Live Sound
Gingerly Adopting AI in Event Production
AI is making inroads into many corners of live event and film production, but how are pros using it—and do they trust it to...
AI
New Products
Type Something, Hear Something with New App
Waves Audio has announced Illugen, an AI-powered desktop app that turns text prompts into custom-generated audio.
New Products
Ethical AI Voice Platform Launches
Every voice in the Auribus catalogue belongs to a real performer who is paid each time their model is used.
New Products
Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve 20 Adds AI Audio Features
Blackmagic Design’s new update to DaVinci Resolve 20 adds more than 100 new features, many of them AI-powered, including to the Fairlight audio editor.
Business
Merlin Issues Statement Opposing UK’s AI Reforms
Independent label digital music licensing partner Merlin has issued a statement strongly opposing the UK government’s proposed changes to copyright laws for artificial intelligence...
Blog
Mix Blog: Who Wrote That? AI and Copyright Law
The Copyright Office released the second part of its Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), with a mix of good and uncertain news.
Blog
Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: The AI Cesspool Has Arrived
Not only is the AI genie out of the bottle, the genie has acquired tactical nuclear weapons. Welcome to 2025.
New Products
See Something, Hear Something
Krotos' AI Ambience Generator v2 enables creators to generate audio ambiences directly from an image.
Blog
Mixing Prince on Saturday Night Live—and What That Has To Do with AI
An evening at Audio-Technica's new NYC engagement space, Technica House, revealed a cool audio story about Prince on SNL.
Business
Spike AI — A Mix Product of the Week
Spike AI, an AI-based mixing plug-in being developed by engineer Mark “Spike” Stent, is expected to be released in early 2025.
Blog
From the Editor: Can Generative AI Make a Twister?
Mix co-editor Tom Kenny brings some fun context to the audio efforts behind 1996's Twister and this summer's semi-sequel Twisters.
Blog
Mix Blog: Fake Art. Real Money
Well, it had to happen sooner or later… AI-generated “art” being used to scam money out of the music industry.
Business
Roland Future Design Lab Launches
Roland Corporation announced it has founded a specialized R&D group, Roland Future Design Lab, to explore and suggest “the future of music creation.”
New Products
Vocoflex AI Voice Transformation Plug-In Launched
Tokyo-based Dreamtonics has introduced Vocoflex, a real-time, AI-powered voice creation and transformation plug-in.
Business
Music Industry Support Grows for AI Guidelines
First issued in March, Roland Corporation and Universal Music Group (UMG)'s "Principles for Music Creation with AI" are reportedly gaining traction in the industry.
Music Production
BT’s SoundLabs, UMG Team to Clone Artist Vocals with AI
UMG will allow its artists to create vocal models of themselves for their own exclusive use via SoundLabs' AI technology, MicDrop.
Reviews
Triniti AI — A Mix Real-World Review
AI tools are increasingly trying to make inroads into the recording world. Of course, a skilled mixer/remixer can do better—for now.
New Products
Apple Logic Pro Update Adds New AI Features
New AI-powered features—Session Players, Stem Splitter and ChromaGlow—are highlights of the latest Logic Pro updates, due out May 13.
New Products
Techivation AI-Loudener Plug-In Debuts
Techivation has launched AI-Loudener, a new AI-powered audio plug-in for adding loudness, harmonic excitement, and warmth.
Blog
Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Can You Negotiate With AI?
The music industry desperately needs revisions to the copyright laws to take AI changes into account—but it can’t just stop there.
New Products
Mixhalo Adds AI-Powered Translation Capabilities
Mixhalo real-time audio streaming software has added Mixhalo Translate to its features.
Plug-ins
LANDR Mastering Plug-in – A Mix Real-World Review
LANDR has offered online mastering for years; now the company's new AI-powered plug-in brings that directly into your DAW.
Business
Adobe Teases AI Voice Separation Tech
Adobe has unveiled Project Sound Lift, an AI-powered technology that separates speech from background sound.
Business
Grimes’ AI-Cloned Vocals Coming to Creator Content
A new partnership between the singer and CreateSafe expands access to GrimesAI vocals.
New Products
Moises Voice Studio Debuts
Moises Voice Studio uses AI to let singers license models of their voices to producers and other content creators.
New Products
Landr AI Mastering Plug-in Debuts
Landr has introduced an AI Mastering Plug-in for DAWs
Featured
YouTube Makes a Statement on AI and Music
Platform establishes a set of three AI Music Principles and launches YouTube Music AI Incubator in partnership with UMG.
New Products
AI-Powered Music Catalog Search Tool Launched
AIMS API has launched Prompt Search, which enables the exploration of music catalogs using natural language, phrases and descriptions.
Business
Endel, UMG Team to “Reimagine” Tracks Using AI on Artists’ Stems
UMG and Endel have entered a strategic relationship where Endel will apply AI to artist-provided stems to “reimagine” them as soundscapes.
Blogs
Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Does AI Stand for “Attorneys Incoming”?
Last September, I wrote an Open Channel about AI. Is it too soon to revisit the topic? Well, AI is reshaping the world at...
Post and Broadcast
Broadcaster Al Mashhad Adopts Lawo Platform
Dubai-based Al Mashhad has implemented a personalized AI-powered user experience based on Lawo IP-native solutions.
Blog
Craig Anderton’s Open Channel – Mastering the Art of Mastering
Is Mastering having a Kodak Moment? And is that a good thing...or a bad thing?
New Products
JackTrip Remote Performance Platform Adds AI-Powered Packet Loss Concealment
Jacktrip Labs has added a new AI-powered loss concealment feature and Soundscapes to its remote performance service.
Blog
Open Channel: Can Artificial Stupidity Save Us From AI?
Will AI will ruin music production? Craig Anderton suggests that the only way to beat artificial intelligence is with artificial stupidity.
The Wire
HPA Announces Main Program Details for 2022 Tech Retreat
Curated Sessions Highlight Areas of Challenge, Growth for Industry The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) has announced the main program for the 2022 HPA Tech...
New Products
Product of the Week: Sonible Smart:EQ 3
Artificial intelligence is the big buzz in plug-in development these days, and Austrian manufacturer Sonible has incorporated its own system into its compression, reverb...
Music Production
Elliot Mazer, Legendary Producer/Engineer, Dead at 79
Legendary producer/engineer Elliot Mazer, best-known for his work with Neil Young, Janis Joplin and others, died of a heart attack in his San Francisco...
Product Reviews
Newfangled Audio Elevate Bundle – A Real-World Review
Rob Tavaglione evaluates the Elevate Bundle, a package that consists of the component pieces of the Elevate Mastering Limiter (Punctuate, Saturate and Equivocate) as...
Blog
AES Returns to Its Roots
Craig Anderton looks at the changing trends of the annual AES Convention.
The Wire
Meet Vintra: The Deep-Learning Startup Leveraging Purpose-Built AI Algorithms on their Mission to Improve Safety and Security
San Jose, CA – March 11, 2019 – 7:00 AM PT / 10:00 AM ET – On a mission to create safer communities, companies,...
Music Production
Is AI Taking Over? Not So Fast, Dude.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are making inroads into pro audio, but what's next?
AI
Need To Know: AI
By Michael Garwood. AI is fueled by data, which can come in many different forms for many different uses. On its own, that data...