https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/artmaster-2-4m-ai-instrument-teaching https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/artmaster-2-4m-ai-instrument-teaching 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. Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ai-musicmusic-educationfundingartmasterpiano https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/music-grants-and-funding https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/music-grants-and-funding A plain guide to public and charitable music funding, using four real schemes as examples: PRS Foundation's Open Fund and Arts Council England project grants in the UK, Culture Moves Europe in the EU, India's Scholarships to Young Artistes, and the US National Endowment for the Arts, with what each pays and who is eligible, checked on 24 Oct 2026. Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers fundinggrantsbusinesscareers https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/chaos-1-4m-music-collaboration-remote-sessions https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/chaos-1-4m-music-collaboration-remote-sessions London start-up Chaos has raised a £1m pre-seed round, about $1.4m, for a workspace that puts chat, files, feedback and live writing rooms in one place and logs who contributed what. Earlier collaboration tools died and took their projects with them, so the test is whether that contribution record can leave the app. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers workflowscollaborationfundingprovenance https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/mixroom-seed-korea-ai-co-producer-daw https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/mixroom-seed-korea-ai-co-producer-daw Seoul startup MixRoom has seed money from impact investor MYSC for a DAW whose AI edits, mixes and masters what you recorded, on your instructions. The pitch is "assistant, not generator". The open question is the next step, training its own mixing models on producers' decisions, which its current privacy policy and terms don't mention. Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers music-techaifundingdawprivacykorea https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/reinier-zonneveld-gaslab-credited-compensated-ai https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/reinier-zonneveld-gaslab-credited-compensated-ai The Dutch techno DJ has raised a $1M pre-seed round for GasLab, an AI music platform that says it trains only on music from consenting artists and labels and pays them according to an attribution record. It is an artist-founded answer to scraped AI, but no split, audit or consent terms have been published yet. Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ai-musicgaslabattributionfundingartist-rights https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/sonilo-raises-11m-ai-video-scoring-sync-composers https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/sonilo-raises-11m-ai-video-scoring-sync-composers Sonilo, a San Francisco start-up founded by former TikTok AI and music staff, has raised $11 million led by B Capital for a model that writes music and sound effects timed to your footage. Its answer on training data is a licensed Shutterstock catalogue, which means stock-music composers are both the training set and the competition. Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ai-musicfundingsynclicensingvideo https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/stability-ai-76m-round-all-three-majors https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/stability-ai-76m-round-all-three-majors Universal, Sony and Warner all took equity in Stability AI's $76M Series B on 25 Aug 2026. The labels are now licensors, development partners and shareholders of the same AI company, and none of the announcements says how artists share in any of those roles. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers industryfundingai-musicstability-ailabels https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/grants-for-musicians-prs-foundation-help-musicians-factor-india https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/grants-for-musicians-prs-foundation-help-musicians-factor-india What PRS Foundation, Help Musicians and FACTOR actually fund, who is allowed to apply, how their deadlines work, and the smaller Indian programmes from IFA, Serendipity Arts and the IME. Plus a checklist and an application template. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers workflowsgrantsfundingindiaukcanadaartist-income https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/02/hook-raises-10m-licensed-fan-remixes https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/02/hook-raises-10m-licensed-fan-remixes Hook, an app for licensed fan remixes and mashups, has raised a $10 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures. The pitch is that every remix pays the people who own the song, but the Hook announcements we read, going back to 2023, don't say how much, how often, or how an artist says no. Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers fundingindustryremixlicensingugc https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/01/musical-ai-4-5m-attribution-trace-songs-ai-output https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/01/musical-ai-4-5m-attribution-trace-songs-ai-output Musical AI, formerly Somms.ai, raised $4.5 million in a round led by Heavybit to scale software that estimates how much each licensed source contributed to a generated track. It is the plumbing per-output royalties depend on, and the research says it estimates influence rather than proves it. Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ai-musicfundingattributionlicensingroyalties