#Music Technology

Articles (10)

• 🇺🇸 ElevenLabs releases a new AI-powered music generation app — 02/04/2026 [USA]

  ElevenMusic lets users create and remix songs using text prompts

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Creative Tools, #Democratization of Art
• 🇺🇸 The MPC Sample is my new favorite portable beat maker — 24/03/2026 [USA]

  Akai MPC is one of the most storied names in music history. But over the last decade, it's strayed pretty far from its roots as a humble sampler. The modern MPCs run virtual synthesizers, have complex...

  Related: #Portable Gear
• 🇺🇸 Music Source Restoration with Ensemble Separation and Targeted Reconstruction — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.16926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Inaugural Music Source Restoration (MSR) Challenge targets the recovery of original, unprocessed stems from fully mixed and mastered music. Unlik...

  Related: #Audio Restoration
• 🇺🇸 These Musical Instruments of the Future Sound Weird, Wacky—and Are Easy for Anyone to Play — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.

  Related: #Accessibility
• 🇺🇸 Tembo is a playful drum machine that thinks it’s a checkerboard — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Tembo looks like a toy, but one of those bougie wooden toys you get on Crate & Kids, not some cheap plastic garbage. Despite its appearance, it is a fully functional drum machine and sampler. Rather t...

  Related: #Accessible Design
• 🇺🇸 TimberAgent: Gram-Guided Retrieval for Executable Music Effect Control — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.09332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital audio workstations expose rich effect chains, yet a semantic gap remains between perceptual user intent and low-level signal-processing param...

  Related: #AI Retrieval
• 🇺🇸 The Best MIDI Controllers for Synths, Guitars, and More (2026) — 07/03/2026 [USA]

  Want to digitally control your favorite instruments? These tools will help.

  Related: #Product Reviews
• 🇺🇸 Voices of the Mountains: Deep Learning-Based Vocal Error Detection System for Kurdish Maqams — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.20744v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Maqam, a singing type, is a significant component of Kurdish music. A maqam singer receives training in a traditional face-to-face or through self-tr...

  Related: #Cultural Preservation, #Machine Learning Applications
• 🇺🇸 Spotify needs to start labeling AI-generated music before it’s too late — 18/02/2026 [USA]

  We’re barreling toward a future where AI-generated music is the soundtrack to our lives, and most don’t even realize it.

  Related: #AI Ethics, #Digital Transparency
• 🇺🇸 Video-based Music Generation — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.07063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As the volume of video content on the internet grows rapidly, finding a suitable soundtrack remains a significant challenge. This thesis presents EMS...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Digital Creativity