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SpeechBeat uses on-device AI to turn raw scripts into Smart Beats, then delivers them in a static Glance and Speak prompter beside the front camera.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Apple Summarizes 80K Transcripts with Zero Data Retention</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/apple-pcc-80k-transcript-summaries/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/apple-pcc-80k-transcript-summaries/</guid><description>Private Cloud Compute encrypts long meeting transcripts for stateless summary runs in isolated enclaves, then drops session data so server-class reasoning does not behave like third-party storage.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Apple PCC summarizes 80K transcripts without keeping session data</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-10-07-apple-pcc-80k-transcript-summaries/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-10-07-apple-pcc-80k-transcript-summaries/</guid><description>When meeting transcripts outgrow on-device context, Private Cloud Compute runs encrypted summary work in isolated enclaves, then clears the session. CoreRecord keeps raw audio on the Mac.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Apple Upgraded On-Device Dictation to an Active Listener</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/apple-afm3-active-listener-dictation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/apple-afm3-active-listener-dictation/</guid><description>Apple&apos;s third-generation Foundation Models treat dictation as language comprehension on Apple Silicon: fillers drop, mid-sentence fixes land, and punctuation formats locally without cloud audio.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AFM 3 on-device speech comprehension</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-28-apple-afm3-multimodal-dictation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-28-apple-afm3-multimodal-dictation/</guid><description>Apple AFM 3 Core Advanced adds an active-listener multimodal layer for local dictation, sparse activation, and clean meeting notes without cloud audio.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Apple&apos;s AFM 3 Solves On-Device Speech Comprehension</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-afm3-multimodal-dictation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-afm3-multimodal-dictation/</guid><description>Apple&apos;s AFM 3 Core Advanced multimodal stack targets local dictation with disfluency handling and punctuation. What that means for native meeting capture and offline voice memos.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Get iOS 27&apos;s Smart Calendar AI in Europe Right Now</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/localplan-eu-ios27-smart-calendar-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/localplan-eu-ios27-smart-calendar-ai/</guid><description>Certain Apple Intelligence calendar features are currently unavailable in the EU. LocalPlan uses on-device Apple Foundation Models to turn text into events on iOS 26.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CoreRecord (Part 3): Private AI Summaries</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/corerecord-part-3-private-ai-summaries/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/corerecord-part-3-private-ai-summaries/</guid><description>Part 3 of the CoreRecord Mac build series: offline live transcription on device, optional Apple Intelligence summaries via Private Cloud Compute, and raw audio that never leaves the Mac.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CoreRecord (Part 2): Live On-Device Transcription</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/corerecord-part-2-live-on-device-transcription/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/corerecord-part-2-live-on-device-transcription/</guid><description>Part 2 of the CoreRecord Mac build series: live speech-to-text on Apple Silicon, timestamped lines tied to the local recording, and transcription that runs fully on-device.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CoreRecord (Part 1): Mic + System Audio in Sync</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/corerecord-part-1-mic-system-audio/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/corerecord-part-1-mic-system-audio/</guid><description>Part 1 of the CoreRecord Mac build series: mic and system audio in one local session on native macOS audio taps, with free dual capture in the app.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How macOS Private Cloud Compute Solves the On-Device AI Context Barrier</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/macos27-private-cloud-compute/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/macos27-private-cloud-compute/</guid><description>Apple&apos;s Private Cloud Compute brings server-class reasoning to macOS while preserving local-first privacy. Hybrid fallback architecture powers modern Mac applications.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CoreRecord v2.0</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/corerecord/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/corerecord/</guid><description>Apple Intelligence meeting summaries via Private Cloud Compute, with on-device SystemLanguageModel fallback. CoreRecord AI monthly subscription (includes Pro system audio). Updated privacy policy and hybrid routing for transcript-only PCC requests.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building an On-Device Ecosystem · Part 4 of 4</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-15-speechbeat-digital-media/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-15-speechbeat-digital-media/</guid><description>How to align preview visuals and landing copy with the same on-device story engineering built into the app.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building an On-Device Ecosystem · Part 3 of 4</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-15-speechbeat-infrastructure-resilience/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-15-speechbeat-infrastructure-resilience/</guid><description>How to guarantee 100% uptime and true portability for professional creator tools.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building an On-Device Ecosystem · Part 2 of 4</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-15-speechbeat-positioning/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-15-speechbeat-positioning/</guid><description>How to turn an on-device privacy boundary into a clear App Store positioning hook for professional creators.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building an On-Device Ecosystem · Part 1 of 4</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-15-speechbeat-core-architecture/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-15-speechbeat-core-architecture/</guid><description>How to keep a teleprompter dictation loop in sync with the creator&apos;s pace during on-device capture.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CoreRecord Released</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/corerecord/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/corerecord/</guid><description>Local-first meeting synthesis. Captures system and mic audio strictly on local silicon, routing only sanitized text to Private Cloud Compute for stateless executive summaries.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CoreRecord v1.0</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/corerecord/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/corerecord/</guid><description>Initial Mac App Store release: on-device transcription, lifetime Pro unlock for ScreenCaptureKit system audio, local .caf storage, and zero developer cloud servers.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building Zero-Latency iOS Apps on the Neural Engine</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/zero-latency-architecture/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/zero-latency-architecture/</guid><description>How routing AI inference directly through Apple&apos;s Neural Engine creates instant interfaces, locked-in unit economics, and a definitive privacy posture.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Songen — MIDI as the foundation</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-11-songen-midi-foundation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-11-songen-midi-foundation/</guid><description>Songen generates editable multi-track MIDI on the device so you can change sounds, edit the piano roll, and export to your DAW without rebuilding the sequence.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:42:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>On-Device AI — Private, Offline, Instant</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-10-on-device-private-offline-instant/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-10-on-device-private-offline-instant/</guid><description>How Apple Foundation Models on the Neural Engine keep inference private, offline-capable, and instant on iOS.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>On-Device Foundation Models</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-10-on-device-foundation-models/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-09-10-on-device-foundation-models/</guid><description>How Kaari, LocalMemo, LocalPlan, and SpeechBeat run Apple Foundation Models on the Neural Engine, offline and on your phone.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SpeechBeat Released</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/speechbeat/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/speechbeat/</guid><description>Turn spoken captures into teleprompter beats and full-screen talking-head videos. Freemium on-device AI studio with 3 free saves and optional Pro lifetime unlock.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Generative Music on iPhone with Songen</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/songen-generative-music-reel/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/songen-generative-music-reel/</guid><description>A short-form reel showing on-device generative music production with Songen, from loop generation to a finished idea ready for a DAW.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Jim Collins&apos; Hedgehog Concept shaped RollSearch, one job, filename search, 100% on-device.</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-08-13-rollsearch-hedgehog-concept/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/notes/2026-08-13-rollsearch-hedgehog-concept/</guid><description>How Jim Collins&apos; Hedgehog Concept shaped RollSearch, one job, filename search, 100% on-device.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Rolling Stones&apos; Forgotten One-Take Hit: &apos;Start Me Up&apos;</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/rolling-stones-start-me-up-one-take/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/rolling-stones-start-me-up-one-take/</guid><description>A single rock take cut at the end of a 1978 reggae session sat in the vault for three years until Chris Kimsey recovered it for Tattoo You, and Mick Jagger turned it into a stadium anthem.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Rolling Stones&apos; Accidental 7-Minute Jam on &apos;Can&apos;t You Hear Me Knocking&apos;</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/rolling-stones-cant-you-hear-me-knocking-jam/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/rolling-stones-cant-you-hear-me-knocking-jam/</guid><description>At Olympic Studios in 1970, Mick Taylor, Bobby Keys, and Rocky Dijon improvised past the song ending while Andy Johns kept rolling tape, and the full seven-minute take made Sticky Fingers unedited.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Keep Building 01: Shipping My 5th App</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/keep-building-01-shipping-fifth-app/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/keep-building-01-shipping-fifth-app/</guid><description>Channel launch vlog covering a 14,000-step morning walk, a fifth on-device AI app built on Apple Foundation Models, and guitar tracking for a new song.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Keith Richards Recorded &apos;Happy&apos; Alone in One Afternoon</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/keith-richards-happy-exile-on-main-st/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/keith-richards-happy-exile-on-main-st/</guid><description>During the Exile on Main St. sessions in France, Keith Richards cut a U.S. Top 25 hit with producer Jimmy Miller on drums and Bobby Keys on sax while the rest of the band slept.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Derek and the Dominos&apos; Legendary &apos;Layla&apos; Slide Solo</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/derek-dominos-layla-slide-solo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/derek-dominos-layla-slide-solo/</guid><description>The story behind Duane Allman&apos;s slide solo on Derek and the Dominos&apos; Layla, and the pickup-level trick behind those screaming high notes.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>LocalMemo v2.0</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/localmemo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/localmemo/</guid><description>Shipped a major update utilizing Apple Foundation Models. Zero server costs, maximum privacy.</description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Fleetwood Mac&apos;s Engineers Saved &apos;Rumours&apos; Using Manual Tape Sync</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/fleetwood-mac-analog-rescue/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/fleetwood-mac-analog-rescue/</guid><description>The story behind the brilliant 1976 studio rescue when degraded master tapes forced engineers to manually sync two analog tape machines by ear.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Search Your iPhone Photos by Exact Filename</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/search-iphone-photo-filename-rollsearch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/search-iphone-photo-filename-rollsearch/</guid><description>The native iOS Photos app hides raw filenames. RollSearch indexes your camera roll on-device so you can find any photo or video in milliseconds. No cloud uploads, no subscriptions.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>LocalMemo v1.1</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/localmemo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/localmemo/</guid><description>Performance updates and native Swift framework optimizations.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building an Offline Voice Memo App That Lets You Chat With Your Notes</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/localmemo-offline-voice-memo-chat-with-notes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/localmemo-offline-voice-memo-chat-with-notes/</guid><description>LocalMemo transcribes voice on iPhone, structures notes with Apple Foundation Models, and runs chat queries on user data. No cloud servers, no monthly subscription.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Apple Runs Giant AI on Your Phone&apos;s Storage Drive</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/apple-flash-memory-inference/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/apple-flash-memory-inference/</guid><description>Apple Flash Memory Inference stores LLM weights on NAND flash and loads them on demand, bypassing iPhone DRAM limits without cloud offload.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Apple Runs Giant AI on Your Phone&apos;s Storage Drive</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-flash-memory-inference/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-flash-memory-inference/</guid><description>Apple Flash Memory Inference stores LLM weights on NAND flash and loads them on demand. Windowing and row-column bundling bypass iPhone RAM limits.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Apple Shrinks a Giant AI Model Like an MP3 File</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-quantization-mp3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-quantization-mp3/</guid><description>Apple uses two-bit quantization to compress massive foundation models. By trimming mathematical precision like an MP3 trims audio, AI runs natively on your iPhone&apos;s unified memory.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Apple Fits Hundreds of Expert AI Models on Your Phone</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/apple-lora-adapters-camera/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/videos/apple-lora-adapters-camera/</guid><description>Apple uses LoRA adapters to swap tens-of-megabyte expert modules on a frozen on-device foundation model, like changing lenses on one camera body.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Apple Fits Hundreds of Expert AI Models on Your Phone</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-lora-adapters-camera/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-lora-adapters-camera/</guid><description>Apple uses LoRA adapters to run specialized AI tasks on iOS. By swapping tens-of-megabyte weight modules like camera lenses, one base model serves many experts without exhausting storage.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Clever Strategy Apple Uses to Scale AI Models Locally</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-inference-time-elasticity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-inference-time-elasticity/</guid><description>Apple uses inference-time elasticity in AFM 3 Core Advanced to scale active parameters on the fly. Simple tasks use fewer experts; complex reasoning activates deeper parameter subsets.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Apple&apos;s Hidden AI Library Architecture</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-ifpruning-library/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-ifpruning-library/</guid><description>Apple uses Instruction-Following Pruning to run 20-billion parameter foundation models on device. AFM 3 Core Advanced activates only 1 to 4 billion parameters per prompt from NAND flash.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Apple Made Local AI Models Run 3x Faster on Your Phone</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-speculative-streaming/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-speculative-streaming/</guid><description>Apple Speculative Streaming accelerates on-device LLMs with multi-stream attention. One foundation model predicts n-gram token streams without a separate draft model.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Clever Framework I Used to Build an On-Device App</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/hedgehog-concept-on-device-apps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/hedgehog-concept-on-device-apps/</guid><description>Applying Jim Collins&apos; Hedgehog Concept to iOS engineering. How strict product constraints shaped RollSearch as a fast, local-only camera roll filename search tool.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Apple Squeezes a 20-Billion Parameter AI Model Onto an iPhone</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-afm3-sparse-architecture/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/apple-afm3-sparse-architecture/</guid><description>Apple&apos;s AFM 3 Core Advanced uses a sparse architecture to run 20-billion parameters on device. Only 1 to 4 billion parameters activate per prompt within mobile thermal limits.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>RollSearch Released</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/rollsearch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/rollsearch/</guid><description>Find the exact asset you need, instantly. RollSearch bypasses the endless photo grid by indexing your camera roll by raw system filename, giving you lightning-fast media retrieval and professional-grade file management.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Beatles&apos; Leslie Speaker Breakthrough: How Tomorrow Never Knows Shaped Modern DSP</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/the-beatles-leslie-speaker-tomorrow-never-knows/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/the-beatles-leslie-speaker-tomorrow-never-knows/</guid><description>The story behind John Lennon&apos;s otherworldly vocal sound on Tomorrow Never Knows, and the electromechanical engineering behind modern rotary audio plugins.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Beatles&apos; 4-Track Masterpiece: How Sgt. Pepper Pioneered Track Freezing</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/the-beatles-sgt-pepper-4-track-bouncing-down/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/blog/the-beatles-sgt-pepper-4-track-bouncing-down/</guid><description>The story behind the massive layers on The Beatles&apos; Sgt. Pepper, and how the analog technique of &apos;bouncing down&apos; became the blueprint for modern DAW workflows.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>LocalPlan Released</title><link>https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/localplan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.pirkkaraisanen.com/localplan/</guid><description>Stop wasting time on data entry. 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