Abstract: The goal of this paper is to generate realistic audio with a lightweight and fast diffusion-based vocoder, named FreGrad. Our framework consists of the following three key components: (1) We ...

Abstract: Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (diffusion models for short) require a large number of iterations in inference to achieve the generation quality that matches or surpasses the ...

Florian Schneider, co-founder of electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, died in 2020 and now a massive collection of his instruments, equipment and memorabilia is going up for auction via Julien’s ...

Antares says AutoTune 2026 is "the most significant update in the software's history", rebuilding the plugin "from the ground up" to meet the needs of today's music-makers. The plugin introduces an ...

The first issue of Paste came out in July 2002. Since then, this site has catalogued the best and worst contemporary music the industry and the underground have had to offer. This week, we’re focusing ...

This work provides valuable insights by introducing a post-translational extrusion mechanism that could reshape how we understand the coupling between DnaA activity and DNA-replication initiation.

This work provides high-precision single-cell data on the relationship between DnaA activity and cell size, offering important insights for the field of cell cycle control. These findings motivate a ...

Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques. Lorde wanted her Ultrasound World Tour to be risky, even potentially controversial. In an intimate ...

Herbie Hancock is 85 years old, and he’s not done. Hancock, one of the foremost living figures in the history of jazz — nay, American music — with serious jazz and pop crossover cred in all facets of ...

Now, the equipment and instruments he used to create some of the group’s biggest songs are up for auction, in a sale of almost 500 of his personal possessions by his estate. The collection includes ...