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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,...
Wednesday March 19, 2025. 10:49 PM
Spectral resynthesis is having a moment now that it's one of the new oscillator types in the mighty Xfer Serum 2. If you're looking for other ways to get your spectral resynthesis on - or you're a Serum user who just can't get enough - here are three free tools to sink your...
Monday March 17, 2025. 11:38 PM
Serum 2, 11 years in development, is here. And it looks ready to take on its rivals, with an updated interface, arpeggiator expanded oscillator architecture (phase distortion!), granular and multisampler and spectral oscillators, new effects features, and - surprise, even a...
To aid in your professional merriment, here's a complete round-up of Severance stuff, from behind-the-scenes discussion of the show's sound design and score to an eight-hour mix of 'music to refine to.'| The post Happy Monday; immerse your workday and soundscape in...
Friday March 14, 2025. 06:14 PM
Just as reality seems ready to blow off in a gale, Whatever the Weather II is here on Ghostly to pull you back to earth and the grace of the everyday. Loraine James - or I should say, the artist, Whatever the Weather - talks to CDM about how this full-length came to life. ...
Thursday March 13, 2025. 07:04 PM
Sinevibes' unmistakable, BBD-inspired Integer delay is available today across a variety of KORG hardware devices. That means the prologue, minilogue xd, and even the pocket NTS-1 (original and mkII) and NTS-3. It's a must-have pocket delay or synth add-on. The post...
Every so often, KORG throws a Japan exclusive at its home market. And so it is that you'll only see these Sanrio-themed (Hello Kitty) combo tuner metronomes there. It's time for a quick Japan update. The post KORG’s adorable Sanrio tuners and other stuff you can only get in...
Iftah Gabbai has delivered his Maxess Max/MSP External Collection, a set of tools that interface patches with the native accessibility features of macOS and Windows. They're a must if you're making tools with Max and Max for Live - and worth examining for inspiration even if ...
No collection of DSP models for work, pleasure, and creative abuse would be complete without the Chowdbury DSP collection. You might know about the plug-in, but it's also worth noting that these are available in VCV Rack and Cardinal, where you can patch them at will. The...
Wednesday March 12, 2025. 10:52 AM
Ableton Live 12.2 is in public beta today, with some major welcome features. Bouncing is easier, Auto Filter gets its biggest update since it came out, and there are new generative harmonic features, Meld and Roar updates, Push enhancements, and more. Here's your guide. The...
Tuesday March 11, 2025. 07:35 PM
Naarm/Melbourne's own Nitecaller is making dreamy sounds- and now has the home-built dreamy synth to match. Meet the T-16 semi-modular synth, recreating and expanding on the analog circuits of classic ARPs, built by Nitecaller and his brother. The post Nitecaller has made a ...
Monday March 10, 2025. 07:48 PM
Befaco has some new and refreshed modules, elegantly covering some essential utilities and mixing. They've done a hands-on demo in Barcelona, and best of all, you can grab these as free and open source modules for the free VCV Rack environment. That means you could be...
Friday March 7, 2025. 07:34 PM
For all the ubiquity of Unreal Engine, a small handful of people are pushing the envelope of what Unreal can do as an audiovisual tool. With years of effects and animation production work under his belt, Zack Berwick is uniquely creative and inventive with the combo - and...
Thursday March 6, 2025. 09:12 PM
Flow was the surprise of the Oscars: a true underground hit from Latvia's writer/director Gints Zilbalodis. It's beautiful, expressive, and intimate in a way that big-studio features are not. And it's a triumph of making the tech operate on a human level, fully exploiting...
KORG's analog-modeling, layered multi-poly was already compelling as hardware. Now, it's available as a software plug-in, either as a companion to the keyboard version or as a rich plug-in in its own right. I've been working with a late build; here are some impressions. The...
Wednesday March 5, 2025. 10:00 PM
Flufs is the loudness meter and analysis tool for Ableton Live (Max for Live) you've always wanted. But more than that, it's designed to be accessible to blind, low vision, and sighted users alike. And if that's interesting to you, there are more developer tools on the way....
An Armed Forces of Ukraine unit in the south of Ukraine depends on John Object's 1991 Opel Frontera crossover SUV. You know what to do: support Timur, support Ukraine, get new music, and replace this broken car. Be a better friend and ally than the USA is at the moment....
Tuesday March 4, 2025. 08:15 PM
It took decades, but we freed ourselves from analog formats and sound degradation and entered a perfect digital world online. So, let's use our Web browser to add all the sound artifacts of vinyl back in, for free! The post Patina puts a vinyl record simulator in your...
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