Tech

Eyeballs, errors, and animal keys: Reed Ghazala’s wild circuit-bent electronics keep evolving

Reed Ghazala's latest generation of instruments is here, gazing back at us with glass eyeballs and dubbed with names like...

Happy 90th birthday to Herb Deutsch, educator, composer, and Moog synth co-inventor

It's Herb Deutsch's birthday today - and what better way to celebrate than listen to him talk about music, sound,...

Rift 2.0 arrives – here’s what to love about this deep distortion and multi-effects plug-in

It's all about positive and negative distortion. Today Minimal's Rift 2.0 hits, with refreshed features, an updated look, and must-have...

Microhm aka Leslie García and Alyosha Barreiro explore sound in futuristic Mexican architecture

This is a nice unexpected gift - some favorite adventurous sound artists and favorite futuristic Javier Senosiain architecture coming together...

Resolume 7.9 keeps clicking on all cylinders – powerful monitoring, way faster Wire patching

Visual platform, VJ tool, and media server Resolume keeps adding cool stuff. 7.9 brings advanced monitoring right on your display,...

Free plug-ins: Finding beauty in the Emergence granular effect for Mac and Windows

Real-time granulator Emergence spins incoming audio streams into rich textures - and it's a free download, with inexpensive Patreon options...

Artist uses AI to perfectly fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles

It’s algorithmic, generative 70s sci-fi pulp, courtesy OpenAI. Artist Lewis tells us about how it was done. Meanwhile, see how...

Freequel plugins and Reason RE – distortion, synths from Noise Engineeering for free

It's like ripping some of the delicious goodness out of the Noise Engineering modules and adding them to your DAW...