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Tuesday April 2, 2024. 09:12 PM
What happens when ChucK, the free elegant and fast sound coding environment, comes to Unreal Engine, the free-for-most-users game engine that's also a motion graphics and live audiovisual tool? Nerdy magic, that's what -- a reason to turn off your phone alerts and hide and...
Spectral Plugins, a relatively young plugin maker, has announced the end of its business. They're making their three excellent plugins available for free download, complete with macOS and Windows VST2/VST3/AU/AAX support, so grab them while you can. The post Spectral Plugins ...
Monday April 1, 2024. 09:26 PM
Demoscene culture continues to produce more with less, producing elaborate audiovisual worlds from tiny amounts of code. Revision is a hub for these kinds of creations, and in 2024, it delivers as always - including, incredibly, an animation made just from HTML scrollbar...
Dedicated Amiga lover Paulee Alex Bow is back with another terrific episode of Magical Synth Adventure - and this time, they're using Amiga software as live processing for guitar, with delicious results. The post Amiga 500 as a real-time guitar effects pedal: Magical Synth...
Friday March 29, 2024. 09:21 PM
Lithuanian composer and musician Andrius Mamontovas has a chillingly beautiful LP on the Ukrainian-run label I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free, under the project name Dots On The Sun. The post Andrius Mamontovas’ haunting “Bottled Wind” records war, week by week appeared...
Kalide Systems' unique effects playground and custom effects toolkit Collage got a nice update recently, full of user-requested features—some from comments here on CDM. Here's a look, plus a couple of quick effects to download and play with. The post Collage 2.01 effects...
Thursday March 28, 2024. 11:48 AM
Just when you think you can't hear any new noises from a delay, along comes Sinevibes Integer, drawing on classic bucket brigade delays to create something retro and futuristic all at once. We've also got an extra CDM-exclusive preset bank to explore more. The post...
Wednesday March 27, 2024. 06:55 PM
Apple has released macOS Sonoma 14.4.1. As verified by some plug-in developers, this includes fixes for an issue that could cause plug-ins to fail. It also includes important fixes for USB hubs and Java. The post macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 includes bug fixes for plug-ins, USB, Java ...
Tuesday March 26, 2024. 06:36 PM
There's no need to imagine the history and conception of music as beginning and ending in western Europe. The history of music is far older, richer - and stranger than that. Here's a glimpse of some of that and more resources to help broaden our sense of what music can be....
Monday March 25, 2024. 02:40 AM
V4CO is more devilish proof that in Eurorack, anything is possible - even the improbable, unruly, and joyfully unwise. More than just an oscillator, it's a demented, destructive voice combining 8-bit wavetables, sub-bass, overdrive, and VCAs, adding patchable circuit-bending ...
Friday March 22, 2024. 07:14 PM
How about Commodore AMIGA-style sampling - complete with pixel UI, lo-fi sampling styles, vintage time-stretching, and both modern and Amiga file support - in a plug-in? It's Amigo Sampler, it's got a price point from a fish and chips shop, and it sounds wicked. (The...
Thursday March 21, 2024. 06:25 PM
The world's biggest music company has now teamed up with one of the world's leading instrument and music creation tech makers to weigh in on the growing AI boom. Mostly what we get is a set of general principles - but talking about who made music for the data sets is...
Freqport, una asociación entre dos pequeñas entidades en Dinamarca y Australia, presenta el freqtube FT-1 como 'procesamiento analógico real dentro de su computadora'. Bastante tentador. Calentar sus cajas de ritmos, sintetizadores, líneas de bajo y más es algo que todo ...
Freqport, a partnership between two small entities in Denmark and Australia, pitches the FT-1 freqtube as 'real analog processing inside your computer.' Quite enticing. Warming up your drum machines, synths, bass lines and more is something that every musician who works 'in...
Diagnosing the problem is easy - streaming is fundamentally broken and opposed to artists' interests and no one likes it. But finding a solution? After going viral with a rant about streaming, James Blake has revealed his answer - but it's one we've seen before. The post...
Wednesday March 20, 2024. 06:24 PM
Minimal Audio continues its straightforward standalone effects series with Flex Chorus. This is a thoroughly modern take on the genre with two very different-sounding modes, each calibrated for timbral character enhancement and big stereo. The post Mr. Glass: Minimal Audio’s...
Between samples and synth, sound design and performance—and with a heaping dose of machine learning—Visco is a new way of imagining a beat construction plug-in. But what you'll probably notice first is that you get to squish around a futuristic blob of goo like it's...
Tuesday March 19, 2024. 10:21 PM
In celebration of eccentric artists inventing tiny unexpected things to fit into single-row Eurorack, it's again 1Uesday. And we're extending our antennas to pick up FM radio broadcasts on this episode. The post 1Uesday: BBCV FM Radio module, 29€ infrared KMNDR, more...
Artist Owen Hindley, working in TouchDesigner, tackles the dense, pulsating track 'Harmonic Dream Sequence' by Dustin O'Halloran (A Winged Victory For The Sullen). It's a dark contemplation of the insatiable appetites of Big Data and AI, translated into strangely beautiful...
Monday March 18, 2024. 05:13 PM
Polygonia, aka Lindsey Wang, is expanding techno into imaginative blossoms of percussion and pattern. But she's also doing some terrific tutorials. Where to start? A terrific breakdown of constructing high hats from scratch in Ableton's Operator might inspire you. The post...
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