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For all the advances in music technology, cutting a vinyl record remains one of the industry’s most exclusive crafts, relying on decades-old machines and a shrinking number of specialists. Teenage Engineering thinks it’s time that changed. Its answer is the APC-2, a professional record-cutting lathe developed with analogue experts SUPERSENSE.

When you’re deep in a game of Fortnite, an enemy – often dressed as Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan, or Sabrina Carpenter – can appear out of nowhere to end your killstreak. Such mishaps can occur when you’re distracted by real-world noise, so these new gaming headphones from Audeze – complete with adaptive noise cancelling – will ensure no celebrity popstar and sneak up and kill you.

Pink Floyd fans with a soft spot for cassettes might want to clear some shelf space. Retro tech specialists We Are Rewind has unveiled a limited-edition Pink Floyd version of its WE-001 cassette player, bundled with an exclusive remastered cassette release of The Dark Side of the Moon that’s only available as part of the box set.

Last month, The Atlantic’s AI Watchdog uncovered a massive dataset of over 12 million songs allegedly being used to train AI. Now, hackers have discovered a source code in Suno AI that potentially exposes a grand-scale act of data scraping across decades of copyrighted music. According to 404 Media, hacker ellie.191 discovered that Suno had scraped millions of hours of songs, lyrics and podcasts from Deezer, Genius, YouTube Music, and a slew of stock music libraries.

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“If we could create tools and instruments that lead to the emergence of a new music genre, that would be incredible. We want to empower artists to be able to have the tools to do that.” This is the dream of Neutone’s co-founder, Andrew Fyfe. As a musician himself, he’s taken an unlikely path from touring in a Glasgow band to engineering ‘neural sampling’ in Tokyo.

Rick Rubin’s approach to production is… controversial, let’s say. The producer’s self-confessed lack of technical ability and musical knowledge has resulted in a divisive, ‘vibes’-based instinct. Even within a single band, Rubin can be a very marmite character; while Kesha has cited Rubin as her most admired creative mind,  the Cult’s Billy Duffy thinks Rubin entirely lacks musicality.

Native Instruments has launched Super*Saw, a software synthesizer created in partnership with Grammy-nominated, 2025 BRIT Producer of the Year, A.G. Cook. Heard in some of Cook’s most notable work with Charli xcx, Beyoncé and Caroline Polachek, supersaws are essentially multiple sawtooth waves layered on top of one another and slightly detuned, and are a defining sound of contemporary pop music.

Musik Hack may have just made mastering easier than ever… With HyFi, the brand’s new drag-and-drop mastering platform, users can simply drag in their audio files for mastering and the platform will do the rest. The platform operates on a token/credit basis, with one credit used per minute of audio. No subscription is required, simply pay for what you need when you need it. Oh, and upon making an account you get 10 credits completely free.

Audio Spices, the company by accomplished producer Adi Rotem, has introduced a new pitch-shifting reverb plugin, Anise Glide. Where many pitch-shifting reverbs are bound to the frequency settings, the Anise Glide lets the wet decay “glide” into the chosen pitch. This creates sonic motion to add some more colour to any audio source. Several parameters within the plugin allow you to dial in the precise quality. The main adjustment to make within the app is the pitch.