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Arturia V Collection 11 hands-on: Pure LoFi, Jup-8000 join latest update
Arturia’s latest refresh of their sprawling V Collection is here today. In addition to updates across the Augmented line and the inclusion of the latest instruments, there are two surprises: a layered “lo-fi” synth and an instrument of the Roland JP-8000. Yes, really, the JP-8000: sometimes you want the 90s and 2000s and not only, like, the 70s and 80s.
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HyperSplash is glitchy hyperactive fun – $3 Max for Live from MIRA新伝統
If you don’t know the hyperfuturist post-anthropocene duo* MIRA新伝統 aka Honami Higuchi and Raphael Leray, you need to. But now for three bucks – $3!! – you can drop their absolutely addictive Max for Live mayhem into your Ableton Live set. Should you? You should.
Peter Kirn - April 23, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
Funk music history and Black liberation in a full-length documentary, online
Hip hop, new wave, techno, and house are inseparable from funk history – and any discussion of funk in the 1970s demands a conversation about Black liberation. Emmy winner and MacArthur Fellow Stanley Nelson and Grammy-nominated producer Nicole London have produced a full-length history.
OXI Instruments’ grid sequencer is about to get a big MKII upgrade
Peter Kirn - April 22, 2025
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Nasko’s completely free N-IRIS is a spectrum disperser – why that’s cool
Peter Kirn - April 21, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
Knobula Monumatic, the 8-voice, multi-algorithm MPE polysynth in 12HP
Peter Kirn - April 16, 2025
Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
Benn Jordan’s AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise
Peter Kirn - April 15, 2025
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