No, Beatport’s subscription will not kill music – here’s how it really works

Pioneer and Beatport this week announced new streaming offerings for DJs. And then lots of people kind of freaked out. Let’s see what’s actually going on, if any of it is useful to DJs and music lovers, and what we should or shouldn’t worry about.

KORG’s nutekt NTS-1 is a fun, little kit – and open to ‘logue developers

KORG has already shown that opening up oscillators and effects to developers can expand their minilogue and prologue keyboards. But now they’re doing the same for the nutekt NTS-1 – a cute little volca-ish kit for synths and effects. Build it, make wild sounds, and … run future stuff on it, too.

Peter Kirn - May 16, 2019

Heard it all before? Talking sound, discovery, and inspiration

Sometimes lost in conversations about technology or specific musical genre or minutia of social media is the fundamental question of what sound is and what we can discover. From Berlin’s tech/culture conference re:publica, we got to tackle some of those questions.

Peter Kirn - May 14, 2019

Polyend puts presets in your modular – plus run on a battery, anywhere

Peter Kirn - May 13, 2019

Your music software goes modular: builder-friendly Bitwig 3 beta is here

Peter Kirn - May 11, 2019

One big, open standalone grid for playing everything: dadamachines composer pro

Peter Kirn - May 9, 2019

Elektron turns Digitone into a polysynth keyboard

Peter Kirn - May 8, 2019

Andreas Schneider on the significance of synths, just before Superbooth

Peter Kirn - May 8, 2019

The end of iTunes, an opportunity for Pioneer, new tools and standards

Peter Kirn - May 2, 2019

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