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Sunday December 24, 2023. 05:08 AM
'Words are missing to convey our outrage, our sadness, and our feeling of helplessness,' say organizers. Instead, Bethlehem in occupied Palestine joins Beirut for a live broadcast electronic music performance 'Christmas in mourning.' Separately, artists band together in...
Friday December 22, 2023. 03:03 PM
Sydney to Mexico City, Tokyo to Detroit, livecoders are deep into a beautiful multiday solstice stream right now with 160 performance slots. You can tune in live on eulerroom.com. The post Valdivia, Chile to Tampere, Finland, a livecoding Solstice is on right now appeared...
Thursday December 21, 2023. 05:15 PM
Here's a taste treat for you. Arturia's Efx Refract combines stereo super unison processing with multi-effects (filters, bitcrusher, distortion, harmonizer) and modulation, all with a fun UI. And that's the makings of a fantastic holiday for your ears. The post Free through...
While we're immersing ourselves in reverbs, Soundtoys did a great tutorial using their SuperPlate reverb showing a classic production tip associated with Abbey Road. It has some unique twists in SuperPlate, and I've used this for more than just vocals. The post Soundtoys...
Videosync, the tool that brings video and visual tools to Ableton Live on macOS, gets a nice update to close out the year. Get your gradient on and mix colors in video as easily as you would tweak a synth or effect. The post Videosync 1.4 adds Gradient, Color Mixer to...
Wednesday December 20, 2023. 10:40 PM
Minimal Audio has a new standalone Swarm Reverb, and it's no typical reverb. Pairing early and late reflection algorithms plus pre-delay with feedback, modulation, and some extras translates to unique sound design possibilities. It's on a holiday sale for $29 with a code....
Tuesday December 19, 2023. 07:26 PM
When you want some of techno's rawest forms mixed with the genre's fun illegitimate third cousins, look no further than Germany's Toktok. Tweng was an impossible-to-categorize Weird Dance Music gem from earlier this year, and now its remixed companion is out, with some...
Some 64 partials, each FM synthesis, feed the inbound Sumu synth from Madrona Labs. Few have seen this one yet, but DATABROTH got an exclusive, full-length preview earlier this month. Grab some egg nog, smoke 'em if you've got 'em, and let the synthesis wash over you. The...
Mitxela has continued a project to make the 'smallest and worst' synthesizers possible - and he's one-upped himself this time. This MIDI synth is barely larger than the size of its USB-C connector. The post Finally, a silly synth so small you could swallow it (but please...
Monday December 18, 2023. 10:38 PM
Ableton has published a tech note on reducing CPU load on Macs with Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3). This is both a good tip and good news: smaller buffer sizes, which also translate to lower latency, now often reduce CPU usage. The post Ableton on Apple Silicon: smaller buffer...
It morphs, it step sequences, it generates - it's an incredibly deep, polymetric, polyrhythmic MIDI sequencer for macOS that works especially well as a Logic Pro MIDI FX. And it's free. Meet XiixiiQ. My Yule log for 2023 is probably feeding this into Sculpture. The post Free ...
Friday December 15, 2023. 08:49 PM
Hot on the heels of our in-depth review of the expansive Noise Engineering Xer Mixa, the folks at NE have a beta update with lots of new features. And that includes the ability to use quadraphonic and hexaphonic outputs for immersive panning. The post Xer Mixa mixer update:...
Thursday December 14, 2023. 06:39 PM
From Ableton Live to Stockhausen, folks have been generating some hilarious LEGO kits around music making. But leave it to the folks at Rupert Neve Designs, as the 5088 mixer and a ton of studio accessories are part of a real custom LEGO building set, and it'll be on sale...
A little-known invention by Bob Moog in collaboration with mathematician/theorist David Rothenberg has come back from the dead. With 478 keys and 31 tones, just one was produced, and that unit fell into disrepair - until now. Rebuilt and rewired, it just took to the stage...
Wednesday December 13, 2023. 01:23 AM
The evolution of music is intertwined with the design and capabilities of instruments. After several decades of more constrained tuning and expression, new playability is becoming a norm with technologies like MPE and live per-note tuning. Music hardware maker Roman Flippov...
Tuesday December 12, 2023. 08:32 PM
Also out from Arturia this week: V Collection X brings the maker's plug-in collection up to speed. That includes an all-new Yamaha CP-70 piano model and Augmented WOODWINDS, plus a rebuilt Mini V and Wurli V. And the rebuilt Minimoog, in particular, has a bunch of delicious...
Whether you've got the hardware keyboard, the software plug-in, or both, Arturia has dropped a major V2 update with an all-new wavetable engine, new effects, and more. This is also part of today's V Collection X update. The post Arturia MiniFreak 2.0: wavetables, new...
As we enter a third month of violence in Israel-Palestine with no end in sight, sound spaces are providing the discourse, debate, musical expression, and solace for pain that other spaces deny. They also bring us the voices of the people closest to the catastrophe -...
Friday December 8, 2023. 07:41 PM
Sinevibes has built a ground-up successor to its past Switch and Strobe step sequence gate effects. Everything from classic trance gates to precise polyrhythms is elegant and straightforward in this major update. The post Sinevibes Switch v3 makes gate sequence FX devilishly ...
If you weren't already in love with the free synthesis powerhouse that is Surge XT, here's a big 1.3.0 release with a candy store of new features, from Open Sound Control to command line interface to visualizations in the tuning editor. The post Free Surge XT 1.3 adds OSC,...
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