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Circuit bending progenitor Reed Ghazala has new ideas to share – with invisible rays

"Father of Circuit Bending" Reed Ghazala isn't done transforming musical bending techniques. For starters, there's this magnetic-patch, chip-talk, chance-based aleatron...

Elektron’s Song Mode is already making ambient music to chill out to; OS updates at a glance

Elektron's Song Mode for Digitakt, Syntakt, and Digitone chains together patterns beyond the 64-step limit - and there's some beautiful...

After Later’s modules impress: a complex oscillator line, new takes on Mutable Instruments

Module makers Lenny and Clarissa are making a name for their After Later Audio line. Up for fall: all the...

Cycling ’74 asked artists to make a collaborative Max drum kit – and shared the patches

Kick, snare, hat, tom, and sequencer - the makers of Max remind us that patching your own drum machine gives...