Roland SYSTEM-8 synth is free to try in April – here’s why it’s a sound designer’s friend
Want that new synth feeling, but for free? That's the hybrid-vintage-modeled-new synth SYSTEM-8 this month from Roland - and we've...
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Premiere: Olenc’s Particles takes a microscopic trip inside a cello string
Someone sucked Bochum, Duisburg, and Dortmund into a digital realm full of VR air pollution visualization - and in the...
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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...
Meemo Comma, interviewed: Lara Rix Martin’s deep-space futurist Jewish mysticism
"In the year 5781 humanity is ever closer to becoming a singular consciousness..." Sci-fi Jewish mysticism, anime-style - David Abravanel...
Here’s what happens when HÖR Berlin DJ sets are reimagined with AI
Vinyl, then digital... now meet meta-DJing. OÍR by Moisés Horta Valenzuela imagines what would happen if one machine learning-powered DJ...
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Miller Puckette, creator of Max and Pd, on how he’s patching his way to remote collaboration
Miller Puckette, the original creator of Max and Pure Data, has been working on keeping connected remotely, too. In this...
Pedals: The Musical, where pedals sing to you about their history, is an actual thing
The age of YouTube channels about stomp pedals now has its own... well, not quite Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat...
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Instrumental inventions, from LEGO microtonal guitar to deconstructed tuba, at Guthman prize
Bored by the Grammys? Try the Guthmans instead. The Guthman Musical Instrument Competition has selected its award winners, as musicians...
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Escaping tuning’s restrictive default setting – a conversation with Khyam Allami
This year has kicked off with a renewed conversation about tuning in electronic music. Khyam Allami has helped ignite that...
Sonic worlds, liberated: listen to performances on the free tuning tool Apotome
Online festivals have often made us miss physical meetings even more, but Apotome at CTM Festival was a real bright...
