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- 20 Aug
AI Music News 20 AugQuantizr raises $5 million to run tour finances with AI
- Quantizr closed a $5 million seed round led by TTV Capital, an early backer of Bill.com and Greenlight.
- The platform pulls financial and deal terms out of deal memos, contracts and settlement statements and turns them into standardised data.
- Big Gigantic drummer Jeremy Salken co-founded the company with former BlackRock director Joshua Litwack and attorney Tim Nielsen.
- 20 Aug
AI Music News 20 AugMetric bots and 'artificial musicians' are marginalising real artists, Queen's University Belfast research warns
- Dr Katherine Pittalis at Queen's University Belfast finds musicians are being squeezed out and marginalised by automated systems.
- The research names two mechanisms: metric bots inflating likes and follows, and artificial musicians combining deepfakes with bot networks.
- Pittalis argues the UK regulatory framework is woefully lagging behind the EU and US on transparency around malicious bot use.
- 20 Aug
AI Music News 20 AugSony and Universal win a stream-ripping claim against Suno and lose the $9 billion expansion
- Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV issued two orders in UMG Recordings v. Suno on August 18, 2026, one granting and one denying a motion to amend.
- Sony and Universal can now pursue a DMCA Section 1201(a) claim over Suno using YT-DL and YT-DLP to pull audio off YouTube.
- The court denied the labels' bid to grow the case from 560 recordings to 61,586, keeping potential damages far below the $9 billion figure.
- 20 Aug
AI Music News 20 AugUdio beats the indie artists' state-law claim, and the judge gives them 30 days to replead voice and identity
- Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein denied the independent artists' motion for reconsideration against Udio in an order filed on August 17, 2026.
- Their Tennessee Consumer Protection Act and common-law unfair competition claims stay dismissed as preempted by the Copyright Act.
- Hellerstein wrote he does not foreclose the possibility an AI platform trained on an artist's vocal characteristics could implicate identity interests distinct from copyright.
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- 19 Aug
AI Music News 19 AugUMG gives artists a per-song switch for fan remixes in its new Hook licensing deal
- Universal Music Group and Hook announced a licensing partnership on August 19, 2026 covering fan-made content built from UMG's official recordings.
- Hook does not generate songs. Fans remix, clip and add effects to recordings already released.
- Artists and rightsholders pick which songs are available, which creation tools fans get, and where the finished clips can be posted.
- 19 Aug
Tutorial 19 AugHow to build your own audio plugin in Suno Studio by describing it
- Suno Studio 2.0 builds working audio plugins from a text description in the chat bar, complete with named knobs.
- The prompt pattern that works: name the effect, name the reference sound, then name the controls you want.
- Studio shows a build plan first, explaining the signal chain and each knob, and waits for your approval.
- 19 Aug
Tutorial 19 AugHow to mix a track in Suno Studio with all 7 audio effects
- Suno Studio 2.0 ships 7 built-in audio effects: compressor, EQ, reverb, convolution, delay, gate and distortion.
- Suno Studio is not compatible with VST or Audio Units plugins. The chat bar builds custom effects instead.
- Sidechain compression, per-band EQ and impulse-response convolution cover the core of a conventional mixing chain.
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I'm Christopher Wieduwilt. Founder of The AI Musicpreneur.
Christopher Wieduwilt
AI Music Educator & Journalist
I've been a musician for over 25 years — metal bands in Germany, a solo singer-songwriter project that toured the US coast to coast, 500,000+ plays on Myspace. Then Myspace crashed and I lost my entire fanbase overnight.
After that I worked inside the music industry for years on the business side: managing artists, working for record labels, organising concerts and festivals. Watched the same mistakes repeat on newer platforms.
In 2023, generative music AI started reshaping everything: production, promotion, rights, revenue. I started covering AI in music production in August 2023, before Suno's public launch. 200+ stories since.
Today the site is read by 20,000 music professionals every month — Grammy-winning engineers, artists, and people inside Warner Music, AWAL, Believe, Songtradr, and UnitedMasters.
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Frequently asked
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What is AI music and how does it work?
My article on What is AI music covers this in full: how AI models are trained on audio, what generation tools can and can't do, and where the copyright questions stand.
Will AI replace musicians?
The short answer is no, but the longer answer matters more. Will AI replace musicians breaks down what AI can produce, what it can't, and where human artists still have ground that's hard to take.
Is AI music copyrighted?
Practice is shifting. The US Copyright Office has ruled that purely AI-generated output doesn't qualify for copyright protection. Is AI music copyrighted covers the current legal position, the active lawsuits, and what this means for artists using AI tools in their work.
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How do AI music tools compare to traditional music production software?
Traditional DAWs give you full control with a steep learning curve. AI tools give you fast results with less manual work, but trade off some control. Most professional workflows now combine both: AI tools for ideation, stem separation, and mastering; the DAW for arrangement and final production decisions.
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