Ins & outs

GAME ON It’s probably the last thing we need, but we couldn’t resist downloading Klevgrand’s DAW Games plugin, which features variations on three video game classics in the form of Kletris, Flappy Mix and FFT Fight. Fun 1, Productivity 0.

LINES CLEARED The Blurred Lines copyright case has rumbled on since 2013, but now, mercifully, it appears to be over. The original verdict – that the track apes the feel of Marvin Gaye’s Got To Give It Up – has been upheld. Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams will pay damages totalling around $5m.

PROLOGUE PATCHED Remember we told you that a small number of Korg Prologue owners were suffering tuning problems with their synths? Well, as promised, Korg has released a firmware update that promises to fix these issues, so we should be all good.

AU REVOIR ALLIHOOPA It was offloaded by Propellerhead in 2017, and now, sadly, the Allihoopa music-making social network has closed its online doors. The company behind it said that it can no longer afford to be in business, and the site was switched off on 17 January.

OP-NOT-GONE Teenage Engineering have made the rare move of telling people not to buy the OP-1 synth, after false claims that it was being discontinued in order to hike up second-hand prices. Customers should instead, they say, wait for production to restart.

PARTY OFF Electronic music is the sound of late night life, so we were saddened to see TheGuardian reporting that an estimated £200m has been wiped off the value of the UK nightclub scene in the past five years. What’s wrong with kids nowadays, eh?