Visco is a warped drum machine that lets you squish sound like goo [hands on]
Between samples and synth, sound design and performance—and with a heaping dose of machine learning—Visco is a new way of...
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Visco is a warped drum machine that lets you squish sound like goo [hands on]
Between samples and synth, sound design and performance—and with a heaping dose of machine learning—Visco is a new way of...
Go watch Polygonia’s videos on Ableton Operator hi-hats and more
Polygonia, aka Lindsey Wang, is expanding techno into imaginative blossoms of percussion and pattern. But she's also doing some terrific...
Baby Audio BA-1 gets free 1.5 update: FX Strip, arp, more sound controls
Baby Audio has refreshed their 80s Yamaha-inspired BA-1 soft synth with a free update. You get a new arpeggiator, more...
Don’t upgrade to macOS Sonoma 14.4 yet: plug-in compatibility issues
macOS Sonoma remains stable, but a change reportedly related to AU plug-in validation in the recent 14.4 update can cause...
Ableton has a new free guide to making better Max for Live devices
Ableton is today releasing an exhaustive free guide full of resources they've used internally in developing and maintaining devices. The...
Resolume 7.19: Quick Search, workflow improvements, rotate text
Leading the live visual world, Resolume Arena/Avenue continues to keep up its brisk update cadence. This latest version lets you...
Free Sosir plug-in, experimental bowing effect, is a deep drone machine
Sosir Freeze-Delay is a free "experimental" plug-in for macOS (Intel/Apple Silicon) and Windows (AU/VST3), intended to give you bowing effects...
Softube’s VCA Compressor is free in March; here’s why it’s cool
We are awash in vintage compressor plug-ins, but Softube's VCA Compressor is worth an extra look - and not just...
Twelve things to try in Ableton Live 12 right now
Live 12 is here - so now what? Here are twelve other ideas to try out, from timesavers to inspiration...
Live 12 is here, including Performance Pack and new tuning site
Ableton Live 12 is now out of beta - plus both the Performance Pack and a tuning site available to...
