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Juno Park

Juno Park covers AI sound design and game audio workflows — foley, loops, and middleware — after seven years cutting assets for mobile and indie titles.

Plugins A recording studio control room photographed in low warm light, an audio engineer seated…
Plugins · 11 min

How to Dial In Vocal Compression With Free Plugins, in Signal Order

The vocal sat at six decibels of gain reduction and still sounded wrong. Not squashed — shoved. Every line arrived a fraction late and left a fraction early, like someone was riding a fader half a…

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Licensing A wide, dimly lit conference room in a music industry office at dusk, photographed…
Licensing · 9 min

Suno Under Litigation: A Risk Review of AI Music Generation, From Training Set to Sync Deal

The question that ends a licensing conversation is never about the music. It is four words from a music supervisor or a label's business affairs desk: who owns this cue?

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Authenticity A dimly lit home recording studio at night, shot from behind a producer seated…
Authenticity · 5 min

The 97 Percent Problem: What AI Music Generation Allegations Actually Prove

The screenshot is always the same shape. A detector's web interface, a waveform somebody dragged in off a rip, and one number set in a font size that does not invite discussion: 97% AI-generated.

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Music Marketing A dimly lit bedroom at night photographed from behind and slightly above a teenage…
Music Marketing · 10 min

Roblox Concerts, Compared: The Set Piece, the Bribe, and the Address

The counter read north of eleven million before the doors opened. Not tickets. Interest — a button press that costs nothing, logged from an account that may or may not be awake on the night.

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Licensing A dimly lit European studio control room at night, photographed from behind an empty…
Licensing · 10 min

Country Profile – Germany 2026: How to Clear an AI-Generated Track for a German Client

The email landed at 23:14 Berlin time, two days before picture lock. Four words: "Bitte GEMA-frei bestätigen." Confirm the music is GEMA-free.

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Policy A professional documentary photograph of an empty small music venue interior in the late…
Policy · 7 min

AI in Live Music: The One Number Your Booking Policy Should Be Built On

The email lands on a Tuesday, three days after the show. A guitarist who played second on a five-band bill has worked out that the act above them — 22-minute set, stereo bounce off a USB stick, no…

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Ai Music A nearly empty independent coffee shop on a weekday afternoon, shot from a corner…
Ai Music · 11 min

AI Music Ethics: The One Rule Everyone Repeats, and Where It Falls Apart

Somewhere around the fourth pass, I noticed the hi-hat wasn't moving. I was in a coffee place in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon, and the track on the ceiling speakers was a soft, warm, mid-tempo…

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Streaming A cluttered home studio desk photographed at dusk, a vintage Juno-106 synthesizer with dust…
Streaming · 11 min

AI Music Detection and Identification: What It Actually Does for Independent Labels

A friend sent me a demo this spring: five minutes of drone built from a Juno-106 with two dead voices, a contact mic taped to a radiator, and a vocal take pushed through enough saturation that it…

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Industry A wide, low-angle photograph of an empty conference room at dusk, dominated by a…
Industry · 6 min

The Billion-Dollar Number Everyone Quotes About the Latin Music Industry — and What It Actually Measures

One billion dollars. That is the line that shows up in nearly every deal memo written about the Latin music industry in the last few years — the moment US Latin recorded-music revenue crossed ten…

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