TyphoonLabs Shader Designer is a free IDE for creating your own vertex and pixel/fragment shaders, the magical code snippets that process 3D geometries, textures, and even images and video on your GPU. I’ve been fiddling around with it a bit on Windows as I work on learning OpenGL’s shading language, GLSL, and it seems quite […]

Philip Stearns is recycling a yard sale computer as glitchy art. While we’ve been covering the rebirth of the Commodore 64 as a musical instrument over on Create Digital Music, this project turns vintage Texas Instruments TI-99 series computers into a live visual performance tool: “Gently Modified” TI-99s Project Page with eBay sales info, photos, […]

Satellite Jockey is Rick Silva, a 28 year-old Brazillian VJ who uses Google Earth as the source of imagery for live multimedia art. He just played Futuresonic in Manchester, UK, as well as SONAR and other fests. It sounds a bit gimmicky on paper, but check out the results: very nice, glitchy 3D work that […]

Yes, Image Line, maker of FL Studio, hates Macs, so it is a reasonably big deal that they’ve just announced they’ll be porting a newly-ported plug-in to Mac. Well, sort of a big deal, anyway. Technically, porting plug-ins between platforms is not an enormous issue; it’s primarily an issue of testing. Testing, though, means hauling […]

First, long-time Windows developer Cakewalk went cross-platform with their soft synth line. Now, FL Studio (Fruity Loops) creators Image Line are developing a Mac plug-in: KVR reports they’ve acquired hybrid FM/subtractive synth Toxic III and are planning a Mac port. As our resident Windows expert Adrian Anders puts it, “I guess hell is starting to […]

While we’ve been keeping tabs on the new release of Ableton Live 6, Marc Weidenbaum of Disquiet has been listening to the latest from Monolake, aka Ableton co-founder and software architect Robert Henke: Monolake music releases are almost always timed to the arrival of a new Live software release, but Henke is more than just […]

Ah, remember the days before the Minimoog made us all soft, and people used patch cords onstage? I don’t, because I’m just a wee kid. But there’s a movement now to bring those back. Richard Lainhart sends still more synth p-rn from his ongoing collaboration with Jordan Rudess. This time, he couples a gorgeous rack […]

If you’re looking for a little color or maximum crunch on guitar, drums, and whatnot, check out Camel Audio’s just-released free Mac/Windows plug-in: CamelCrusher for Mac (AU/VST) and Windows (VST) Even though it’s free, CamelCrusher has some pretty fantastic features: Distortion: Tube and “mech” for analog- and digital-style crunch Filter: Analog-modeled for a warm sound […]

It’s one thing to talk about the MIDIbox SID, a DIY project that turns the fat warmth of the Commodore 64’s synth chip into a powerful beatbox/bass synth. It’s another thing entirely to see it in action — Roland ain’t got nothin’ on this. Also airing on YouTube: the C64 Orchestra renders classic music from […]

Fans of VJing, visuals, and interactivity will want to subscribe to the Create Digital Motion RSS feed, but I’ll be checking in with our sister site to keep more casual readers up-to-date. Here’s the latest from our new site in its early days of operation: In part II on my series for building a Small […]