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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...
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...
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