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Thursday January 2, 2025. 07:47 PM
Winter is far from over. Or, erm, summer; I don't know which hemisphere you're in. You need to prep for what's ahead by stocking up on music gear and software now. I am the voice of your Gear/Plugin Acquisition Syndrome, and this is my hand-picked list. The post It’s not too...
Tuesday December 31, 2024. 10:45 PM
Nothing about this year was normal; next year promises the same. But that's what music is for - to reframe moments in time. The post Lists aside, these 2024 albums are personal must-listens appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.
David Abravanel is one of the people who has shaped this site's musical awareness over the years. In a year when we turn to music for meaning, I'm even more grateful for his annual picks. It's an astonishing list, and makes some good listening homework for the start of the...
Monday December 30, 2024. 06:18 AM
From Egyptology and Commodore Amiga to reflecting on AI and selecting the best physical modeling tools, Ed and Andy (Plaid) open up about their work and practice. We're turning this year into the next with talks with our favorite artists. The post Interview: Plaid on AI,...
Sunday December 29, 2024. 01:11 AM
It's what VCV Rack users have been waiting for. Instruō has Apple Silicon-native support for its software module clones, plus, for all platforms, the cèis envelope generator and powerful øchd modulation expander. And it's all freeware. The post Behold, Instruō brings you ...
Friday December 27, 2024. 10:18 PM
While the year draws to a close and much of the world is focused on holidays, Tbilisi's music community is out in force in ongoing protests, fighting for Georgian democracy. The post Tbilisi’s music scene is still out in the streets, defiant appeared first on CDM Create...
Thursday December 26, 2024. 08:03 PM
From La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela to Valee and Gangsta Boo, Michael Vincent Waller talks to us about collaboration, mixing, and connecting the dots between modern Classical/new concert music and hip-hop. The post Interview: Michael Vincent Waller connects concert music...
Wednesday December 25, 2024. 07:05 AM
Noah Pred has a fantastic free treat out on Manifest Audio for Ableton Live and Max for Live. Percotone is monophonic, expressive, playable, and full of tonal, pitch-mangling delights. It's just the thing for sneaking in some quick sound experiments in the waning days of the ...
Tuesday December 24, 2024. 02:32 PM
On December 24 and 25, radio will broadcast live from Gaza and produce a live-streamed exchange between a choir in Bethlehem and Hebron and one in Khan Younis. It's an unprecedented live connection to a world whose violence has been shrouded in darkness. It's also a way for...
Virtual patching has reached a major milestone: you don't need a controller. Using just your hands and natural gestures, you can now build up entire interactive worlds, connect virtual wires, tweak knobs and faders, and play virtual instruments in PatchWorld on Meta Quest....
Monday December 23, 2024. 07:40 PM
Stochastic Instruments has a preview of some tasty generative sequencer modules. Random walks meet music theory, and what you get is Melodic Contour Sequencing, navigated with knobs, voltage, and (on the larger module) a joystick. The post Strange-R modules: navigate...
Friday December 20, 2024. 05:06 AM
How did the Minimoog take shape – and set the course of synthesizer and musical instrument history? Among many revelations in JoE Silva’s The Minimoog Book for BJOOKS, we learn how the synth’s early prototypes evolved into the instrument we know today. Read the excerpt here. ...
How did the Minimoog take shape - and set the course of synthesizer and musical instrument history? Among many revelations in JoE Silva's The Minimoog Book for BJOOKS, we learn how the synth's early prototypes evolved into the instrument we know today. Read the excerpt here. ...
Eventide is in on the holiday gift game, too, with a giveaway through New Year's Eve of one-knob signal separation fixers for low-end thump and high-end air. The post Freebies: Eventide’s one-knob fixers, DeBoom and Sheen Machine appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.
Thursday December 19, 2024. 08:02 PM
Universal Audio also has their holiday freebie announcement, and it's lovely - the Pure Plate Reverb, licensed for both native systems and their UAD-2/Apollo hardware. The post Freebies: Universal Audio Pure Plate Reverb appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.
Augmented Mallets Play, showing graphics of mallet instruments (one real, one synthetic), and parameter knobs arrayed around a central morph knob. The post Freebies: Mallets get Arturia’s Augmented treatment appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.
Harper's Magazine has an excerpt from Liz Pelly's book on Spotify, and already we get another bombshell. The company conspired to farm out ghost content, often substituting for known artists, to pay out less to artists. That much was suspected by anyone listening to the...
Wednesday December 18, 2024. 11:29 PM
Living Labyrinth immerses you in the world of Danish composer SØS Gunver Ryberg's music. It's a spatial experience of a flowing organic dream world of deep listening and meditative interconnectedness. And it includes both unreleased bits and portions of SPINE, one of the...
Oneiroi from Befaco is a mythical variety chocolate box where every flavor is delicious. It's an experimental slash drone slash sound design treasure box. And now it's in VCV Rack. The post Befaco Oneiroi, all-in-one soundscape module, now in VCV Rack appeared first on CDM...
Tuesday December 17, 2024. 07:45 PM
Like something out of a (nerdy) magician's library, Build Your Own Modular is a physical, ring-bound book that transforms into a complete Eurorack modular system. It's both a printed instructional document and the thing you're building -- all in one. The post This is a bound ...
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