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The Midnight’s Tyler Lyle on Closing One Chapter, Finding Joy Again, and Why AI Isn’t Invited Into the Studio

14-07-2026 23:49 via magneticmag.com

Table of ContentsThe Midnight Album Review: Syndicate Time Machine Edition (Gold Vinyl Variant)Q&A Interview With The Midnight’s Tyler LyleCatch The Midnight on Tour this fallAfter more than a decade of building one of indie dance/synthwave’s most beloved catalogs, The Midnight are at an unexpected crossroads. Syndicate isn’t simply another album; it’s the last act of a creative arc that stretches back through Kids, Monsters, and Heroes. It’s also the first time

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How To Define Success As A Music Producer In A Metrics-Driven Industry

14-07-2026 23:46 via magneticmag.com

Learning how to define success as a music producer gets easier once stream counts, social metrics, industry recognition, and support from influential people no longer serve as the main points of reference (A tough feat, I know). Those markers can undoubtedly create real opportunities, and thus they matter by default, yet they become dangerous when they start dictating creative direction.The workflow slowly shifts from serving the music to protecting the momentum around outside signals, and that

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Cam Stockman is the sound of modern, vibrant house on “Mesmerize”

14-07-2026 21:08 via magneticmag.com

Potent and powerful house grooves from the future star Cam StockmanIf you wanted to draw a Venn diagram of everything that’s working in modern house music right now — the groove, the texture, the emotional undertow and the ability to grab atttention,beneath the club-ready surface — Cam Stockman would sit pretty comfortably in the middle of it. “Mesmerize,” out now via Three Six Zero Recordings, is the kind of record that makes that argument without ever needing to m

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Novation Launchkey 88 MK4 Brings Full-Size Piano Control to the Launchkey Range

14-07-2026 20:51 via magneticmag.com

The Novation Launchkey 88 MK4 just dropped and has officially completed its Launchkey MK4 range, the largest keyboard controller in the series and the clearest option for producers, composers, and performers who want full-range playing without leaving the Launchkey workflow.The new model takes the DAW control, pads, encoders, faders, and built-in creative tools from the smaller MK4 controllers and places them around a custom-designed, 88-key semi-weighted keybed. That makes Launchkey 88 a differ

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SubCulture Gives Baby Audio a New Low-End Processing Plugin

14-07-2026 20:27 via magneticmag.com

Baby Audio has just dropped their new plugin called SubCulture, a new bass enhancement plugin built around pitch-tracking low-end extension. The idea is straightforward: feed it a monophonic source, let the plugin detect the pitch of the incoming audio, and then generate bass reinforcement that follows the notes rather than sitting under the part as a fixed effect.That is important to consider because low-end tools can create as many problems as they solve.
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