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This artist is connecting Unreal, Ableton Live for production-grade visualizers
For all the ubiquity of Unreal Engine, a small handful of people are pushing the envelope of what Unreal can do as an audiovisual tool. With years of effects and animation production work under his belt, Zack Berwick is uniquely creative and inventive with the combo – and he’s sharing his approach, using Ableton Live, Max for Live, MIDI, OSC, and UE.
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How Latvia’s Flow used open source Blender in Oscar animation win
Flow was the surprise of the Oscars: a true underground hit from Latvia’s writer/director Gints Zilbalodis. It’s beautiful, expressive, and intimate in a way that big-studio features are not. And it’s a triumph of making the tech operate on a human level, fully exploiting the free and open source Blender and its real-time render engine EEVEE.
KORG multi/poly native is as satisfying as a desktop plug-in as it in hardware
KORG’s analog-modeling, layered multi-poly was already compelling as hardware. Now, it’s available as a software plug-in, either as a companion to the keyboard version or as a rich plug-in in its own right. I’ve been working with a late build; here are some impressions.
Peter Kirn - March 6, 2025
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Flufs, powerful loudness analysis tool, is designed for accessibility
Peter Kirn - March 5, 2025
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Moog’s Animoog Galaxy now supports complete immersive Spatial Audio
Peter Kirn - March 4, 2025
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303 Day: the freaky CDM Megaroundup
Peter Kirn - March 3, 2025
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RIP Seiki Kato, KORG President lead 80s product innovations, KORG USA
Peter Kirn - February 28, 2025
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Moog just posted an all-star art and tech panel; all that and an Oberheim
Peter Kirn - February 28, 2025
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