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Wednesday April 23, 2025. 07:27 PM
If you don't know the hyperfuturist post-anthropocene duo* MIRA新伝統 aka Honami Higuchi and Raphael Leray, you need to. But now for three bucks - $3!! - you can drop their absolutely addictive Max for Live mayhem into your Ableton Live set. Should you? You should. The...
Hip hop, new wave, techno, and house are inseparable from funk history - and any discussion of funk in the 1970s demands a conversation about Black liberation. Emmy winner and MacArthur Fellow Stanley Nelson and Grammy-nominated producer Nicole London have produced a...
Tuesday April 22, 2025. 05:56 PM
OXI ONE MKII is inbound, with preorders about to start. OXI Instruments is taking their packed grid sequencer and adding more of everything, while keeping the compact size. (Missed opportunity not to call this the 'one two,' though!) The post OXI Instruments’ grid sequencer...
Monday April 21, 2025. 06:13 PM
Nasko, the prolific and imaginative software developer, is back with a new one - and it's completely free, running in Plug Data (Pd) on Mac, Windows, and Linux. It's a convolution-based spectrum disperser. Say what? Well, you get a powerful, precise, fairly rare method for...
Friday April 18, 2025. 08:07 PM
Built in Swift, now extensible with JavaScript plug-ins, IINA is the free media player that macOS needed. Hey, everybody: play with a fresh, minimalist player that handles local files, music, and streaming with aplomb. (Hey, old people: it's like QuickTime Pro is back!) The...
Thursday April 17, 2025. 07:09 PM
Hey, kids, look, it's the Easter Bunny! And listen to the way the beast helps your beautiful song to evolve! Okay, if the folks at Caelum Audio wanted to sell us on their new DynaBit plugin, this isn't the worst way - especially as even this holiday freebie has some powerful ...
Wednesday April 16, 2025. 06:44 PM
Who says modular has to be all about monosynths? Certainly not Knobula, who followed up their Poly Cinematic with this 8-voice polysynth in just 12HP, packed with multiple oscillator and filter modes, built-in reverb, and full MPE support. The post Knobula Monumatic, the...
Tuesday April 15, 2025. 06:37 PM
Benn Jordan's latest video proposes a way to fight back when generative AI music services rip off music for their data sets. It's not ready for prime time yet, but it does offer a window into the wild, wonderful world of adversarial noise poisoning attacks. The post Benn...
Monday April 14, 2025. 04:31 PM
Vela, a new reverb from Sonic Academy's Sonic Sounds line, is now in open beta. And yes, I'm here to tempt your RAS - Reverb Acquisition Syndrome again. The range of reverberation emulations here, combined with node-based editing, might mean you do need another reverb....
Friday April 11, 2025. 07:00 PM
It's about time for a new granular dream module, and the Intellijel Multigrain could be a real contender. Available now, it packs stereo morphing granular powers into 20HP and US$479. (And yes, USA, you can import this from Canada!) I've had an advance look at the manual and ...
Live Mac visual app VDMX6 is now shipping some of the new hotness the developers promised with the transition to Metal for rendering. Apple's frameworks unlock a ton of visual tricks, from tracking video to color scopes to background removal. The post VDMX6 gets vision:...
Thursday April 10, 2025. 06:19 PM
The Georgian pro-democracy, anti-corruption movement is still in the streets, month after month. Music remains a way to connect those demonstrations with supporters at home and abroad. Tbilisi/Berlin artist Mess)Montage joins as we put together sounds from Georgia (and I...
Tuesday April 8, 2025. 10:42 PM
Ardour, the criminally underrated free and open source DAW for Mac, Windows, and Linux, has been a little quiet lately. Over the weekend, we learned what's coming in Ardour 9.0/9+, and why the devs have been busy. Not sure where to start? Check out how-to videos, including...
Baby Audio's Smooth Operator Pro is a new, expanded version of the resonance suppression/spectral dynamics processing tool. Four years in the making, this version has a new UI and workflow, upgraded engine with per-node controls, stereo and mid/side processing, sidechaining, ...
Monday April 7, 2025. 01:30 PM
What could community and imagination in music making look like? Laurie Spiegel's reflections on the 70s and earlier decades, recorded in 2014, offer some clues, even for a very different time today. The post Laurie Spiegel interview offers a way of thinking about community,...
Saturday April 5, 2025. 07:26 PM
Musician, teacher, and founder of Gaza Birds Singing, Ahmed Abuamsha is collectively our colleague in the international music world as much as he is a voice for his family and community: Ahmed Muin needs support now just to manage drinking water. 'What can I do?' Here are...
Friday April 4, 2025. 08:06 PM
I expect everyone could use a breather and some grooves. Japan is there for us, flooding my algorithm with a bunch of groovy beats - and Roland has an adorable t-shirt drop again for the superfans. The post Celebrate #404day with great grooves from Japan and one cute...
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...
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