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Thursday October 2, 2025. 09:42 PM
Louna Sbou, the director of Berlin cultural space Oyoun, is one of hundreds of civilians whom Israel illegally detained in international waters yesterday. It's yet another moment highlighting the ongoing genocide. Here is my appeal to all my friends and colleagues across...
Wednesday October 1, 2025. 11:33 AM
Roland's new flagship drum machine leaked everywhere. But we've got details on what's new under the hood, including specifics on analog voices, expanded ACB modeling and other digital features, and new sampling powers, direct from the source. You wanted a new monster from...
Tuesday September 30, 2025. 08:44 PM
You know Max for Live can help you create your own instruments and effects in Ableton Live -- but you've got to take the first step. Max 9's addition of ABL objects gives you a huge leg up, unlocking Ableton's own DSP building blocks in ready-to-mod form. Let's dive straight ...
It's not a subscription. And Ableton is still offering their existing 'buy now' licenses and upgrades. But if you don't want to pay for the flagship Ableton Live Suite all at once, you now have the option of a rent-to-own plan. That could be a way for more folks to take...
Monday September 29, 2025. 11:08 PM
Multi-dimensional polyphonic expression, connecting gestures underneath your fingers, finally makes the full range of sound synthesis something you can feel. You might even want to practice, like when you first discovered instruments. Let's take a quick break and look at...
The simple, immediate UI of Cluster, the fourth plug-in in Sinevibes' Dynamic Collection, belies a deep engine. Yes, this is a multi-filter with a sequencer, and yes, with the same ability to sketch in ideas quickly or roll the dice. But you can push the filters inside to...
Friday September 26, 2025. 12:40 PM
Pikimov, the no-paywall, all-free, browser-based motion editor keeps adding new stuff -- and we're here to learn along with you as the developer adds tutorials. This week, there's a new graph editor for easing animation, plus an easy tutorial for making the most of free...
Thursday September 25, 2025. 05:28 PM
From Joy Moughanni to Al Shatea Band, Fake Lines: Sono Levant from the non-profit, 'non-label' Fake Lines draws together sounds from across diasporas and identities in a time of genocide, erasure, and division. It's premiering now as I write this on Radio Alhara, with a...
It sounds like the next Bond movie*, but 'Tomorrow Returns' heralds a 'Major Legacy Drop' from Roland, with the addition that 'Something is Coming Soon.' What is Something? It seems we actually get a grainy image: The post Roland is teasing something big, under “Tomorrow...
Wednesday September 24, 2025. 06:19 PM
plugdata, the visual programming environment for sound and media based on Pure Data (Pd), is becoming its own scene. It's a great place to start patching your own sonic experiments, and if you haven't already done that, you should. But it's also becoming a treasure trove of...
Tuesday September 23, 2025. 05:42 PM
Sequential's new Fourm is a 4-voice polysynth with an all-analog signal path and polyphonic aftertouch and a price under a grand. To pull it off, Sequential designed an all-new expressive keybed and adapted their signature analog circuitry from the Prophet-5 (and...
Monday September 22, 2025. 07:39 PM
Forget what you know about drum machines. You're about to open up a browser tab and listen to a drum machine made with a bouncing DVD logo, or a game of Minesweeper, or seismic data, De Bruijn sequences, or pics of cats and boots. Okay, it's fairly short of 10k -- they're at ...
Thursday September 18, 2025. 10:02 PM
The history of computation is connected to textiles. And in everything from choreographic gestures to weaving, one event makes patterns sing in music and materials and bodies. Across Sheffield, Berlin, Barcelona, Linz, and online, the latest Alpaca Conference is entering its ...
Wednesday September 17, 2025. 11:19 PM
Its size is epic, as if a sci-fi prop itself. Its otherworldly sound is chilling in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. And The Blaster Beam is the unique handiwork of Captain Kirk's own nephew -- okay, Craig Huxley, who played that character on the original series. Meet The...
Tuesday September 16, 2025. 07:51 PM
It might trigger a flood of grade school memories or open a world of computing you never got to experience. But either way, 'Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground),' a music video coded in Applesoft BASIC, is itself 'vintage' now. At 20 years old, it's a window into a time when ...
Intuitive Instruments is proud to announce improvements to the award-winning Exquis...
Saturday September 13, 2025. 12:42 PM
There's no grid, no harsh colors. Tinge swells and sways like a windchime, coming to life in spinning color wheels. It's probably nothing like any arpeggiator you've seen before -- or maybe it's a 'note agitator.' Co-creators Daedelus (Alfred Darlington) and Takuma Matsui...
Thursday September 11, 2025. 03:57 PM
You may think you know the Yamaha DX7 from those couple of presets that dominated the 80s. But Oliver Greschke's Elastic OSC for iPhone and iPad is a reminder of just how much potential Yamaha's breakthrough FM synth can offer. And now Elastic OSC app can easily import those ...
Wednesday September 10, 2025. 07:34 PM
It's a multisampler. It's got 16 tracks. It's an effects box. It's got elaborate routing and multiple machines. It's a modulation monster. Or to look at it another way, The Bride of Octatrack beast is here. Here it is at a glance. The post Elektron’s Tonverk is a 16-track...
Quick access to mutes is a must-have in any live performance context. Elektron owners have enjoyed that on the Analog Rytm; now it's Push's turn. The post Mute on your Push like it’s an Elektron — Push:Mute Mode appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.
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