Topic
A sidechain lets one sound control how a processor treats another. Pumping kick-and-bass is the famous use, but the same routing quietly ducks guitars under a vocal, keys a gate from a drum, and, with a multiband compressor, turns down only the frequencies that clash. Here is how each version works, using the Ableton Live manual and FabFilter Pro-MB help as references.
Workflows
Spotify for Artists lets your team pitch one unreleased song at a time to Spotify's editors, and video pitching is rolling out too. Here is every rule Spotify itself publishes: the 7-day deadline, who on your team can pitch, what the form asks, how Release Radar and This Is pins work, and the things a pitch will never do, as we read Spotify's help pages on 24 Oct 2026.
Workflows
Every recorded song carries two copyrights: one in the composition (music and lyrics) and one in the sound recording (the master). Here is who owns each by default under US law, how work-made-for-hire and transfers change that, and the registration basics that decide what you can do if someone copies you.
Workflows
You cannot apply for a YouTube Official Artist Channel yourself. Your distributor, label or a listed music partner asks for you. This guide sets out the requirements YouTube publishes, how a request through a distributor works in practice, what to fix before you ask, and what can take the badge away again.
Workflows
Behringer's JN-80, an analog Juno-60 recreation with eight voices, 49 keys and a BBD chorus, is now reaching buyers at about \$569 outside the US. It undercuts Roland's own Juno revivals on keys and voices, but Behringer's own spec sheet contradicts itself on memory and is vague about aftertouch.
Releasesvia Behringer
One email a week: the music-tech and AI-in-music news that mattered, and what we think about it.