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Brume is a desktop multi-timbral synthesizer powered by the Compute Module 5, featuring four synthesis engines, a 10-inch touch surface, and USB audio/MIDI/clock connectivity to your DAW.

A developer describes a side project to automatically sync lights with live music using OCR and reverse engineering DJ software, and how to estimate precise seek time from truncated timestamps using interval averaging.

A new open-source tool called Steam Haptics Singer lets the Steam Controller and Steam Deck play MIDI music through their haptic motors, enabling fun custom sound effects and songs like Doom's theme.

MusTBench is a benchmark for evaluating temporal grounding in Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) for music understanding. The authors propose MusT, a four-stage training recipe that significantly improves temporal grounding performance over existing models.

Notchy brings the Dynamic Island from iOS to Mac, adding music controls, timers, clipboard, and file drop features.

Trdo is a free, open-source radio app for Windows that allows users to find and listen to online radio stations from the system tray. It supports manual station addition and keeps a history of songs played.

JAMtime.ai is a product that uses AI to let guitarists control their pedal sound by simply describing the desired tone.

Spotify introduces a new 'Reserved' program that offers reserved concert tickets to its Premium subscribers who are identified as 'real fans' of touring artists, aiming to reduce the hassle of ticket buying.

An interactive map visualizing the subgenres of heavy metal music.

A new macOS audio player called 180db is launched, inspired by Winamp and designed for musicians and DJs, with features like pitch change and layout customization.

loopmaster is an IDE for livecoding music, enabling real-time algorithmic music composition.

This article explores quirky real-world uses of OEIS integer sequences found in open-source code on GitHub, including music generation frameworks, a pen tool for e-readers, and a geocaching app.

Stability AI releases Stable Audio 3, a family of latent diffusion models for variable-length audio generation and editing, with weights for small and medium models available on Hugging Face.

Chromtuner is a chromatic tuner for macOS with ±1¢ accuracy.

Lyricly is a Mac app that displays live song lyrics in your Mac's dynamic Notch and as a floating widget on your desktop.

A tweet shares OpenAI's Codex being used to teach piano, linking to a demonstration.

Anthropic shipped Claude FM, a feature that purportedly improves Claude agent performance by ~15% using ambient lofi music, though some artists are unaware their music is being used.

Lychee is a tool that displays song lyrics directly in the menu bar.