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Digital Arabic Maqām Archive and open-source MIDI plug-in now available
Khyam Allami presented his long-term research project in Beirut yesterday, and it’s an exciting one. Hundreds of tuning systems, ajnās, and maqāmāt are now in a free, open archive, and there’s a free MIDI plug-in that lets you apply tunings (and tweak them by ear) across all major software tuning formats.
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Free BEAST Repeat for Ableton Live is so good, you’ll switch genres to IDM
Dillon Bastan, prolific Max for Live patch stylist to the stars, is at it again. BEAST Repeat takes the fun glitchiness of Ableton’s stock Beat Repeat and adds extensive new ways to re-pitch, fade, stretch, twist, gate, pan, filter, and generally mangle per-pattern and per-beat. And it’s free?!
Peter Kirn - July 22, 2026
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VDMX 6.3 adds expressions, plugin templates to beloved Mac visual tool
Here’s another live visual icon with some welcome updates. Vidvox promised lots of quality-of-life refinements with VDMX6 as a platform, and VDMX6.3 adds just that. So it’s a good excuse to mention VDMX again, in case you’d tuned out for a bit.
Sinevibes update puts every effect on every ‘logue KORG
Peter Kirn - July 20, 2026
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This free Ableton Extension slices up chunks of audio for Move, Live
Peter Kirn - July 17, 2026
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NI after NI: which brand is where, and who owns whom
Peter Kirn - July 17, 2026
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Ableton Live and Push can now run on Linux, unofficially
Peter Kirn - July 15, 2026
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Stretch keys — Novation rounds out the MK4 Launchkey range with 88 keys
Peter Kirn - July 15, 2026
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