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  1. Chartmetric Flow landing page showing the ask-anything prompt box and the label logos listed as customers
    Tool News & Updates 08 Sept

    Chartmetric launches Flow, an AI agent for music data, from $60 a month

    • Chartmetric launched Flow on September 8, 2026, after two years of internal development
    • Flow answers plain-language questions against Chartmetric's own dataset, cross-referencing 14 million artists
    • Pricing runs $60 a month standalone, with Flow Lite inside the $150 Premium plan and full Flow inside the $180 Ultra plan
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  2. Roland Melody Flip running as a plugin inside a DAW session on a laptop, showing its palette browser over a track arrangement
    Tool News & Updates 08 Sept

    Roland ships Melody Flip with 250 palettes, free on every Roland Cloud tier

    • Roland released Melody Flip on September 4, 2026, built on Sony Computer Science Laboratories research
    • The release version ships with roughly 250 palettes, each carrying a connected melody, chord, bass and drum part
    • Reference Search analyses an imported track for tempo, key, chord progression, genre and mood, then recommends matching palettes
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  3. Sonorie homepage with the describe an audio effect prompt box and example requests for compressors, filters and synths
    Tool News & Updates 08 Sept

    Sonorie builds a working VST3 plugin from a chat description, for $19.99 a month

    • Sonorie turns a plain-language description into a compiled VST3, AU or CLAP plugin for Windows, macOS and Linux
    • The service writes C++ DSP code, compiles it to WebAssembly, and lets you play the result in the browser before exporting
    • Generation runs on S1, an in-house model split into S1 Pro for complex builds and S1 Mini for simpler ones
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  4. Chris Wieduwilt with a guitar beside the logos of the 7 AI music distribution services compared for 2026: DistroKid, LANDR, ONCE, TuneCore, UnitedMasters, SoundOn and Symphonic
    Tool Roundup 07 Sept

    7 Best AI Music Distribution Services in 2026 (Free and Paid)

    • DistroKid carried 75.8% of the AI tracks in SIQA's Q1 2026 dataset, and LANDR, the distributor with the clearest AI cap, carried 2.1%.
    • LANDR now accepts 30 AI-generated releases per calendar month per subscriber, up from 12, and bundles StreamScan artificial-streaming alerts with every distribution plan.
    • ONCE charges $2 per AI release and $1 per human release, paid once, with a 0% royalty cut, and routes about $0.92 of every AI dollar into its Artist Compensation Fund.
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  5. Google's Lyria 3.5 launch graphic showing a generated K-pop track inside the Gemini app
    Tool News & Updates 05 Sept

    Google put Lyria 3.5 in the Gemini app and opened the API to developers

    • Google made Lyria 3.5 available in the Gemini app and the Gemini API on September 4, 2026.
    • The model had been limited to Google Flow Music since its July 29 launch, so this is a distribution change rather than a new model.
    • Gemini app users can now describe a genre, pick vocal or instrumental, and choose a short or longer track.
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  6. The Audacity 4 launch page showing the rebuilt multitrack editor running on a laptop
    Tool News & Updates 04 Sept

    Audacity 4 is out, and it ships with no AI features at all

    • Audacity 4 launched on September 3, 2026, rebuilt on Qt and running natively on macOS, Windows and Linux.
    • Clips can now overlap, and the release adds clip grouping, ripple editing and non-destructive editing.
    • The core app contains no AI features. Audacity's stem separation and transcription come from a separate OpenVINO plugin pack.
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  7. The Songscription homepage showing an upload box that turns audio files or YouTube links into guitar notation
    Tool News & Updates 04 Sept

    Songscription is signing publishing deals before anyone sues it, starting with Spirit Music Group

    • Songscription has signed licensing deals with independent publishers, and the Spirit Music Group deal is the first one made public.
    • CEO Andrew Carlins says publishers "seem more keen to license us than some other AI services".
    • Carlins puts the size of the opportunity at "well over 90% of songs written are untranscribed today".
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  9. Suno's Instagram teaser reading New models. Coming soon. over glowing pink and orange shapes
    Tool News & Updates 04 Sept

    Suno teases 'New models. Coming soon.' on Instagram, one day after its September 3 download caps kicked in

    • Suno posted a short video on Instagram on September 4, 2026 that reads only "New models. Coming soon." with no date, name or feature list.
    • The teaser landed one day after Suno's download caps and new Terms of Service took effect on September 3.
    • Suno confirmed on August 10 that the new generation is built with the music industry and that every prior model, from V2 to v5.5, gets retired at launch.
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  10. Title card reading What are stems in music, next to one mixed waveform separating into 4 coloured stem lanes labelled vocals, drums, bass and other
    Tool News & Updates 04 Sept

    What Are Stems in Music? The AI Stem Separation Cheatsheet (2026)

    • A stem is a mixed group of related tracks printed as one audio file, so a drum stem holds the whole kit and the 4 standard stems sum back to the finished mix.
    • Exported stems null against the mix. AI-separated stems are a model's reconstruction, and only iZotope RX, SpectraLayers and UVR's MDX-Net mode pass a null test.
    • The best public model scores 12.33 dB SDR on vocals and 18.64 dB on the instrumental, but about 9 dB on the other stem, where guitar and piano live (MVSEP Multisong leaderboard, July 2026).
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  11. Laidback Luke and Armin van Buuren in portrait, the first two members of the Moises Artist Partnerships program
    Tool News & Updates 03 Sept

    Moises made Armin van Buuren and Laidback Luke its first Artist Partners

    • Moises announced Armin van Buuren and Laidback Luke as the first members of its Artist Partnerships program on September 2, 2026.
    • Both artists will advise on product strategy and help develop producer and DJ features inside the Moises creative suite.
    • The program follows Charlie Puth's appointment as Moises' first Chief Music Officer earlier in 2026.
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  12. Soundplate and Stemmer logos stacked on red, marking Soundplate's acquisition of the AI mastering company
    Tool News & Updates 02 Sept

    Soundplate buys AI mastering company Stemmer and rebuilt its engine as a serverless API

    • Soundplate has acquired Stemmer, an AI music mastering company founded in 2020, in a deal reported on September 1, 2026.
    • Stemmer had more than 20 clients before the acquisition, and Soundplate was already one of them.
    • Soundplate says it extracted Stemmer's core algorithms and built a new proprietary serverless mastering API from the ground up.
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  13. SoundBoost Mastering Engine 3.6 web app with a text prompt, revision history and custom EQ sliders
    Tool News & Updates 01 Sept

    SoundBoost hits 180,000 users and 540,000 masters, adds mobile apps and AI mastering engineers

    • SoundBoost grew from 34,500 users last December to more than 180,000 today, with 540,000 masters processed
    • Mastering Engine 3.6 takes stem-level prompts like remove the drums, and Realtime Mode lets you steer a master with your voice
    • Guitar and piano stems, Chords Mode, Lyrics Mode, looping and an adaptive metronome are free to use
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