Splice is adding a new channel to its Discord server called ‘Diamonds’. It’s focused on under-represented genders and LGBTQIA+ musicians.
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Splice shuts down its ‘Studio’ feature for music collaboration
Music-making platform Splice is having a refocus within its business that involves shutting down its ‘Studio’.
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Creative AIs and music in 2022: startups, artists and key questions
From the 1950s onwards, there have been researchers exploring algorithmic composition using computers around the world.
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Splice has a new CEO as its co-founder shifts to a new role
Music creation firm Splice has a new boss: former Adobe executive Kakul Srivastava.
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Splice launches AI-powered music creation platform as AI music continues to find its place
We’ve written a lot about AI music creation and how initial and understandable pangs of concern from human songwriters
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Splice is working with African streaming service Boomplay
Splice built its community with its subscription model for music loops, beats and samples.
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SoundCloud and Splice launch ‘Nova’ music creation contests
Combinations of music services and creator tools / communities aren’t new, but we sense they’re going to be a more prominent part of the music ecosystem in the coming years.
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Splice enlists artists as advisors on its Global Music Council
Music-making platform Splice has worked with a number of professional artists and producers on sample packs to offer to its subscribers. Now it’s getting some starry names on board as advisors.
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Splice adds new creator plans with virtual instruments
Creator tools firm Splice has been offering subscriptions for a long time, but now it has added two new plans into its mix: Creator and Creator+. They sit alongside the existing Sounds+ […]
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Clean Bandit release their own sample pack on Splice
Clean Bandit are the latest artist to explore the world of music creation, by releasing their own sample pack on Splice. The pack includes 110 samples: drums, synths, basslines, FX and […]
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Splice raises $55m funding round valuing company at $500m
Having become one of the key services (and communities) for music makers, Splice is raising money again. The company has raised a $55m funding round from investors Goldman Sachs and Music – the […]
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Splice paid out $11m in royalties in first nine months of 2020
We’ve written regularly about music creation firm Splice, with its subscription plan for samples and related music-making tools. Now the company has revealed how that’s paying off for the producers of the sounds it offers to musicians.
Splice paid out $11m in royalties over the first nine months of 2020 according to MBW, taking its lifetime total to $36m. Meanwhile, the company has seen its daily sound downloads grow by 50% to 1.1m during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Our goals are about being the artist’s advocate. It’s about what can we do to line up alongside the artist and make sure that as the economy of the music business is shifting back toward the artist, the empowerment is shifting back toward the artist,” promised chief music officer Maria Egan.