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Articles about Logic Pro, MIDI scripting, sampling, and sound design.
Iota II picks up where iZotope Iris 2 left off — Sunday Loop #015
Dillon Bastan's Iota II revives spectral sampling in the spirit of iZotope Iris 2, and Sentient trains a neural network on everyday sounds to build wavetables.
The Kraftwerk sample is legal, and Bitwig rebuilt its Sampler — Sunday Loop #014
Germany's top court ends the Kraftwerk sampling case, Bitwig 6.1 rebuilds its Sampler, and GCS Spectral resynthesizes any sound or image into 32 partials.
EQ before or after compression, and a PLL synth — Sunday Loop #013
EQ before or after compression in Logic Pro, a synth voice built around a phase-locked loop, and a MIDI looper that lives on single keys of your keyboard."
Lucid turns granular into an instrument — Sunday Loop #012
Minimal Audio's Lucid turns granular into something you can actually perform, field recording as a real production method, and the NI UK office goes dark.
Layoffs at Native Instruments — Sunday Loop #011
Roughly 100 layoffs at Native Instruments, Dirk Ulrich buys Plugin Alliance and Brainworx back from inMusic, and a working list of sound design plugins.
Boris FX takes iZotope, Logic Pro 12.3 — Sunday Loop #010
Boris FX pulls iZotope out of the inMusic orbit, Logic Pro 12.3 arrives with Beat Breaker and Alchemy updates, plus eight trends shaping 2026 sessions.
Your music in AI training sets — Sunday Loop #009
One link this week, and it earns the space: producers are finding their own tracks in AI training sets, and there is now a search tool that proves it.
Finishing what you start — Sunday Loop #008
Will Bates on scoring streaming shows in Kontakt, why Adele's Hello needed four inputs instead of a rack, and a system for actually finishing an album.
Granular synthesis, grain by grain — Sunday Loop #007
Granular synthesis explained from grain size and density up, five sound design moves worth stealing, and a walkthrough on sampling your own DIY instruments.
inMusic buys Native Instruments — Sunday Loop #006
inMusic buys Native Instruments. Superbooth 2026 opens in Berlin, and three hardware synth classics go head to head with their software doppelgängers.
Understanding MIDI Messages: From Bits and Bytes to Music
How MIDI really works — binary encoding, status bytes, Note On, CC, SysEx and MIDI 2.0 explained. A technical deep dive for Logic Pro producers.
Kontakt 8 and remote collaboration — Sunday Loop #005
What actually landed in Kontakt 8, why collaboration is now remote even when everyone lives in the same city, and a straight look at what Suno actually does.
New EU sampling rules and synth filters — Sunday Loop #004
Europe's highest court sets new sampling rules in Kraftwerk vs Pelham, AI takes over sample library housekeeping, and a proper guide to synth filters.
NAMM 2026 and AI in the sketch phase — Sunday Loop #003
NAMM 2026 brought samplers built for hands, not a mouse. Plus AI sketching tools inside the workflow and a workflow-first look at AI music generators.
AI moves into the production workflow — Sunday Loop #002
Smart gear is rewiring how sessions run. Add AI moving into composition and the ten production trends that emerging artists keep hearing about this year.
The state of sampling in 2026 — Sunday Loop #001
The first issue: where Native Instruments is headed, sampling traced from Pierre Schaeffer to hip-hop, and the line between interpolation and a cleared sample.
HEIC to JPEG Converter for macOS — With Full Metadata Preservation
A free native macOS app that converts HEIC photos to JPEG while preserving all EXIF metadata, GPS data, and original file creation/modification dates.
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