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Wednesday October 22, 2025. 03:07 PM
OneLibrary to rule them all? AlphaTheta hopes so, with a new library format that works across software and hardware without conversion, and with all your playlists, cue points, beatgrids, and so on intact. That may sound like a tall order, but it's already launching with...
Tuesday October 21, 2025. 07:22 PM
Against the backdrop of AL.FESTIVAL, the Berlin festival centering music from the Arabic world and diasporic communities, we gathered an expert group to discuss liberating technology from some of its Western biases and exclusionary design. Now you can listen back (and read...
Monday October 20, 2025. 10:04 PM
We know Android devices could use more music-making love. Polaris already proved itself an elegant Android-only solution. Developer Baptiste writes to let us know he's added multiple patterns per track for chaining and variations, and other tweaks. The design work is...
Friday October 17, 2025. 05:07 PM
Videosync for macOS and Windows remains one of the easier ways to transform your Ableton Live set into a live VJ or audiovisual set or music video. Version 2.1 just landed with critical features like a video recorder and video monitor, plus new visual tricks like gradients....
Thursday October 16, 2025. 11:02 PM
Despite bombing, drone attacks, and sleepless nights, Kyiv continues to support a burgeoning experimentalism in sound, driven by an appetite for noise and engineering. And it's bringing more people into that community. Here's a look inside. The post Inside Kyiv’s...
Tuesday October 14, 2025. 10:07 PM
In part 1 of this guide, we learned how Ableton DSP can help you build custom Max for Live devices quickly, even for first-time patchers. Let's take that further in part 2, mixing Ableton DSP with Max objects and producing some custom effects. It opens doors for building...
What if you could drop in a bunch of stems and let a plug-in mix and master for you, subtly or to extremes, with no 'AI' involved? That's the latest idea from Tim Exile, and it's produces such quick, varied results that it can serve as a one-click way to hear your mix...
Monday October 13, 2025. 10:50 PM
This is truly haunting -- the sound of a vintage machine's lightbulbs hooked up to audio inputs, proving it can be more Boards of Canada than the actual Boards of Canada. Even the sound of loading up the punch cards and flipping the switches is oddly soothing. And more...
Deep in the annals of software's virtual guts, its wires and nodes, what defines patching on the computer is that it's eminently human. Perhaps in this age of instant results, that's drawing a new generation to the manual, personal labor of computer construction. So now is a ...
Saturday October 11, 2025. 01:07 AM
Ewan Bristow and CRQL have created pure, manic magic with this one. UZU mangles sounds through a wormhole, via what is technically a spectral Frequency Domain Filter. And yes, FL Studio fans may recognize some of the characteristics of the phaser in Image-Line’s wonderful...
Friday October 10, 2025. 02:14 PM
Wake up! A new BBD just dropped. It's an analog delay circuit, but a new-generation design -- the first such genuinely new chip design in decades. And that means you could argue the biggest announcement of this year in music technology is the smallest. Meet the SSI2100 from...
Thursday October 9, 2025. 07:36 PM
The microKORG2 had the immediacy and cute factor of the microKORG, but even at its still-economical price, we needed more. And wow, did we get it. The logue SDK means this is an adorable synth that can load custom oscillators and effects -- including Sinevibes creations....
Wednesday October 8, 2025. 09:15 PM
Native Instruments today announced the launch of Traktor MX2, a next-generation 2-channel DJ controller...
There are two things we should be doing more of: cramming independent music into our minds and embracing grassroots aid. Last week, Northern Cebu in the Philippines was hit by a devastating earthquake. Local outlet Pawn Records has some beautiful music to support and not...
Monday October 6, 2025. 06:41 PM
Audacity always had some appealing features, not least of which being free and open source. But a glimpse inside the design work being done on Audacity 4 suggests it could become something else: a slick, efficient wave editor that just happens to be free. This UI breakdown...
Saturday October 4, 2025. 04:39 PM
Akai's MPC Live III hits the same week as Roland's new analog-digital flagship. This new standalone box has an updated 8-core processor and specs, enabling new features -- but the biggest story here is expressive pads with 3D sensing. The post Akai MPC Live III: expressive...
Friday October 3, 2025. 07:03 PM
It's a master class in Western 'common practice' music and its power. It decodes complex music theory and its impact on the mind. It's also got some deeply entertaining action with a bearded psychiatrist operating a reel-to-reel machine and filters. Let's watch this 1975...
Thursday October 2, 2025. 09:42 PM
Louna Sbou, the director of Berlin cultural space Oyoun, is one of hundreds of civilians whom Israel illegally detained in international waters yesterday. It's yet another moment highlighting the ongoing genocide. Here is my appeal to all my friends and colleagues across...
Wednesday October 1, 2025. 11:33 AM
Roland's new flagship drum machine leaked everywhere. But we've got details on what's new under the hood, including specifics on analog voices, expanded ACB modeling and other digital features, and new sampling powers, direct from the source. You wanted a new monster from...
Tuesday September 30, 2025. 08:44 PM
You know Max for Live can help you create your own instruments and effects in Ableton Live -- but you've got to take the first step. Max 9's addition of ABL objects gives you a huge leg up, unlocking Ableton's own DSP building blocks in ready-to-mod form. Let's dive straight ...
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