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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...

Attacco turns any mic – and any surface – into expressive percussive music input

Attacco's Virtual Controller, now in beta, makes anything into a percussive MIDI controller - not just for triggers, but expression,...

Rejoice, for Destroy FX has updated their free plug-ins, including legendary glitchy Buffer Override

The sacred timeline has been restored. The greatest, strangest, glitchiest, most destructive plug-ins of the early 2000s are here with...

FUSE for vvvv is a visual revolution – free, always-runtime patching right on the GPU

Add free, open-source visual programming on the GPU to the free-for-noncommercial-use vvvv - and get materials, lighting, effects, particles, and...

Unreal Engine 4.27 out now with goodies like Web UI; early-access UE5 MetaSounds makes noise

It was the dawn of the third age of audiovisual creation.* Yes, Unreal keeps adding eye-popping, ear-bursting media powers, both...

Free presets, free filter, TAL-Filter-2 mean a new trance-y Age of Love for us all

After all this isolation, it only seems right to have a new Age of Love. By which I mean, of...

Inside MTS-ESP, the new tuning tool from Oddsound and Aphex Twin

In a year that is finally bringing tuning into music tech headlines, here's a tool from ODDSound and Richard James...