ElevenLabs Music v2.5 ships lossless downloads, while broadcast hardware and live de-noising tools round out the audio workflow

ElevenLabs Music v2.5 brings lossless generative audio to every paid tier

5 is the day's biggest workflow shift for musicians and producers. The release is described as production-grade generative audio, validated by blind testing, and ships with lossless downloads available across all subscription plans. For practitioners, that removes a long-standing ceiling: subscribers no longer have to re-render and re-export through a separate DAW to keep archival masters, and the blind-test validation language is the kind of claim producers can weigh when deciding whether to score a track directly in the platform rather than treating it as a sketchpad.

The combination — better quality validation plus lossless output for everyone who pays — is what makes this a category event rather than a tier shuffle.

Live de-noising arrives as a near-zero-latency plug-in

Prue audio and Voxaudio have released Screenvox, a de-noiser plug-in priced within reach of mere mortals. The product's standout claim for broadcast and podcast use is near-zero latency, with the source noting it can be used live on air. That matters for two workflows that have traditionally been stuck with hardware gates or post-only clean-up: talk radio and panel podcasts, where breath, keyboard and room rumble have to be removed in real time without smearing consonants, and live-streamed music sessions, where the same plug-in can sit across a vocal channel without introducing delay that would desync a performer's in-ear mix.

Cheap, low-latency denoise is the kind of tool that quietly becomes a default in template sessions once it works.

Broadcast hardware refreshes: DHD's modular MX3 and Arqiva's new brand

On the hardware side, DHD launched its modular MX3 console range at IBC2026, giving broadcasters a new building-block surface to assemble for studios of different sizes. A modular frame is a meaningful operational change — facilities can scale a desk in increments rather than replace it, and freelancers walking into unfamiliar rooms meet a more consistent control layer. Arqiva, meanwhile, refreshed its brand as its technology remit expands, signalling that one of Europe's largest broadcast transmission operators is repositioning around a broader technology portfolio rather than staying defined purely by masts and distribution.

Both moves point in the same direction: broadcast infrastructure vendors are competing on flexibility and on being more than one product category.

The shape of today's audio stack

Taken together, the day sketches an audio world in which generative music has moved up the quality ladder, real-time denoise is no longer the exclusive domain of expensive hardware, and broadcast vendors are recasting themselves around modularity. For a single working day, the through-line is that practitioners are getting more capable defaults at every layer — composition, on-air cleanup, and the consoles that sit between them — without needing to overhaul their pipelines.

What to do next

Track Music v2.5's lossless output against your current archival format and decide whether masters can now live in-platform. Test Screenvox in a non-critical on-air or streaming slot to confirm the near-zero-latency claim in your own signal chain. If your studio is on a DHD surface, request the MX3 module list to map it against your existing frame and routing. Curtain notes: NPO Soul & Jazz ended; if your catalogue or monitoring depends on that feed, check archives.