User interface for Creature From the ID, featuring dials, VU meters, and a hexagonal organization with oscillators on the two sides and mixing and send controls at the center.

Creature from the ID lets you live your 50s sci-fi soundtrack fantasies

The latest Giorgio Sancristoforo creation is an instrument inspired by the self-generating electronic circuits of Louis and Bebe Barron. Voyage to a Forbidden Planet on your computer.

Learn music instrument design from Roger Linn and Sasha Leitman

Want to learn about designing physical interactions for music from the creator of the MPC and Linnstrument, the one and only Roger Linn, plus physical interaction and sound arts expert Sasha Leitman? Registrations are open now for a class from June 17-21. You can even join online.

Machinedrum, repatched: Cycling ’74 doing fun stuff with RNBO

Take a Raspberry Pi, add a delicious web editor in RNBO, and then – go nuts controlling the iconic Elektron Machinedrum. Cycling ’74 is having a lot of fun with RNBO, their Max patching solution for targeting hardware, plug-ins, and the Web.

Taylor Deupree and Joseph Branciforte on transcribing an electronic classic

“Highlighting inconsistencies”: when it came time to transcribe Taylor Deupree’s seminal 2002 electronic drone album Sti.il for acoustic instruments, everything from technical software details to how we think about music and physical artifacts came into play.

Add a free video player to your Ableton Live set with modulation, FX

Videoplayer for Max for Live gives you the video clip player Ableton forgot. Add videos, trigger them like audio/MIDI clips, loop, freeze, and add effects with modulation – for free.

Palestinian producer BOUNCYDUCK delivers opus on depersonalization

BOUNCYDUCK, a young emerging experimental producer from Jerusalem, has delivered eloquent sounds of disassociation in his latest LPs.

Playhead granular, Tuplet sequencer, Quantized Switches for Ableton Live

In a sea of complex Max for Live creations, sequencer.wtf is again a minimalist breath of fresh air. Playhead is an ultra-simple granular effect; Tuplet just makes tuplets. Quantized Switches flips the switch for any parameter based on Live’s current quantization level.

Free NAP Framework gets gorgeous rendering, non-profit organization

NAP Framework, the free and open-source, lightweight, open-source framework for artists and designers now looks and runs better than before. And keeping it free, there’s now a non-profit NAP Labs organization – while the creators merge with partners Studio DRIFT.

Black Techno Matters Liber8: open call, new music, mixes, and events

Black Techno Matters is making its calls for liberation louder than ever. Their multi-city Juneteenth event now also includes an open call beyond the US to the wider African diaspora—and for everyone, enjoy a slew of new music and mixes that “celebrate the blackness of techno” and restore that sense of freedom in the music.

Digital synthesis, reenvisioned: Madrona Labs’ Sumu hands-on

Sumu is a true virtual instrument from Madrona Labs, with some unique approaches to demystifying and visualizing additive resynthesis and FM. David Abravanel takes us on a tour.