Saffron supports women, non-binary people in music tech – now with online memberships

UK-based Saffron had already created an extensive set of offerings for women and non-binary people in learning and developing in music tech. But now their online membership structure is open to you, wherever you are.

How video signal processing emerged as real-time art

As we continue giving you the virtual version of the electronic media and music festivals you’ve been missing, here’s a flashback to a fascinating history of video processing as art form.

Novation Launchpad now has a free set of tools in Pd to hack your own controllers

Hack your Launchpad! Novation’s new r_cycle lets you design your own layouts and interactions, and even turn them into instruments and effects, all in the free Pure Data environment.

Now you can load your own wavetables on Sequential Pro 3

Sequential’s Pro 3 embodies the digital-plus-analog approach we’ve come to associate with Dave Smith. Now its digital oscillator is open to custom wavetables.

Houdini Music Toolkit makes this 3D tool a sequencer, for a radical take on music

Sure, 808 Day is coming. But enough x0x sequencers and simple step patterns. You need insane amounts of notes being spewed out of a pro 3D tool – clearly.

Hear and visualize how city soundscapes changed during pandemic lockdowns

At the meeting point of humans, nature, and the urban landscape, parks in five cities paint a fascinating portrait of transformed lives.

ReEQ is a free plugin so good, it’s a reason to use REAPER – and it keeps getting better

Cockos’ REAPER is the stupidly affordable but endlessly customizable DAW. Just one example – this free sixteen-band EQ and spectrum analyzer, created by a user in Reaper’s JSFX*, for free, does just about everything.

Watch Afrorack play his modular and home-built instruments live

Raw, fierce electric sounds emanate from this more abstract set by Afrorack, aka Brian Bamanya, of Uganda. Now you get a rich video from Berlin’s CTM Festival earlier this year.

Qu-Bit’s Surface is a cute physical modeling gem of a voice for Eurorack

Sure, there are lots of ways to emulate plucked strings and the like in modular. But this one little voice packs a ton of physical modeling in a little space – 8 voices worth.

You can now patch in Pd inside VCV Rack – modular modular free free

VCV Rack offers loads of choices of modules. But what if you want to build your own? Then there’s Prototype – and now it works with the free graphical patching environment Pure Data, so you can create without coding.