Software

Acid 4 Live: STING by IFTAH generates acid lines for Ableton Live for free

Iftah Gabbi, "the artist formerly known as "iftah from skinnerbox," has built a Max for Live acid line generation tool...

NI has retired Absynth soft synth after 22 years; here’s a statement from its creator

Music software instruments are entering something of a mid-life crisis – and one landmark is the cancellation this week of...

Modalics Beat Scholar: a new hyper-divisible drum machine plug-in made of pizzas

Beat Scholar promises to let you slice and re-slice with a built-in sampler and endless free subdivisions - without losing...

Arturia Dist COLDFIRE review: a red-hot coloration, overdrive, distortion multi-effect

Distortion? Already interested. But Dist COLDFIRE goes further, even compared to other recent tools with dual-distortion and modulation. Deep inside,...

Mouth Play is a vocal tract filter for Ableton Live with loads of extras, by Dillon Bastan

From the prolific, inventive Max for Live developer Dillon Bastan comes a new instrument that can shape, sing, roar, breathe,...

Chantlings, an app where animated forest creatures sing along with you, is a marvel of design

Just when you think software has lost its wonder, you're singing into your iPhone with some cute animated blobs. Chantlings...

Chantlings, an app where animated forest creatures sing along with you, is a marvel of design

Just when you think software has lost its wonder, you're singing into your iPhone with some cute animated blobs. Chantlings...