Prague's ArtMaster has raised a $2.4 million seed round for Artie, an iOS app that listens to you play piano and gives real-time feedback. It checks the notes you play and your timing. What it can't check, and teachers can, is how your hands got there.
AIvia Apple App Store (ArtMaster listing)
Behringer has put up product pages for JAM, a 32-key controller with a 64-step sequencer and CV/gate, and JAM PLAY, which adds 128 sounds and 10 drum kits. Behringer lists no price, and retailers have JAM at £89. It is a cheap way to sequence one modular voice, but it is not the hub for a whole rig that it looks like.
Releasesvia Behringer
Some venues take 25% or more of an artist's gross merch sales, sometimes with VAT on top. The Featured Artists Coalition says more than 700 UK venues charging nothing have joined its 100% Venues directory. Most grassroots rooms never charged, though, so the real fight is at bigger and corporate venues, and the best tool an artist has there is a rate agreed in writing before the show.
Industryvia Featured Artists Coalition
Novation's FLpad and FLpad Mini put 64 RGB pads on FL Studio's Channel Rack, with step sequencing and six months of FL Studio Producer bundled. The deep integration is the selling point and the catch, and the free software works more like a trial with a deadline than a gift.
Releasesvia Image-Line
Suno now lets teams share song libraries in Workspaces and lets Premier users share custom models trained on their own uploads, a week after Studio got tighter timing, clip stretching and fade curves. The tools point towards a collaborative studio. Suno's terms say nothing about who owns a shared model or the songs made with it.
AIvia Suno
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