered what musical tricks you can use to trigger your listeners? AI may have an answer for you! This study by USC has several cool findings. People respond very highly to dynamics. So no more loudness wars. Check out the study for all sorts of cool nuggets:

And the saddest note of all? That award goes to the raised 7th note of the minor scale.

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