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Jumping ship to Bluesky? Here’s where to start for music and tech
Music Music tech Tech Web November 21, 2024
A fantasy combo of Chicago footwork and Polish folk rhythmic asymmetry
Music November 21, 2024
Bandcamp and Discogs Tempo Adjust has a new UI, Master Tempo
Music Music tech Tech Web November 20, 2024
Sounds from Ukraine after 1000 days
Music Stories November 19, 2024
Build smart, custom mechanical keyboards for MIDI – or really tiny Ableton Live control
John Park of DIY boutique Adafruit seems to be having some serious fun with tiny mechanical keypads – as hackable, ultra-compact MIDI controllers and (with screen) even the tiniest Ableton Live controller I’ve ever seen.
Sequential’s Pro 3 gets new wavetables from some wild sources, and patch morphing
Sequential, the house Dave Smith built, keeps cramming extras into their instruments for free. Which is their flagship, exactly? Who knows? Who cares? The Pro 3 just got a lot cooler.
Xanadu is a meta-metaverse DIY show hosted by a blue alien made in Unreal Engine
What happens when you cross 3D tutorial, machinima animation, and Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman Creator human capture tools? Well, a bunch of stuff, but maybe the most promising is a how-to show hosted in the tools.
Japan officially leads in 3D trompe-l’œil cat projections
Yes, yes, Olympics, all that. At least Shinjuku is establishing just the leadership we would expect in making enormous projected cats peer out from buildings in eerily realistic ways.
So yeah, let’s just use plug and socket – industry group recommends obvious change in terminology
The Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance industry group is leading an effort to finally get rid of “male” and “female” connector terminology and replace it with something not horrible.
Freespin is a demo made for the Commodore 1541 – no, not the computer, just the floppy drive
Artists just did the unthinkable – make a complete audiovisual demo on just a 1982 floppy drive, without the computer. And it’s utterly beautiful.
Audacity makers clarify data usage – and there’s not reason to dump the editor yet
In a cycle echoing a controversy earlier this year, Audacity’s new parent again released new legal terms which were then seized upon by social media users. Muse Group have clarified those issues publicly and to CDM.
Erica and Sonic Potions LXR-02 drum synth-sequencer is here
The cult classic Sonic Potions LXR-01 kit finally gets a worthy follow-up – the LXR-02, made in collaboration with Erica Synths. It’s a digital drum synth + FX + sequencer in one very compact unit.
Get free presets and tutorials each month from veteran sound designer Tom Wolfe
Tom, who has worked with the likes of Arturia, Kilohearts, GForce, and some Grammy and Oscar winners, writes to let us know about the Synth Vault – 20 free preset each month, plus tutorials to learn how to go beyond them.