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Live sound adventures from Frank Bretschneider, Stanislav Glazov, Trnsm::n Berlin
Watch live sets from Frank, Stas, and myself as we prepare for a new season of Transm::on Berlin – this is streaming of the strange, experimental, glitchy, industrial, and electronically weird sounds from a crew who lives and breathes them.
Learn Push Hacker to transform Ableton Push, plus Max for Live plug-in shortcuts, too
Don’t settle. These Max for Live creations can open up tons of extra ways of working with Ableton Live, including the deep Push customization you’ve always wanted.
Hammerhead for iOS brings back a 90s drum computer legend for a new generation
In time for its 25th anniversary, Hammerhead is back – and this version has a real bite, even if you’re using it for the first time.
Elektron Digitakt 1.30 adds tons of new sound features – guide to everything you can do
Elektron has been busy lately – a massive 1.30 OS update for Digitakt brings external audio mixing/sidechaining, a second LFO, filter features, workflow improvements, and more. Here’s a look:
monome, the grid that launched them all, gets “new and the same” edition; preorder now
There’s a new monome, same as the old monome, pre-ordering this summer: “we’ve redesigned the grid, again. but this time almost everything is new, even though we added nothing.”
One artist is making insane, impossible, hilarious KORG volca mock-ups
None of this is legal or licensed… or real. Some of it is straight-up impossible. But this fanciful library of fictional KORG volca series mods is ridiculous enough that you may find yourself wanting some.
Here’s some lovely music in the woods, on monome norns arcologies and more
It’s a rig in the dirt, on a budget, with some beautiful music. DIY forest sounds are go. Now that we took a mental trip to a crowded Berlin bar playing hard EBM, let’s go instead into the woods with some open tools and very lovely leafy ambient. Just listen and watch: Perplex On out […]
In Dream Baby Dream compilation, a Berlin bar makes a gathering in sound
Music is not just made alone in sound-sealed rooms; it’s also that wasted time with friends that feeds us. So here in a compilation from a self-described “avant-garde cocktail parlour” comes a musical picture of people missing a place to share.
Dispatch is a global matrix, a modulation grid for Ableton Live
Sometimes, people build things in Max for Live more audacious than any host has on its own. Dispatch is a global modulation matrix. It attenuates, it inverts, it mixes, it submixes. It talks to modular gear. It blows Live wide open.