ILIO Blog - Artists, Playlists, Deals & News

Exciting news from Spectrasonics! Sonic Extensions are an entirely new experience for Spectrasonics flagship synth Omnisphere. Each Sonic Extension features Ultra High Quality custom FX designed by Spectrasonics, custom controls to interact creatively with Omnisphere in totally NEW ways, and stunning new soundsources, deeply multisampled, with State-of-the-Art features.

Whynot Jansveld is a great example of a modern musician navigating and thriving in the constantly changing environment of the music business. But what's his secret to thriving? We caught up with Whynot in between gigs and his travels to talk about different areas of the music industry that he's planted his feet in and find out what software tools he loves using.

To commemorate the influence that neo soul has had on music over the last thirty years, ILIO has curated a playlist of artists who use some of the products we distribute, and have also made wonderful recordings within the genre. From Moonchild to Beyonce, H.E.R. to Thundercat, you’ll hear a wide range of sonic interpretations of neo soul in the ILIO Neo Soul Playlist.

The Wildcardz are a music production duo made up of Sadie Currey and Ester Na who have co-written songs with K-Pop Stars EXO and NCT127, US-based Nikki Flores, and 3LAU. In addition, they have worked on various movie soundtracks including Universal Pictures' Pitch Perfect III and Sing II, and 20th Century Fox's Bad Times at the El Royale.

Artist Ramii (he also goes by Rami Beatz) is a producer and beat maker originally from Cleveland, Ohio. His career has taken a steady climb up, from working with local talent through to his relocation to LA and involvement with a growing cadre of rap and R&B artists. He’s been part of many huge hits for artists like Kid Cudi, Machine Gun Kelly, Big Sean and others, and is branching out to find new talent that he can help craft their sound and drive their success. He’s an avid user of all the Spectrasonics virtual instruments, and recently sat down to have a chat with us.

“It should feel like 'x' but not too much like 'x'.” Navigating the world of commercial ad scoring is more cerebral than you might think. Ad-composer Max Schad (Butter Music & Sound) offers 5 simple tips to "Squeeze" everything you can out of vague directions and reference tracks in order to breath life into your compositions.