If you’re a music producer, sample hoarder, or plugin junkie, brace yourself: the Black Friday madness is no longer confined to November. In fact, it’s already creeping into October — and the deals are getting more aggressive every year. Here’s what you need to know: 🗓️ October Is the New Black Friday Retailers and developers […]

What appears to be an AI-generated 70s style mellow rock band called the Velvet Sundown is taking the world — and specifically Spotify and music journalsts — by storm and I can’t deny, I really like them. They have more than 470,00 monthly listeners. What do we do now? The person behind their social media […]

The latest research and trends on DAWs, sample libraries, and plugins used in home-based music studios.

Splice, a cloud-based music creation platform that makes tools and services for music producers, composers, and artists, has acquired Spitfire Audio,  a virtual instrument sample libraries for music production, particularly for film, TV, and media scoring. Analysts suggest that this consolidation signals continued consolidation in the sample library industry amid rising competition, especially from AI-generated music […]

We’ve just added a Buy and Sell forum to the LinkedMusicians Forums that enable our members to buy and sell licenses for sample libraries, plugins, DAWs, and other music-related software where the developer allows for resale. In order to make that a little safer for users, we’ve set up a rating and review system so […]