Get deep in the Radical Sounds of Latin America – listen, watch, read

Get dance-y. Get academic. Discover cannibalistic vocal technique, pre-colonial archaeology (with or without AI), mixes, reading, virtual raves – all of it radical. Time for a music dump from a fresh Latin American project.

There’s a spring reverb thwack “Easter egg” waiting inside the Oberheim OB-6

I’m not sure which is better, musically slapping your synth, or the comments as Sequential reveals this demo of … smacking the spring reverb tank. Watch:

Colourlab Ai 1.0 arrives, and the future of color grading comes with it – details

This is some Kodachrome level color voodoo – color grading and shot matching powered by machine-learning. And it comes from a collaboration with some friends of ours from the artist and live visual side, so it’s doubly worth mentioning.

Finally, there’s a plastic fruit shaker instrument for KONTAKT – free today

It’s a wonder we ever produced music without it. But kids today are lucky – they can get a feature-packed KONTAKT instrument based on a fruit-shaped shaker. It appears to be free through today only, so hurry.

SunVox, the powerful modular DAW for a few bucks, just added major new features

SunVox 1.9.6 is here, with a pitch detection module, envelope generator, new harmonics features, an AUv3 on iOS, and lots more. It’s a full modular synth and creation environment as donationware or a few dollars on mobile. And it runs on almost everything. So yeah – you can afford it.

ClipGain adds the feature Ableton Live’s timeline forgot

It’s the little things sometimes. Adjust the gain of Clips from the Arrangement, right on the timeline, with this €3 Max for Live add-on for Live 10 and later.

Create Analog OSes: someone booted MS-DOS from a vinyl record

Oh sure, you think it’s impressive when you upload a vinyl-only DJ set. But real analog purists run their whole operating system on analog.

‘Hope’ is the uplifting retro synth anthem jam we need right now

Sometimes wonderful things show up in my inbox – this tune comes from one of our MeeBlip users.

Watch a free program on modular audio synthesis and programming today

From Lyon’s Grame center, today there’s a free online workshop on patching and coding your own synths, including working with tools like the Faust DSP environment (even on the Web), VCV Rack, Daisy Eurorack, Arduino, Teensy, and more.

Turn your iPhone into a streaming source, and add filters, with the awesome Hyperstream

iPhone + Hyperstream can turn the world of streaming and live video from painful low-quality 2020 anxiety source – into something absolutely eye popping and beautiful and surprisingly easy.