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Stability AI's Stable Audio 3.0 family puts music models that make up to 6:20 of audio onto ordinary laptops, with open weights for Small and Medium. The "fully licensed" training set is stock library and Creative Commons audio, not label catalogue, and the free licence ends at $1M in annual revenue.
AIvia Stability AI
Akai launched a $2,899 flagship MPC in January and a $399 battery-powered sampler in March, and two months later its parent inMusic agreed to buy Native Instruments. The two machines show how Akai is building a ladder into one software platform, and the NI deal raises the stakes on what runs on it.
Releasesvia inMusic Brands
Native Instruments released Komplete 26 on 5 May 2026, renaming the bundle by year and putting Absynth back in it, three days before inMusic agreed to buy the company. The bundle is still good value, but iZotope, whose plugins are part of every paid edition, now belongs to a different buyer.
Releasesvia Native Instruments
Pro Tools 2026.4 makes its on-device transcription survive bounces and edits, adds MPEG-H broadcast mixing with Fraunhofer, and gives every tier a Track Pin. Most of the new work sits in the Studio and Ultimate tiers and points at post-production and broadcast, which tells you where Avid sees its paying customers.
Releasesvia Avid Knowledge Base
Bitwig Studio 6, out on 11 Mar 2026, is a workflow release with no AI headline. It rebuilds automation around an overlay mode and clips that move with their music, adds linked clip aliases and gives every project a key and scale. It comes free to customers with an active Upgrade Plan, on a perpetual licence rather than a subscription.
Releasesvia Bitwig
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