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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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