Sumu arrives, with unique semi-modular take on spectral sound design

Peter Kirn - November 22, 2024

Free Supermassive reverb gets a silky, stellar new mode: Pleiades

Peter Kirn - November 22, 2024

Jumping ship to Bluesky? Here’s where to start for music and tech

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2024

A fantasy combo of Chicago footwork and Polish folk rhythmic asymmetry

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2024

Zoe McPherson track Thumb Governance loaded in Bandcamp with Bandcamp Tempo Adjust plugin controls available - CDJ-style bpm detection, range toggles, and master tempo toggle visible.

Bandcamp and Discogs Tempo Adjust has a new UI, Master Tempo

Peter Kirn - November 20, 2024

Three speculative designs on white pedestals with a white background. A quipu-powered drum machine with knotted pieces of rope, a viola da gamba with a hollow body and amplification, and a skull-and-bone horn.

Imagining an alternate history of music instruments, quipu to skulls

Peter Kirn - November 20, 2024

Sounds from Ukraine after 1000 days

Peter Kirn - November 19, 2024

Crum Hum from above - white knobs, triangular touch plates, parameters for sound, effects (reverb, drive), randomization visible.

CRUM HUM, new generative synth focused on soundscapes

Peter Kirn - November 19, 2024

Magnetic Masking demonstration in Final Cut Pro 11 running on a MacBook, showing a car highlighted in green in the edit window plus a status dialog, timeline view open.

New in Final Cut Pro: AI you’ll actually use, more mature iPad version

Peter Kirn - November 17, 2024

Take fifteen minutes and watch the sun come up with hazy ambient music

Peter Kirn - November 15, 2024