Backed by Raine Group and Temasek Holdings, SoundCloud is to be put up for sale later this year as its owners anticipate a substantial payday, Sky News learns. The owners of SoundCloud, one of the world's largest music streaming services, are preparing for a sale that could fetch in excess of $1bn. Sky News [...]
A new survey by Pirate reveals that 30% of artists use AI for songwriting and composition A new study has found that ChatGPT is the favoured artificial intelligence (AI) tool for musicians with 30% of artists using AI for songwriting and composition. In a new survey carried out by Pirate, it asked 1000 musicians on their top 10 AI [...]
The music industry has, it is fair to say, completely transformed in the past decade or so. We went from physical albums and singles (vinyl/CDs), to “everything, everywhere” via digital downloads and streaming services. So, for most people, the answer to “Where do you get your music?” nowadays is usually “Spotify”. End of story. For [...]
It's the genre that gave birth to DJing and clubs as we know them, spanning from black and queer roots in Chicago to arenas, festivals and pop charts across the world - but how is it made? It’s not a competition, but if we were to crown one electronic genre as the one that [...]
Carl’s ground breaking Intermundium show took place in the digital metaverse Carl Cox has ventured into the Sensorium Galaxy to perform a virtual set based around the music he creates during his hybrid live shows. This virtual performance, titled Intermundium, went live on Friday (October 27) with Carl Cox’s avatar, known affectionately as Coxy 2.0, entertaining a [...]
“As much space as you need” now has a specific size. It’s about 15 terabytes. Dropbox has announced a change to its pricing plan. In the past, their “Advanced” plan promised unlimited storage. Now that storage is capped at 15 TB. By way of explanation, Dropbox claimed that a small number of subscribers [...]
The app caters for lossless audio and also has a large focus on security, ensuring users that no-one will be able to access your unreleased work. App developer Sin Titulo Inc. has introduced the [untitled] app, which lets producers and musicians share and organise their unreleased music. The recently launched [untitled] is designed to [...]
The deal, worth over $100million, would put 90% of the digital DJ and production market into the hands of one conglomerate US audio equipment manufacturer InMusic has confirmed it is considering taking legal action in a number of territories to block the acquisition of Serato by Pioneer DJ's parent company. AlphaTheta Corporation confirmed a deal [...]
The Cloud Library is now available to use with the latest version of rekordbox A new update to Pioneer DJ’s rekordbox allows users to access their Google Drive. The Cloud library is now available via rekordbox which could previously only access Dropbox. As part of the new update - version 6.7.4 - Mac and Windows users can find [...]
Roland recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Here, DJ Mag Tech speaks to two Roland users and collaborators — musician Ken Ishii and artist/designer Yuri Suzuki — to reflect on the pioneering company, which was instrumental in crafting the sound of a generation When Roland released the TB-303, TR-808 and TR-909 back in the early ’80s, little [...]