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Friday April 4, 2025. 04:17 PM
Eric Singer is back. The interactive artist and inventor helped the idea of robotics and alternative interfaces break out to wider audiences over the past decades - and now he's gearing up to put LIDAR in your modular rig or other devices with analog CV inputs. The post...
Thursday April 3, 2025. 04:15 AM
Today, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the iconic SP-404 sampler, Serato and Roland...
On 404 Day Eve, Roland is squeezing more power into the SP-404MKII. This time, you can use the device to add hands-on control to Serato DJ Lite/Pro and Serato Studio, combining Serato's sampling, beatmaking, live, and DJing capabilities with the 404's familiar layout and...
Wednesday April 2, 2025. 10:43 PM
ReCycle, the sample/loop manipulator by Reason Studios, has a refreshed new look - and now it's free. The REX format works everywhere from Ableton Live to Pro Tools to KORG Gadget. Also - wait, did its name start as a reference to a 1993 Disney instructional video? The post...
Ableton Note 1.3 for iOS adds the ability to sequence beats, drums, and chords in a compact MIDI editor. And while oddly Ableton doesn't talk about it, the combination of Note and Ableton's Move hardware is an appealing one-two mobile punch. The post Ableton Note 1.3 adds...
Monday March 31, 2025. 10:51 PM
Apple Intelligence may be the headlines you'll see for iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4. But any device that can run iOS/iPadOS 18 also gets new accessibility features for blind and limited vision users. The post iOS and iPadOS 18.4 add Braille and VoiceOver features for all devices ...
Manila's ELEPHANT (aka thatelephantparty) has a collection of curated culture that deserves echoing here. All that, and let's also spotlight some meaningful music that you almost certainly haven't heard. The post Trans-curated music, reading, watching from Manila’s...
Sunday March 30, 2025. 10:02 PM
Universal Audio's Spark subscription (native plug-ins) is on sale for 99 cents for 3 months for new customers through the end of the day Monday the 31st. That seems a good time to check in on the subscription offering, which is on my short list of subscriptions I'd consider. ...
Friday March 28, 2025. 09:20 PM
'Chaos and resiliance' - the words become cruel cliché when applied on repeat to Beirut's music scene. But the three latest releases from the Ruptured label tell a sonic story that's not from some periphery, but the center of our world. They do so in collage -- like film...
Both VCV Rack Free and VCV Rack Pro 2.6 are out, including the ability to Zoom to fit / Zoom to fit modules and drag multiple cables stacked on a port. It's a nice upgrade for this free and open source modular tool (and its partly-proprietary Pro package, too) - while we...
Thursday March 27, 2025. 02:57 PM
When reality slaps you, slap back. Poly_Chain, aka Kyiv-born multi-talent Sasha Zakrevska, has a pure-fire mix of 'bumpy electro' and adrenaline-driving broken beats, a lot of it unreleased (though some of it you can and should buy.) The Choreography and Merriment...
Wednesday March 26, 2025. 02:43 PM
Is it sound design? Or is it composition? Yes. Here's a full exploration of the Haken Continuum, the oft-misunderstood expressive device, as a musical instrument, plus creations for the hardware. It might inspire you to rethink how you view digital interfaces for...
Tuesday March 25, 2025. 06:49 PM
Apple Music is now streaming in major DJ software like Serato DJ Pro. That comes complete with playlists and companion Apple Music curation on desktop and mobile - plus support for some all-in-one Pioneer hardware and even Engine OS-powered Denon decks. The post Apple Music...
It's a quad digital delay with a bunch of patch points in its sprawling 42HP. But Xaoc Devices' new Samarkanda and its audio buffer can transform into a lot more, from granulators to loopers to resonators - basically, anything you can build out of its four independent...
Monday March 24, 2025. 10:54 PM
The synthesis community is sharing an outpouring of remembrances following the loss of Paul Schreiber, creator of the MOTM synthesizer, Synthesis Technology, co-designer of the Realistic Concertmate MG-1, and more. He was not just an inspiration but a friend to many in the...
Interactive Shader Format (ISF) code for working with Metal and rendering on macOS, plus an underlying Metal framework that powers live visual app VDMX6, are now free and open source. That's great news even if you're just toying around with shaders or working with visuals,...
Saturday March 22, 2025. 04:35 PM
Today, Radio Alhara is marking five years of operation by playing 24 hours of archival material from its home in Bethlehem, Palestine. The post Radio Alhara at five years: 24-hour broadcast from Palestine appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.
Friday March 21, 2025. 04:28 PM
The new Berlin is... London? Today is the opening of SchneidersKeller, the new Denmark Street outpost of the legendary SchneidersLaden, appropriately situated in the basement of Rough Trade. (It broke my hipster dosimeter!) And you'll like the shopkeepers: the store is...
It's a great week for free and open-source media tools. Hot on the heals of GIMP 3.0 final, we get Blender 4.4. It's labeled as focusing on stability, but the Blender contributors have packed a bunch of major animation, video, and UI features in there, too. Now, we can say...
Thursday March 20, 2025. 07:42 PM
The culmination of seven years of open-source development, GIMP has reached its milestone 3.0 release. GIMP was always powerful, but this feels more like the mature, usable release to take on the proprietary heavyweights. The post GIMP 3.0, free and open source image app,...
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