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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.
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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.
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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.
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A granular synth chops a sound into tiny overlapping fragments called grains and rebuilds it, so you can stretch, freeze and smear audio without changing its pitch. This guide explains the handful of controls every granular instrument shares, then walks through turning one of your own recordings into a playable pad. Manuals and primary sources checked on 25 Oct 2026.
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Parallel compression, often called New York compression, blends a heavily squashed copy of a sound under the untouched original so you get density without losing the hit. This guide goes past the one-line definition: when to use a return versus a Dry/Wet knob, starting settings for drums, vocals and the mix bus, and the mistakes that make it sound worse, not better. Routing facts checked against the Ableton Live manual on 25 Oct 2026.
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