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Maschine will finally get time stretching, melodic shifting for loops
You can already sample and slice with Native Instruments’ groove production instrument. But soon, you’ll change loops’ pitch and time in real-time, too.
It’s Cyber Monday; here’s where to find deals on music gear and apps
Over the holiday season, developers of software and hardware for music making are offering steep discounts. Here’s where to find them.
Watch a completely mental set of MeeBlip synth stop motion animations
You’ve got your acid basslines. Then, you’ve got your acid trips involving a bass synth. Roikat takes us in the direction of the latter.
Waves give you the old-school VU meter your DAW is missing, for free
Funny thing about those old analog mixing desks: the VU meters gave really good visual feedback. Now you can add that to your modern DAW, for free.
What you can learn from Belief Defect’s modular-PC live rig
Belief Defect’s dark, grungy, distorted sounds come from hardware modulars in tandem with Reaktor and Maschine. Here’s how the Raster artists make it work.
Gibson just killed Cakewalk, because Philips?!
Gibson, the company known for legendary guitars and killing your favorite DAW in the 90s … now gets the chance to remind the pro audio crowd of the latter.
Virtual reality set to totally transform DJing, and Japan explains
What would make DJing with vinyl better? Why, DJing with vinyl as a disembodied invisible person in virtual reality with virtual vinyl on virtual decks!
Novation now let you Launchpad with just a browser
Novation’s new Web interface means you can play with their Launchpad grid with just a browser, or just browser plus hardware.
R is a reactive, emotional robot speaker from Teenage Engineering
What if a portable speaker, the lamp from Pixar, an assembly line robot, and Wall-E had a love child that was also a toy and a synth accessory?