Free sounds and samples in Ableton Live, powered by commons and community

Freesound4live brings the incredible and eclectic open sound community freesound.org right into your Ableton Live session – so you can access sounds and new inspiration quickly, for free. The Max for Live device is the work of Alessandro Aylesim Miracapillo. And this is both convenient and unlike any other sample tool. You can browse, search, […]

BRDG stream from Tokyo is a hyperactive extravaganza of audiovisual madness

Stream burnout is real. But Wedneday’s visual effects-heavy AV lineup from Tokyo is a shot of adrenaline mixed with sugar. On twice: Tokyo time 20:30, again Berlin time 21:00. Ted Pallas reports.

Ted Pallas - August 4, 2020

OSC/PILOT is a new Windows touch controller app – and deadmau5 is already using it

deadmau5 is releasing the app he’s torture-tested in his live shows, OSC/PILOT. It’s like a Windows-only successor to Lemur, with some powerful features, developed by one of the developers behind TouchDesigner.

Peter Kirn - August 3, 2020

Saffron supports women, non-binary people in music tech – now with online memberships

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2020

Houdini Music Toolkit makes this 3D tool a sequencer, for a radical take on music

Peter Kirn - July 28, 2020

ReEQ is a free plugin so good, it’s a reason to use REAPER – and it keeps getting better

Peter Kirn - July 27, 2020

Palette is the new, free, must-have oscillator for VCV Rack

Peter Kirn - July 17, 2020

Samplr’s creator made a free sample player for the MacBook Touch Bar

Peter Kirn - July 9, 2020

Transfiguración: decolonizing AI, in Hexorcismos’ shamanistic music and art

Peter Kirn - July 6, 2020

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