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May 16, 2025
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Native Instruments Circular — A Mix Product of the Week
By Mike Levine. A MIDI pattern generator lets you evolve a single note into complex patterns. Native Instruments takes that idea to a higher and more powerful place with Circular, its new Kontakt instrument. A polyphonic sequencer with four independent layers, it’s capable of generating everything from simple to complex musical patterns and altering them with a vast range of adjustable parameters, in real time.
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M-Audio M-Track Duo Interface Debuts
The M-Track Duo HD interface offers 24-bit/192 kHz resolution through its Crystal preamps, providing 55 dB of gain.
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HEDD Audio Launches A-Core Analog Studio Monitors
The Type 05 A-Core and Type 07 A-Core active speakers are 2-way and hand-built in Berlin.
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Berlin Firm Joins WSDG Network
WSDG has expanded its international network with the official renaming of ADA Acoustics & Media Consultants GmbH (ADA-AMC) in Germany to WSDG Berlin GmbH.
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Chilean Studio Installs New Analog Console
Studio owner Raúl Aliaga Lewis has upgraded his TOC Música facility in Chile with a 32-channel SSL Origin analog mixing console.
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By Mike Levine. DAACI, which stands for Definable Aleatoric Artificial Composition Intelligence, is dedicated to creating AI-based instruments for musicians. The company is affiliated with Queen Mary University in London and Abbey Road Redd (an “incubator” owned by Abbey Road Studios that seeks to nurture music technology innovations), among other organizations.
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Bug O Nay Ge Shig School now has a recording studio and a piano keyboard lab operational for the students. The KOJB station manager donated the podcast recording studio equipment to school, and with help from school tech person Brian Barta, the studio is now operational.
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