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Mutable Instruments swan song: end of production leaves huge legacy, one last Plaits update

What a way to go out. Mutable Instruments discontinues production this month, but leaves a reshaped modular landscape, a real...

BASTL Microgranny is back – in a limited Monolith edition with Bogdan Racynzski

microGranny 2 was discontinued - but it gets one last lease on life, in a very limited Monolith edition. It's...

Free sample mashing with samplebrain, by Aphex Twin and Dave Griffiths

Designed by Aphex Twin, Samplebrain takes a new approach to samples - chopping up audio into a "brain" of little...

Locally sourced: you can now run Stable Diffusion AI art generation on your M1 Mac

It's got a one-click installer, runs locally, requires "no dependencies or technical knowledge," and crucially, doesn't talk to the cloud....

Stable Diffusion, generative AI tool, now available in public release

The "hot s***", open, purportedly ethical generative text-to-image AI generator has now moved from invite-only contexts and Discord to full...

New Noise Engineering modules, new platform: multiband dynamics, drum kit

One of the most creative modular and software makers at the moment, Noise Engineering has two very desirable-looking modules hitting...

Percussa’s SSP Eurorack powerhouse does 3D, plugins, SDK – and kind of everything

It's a modular in a modular. It's a multitrack recorder. It's a multi-channel audio interface. It's a hub for CV....

To celebrate 22.02.2022, here are a bunch of musical palindromes

Wow, yay, LOL. Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is? 22.02.2022, LOL,...

Artist uses AI to perfectly fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles

It’s algorithmic, generative 70s sci-fi pulp, courtesy OpenAI. Artist Lewis tells us about how it was done. Meanwhile, see how...