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Monday August 11, 2025. 08:21 PM
Sonic Pi creator Sam Aaron is building something new. It's early days, but Tau5 promises to be a 'next-gen' creative coding environment. You can use it with your favorite tools, including Ableton Live, hardware, TidalCycles, Hydra, and others. And you never have to feel...
Sunday August 10, 2025. 11:05 PM
Nope, this is not a contact mic. Intellijel added an omni microphone inside a 2HP module -- the same microphone type as you'll find in phones and other mobile gadgets. And that turns out to be a good idea. The post Intellijel put a MEMS mic in a 2HP Eurorack module appeared...
Friday August 8, 2025. 07:49 PM
Here’s the Roland news we really need: Bandai is expanding the ridiculously detailed miniature gear for miniature capsule machines. There’s a tiny TR-808, plus the JC-120 Jazz Chorus and Blues Cube Artist 212 amps and the JUPITER-X. Gotta catch ’em all. Here’s the full view....
Roland has largely shifted product announcements to other dates, but 808 Day is still a party. And every year brings some left-field surprise. This year, it's animated films. But that's perfect for your 808 Day celebration, even if it's just a party of you, a drum machine,...
You think you know the 808? Listen to how Mr. Tadeo Kikumoto, Roland's lead developer at the time, talks about what went into the machine. That walks through origins, from kick to claps, in this excerpt from the book Inspire the Music: 50 Years of Roland History, thanks to...
Thursday August 7, 2025. 04:59 PM
Three artists, three collectives: Ari Wulu, Andreas Siagian, and Wok The Rock; Gayam 16, Instrumentasia, and Yes No Klub. Starting today through August 17, they're launching the first GUANG electronic and experimental music festival in Yogyakarta, switching on a 'power...
Four artists/researchers, three collectives: Leilani Hermiasih, Ari Wulu, Andreas Siagian, and Wok The Rock; Gayam 16, Instrumentasia, and Yes No Klub. Starting today through August 17, they're launching the first GAUNG electronic and experimental music festival in...
Wednesday August 6, 2025. 07:41 PM
Cinematic Laboratory has produced two films that are so beautiful, you can almost put them on as a soundtrack and visual atmosphere. Meet VHIKK X by FORGE TIME / Glasgow Synth Guild, and Kharper from ERROR Instruments. The post GAS TV: these two gorgeous gear films can...
Tuesday August 5, 2025. 10:55 PM
'Art is a struggle against nothingness,' says Pharoos from Hormuz. TIMEZONES, the series produced by Norient, we've visited before. Their planned June episode on Tehran was delayed by war. Now is a perfect time to take in its threads, woven from multiple voices in a...
It's a hot Max for Live summer: here are three more don't-miss tools for Max for Live for you. There's a tool to bounce MIDI without the usual manual legwork. There's a controller app that lets you play Live with gamepads. And there's the synth follow-up to the blockbuster...
Monday August 4, 2025. 11:33 PM
DJ software should make managing your music library easier -- in theory. In practice, the leading DJ apps have been pretty stuck in their ways for a while now. Serato is answering users' pleas with a redesigned library in the new Serato DJ Pro 4.0 release, available in...
Summer sales are on, and even with more trade tariff uncertainty looming in the USA, that includes some surprising cut-rate deals on hardware synths. Here's your guide to some favorites, including a great mini keyboard/Moog soft synth bundle. The post These are the best...
Friday August 1, 2025. 06:42 PM
The all-new architecture for macOS VJ mainstay VDMX6 has opened up a ton of powerful new features. If you haven't caught them already, and you've got a Mac, now is a great time to dive in. Why not cosplay Harry Seldon from Foundation and turn yourself into a glitchy...
Thursday July 31, 2025. 11:39 PM
'The future is now... you have to do everything you can to actually make it stop now. You have to persist with your faith and also your practice.' In a film released today, Palestinian musician and sound artist Dirar Kalash reflects on stopping genocide and the nature of...
Rattle the walls and rumble the foundation with this one. Kinlaw & Franco Franco, the Amman-Bristol duo, have a release coming on Jordanian underground imprint Drowned By Locals, and it's powerful enough to part seas. The post Go listen to “Air Loom Gang,” a scorcher from Kin...
Switch 2, sure, but -- have you plugged a tiny piano into a Nintendo DS and used some powerful homebrew software and custom scripts to make a handheld experimental music instrument? The post A little-known Nintendo DS piano peripheral meets homebrew sound appeared first on...
Wednesday July 30, 2025. 12:27 PM
It's about time. British synthesis history can get short shrift compared to the legends of the USA and Japan. Alex Ball has made the documentary that the Novation Bass Station deserves, from its roots with EDP and OSC, to the massive bass synth's 1992 debut, up to the...
Tuesday July 29, 2025. 11:18 PM
AirWindows, if you aren't already in the know, is a planetary treasure. Developer Chris Johnson has built a massive playground of DSP, available for free/Patreon donationware. And this time, he's created something he says is 'not normal.' What was supposed to be a brutal...
Monday July 28, 2025. 07:05 PM
K-Devices' Fauve is an idiosyncratic, exquisite audio effect that the developers describe as 'fractured memory' -- a glitchy, audio-slicing, granular-adjacent sonic fragmentation tool. There's nothing quite like this 'flawed audio reconstructor.' Let's break down how it...
Friday July 25, 2025. 05:35 PM
Monomono Maya may be the dreamiest Max for Live device we've seen yet, with full MPE and aftertouch support. With Push 3 standalone compatibility, this could also be a strong argument to building a computer-free Live rig, too. The post Lush, warm Juno-style 6-voice for...
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