Live visual software makers have made Black Friday a kind of ritual, too – which means now is probably the best time to get that VJ license you’ve been wanting. (Bonus: in 2020, you alone may stand between a viewer and an abyss of boredom in a livestream.)

At the dawn of the 1980s, anyone could buy a Moog-manufactured synth for $500 – at their local Radio Shack. And now you can add this distinctive synth for free.

You need a virtual vacation. This one comes with synthesizers, too – courtesy Julia Bonder, who’s not coincidentally Creative Director at module maker endorphin.es. It’s heavy – and you’ll want to dance. (Dance off anything you just ate, USA.)

We’ve got the season of the virus lockdown to get through – stocking up on some music-making joy seems a very good idea. To try to cut through the noise, here are some of the most appealing deals in one place. This post will be updated continuously through the week. And yeah, there’s actually too […]

Sure, you might know Mutable Instruments’ terrific Eurorack modules are open and hackable – but do you know where to start? Our friend Michael Forrest walks you through it all in a friendly video.

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.

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:

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.

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 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.