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  1. Suno Speech launch graphic with prompt cards such as Energetic cheerleader and Victorian English with a harpsichord
    Tool News & Updates 02 Oct

    Suno launches Speech in beta, a model that generates spoken word and its music in one take

    • Suno opened Speech (beta) to all users on web, iOS and Android on October 1, 2026, after a month of testing with a small group.
    • Speech generates a spoken voice and original background music together as one track, which Suno calls a first for an audio model.
    • You type the words, then describe the voice and the music style you want under them.
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  2. Modulate funding announcement graphic reading $25M USD new funding secured below the Modulate logo
    Tool News & Updates 01 Oct

    Modulate raises $25M, and says its AI music detector hits 95% precision across 76 genres

    • Modulate raised $25 million in a round led by Future Ventures, with Hyperplane and Lakestar joining, which takes its total funding to $60 million.
    • Co-founder Carter Huffman is now CEO, and Mike Pappas, who was CEO when the AI music detector launched in June, is now chairman.
    • Modulate says its AI music detector reached 95% precision across 76 genres in internal testing against music generators including Suno 5.5.
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  3. Top-down view of the Engram generative AI sampler and groovebox by Thoughtful Things, with knobs, screen and 16 pads
    Tool News & Updates 29 Sept

    Engram launches on Kickstarter as a $770 offline AI sampler built for model bending

    • Thoughtful Things launched Engram on Kickstarter on September 26, 2026, with a $10,600 funding goal.
    • The $675 early-bird tier sold out, and 40 production units are now offered at $770, with delivery estimated for May 2027.
    • Engram runs its audio models on the device itself, with no internet connection, app or subscription.
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  4. ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski smiling in a 2022 photo by Rafał Masłow
    Tool News & Updates 25 Sept

    ElevenLabs hits $600 million in annual revenue, and its CEO says callers should know they're talking to AI

    • ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski told TechCrunch on September 24, 2026 that the company is at $600 million in annual recurring revenue.
    • More than 55% of that revenue comes from enterprise customers, and much of the rest from small businesses, developers, builders and creators.
    • Bloomberg reported in July 2026 that ElevenLabs was in early talks over an employee tender offer at about $22 billion, double its $11 billion Series D valuation.
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  5. LANDR and Mila logos, the distributor and Quebec AI institute behind LANDR's streaming fraud detection
    Tool News & Updates 25 Sept

    LANDR says Spotify-flagged fake streams fell 95%, and names the release patterns its fraud AI now checks

    • LANDR says artificial streams flagged by Spotify on the music it distributes fell 95% between Q1 2025 and Q2 2026.
    • LANDR credits several fraud-prevention steps for the drop, and says the models it built with Mila, deployed in February 2026, are one part of them.
    • The system now checks for unusually high release frequency, overnight catalogs, accounts sharing devices or payout details, and metadata impersonating established artists.
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  6. Voice-Swap and DDEX logos side by side on a dark green background, from Voice-Swap's DDEX Full Member announcement
    Tool News & Updates 25 Sept

    Voice-Swap becomes the first AI voice company in DDEX, to build consent data for AI vocals

    • Voice-Swap joined DDEX, the standards body behind the music industry's shared data formats, as a Full Member on September 24, 2026.
    • Voice-Swap says it is the first dedicated AI voice company to take part in DDEX's standards work.
    • It wants to contribute to standards for voice-model identity, consent and authorisation metadata, usage-scoped permissions, provenance and rights reporting.
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  7. GRAI logo on a lime card next to the Hangout logo on a dark card, joined by a plus sign
    Tool News & Updates 23 Sept

    GRAI buys Hangout, the Turntable.fm successor, before launching its own AI social streaming app

    • GRAI, an AI music startup based in Warsaw, acquired the social listening app Hangout on September 22, 2026.
    • The deal was a merger, so Hangout's parent Turntable Labs is now a wholly owned GRAI subsidiary.
    • Hangout launched in November 2024 with more than 100 million tracks licensed from Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music and Merlin.
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  9. Snapchat's Chat to Song feature showing the Create Song genre picker and the Share Song preview screen
    Tool News & Updates 22 Sept

    Snapchat now turns your chats into AI songs, and won't say what model made them

    • Snap announced Chat to Song on September 21, 2026 as part of a bundle of AI features for Lens+ subscribers.
    • You press and hold a message in Chat, pick Hip Hop, Rock, Country, EDM or Pop, and the app generates a song from that text.
    • Snap's own screen carries the line "This feature uses generative AI" under the Create Song button.
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  10. Lunacy's NOVA launch art, a gold rotary knob orbited by glass shapes above the line A Constellation of Sound
    Tool News & Updates 18 Sept

    Lunacy launches NOVA, a cloud instrument platform that runs in your browser and your DAW

    • Lunacy Audio opened NOVA on September 17, 2026 as a library of instruments that live in the cloud and work in any DAW.
    • The NOVA Host plugin is free, and there are no license keys or local installs to manage.
    • NOVA launches with dozens of instruments, including free ones like Zephyr Strings, Woodland Piano, Silhouettes and Chiptuner.
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  11. Suno's official v6 launch art, the v6 logo in neon above the line Whatever you want, get it done with v6
    Tool News & Updates 18 Sept

    Suno users are cancelling over v6, and they blame the licensed training data

    • Suno subscribers have turned on v6 since its September 9, 2026 launch, calling the output muffled, generic and soulless.
    • Several users on Suno's Reddit community say they have cancelled their subscriptions or set a deadline before they do.
    • v6 was built with licensed catalogues from Warner Music, BMG and Believe instead of audio scraped from the open internet, and every older model was retired.
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  12. BandLab mastering screen showing Clarity, Tape, Natural and Spatial presets with the Intensity slider set between Light and Heavy
    Tool News & Updates 16 Sept

    BandLab's mastering update adds 11 intensity levels and 4 engineer-built presets

    • BandLab now applies each mastering preset across 11 intensity levels instead of one fixed setting.
    • Four new member presets, Natural, Cinematic, Spatial and Punch, join the existing Universal, Fire, Clarity and Tape.
    • The new presets were designed with Grammy-winning engineers Mandy Parnell, Mike Tucci and Maria Elisa Ayerbe.
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  13. AutoTune Go plugin interface in FL Studio showing vocal range, key and scale selectors and the Retune Speed control
    Tool News & Updates 16 Sept

    Antares put AutoTune Go inside FL Studio, free on every tier including FL Cloud

    • Image-Line and Antares launched AutoTune Go, a pitch correction plugin built specifically for FL Studio.
    • The plugin is free for every FL Studio user, including people on the free tier of FL Cloud.
    • AutoTune Go has real-time visual pitch display, vocal range auto detection, key and scale locking, and 4 Retune Speed settings.
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