FRANK is a free plug-in with a “best-of” analog EQs, and it looks and sounds pretty
Analog Obsession is creating some beautiful free plug-ins. And for all the various analog EQ emulations out there, here's a...
Music tech
Ukrainian artists jam live today in Endlesss as Web3 fundraiser: Tolkachev, Kotra, Zavoloka, more
It's dubbed Ukrainian Music Forces, and it's an online event you can watch from 6PM Kyiv time. Tim Exile and...
Beirut Synthesizer Center at Superbooth, on sharing and music in times of crisis
What good is music and music technology in moments of crisis and trauma? Beirut Synthesizer Center co-founders talk about just...
GEMA is a delay pedal effect-synth that rumbles like an earthquake, by Senyawa x Squaresolid
From Yogyakarta, Indonesia comes a glitchy, powerful delay effect unlike any other. It's a stompbox with an earthquake setting. And...
Animistic technology: MusicMakers Hacklab CTM Festival flashback…
CTM Festival is here, rescheduled to May, so with it another collaborative performance laboratory - MusicMakers Hacklab. I find myself...
MOD Devices made a guitar synth you can actually play like a synth – so your guitar is the CV
It's the sound and expression of a modular synth, but you can mix it with guitar sounds and play it...
EboSuite 2.0 hands-on: live video recording and more makes VJing feel native in Ableton Live
Ableton Live's improvisatory clip- and device-based interface make the software feel like it could be as natural for visuals as...
The Oberheim OB-X8 is a beast – here are more sounds from it, straight-up
The OB-X8 was live in action at Berlin's Superbooth - one big highlight was getting to see Dave Smith, Marcus...
The best way to integrate Ableton Live and Eurorack modular – for any rig
It’s spring, it’s Superbooth - modular is in the air this May. So you’ve got your modular, and you’re an...
MIDI Polyphonic Expression has been updated with one powerful feature: better documentation
At the beginning of May, The MIDI Association quietly announced MPE 1.1. What's new? Absolutely nothing. It's the same spec....
