An ARP Odyssey comparison, secondary ticket market regulation, ruminations on the death of the album, and Apple acquires Camel Audio.
An ARP Odyssey comparison. An HD comparison between the new Korg ARP Odyssey and a mint condition original from 1978, testing the differences in sound of each synth’s key features: oscillators including pulse width modulation, the filter, ring modulator, the VCO sync function and the speed of the envelopes. Watch and listen in the video above.
Fridays to be new global release day. The IFPI has announced Fridays as the chosen global release day in hope of benefitting from higher footfall in shops at the end of the week. The decision means big changes in the UK and the US, and comes based on a large amount of research and consultations with retailers, artists and record labels. Find out more here.
Ticket market regulation to protect buyers. The UK culture secretary backs proposals to make the unwanted gig ticket market more transparent, and to protect fans from fraud. These proposals also aim to counter the issue of professional touts buying tickets in bulk and reselling them at inflated prices, the Guardian reports.
Apple acquires Camel Audio. The update of Camel Audio‘s address to 100 New Bridge Street – Apple’s London address – and the appointment of an Apple lawyer as the company’s sole director appears to confirm speculation that the popular plugin maker has been bought by Apple. More information here.
Live 9.2 in public beta. Ableton Live’s 9.2 update is currently available as a public beta, and a full version is coming soon. The update brings improvements and additions to both Live and Push, including improved warping, latency compensation, a tuner device, a 64-pad drum rack and more. Read the full announcement here.
Image-Line release touch-based groovebox app. FL Studio developers Image-Line release their touch-based groovebox app Groove Machine Mobile on iOS, Android and Windows. It features a 10-pad sample-based drum machine with five polyphonic synth/sampler channels and a performance-oriented workflow. Watch it in action above, and buy at Google, Windows and Apple’s app stores.
The death of the album? Celebrity and pop music newsletter Popbitch examines whether or not the album really is a dying art form as charts begin to include streaming data in their compilation of end-of-week figures, and what this might mean for the album as we know it. Check out their article here.