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Many believe a return to the Uncharted series could be on the way.
Naughty Dog, the studio behind the acclaimed Uncharted and The Last of Us series, is reportedly working on a brand new project in a "beloved franchise". The news comes from a recent job listing for Sony's new internal San Diego studio, which are currently seeking to hire a new Game Design Intern for the 'AAA' title.
The job listing states that PlayStation's San Diego studio is currently "co-developing an exciting new project with Naughty Dog in a beloved franchise". Although simply speculation, given that The Last of Us: Part 1 recently received a complete remake, many believe that the "beloved franchise" could be related to Uncharted.
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As reported by VGC, the newly found Sony studio was created in partnership with PSS Visual Arts, a studio experienced in motion capture and cinematics, and one whose contributions were invaluable to The Last of Us franchise, most notably with the latest Part 1 Remake. Christina-Marie, a recruiter at Naughty Dog, has previously hinted via a LinkedIn post that the studio is not only moving towards new titles but is also keeping the legacy of Uncharted in mind as they push forward, further intensifying the speculations about the new project being related to Uncharted in some capacity.
A job listing from 2022 by Neil Druckmann, Naughty Dog's Co-President, also suggested there are at least 3 projects in development at the studio, one of which was revealed to be The Last of Us: Part 1. A report by Bloomberg last year also revealed that an Uncharted remake was originally planned, but it was later scrapped in favor of a remake of The Last of Us, as it reportedly required less design work, time and money.
Naughty Dog has also confirmed that the studio is currently working on The Last of Us multiplayer experience, which Neil Druckmann defined in the previous Summer Game Fest as an equal experience to any of their single-player games, and that it has a story of its own. This current phase may also establish a solid ground for the return of Uncharted as an experience that also supported multiplayer game modes in the past, and pave the way for its return after multiplayer was removed in recent PC and PlayStation 5 ports.
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Employees of San Francisco tea chain Boba Guys are accusing management of recording audio of both employees and customers without consent at its store in the Mission district.
The allegation comes weeks after the popular chain fired employee Madeline Urso, who was “documented in video” at the store making an inappropriate comment about co-founder Andrew Chau.
Issues within the Mission location emerged last month after Boba Guys management decided to cut down shifts for the store employees, who were mostly making less than $20 per hour with less than 30 hours a week.
On Oct. 16, over half of the staff at the Mission store expressed their frustrations regarding the cuts in a meeting with management. Urso was among those who spoke up in the meeting, saying the hours offered will no longer be enough to cover rent.
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Urso told the San Francisco Chronicle that her managers informed her about a security camera inside the store that records “muffled” audio, but she did not know it was regularly checked. Urso said she was fired in retaliation for sharing information about unionization on the company’s Slack channel and pushing back against Chau during a meeting on Oct. 16.
While Urso’s firing resulted in online backlash due to Boba Guys’ alleged illegal union busting,” the fact that the company was listening to employee conversations went mostly under the radar.
Four current and former Boba Guys employees, including Urso, told SFGate that they could not recall the company telling them that in-store conversations would be recorded. None of them ever saw signs that informed them of such a possibility.
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Any indication of audio surveillance also does not appear in the Boba Guys employee handbook supplied by an employee to the publication.
According to Urso, she can’t recall exactly where she was when the camera picked up her statement, but the small size of the location in the Mission District meant employees and customers have always been just a short distance from where the camera is situated.
Chau and co-founder Bin Chen did not respond to SFGate’s multiple requests for comment about the audio surveillance, but instead sent out an email to their employees that same day.
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“A part of our security measures include audio/video recording within our retail stores,” the email read. “This is a well-established and commonplace practice within the retail and hospitality industries.”
Jim Wagstaffe, an attorney who specializes in First Amendment cases, told SFGate that while cameras are commonplace, audio recording is not.
“Do you expect that someone’s going to use a surveillance camera not just to see you walk in, but actually listen to your conversations?” Wagstaffe was quoted as saying.
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As California is a “two-party consent” state, the consent of all parties involved is required before a private or confidential conversation can be recorded, including conversations held in public spaces if no notice is posted.
Those found guilty of illegal audio recording face a fine of up to $2,500 or imprisonment for up to one year, with subsequent offenses carrying a maximum fine of $10,000 and a jail sentence of up to one year.
 
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Twitter began laying off thousands of its employees on Friday, Nov. 4—possibly half of the 7,500-person staff—just one week after being bought by billionaire Elon Musk.
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Mercedes Wedaa also accused the Amazon founder of discriminating against her because of her race and wrongfully terminating her, per court documents.
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The lawsuit, filed by attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan, is asking the court to issue an order requiring Twitter to abide by the WARN Act.
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Employees were laid off from Twitter globally starting on Nov. 3 and abruptly learned their individual fates by email or being logged off their laptops and Slack, a messaging app. Twitter employees announced their loss on the microblogging platform by using the #lovewhereyouworked hashtag. Teams of employees who worked on social, content moderation, engineering, marketing and human resources were all let go just days before the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 8.
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Listening to and learning about this week’s distinguished artists for our weekly Finally Friday series at 3rd & Lindsley brings to mind the phrase ‘old school.’ Whether torchy and traditional-leaning like west coaster Cassandra Lewis, literary/rural like JD Clayton or honky-tonk-hippie like Ben Chapman, there’s a through line of country music – not the industrial strength, focus-group music you’ll hear next week on the CMA Awards, but something more individual and true.
Ben Chapman (noon) is a friend and co-writer of fellow Georgian Brent Cobb, and that does offer a bit of insight into his recliner-ready twang. Chapman is the artist behind last year’s funny, funky “Hippie Speedball,” inspired by the namesake cocktail of coffee and cannabis. Super-songwriter Hillary Lindsay signed Chapman to her new publishing company and told Music Row magazine why she was excited: “I love real people, and real people are hard to find but without even meeting Ben, I was in because he’s so authentic with who he is as a person as well as with his artistry.” In March of this year, Chapman released his first album as a Nashvillain, Make The Night Better under his own Hippie Shack brand. You’ve heard him on the Local Brew. Now chill out with Chapman over lunch.
JD Clayton’s new EP opens with birdsong and an outdoorsy ambience that makes a fitting backdrop to simple songs well sung. “American Millionaire” follows, an aspirational song with a working man’s heartbeat. “Heartaches After Heartbreak” is a lonesome but hearty southern rocker. It adds up for a guy from Fort Smith, AR who got serious about songwriting and performing in college. He’s in Nashville now, but he carries a torch for his home. “Arkansas, where I’m from, is the Natural State. So I felt like I needed to get back to my roots and start making music that felt natural and organic,” Clayton says in his bio. “Production needed to be basic and simplistic with a focus on the story and the song. We would plug in a mic, set it in front of an amp, and let the player share their own story with their instrument. Now, that’s making music.” The EP is called Side A, implying more to come, and indeed he says there are songs in the can awaiting release. He’s on at 12:45
Cassandra is such a lovely name that it shouldn’t be baggaged by the old mythical character who’s always telling everyone that everything is going terribly wrong. Listening to Cassandra Lewis, one feels as if everything’s going to be okay, because her voice is so passionate and classically gorgeous. She’s left evidence of being based in Portland OR, the Bay Area and right here in Nashville, so we’ll have to ask her about her current HQ. But we do know her musical vision, because she articulated it to American Songwriter: “When people ask,” she said, “I just tell them [I create] Cosmic Americana. Dolly Parton on acid. Janis Joplin on Jesus. I’ve gone through a lot of phases musically, but I’ve always been deeply rooted in classic country western, the blues, soul, and psychedelic rock.” Her August release Always, All Ways is a superb country album with a timeless lushness that sounds to me in places like a fusion of Patsy Cline and Melody Gardot. Her set runs from 1:30 to 2 pm.

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Everything is built in layers, something that Lynn Grissett in particular takes full advantage of.
by Dan Ruccia
Nov. 02, 2022
6:30 a.m.
Dreamroot: Leaf  |  ★★★1/2 | Self-released; October 28
There’s a moment at the beginning of “Get Better,” the fifth track on Dreamroot’s second album, Leaf, that seems to neatly encapsulate the record’s overall mood. Over a bed of warm, washed-out synths, keyboardist Joe MacPhail rolls a gentle four-chord progression on what sounds like a Fender Rhodes. Drummer Theous Jones lays down the barest skeleton of a beat while Lynn Grissett layers down multiple, burbling trumpet lines that seem to echo to infinity. After about 30 seconds, Ittai Korman brings in a thick, R&B bass line and for a moment, the song snaps into gear.
But the draw of that reverberating stasis, that feeling of almost pure vibes, proves too strong to resist, and the band returns to it often throughout the album’s six songs.
Unlike on their last album, 2020’s Phases, the Durham-based quartet seem to fully embrace the possibilities of studio production here. Everything is built in layers, something that Grissett in particular takes full advantage of. Now the group’s sole horn player, he plays both trumpet and saxophone, sometimes adding muted trumpet countermelodies; sometimes recreating the tight, ebullient charts he played as part of the New Power Generation; and sometimes constructing dialogues with himself. The layer from other band members is a little more subtle—an extra bowed bass line here, an extra synth pad there—but the overall effect is to make their sound that much more capacious than before. Even the songs where they act as a “traditional” jazz combo hide little studio flourishes here and there.
What’s more surprising is that they manage to do all of this while still maintaining the logic of a four-minute pop song. Each tune is crisply constructed and easy to follow, and Grissett’s and Jones’s solos are both concise and melodic. It’s an impressive combination, though I sometimes wish they would push on the possibilities of their various moods a little harder and maybe gesture more toward the weird jazz/pop/funk eclecticism of folks like Robert Glasper or Thundercat.
As with their last album, they’re still occasionally closer to background music than I’d like, but they’re a bit farther from that line than before, and the choice to go fully instrumental here serves them well. I’ll be curious to see how they continue to develop and expand their sound going forward.
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In the U.S., most surveillance laws are dictated at the state level. While the majority of workplaces allow companies to install video cameras that capture visuals of whatever is going on in the store, including interactions of customers and employees, recording audio of their conversations is strictly prohibited in many states.
One of those states is New York, which has implemented anti-eavesdropping statutes that protect employees’ conversations from being recorded while at work.
TikToker Ethan Carlson, who posts under the handle @therealethancarlson, recently uploaded a video about his workplace’s audio-enabled cameras, prompting many viewers to urge him to report his employer.
In a now viral clip, Ethan says to the camera, “This is not a f–king drill, my place of work has installed these cameras.”
He then points his camera lens and zooms in to show security devices installed up high in his store.
Is this legal?!? #nyc #survivaljob #fypシ
Ethan continues, “…Which are literally from Amazon, that you have in your home? That you can watch, like, your child or dog on the couch and talk to them? So they’re like listening to us and watching us?”
At this point in the video a customer walks into the store and Ethan begins to address them: “Hi, welcome in!” and then he cuts the recording. In a text overlay of the clip he asks if it’s legal for these specific types of cameras to be installed at work, and throngs of users on the platform weighed in.
According to R&M Legal Associates, under New York State Labor Law, Section 250.05, employers cannot record their workers with technology that captures an “audio component” of their interactions in the business, so it appears that the folks who are viewing and commenting on Ethan’s post are right.
“Hopefully they don’t have the sound recording, very illegal. Strict rules on recording of sound.”
“That happened to me at a very toxic job I had. Just quit now, from my experience it’s just going to get worse.”
“just start saying, ‘alexa, how do I form a union?'”
While some TikTokers thought there was nothing wrong with video recordings being captured at a place of work they never encountered a camera that recorded audio.
“According to Google, video is ok but not recording audio… [in my opinion] I would rather have cameras at work in case shady customers try to do stuff…”
“Security cameras cause me too much stress to look at constantly so hopefully your boss feels the same,” someone commented.
“Time for a security audit! Seems like they might be breaking laws,” said another.
Businesses in other parts of the country are making headlines for recording audio of workers, like Boba Guys in San Francisco, which released a statement to Eater about the practice: “A part of our security measures include audio/video recording within our retail stores. This is a well-established and commonplace practice within the retail and hospitality industries.”
Have you ever worked at a place that recorded audio of you, either with or without your knowledge? How do you feel about a business being able to listen in on your conversations?
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Did somebody say free plugins? It’s our monthly round-up of the most phenomenal freeware for producers on a budget
Everybody loves a free plugin. We’d wager that even the most affluent music-makers, smugly reclining in their padded studio chairs while they bask in the radiant glow of a specced-out M1 Mac, feel a twinge of excitement when a gratuitous VST pops up on their 6K Retina display. 
This is our monthly free software round-up’s raison d’être. It exists to serve you, the sonically curious and financially prudent producer, in your pursuit of the internet’s finest freeware. We know you’re a busy bunch, so here we present the most intriguing freebies from our regular news coverage that you may have missed, plus anything else that’s caught our eyes (and ears) over the past 30 days. 
• The best free music software and plugins: DAWs, synths effects and more
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Platforms: PC | Formats: VST/VST3 | Download
There’s a ton of free emulations of Roland’s iconic, genre-defining TB-303 out there, but very few that you can download absolutely free. However – the RF-AB303, from Ronan Fed, delivers instant acid goodness for the low, low price of $0. The single-oscillator monosynth is capable of sawtooth and square waveforms, and is equipped with a multimode filter and several effects, including compression, distortion, delay, and reverb. 
Platforms: Mac/PC | Formats: AU/AAX/VST3 | Download (opens in new tab)
Kiive Audio’s XTressor is an effective, versatile plugin compressor that takes inspiration from Empirical Labs’ powerful EL8 Distressor rackmount compressor, a staple of high-end studio set-ups. Though the XTressor will set you back $149.99, Kiive have made the XTressor Nuke, the plugin’s “little brother”, absolutely free. 
Despite its stripped-back feature set, the Nuke still packs a punch, as you can hear in the video above. Perhaps not the right choice if you’re after a full-featured, go-to compressor plugin, but certainly worth a download for some instant (and free) punch and power.
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If you missed out on Arturia’s giveaway of its $99 Tape Mello-Fi plugin last holiday season, you’ve now got another chance to download it for free courtesy of Audio Plugin Deals.
This is a vintage tape-emulation and lofi effect based on the sound and behaviour of the classic Mellotron (and, in turn Arturia’s Mellotron V emulation). Parameter knobs enable you to adjust the amount of Noise, Flutter, Wow, Wear and ‘Mechanics’, and you can also dial in subtle distortion and saturation. This leaves you with an effect that promises to apply lo-fi vibes to anything you stick it on – drum loops, vocals or even your entire mix.
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This month, PreSonus unveiled Notion Mobile, a freemium, cross-platform music composition tool that builds on the blueprint laid out in Notion for iOS.
By cross-platform, PreSonus means more than just Windows, macOS and iOS/iPadOS, as Notion Mobile also runs on Android, ChromeOS and Amazon Fire OS devices. You can compose using both standard music notation and guitar tab, and switch between operating systems at will.
While you can download Notion Mobile for free, if you want to go beyond the core sound library and access full functionality, you’ll need to purchase the optional Feature Bundle. 
Platforms: Windows | Formats: VST3/Standalone | Download
ReplicatAudio describe the GreenWave as a “flexible, modern software synthesizer with classic roots.” That’s marketing copy that we can get down with. Their claim that the synth is capable of producing “handcrafted waveforms”, however, has us stumped. What’s next? Artisan filters? Fair trade presets? Locally sourced lo-fi? 
Silliness aside, this subtractive, dual-oscillator number packs in a decent amount of features for a free synth plugin, and deserves your attention. 
Platforms: Mac/Windows | Formats: AU/AAX/VST3 | Download (opens in new tab)
This free delay plugin from Kilohearts is equipped with two stereo delays that are coupled together, enabling you to set the second delay time as a ratio of the first, before panning the pair outwards into each speaker. The Crosstalk control allows you to route the feedback of each into the other, creating complex systems of echoes. 
Dual Delay is part of Kilohearts Essentials, a bundle of free effects plugins that you should most definitely check out. 
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Avid are known for manufacturing Pro Tools, the industry-standard DAW that’s used in top recording studios across the globe. This month, they announced the release of Pro Tools Intro, a free version of their flagship DAW.
Pro Tools Intro gives you eight audio tracks, eight instrument tracks and eight MIDI tracks. There’s also AAX support – so you can run compatible third-party plugins – and Pro Tools Intro uses the standard .ptx session format.
Pro Tools Intro ships with 35 Avid plugins, including a channel strip, compressor, EQ, filters, reverb and delay. You also get the AIR Xpand!2 virtual instrument, which includes more than 2,500 presets.
Platforms: Windows | Formats: VST3 | Download

The launch of a new collection of chorus, flanger and phaser plugins might not sound like too much to get excited about, but GPU Audio’s Modulation Bundle is a little different in that all the effects are powered by your computer’s graphics card.
The company’s GPU-powered platform was launched at this year’s NAMM Show, with the first evidence of its capabilities being an early-access convolution reverb. The Modulation Bundle is the next step; the first in a new ‘beta-suite’ of plugins, it uses GPU Audio’s patented technology to harness the parallel processing power of your computer’s graphics system, taking the pressure and workloads off your CPU.
The Modulation Bundle is available initially for Windows machines with NVIDIA GPUs only, but AMD support is coming soon. GPU Audio says that it’s working closely with Apple and that it hopes to roll out macOS support in November.
Platforms: Mac/PC | Formats: AU/VST3 | Download
The second free compressor plugin we’re highlighting this month comes from our friends over at Bedroom Producers Blog. The Dirty LA takes its name from the legendary LA-2A compressor, aiming to reproduce the sound of this storied bit of vintage kit and bring classic-sounding compression and saturation to your productions. Get involved. 
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OpinionBarry Howard  |  October 26, 2022
In the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, there’s a line that says, “I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
In recent years, leadership training events have emphasized the importance of emotional intelligence. But emotional strength and balance are important for everyone, not just those in leadership roles. Utilizing the tools available to help us to manage our emotions is especially important for followers of Jesus.
Barry Howard
What is emotional intelligence? Emotional intelligence, also known as emotional quotient, refers to our ability to monitor and control our own emotions. Your emotional quotient, also known as EQ for short, is not the same as your intelligent quotient (IQ), but it is just as important.
Developing a high EQ will reduce mental stress by equipping you with self-awareness, self-regulation and good communication skills. This will help you to elevate your confidence and make you emotionally stronger.
What are the primary human emotions? Several years ago, psychologist Paul Eckman identified six basic emotions he suggested are universally experienced in all human cultures: Happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, surprise, anger. He later expanded his list of basic emotions to include such things as pride, shame, embarrassment and excitement.
If it feels like your emotions are “all over the map” during this season following the pandemic, you are not alone. In addition to altering our schedules and delaying many of our plans, the closures and life interruptions of the past two and a half years have challenged our sense of emotional balance.
Here are eight tips to help us navigate our emotions:
John Seymour contended, “Emotions make great servants, but tyrannical masters.”
Strengthening our emotional intelligence is key to keeping all the other dimensions of life in harmony. Proverbs 4:23 cautions, “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”
Barry Howard serves as pastor at the Church at Wieuca in North Atlanta. He also serves as a leadership coach and columnist with the Center for Healthy Churches. He and his wife, Amanda, live in Brookhaven, Ga. Follow him on Twitter at @BarrysNotes.
 
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A 1971 documentary called Harvest Time, marking the 50th anniversary of Neil Young's classic album Harvest, will premiere in theaters worldwide on Dec. 1. More showings in select locations will follow on Dec. 4, with, presumably, a home-video release at a later date.
“The feature is a never-been-seen-before fan piece including footage from Northern California, London and Nashville, during [Harvest's] creation,” distributors Trafalgar Releasing said in a statement. “The exclusive cinema event begins with a personal introduction from Young about the film and signature album.”
The statement noted that the film was "created between January and September 1971 … [and] takes viewers on an intimate journey to Young’s Broken Arrow Ranch in Northern California for the ‘Harvest Barn’ sessions, to London for an iconic performance with the London Symphony Orchestra and to Nashville where the then 20-something Young worked on various tracks of this signature album. Performance and rehearsal content is intertwined into creative storytelling and includes most of the [1972 album’s] tracks … including ‘Heart of Gold,’ ‘A Man Needs A Maid,’ ‘Alabama’ and ‘Old Man.’"
You can watch a clip from the film below.
"Fifty years ago," Young added. "I was 24, maybe 23, and this album made a big difference in my life. I played with some great friends, and it’s really cool that this album has lasted so long. … When I listen to it, I think I was really just lucky to be there … and now people all around the world can see it at the movies."
The movie release ties in with the release of a 50th-anniversary edition of Harvest, which arrives on Dec. 2. Theater tickets go on sale on Nov. 10 at NeilYoungHarvestTime.com.

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One of the greatest nights in most teenagers' lives is prom night, one of those last hoorah celebrations you have with your closest and most distant classmates as you all prepare to graduate and go off into your separate paths. Dressing up in the most stylish dresses and suits for the night as you took pictures, danced, and enjoyed refreshments. It's the only high school dance that EVERYONE wanted to go to.
I didn't even mention the preparation that goes into a prom night. The committee has to find a venue, DJ, and many other things before selling tickets. Then everyone has to get their proposals together and once they find dates it's time to go suit/dress shopping, find a car for the night, dinner reservations, and corsages. That's not even counting things like hair/haircut, makeup, nails, etc. With all of that being said, I hope you're all ready, because it's the adults' turn.
Saturday, November 12th, the Performance Fieldhouse in Paw Paw will be hosting an 80's Themed Adult Prom from 8 p.m. to midnight as a fundraiser. The proceeds will go towards the Paw Paw Area Chamber Scholarship while the remaining cash will go to the Performance Fieldhouse.
Tickets are only $20 and can be found on eventbrite.com.
Not only will DJ Studio One be spinning the turntables and playing all the throwback 70s and 80s hits, but there will also be live entertainment. The Strum, Dumb, and Dumber band will be playing live at some point in the night to give DJ Studio One a break to enjoy himself as well.
In addition to music, there will also be local restaurants providing refreshments, the best couple competition, a vote for king and queen, and a memory wall for attendees to bring their own throwback 80s prom pictures.
This could be the perfect date night to spark your relationship or it could be a wonderful trip down memory lane. It could be a chance for those who never attended prom to go themselves.
I don't really see this as having a negative reason to exist, I'm thinking about dusting off the suit myself and popping out.

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Amazon is now offering the AKAI Professional MPK Mini MK3 USB MIDI Keyboard Controller for $99 shipped in all colorways. Regularly $119, this deal is also live at B&H and a range of other retailers right now. While it might not seem like the deepest deal, this rarely discounted AKAI controller is now matching the Amazon all-time low and we seldom see all colorways marked down at the same time – the grey model, for example, is now seeing its very first price drop on Amazon. AKAI’s controllers are some of the best out there and this 25-key option is no exception. It also features eight backlit velocity-sensitive MPC-style MIDI beat pads with note repeat as well as a collection of over 1,500 sounds as part of the “Complete Music Production Starter Kit” (2GB of content in total). Head below for more details. 
The $99 offer is relatively on par with most 25-key options from the big brands, although there are some slightly more affordable options out there. The $90 M-Audio Oxygen 25 and Arturia MINILAB MKII at $79 come to mind, but if you don’t mind going with an older model, the AKAI Professional LPK25 is down at $45 right now. The regularly $59 option has been around for a while, but it is still more than capable of getting your beats, melodies, and chords patterns into modern machines and DAWs at an affordable price. 
After AKAI unveiled the new MPK Mini Play MK3 and the first MPC Key 61 all-in-one production rig earlier this year, it updated ‘the world’s most popular controller keyboard’ with new MPK Mini Plus. Just last month the brand unveiled its latest keyboard controller with enhancements across the board alongside a built-in sequencer, its staple X/Y joystick controller, and more. Get a complete breakdown of what to expect in our launch coverage. 
Just make sure to also scope out the rare deals we are tracking on the Universal Audio Volt interfaces while you’re at it. 
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