Quick! This ffmpeg cheat sheet solves your video, audio conversion needs, for free

Video, audio, convert, extract – once, these tasks were easy with QuickTime Pro, but now it’s gone. ffmpeg to the rescue – any OS, no money required.

Around VCV Rack modular community, eclectic flowing sounds

A funny thing happened on the way to the VCV Rack forum. In a paradigm many still stubbornly imagine as chin-scratching noise, software modular makers are producing beautiful, liquid electronic sounds.

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2019

Accusonus Rhythmiq is an AI assistant that works with your rhythms and control

“AI” in the popular imagination has become a vision of machines making the music. Rhythmiq is a new plug-in that’s the opposite – software that promises to let you do more with your own grooves.

Peter Kirn - October 9, 2019

Don’t upgrade to Catalina yet – here’s an easy explanation why not

Peter Kirn - October 8, 2019

macOS Catalina is here; Final Cut update, Logic compatibility, don’t update your Mac yet

Peter Kirn - October 7, 2019

What are all the synths hiding in Mutable’s modules (and their free VCV ports?)

Peter Kirn - October 2, 2019

Native Instruments is struggling to provide customer support following changes

Peter Kirn - September 26, 2019

What if your gear could MIDI map itself? This open schema and iOS app do it now

Peter Kirn - September 24, 2019

LiveCore is a free low-level, live patching for Reaktor

Peter Kirn - September 20, 2019

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