Mood Machine: The rise of spotify and the cost of the perfect playlist - book cover by Liz Pelly showing Spotify-style thumbnails on a black background.

Mood Machine, Liz Pelly’s book on Spotify, will be a must-read

Peter Kirn - December 2, 2024

Squash plugin UI with X/Y grid, puck, depth on y axis, tone on x axis, and dry/wet control. Menu open, showing framerate / window size/ OpenGL options and oversampling off / 2x / 4x.

Minimal Audio’s Squash is a free OTT that doesn’t sound like OTT

Peter Kirn - November 29, 2024

Burn it all down with Obliterate, new free plug-in from Newfangled Audio

Peter Kirn - November 29, 2024

The best Black Friday deals in music tech right now

Peter Kirn - November 29, 2024

FL Studio 2024.2: Transporter looping FX, scalable UIs, latency fix, more

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2024

Play around with miniature, interactive Rooms – now with Actions

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2024

BOSS DR-55 drum machine from 1979, now a free plug-in

Peter Kirn - November 27, 2024

Tired of controller lock-in? Mixxx is a free DJ alternative; 2.4.2 out now

Peter Kirn - November 27, 2024

Ableton Live’s new options fix latency recording problems: here’s how

Peter Kirn - November 26, 2024

Tim Exile’s cancer recovery project is a generative, morphing groovebox

Peter Kirn - November 26, 2024