You hum it, Deezer will play it: music streaming service says that it can now identity those songs that are stuck in your head.
It is a common problem. You have a song that you can’t get out of your head (like the one by Kylie Minogue) but do not know what it’s called so can’t listen to it. Where to turn?
The answer is Deezer. A new ‘industry-first’ feature for Deezer’s SongCatcher function, as the music streaming service has just added a ‘humming feature’ to its SongCatcher function. This is designed to identify those unknown earworms just by humming, singing or whistling into your phone.
“Everyone knows how frustrating it can be to have a song stuck in their heads, and we’re very proud to be the first music streaming service in the world to give our users the opportunity to identify a track by just humming, singing or whistling it directly in the app,” said Alexandra Leloup, VP Core Product, Deezer.
“As we keep improving the algorithm, the feature will become faster and even more accurate when it comes to recognizing songs across our 90 million track library.”
After Later Audio (ALA) has introduced a new series of Eurorack modules that are clones of classic Mutable Instruments designs.
MIC line currently includes:
Resonate – a full-size hardware replica of the Mutable Instruments Rings module:
Dice – a replica of the Mutable Instruments Marbles module; and
Cumulus – a replica of the Mutable Instruments Clouds.
Other Mutable Instruments clones are planned.
Mutable Instruments’ founder Émilie Gillet recently announced that there will be no new modules from the company and that production of existing modules is ending.
MI modules have been released with open-source licensing, though, which means that other companies can make clones or derivative works, like the virtual Mutable Instruments modules in VCV Rack, the Behringer Brains and the Arturia MicroFreak.
Audacity takes a “major step towards transforming into a DAW” as it reaches version 3.2. The free and open-source software aims for “end-to-end production tool” status, adding realtime effects processing, cloud sharing and more.
Audacity have been around since 2000, but not only does free and open-source audio editor, it continues to evolve. Version 3.2 has now landed, and it promises to take “large strides” towards transforming the software into an “end-to-end production tool”. In other words, a fully-fledged DAW.
‘What’s new at Audacity 3.2?’ At a glance, list indicates that this is indeed a significant update. There’s now realtime effects support, meaning that processing can be applied non-destructively and parameters can be tweaked on-the-fly, and effects can also be ‘stacked’.
In other news, the interface has been cleaned-up – stripped back, simplified and made more ‘DAW-like’ according to Audacity developer Muse Group. VST3 plugin support is also part of the v3.2 package.
In addition, we have audio.com, a new audio sharing platform that enables you to back up your Audacity projects to the cloud directly from the software. You can then share your content publicly or privately.
Key new features in Audacity 3.2:
VST3 support
Realtime Effects support
The ability to upload and share audio with audio.com
Apple Silicon support
Audacity 3.2 runs on PC, Mac and Linux and can be downloaded now on the Audacity website. See the release notes for details.
