design

Hydra is spectacular free live-coding for visuals in browser – now on iOS, too

How great is live coding on Hydra, for free? It's great enough that you'll do it when you've never used...

Watch wild demos made in cables.gl, free visual programming tool – plus fresh tutorials

The folks at cables.gl have evidently been busy, as they've got eye-searing new demos to share. And if you wish...

In Instruments series, encounters between inventors and musicians, watchable online

Starting tonight, and continuing over nine more dates in October, the freshly-inaugurated Morphine Raum will host events exploring invention and...

Rymdigare for iOS combines FX in a fanciful UI and makes everything fuzzy and wonderful

There's a gently pastel-colored hand-drawn interface, a backstory involving extraplanetary mining. It's a reverb, a degrader and multi-effect, but also...

Moog now has a line of playing cards for making patches, plus a music EP

The answer to the question "what if Oblique Strategies, a synthesizer patch sheet, and Magic: The Gathering had a love...

Moog Sound Studio is now a triple-decker combo of semi-modular analog for $1999

Moog now offers a single package of their tri-colored Neopolitan, their Cornetto trilogy of analog synthesis, in a three-tiered stack....

Playtronica’s Orbita explores sequences on physical, kinetic turntable, launching soon

Inspired by objects like wall clocks and reel-to-reel tape machines, Orbita is a sequencer whose interaction is physical and kinetic,...

Inside the Resse’s Puffs cereal beatboxes – and yeah, they made real instruments

It must be the future because your cereal box is also an augmented-reality drum machine or synth. We talked to...

Worlds as instruments, as artists collaborate in VR using modular metaverse Patch

This summer, across four continents and eight time zones, artists have gone beyond just playing in virtual reality. They've been...

Explore game worlds of paper, 16-bit DOS, and soaring music to match, from SunVox creator

No money for a high-end game console? Make it out of paper, code it in 16-bit DOS, and give it...