ConvertWithMoss, the free open-source multi-sample converter, shipped version 19 on July 18, 2026, adding support for 11 more hardware sampler formats, including Polyend Tracker, Renoise XRNI, Elektron Tonverk and three separate Roland patch types.
Allen & Heath has folded its flagship dLive effects engine, RackUltra FX, into the SQ5+, SQ6+ and SQ7+ consoles and pushed it to existing Avantis desks via a 2.0 firmware update, meaning the mixers that run sound at clubs and mid-size venues worldwide no longer need an outboard rack for vocal tuning, harmonizing or saturation.
elrow's theatrical 'Dance With the Serpent' takeover sold out two nights at Pacha New York on July 17 and 18, 2026, the first global party brand to run its own production inside the venue since it emerged from Avant Gardner's bankruptcy and reopened under Pacha ownership in June.
Bogotá's Mayor's Office and the Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño have formally converted Monumentum: Distrito Rave from an independent festival into an official, government-backed electronic music event, with its fifth edition landing free in Plaza de Bolívar on July 25.
Dirk Ulrich, the founder of Plugin Alliance and Brainworx, has reacquired both companies from inMusic effective July 15, 2026, folding them into his new RCKFRC Audio Group alongside Manley Labs and Apogee, per Sound on Sound.
reFX is releasing a commercial version of Tiagolr's free physical-modeling synth Rippler, months after the developer pulled the open-source repo to sign it to the plugin maker.
Beatport's new free Greenroom hub gives any artist or label with music on the store real-time access to downloads, DJ-follower growth and streaming numbers that used to be scattered or invisible.
Wearable data puts a single all-night rave at 40,000 to 50,000 steps, within reach of a marathon's roughly 50,000 to 55,000, and a peer-reviewed Glastonbury study found festival-goers average 15,661 steps a day, hitting the UK's entire weekly exercise guideline in one day alone.
WHOLE Festival's eighth edition runs July 17 to 20 at Ferropolis near Berlin, drawing 10,000 people to 187 artists across six stages built around an explicit safety architecture: a FLINTA zone, an expanded Cruising Village and a Solidarity Program funding entry for refugees and QTIBPOC attendees.
John Tejada and Laurel Halo have released the two-track EP "Shade / Happy Trees" on Tejada's own Palette Recordings, the label's 30th anniversary year, and Bandcamp Daily just named it an Essential Release.
BLOND:ISH closed her Abracadabra residency's second season at Pacha Ibiza on July 29, 2026, as the first woman ever to headline the club's resident lineup in more than 50 years of history.
West End operators warn that Westminster's 'cumulative impact zone' policy, which blocks most new hospitality licences past 11:30pm, is squeezing venues faster than Sadiq Khan's new mayoral override powers can protect them.
The Consell d'Eivissa has formally demanded that Aena, Spain's state airport operator, cancel the weekly DJ sessions turning Ibiza Airport's duty-free zone into a nightclub, calling the sets a direct contradiction of the island's push to rebrand beyond party tourism.
Insomniac Events has settled its lawsuit with Club Space and Factory Town co-founders David Sinopoli, Davide Danese and Jose Gabriel Coloma Cano, splitting Miami's biggest dance-music venue portfolio along the way.
fabric London and Sennheiser have expanded their partnership into a five-date 2026 series atop The Shard, opening August 21 with Sven Väth before the night moves down to fabric's Farringdon club.
Glasgow City Council launched a Night Time Economy Commission on 13 July 2026, chaired by Sub Club manager Mike Grieve, to draft a strategy as UK nightclub numbers keep collapsing.
MODULA 26, a two-day synthesizer and electronic-music expo at Dynamo Zurich on July 17-18, 2026, is the city's first dedicated synth event since the Zurich Modular Festival folded around 2018-2019.
Terminal V Croatia has expanded to five stages at The Garden Resort in Tisno for its July 16-20, 2026 edition, folding in Barbarella's Discotheque for sunrise afterhours sets, with organizers confirming fewer than 10% of tickets remain.
Morphoice has released EightyTen, a free public-beta plugin emulating the Roland JX-8P, Super JX-10 and MKS-70, for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Novation has topped off its Launchkey MK4 line with an 88-key, semi-weighted, full-size MIDI controller that has no built-in sound engine, completing a ten-model range across six sizes at $449.99.
Audio Damage's new Tessera plugin excites twelve tuned resonator voices from a single audio input, turning a drum hit into a full chord or a sustained tone into an evolving pad.
inMusic laid off roughly 100 Native Instruments staff this week, including its entire support team, and days later Plugin Alliance and Brainworx founder Dirk Ulrich reacquired both companies outright through his new holding company RCKFRC.
Resident Advisor's second summer 2026 cover feature, "Ricardo Villalobos: Slipping Through Time" by Oli Warwick, lands one of the rare long-form interviews with minimal techno's most unpredictable figure.
Joseph Capriati's Metamorfosi concept has returned to Amnesia Ibiza for a 14-date Tuesday residency running through September 29, timed to the club's 50th-anniversary season and pulling in more than 80 confirmed artists across both rooms.
