A free, shared visual playground in the browser: Olivia Jack talks Hydra

Reimagine pixels and color, melt your screen live into glitches and textures, and do it all for free on the Web – as you play with others. We talk to Olivia Jack about her invention, live coding visual environment Hydra.

SoundCloud will now handle distributing your music – and give you a 100% cut

SoundCloud has a new pitch to creators: upload your music not just to SoundCloud, but to all major music services, too. Distribution is launching in a new beta as part of Premier service, and the terms look appealing.

Peter Kirn - February 19, 2019

VCV Rack nears 1.0, new features, as software modular matures

VCV Rack, the open source platform for software modular, keeps blossoming. If what you were waiting for was more maturity and stability and integration, the current pipeline looks promising. Here’s a breakdown.

Peter Kirn - February 18, 2019

Magenta Studio lets you use AI tools for inspiration in Ableton Live

Peter Kirn - February 12, 2019

Two twisted desktop grooveboxes: hapiNES L, Acid8 MKIII

Peter Kirn - February 12, 2019

Live compositions on oscilloscope: nuuun, ATOM TM

Peter Kirn - February 11, 2019

NI now has killer, budget audio interfaces and compact keys

Peter Kirn - February 7, 2019

Ableton Live 10.1: more sound shaping, work faster, free update

Peter Kirn - February 6, 2019

The synth modules of winter: your Eurorack radar

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2019

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