Spotlights & stories

Behind every tool is a team with a reason for building it. These are their stories, alongside the musicians who put the tools to work and the events that bring both together.

  • Spotlights & stories
  • AI tools
  • Vocals

Developer spotlight: ACE Studio

ACE Studio turns typed lyrics and a melody into a sung vocal. Co-founder Sean Zhao on a childhood of touchtone-phone melodies, the neural network that reignited the dream, and where AI singing synthesis goes next.

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  • Mixing & mastering

Developer spotlight: LANDR

How a frustration with mastering became LANDR, the Montreal company whose motto is ‘We work for musicians’ — and why its FX Suite plugins have three knobs each. With Daniel Rowland and Anthony Albanese.

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  • AI tools
  • Loops & samples

Developer spotlight: Sonura

Sonura turns a text description into original loops, vocals, one-shots and sound effects, trained only on licensed material. Founders Kindred Salway and Blue Bookhard on consent-based AI and Sonura Flow, the plugin on MuseHub.

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How MOOZ is changing online music lessons and collaboration

Video-call apps compress and delay audio in ways that make playing together impossible. MOOZ was built to fix that: the story of its Sync Mode, its built-in music tools and the team of musicians behind it.