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Image Image Credit Emma McIntyre / Staff via Getty Images Image Alt Jack Antonoff, Cher, Kendrick Lamar, Scott Bridgeway and Kamasi Washington attend the 68th Grammy Awards Image Size landscape-medium Key Takeaways: Kendrick Lamar now holds the record for most Grammy Award wins by a rapper, surpassing JAY-Z with 27 awards. His 2026 wins include Best Rap Album for GNX and Record of the Year for “luther” featuring SZA. He emphasized the importance of clean lyrics and thanked Luther Vandross’ estate for the sample clearance. The Grammy Awards are turning into an annual celebration of Kendrick Lamar. After his haul…

Image Image Credit Amy Sussman / Staff via Getty Images and Emma McIntyre / Staff via Getty Images Image Alt SZA poses in the press room during the 68th Grammy Awards and Cher speaks onstage during the 68th Grammy Awards Image Size landscape-medium Key Takeaways: Cher mistakenly announced Luther Vandross as the 2026 Grammy Award winner for Record of the Year. SZA used the moment to reflect on Vandross’ influence and the song’s deeper meaning. Kendrick Lamar and Sounwave also paid tribute to Vandross during their acceptance speech. SZA says there are no hard feelings after Cher mistakenly announced Luther…

Image Image Credit Monica Schipper / Staff via Getty Images and Christopher Polk / Contributor via Getty Images Image Alt Soulja Boy attends the 2025 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop and PlaqueBoyMax at Billboard Power 100 Presented by VENU at Zouk on Jan. 28, 2026, in Los Angeles, California Image Size landscape-medium Key Takeaways: Soulja Boy responded to PlaqueBoyMax’s Grammy Award claim by pointing to his 2008 nomination for “Crank That. (Soulja Boy)” Grok backed Soulja Boy’s claim, citing his early livestreaming on justin.tv and performance at YouTube Live. The debate highlights how early digital creators like Soulja Boy shaped music’s streaming era.…

Continuing their series, the Crow Hill Company has released Glass Beaker, a free experimental instrument in the Vaults series. I think we’re all familiar with the Vaults series from The Crow Hill Company. But, for anyone who isn’t, the Vaults series is a collection of free instruments, each available for a limited time. Once the time expires, instruments move into donationware, you can purchase previous Vaults for £3, and all profits go to music-related charities. What I like most about Vaults instruments is that they typically come with an interesting backstory, whether it’s an unusual or rare instrument, recorded in…

Shortcircuit XT by Surge Synth Team is an open-source sampler plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and it’s now in beta. Fans of the original Shortcircuit sampler and the Surge Synth Team have been eagerly awaiting the next step in the plugin’s progress since we covered the pre-alpha release years ago. We have a lot of people to thank for the progress to this stage, not least of all, the Surge Synth Team for taking over Vember Audio’s Shortcircuit2 back in 2021. We also need to look further back, to September 2018, when Claes Johanson, owner of Vember Audio, released…

Manifest Audio has released Tactum, a free stochastic impulse monosynth built for Max for Live and designed to run inside Ableton Live. I don’t usually feature Max for Live devices on BPB, mainly because not everyone can use them. But every now and then, something amazing comes along that feels worth making an exception for. Tactum is one of those exceptions. If you already own Max for Live, I think it’s absolutely worth checking out. And if you don’t, devices like this make a pretty strong case for at least giving it a try. Tactum is a monophonic, event-driven instrument…

Craft Labs has released Mayerism, a free guitar amp plugin for Windows and macOS inspired by the signature tones of John Mayer. Mayerism is another example of how far free guitar amp plugins have come in recent years, and that is especially true for those built on Neural Amp Modeler technology. Not that long ago, it would’ve been hard to argue that freeware could compete with paid amp sims in terms of feel and realism. There were a few exceptions, like LePou guitar amps, but such cases were quite rare. That’s no longer the case. We’ve seen some insanely good…

Black Octopus Sound offers the Drums Master Bundle drum and percussion sample collection for $10 to Bedroom Producers Blog readers until February 11th. This is an exclusive BPB offer. Drums Master Bundle is listed at its full price on the website, but you can bring it down to $10 by entering the coupon code BPBDrums10 at checkout. That works out to $1 per pack, which is an insane value for a bundle worth $270. The bundle includes ten drum and percussion-focused sample packs from Black Octopus Sound, covering a wide range of organic, live, and world percussion styles. In total, you’re…

Compression Isn’t Math. It’s Control. Most explanations of compression sound like a physics lecture. Threshold. Ratio. Attack. Release. All technically correct. All emotionally useless. Here’s a better way to understand compression: Compression is what happens when you try to wrestle something that doesn’t want to be controlled. Vocals. Bass. Drums. They’re all wild animals. Compression is how you keep them from tearing the mix apart.   Quick Summary 👉 Compression controls dynamic range by reducing the difference between loud and quiet sounds. Think of it like wrestling a wild animal — not to crush it, but to guide its…

Synsonic Instruments has made three of its previously paid drum plugins free to download for macOS and Windows. If you’ve been following Bedroom Producers Blog for a while, you’ll probably recognize the name Synsonic Instruments from their old BD-808 Free (featured in our article about the best free 808 plugins) and BD-909 Free plugins. Those two simple but effective kick drum emulations have been available for years and still remain free today. The big news, though, is that three plugins that used to cost $20 each have now joined the free lineup: BD-808 Pro, Apollon, and BDE-01. All three plugins…