Hello, piano: Roland just added Alexa to their digital keyboard

Roland’s latest play for making digital pianos commonplace: add the popular Alexa service, and sell on Amazon.

Here’s how to add proper dark themes for Ableton Live, SoundCloud, embrace darkness

Dark themes are all the rage these days, from phones to desktop OSes. Now it’s time for stuff you use every day to go properly to black, too – hello Ableton Live and SoundCloud. Okay, dark themes actually have inspired some controversy when it comes to usability and even eye fatigue. But it’s pretty understandable […]

Peter Kirn - December 10, 2019

No, sharing your Spotify year-end artist stats is not a good idea – here’s why not

If you’re following music acts, odds are you’re already seeing Spotify-generated stats and graphs from artists. There’s a backlash to the practice – and with good reason.

Peter Kirn - December 9, 2019

Amazon’s AWS DeepComposer is peak not-knowing-what-AI-is-for

Peter Kirn - December 3, 2019

Listen to ambient sound from around the world, recorded with a 4’33” app

Peter Kirn - October 31, 2019

Someone replicated a GPU in JavaScript – and it runs in characters in a terminal

Peter Kirn - October 21, 2019

Autechre streamed a 12-hour set live on Mixlr Sunday; listen to all of it

Peter Kirn - October 15, 2019

Where is NI headed? Some official and unofficial answers

Peter Kirn - September 4, 2019

Loopmasters partners with Beatport, as production enters the age of makers

Peter Kirn - August 1, 2019

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