New cables.gl: VR, collaboration, and more tweaks and toys for free visual programming tool

The free cable salad-for-visuals tool for the Web gets another big update for October, with everything from enhanced usability to open browser-based VR.

ValhallaWrapper gives Valhalla DSP reverbs native Ableton Live UIs

Window shuffle, be gone! ValhallaWrapper is a clever name-your-price Max for Live add-on by Elisa Hom that simulates the UIs for these beloved reverbs — as if they were native Live Devices.

Strymon’s Big Sky reverb is now a plug-in, too

Everything hardware is software; everything software is hardware. Now you can add Styrmon’s legendary Big Sky reverb, known to boutique pedal fans, in plug-in format.

Arturia Rendez-vous: all the announcements, all the new stuff

Arturia is dropping four products in one day: MiniLab 3 keyboard, Augmented GRAND PIANO plug-in, MiniFuse 4 audio interface, and the MiniFreak synthesizer. Here’s the scoop on each.

Here’s what to know about Note, Ableton’s music sketchpad for iOS

Ableton today is releasing Note, its first iOS app, alongside Ableton Live 11.2.5 with support for Ableton Cloud. The app lets you sketch new ideas on your iPhone or iPad and open them in Ableton Live. Here’s how that works. I’ve been working with a prerelease version of Ableton Note and got to tour the […]

Geometric meditation – peace in Arash Azadi’s “Healing Light Through Stained Glasses”

The topic keeps coming up – how to find mental peace and remain centered even in tumultuous times. Iranian-born composer Arash Azadi is uniquely able to create those kinds of spaces in his music.

Black Corporation releases ultra-limited 8-voice custom synths to benefit Ukraine

Roman from Black Corporation writes to let us know they’re selling five イセーニン 8-voice polysynths in custom Ukrainian colors with all proceeds going to “non-military related charity in Ukraine.”

BASTL Microgranny is back – in a limited Monolith edition with Bogdan Raczynski

microGranny 2 was discontinued – but it gets one last lease on life, in a very limited Monolith edition. It’s a “final form” for the beloved 8-bit, lo-fi granular sample instrument.

Arturia Rendez-vous livestream event promises “series” of announcements on Tuesday

Arturia is doing something we haven’t seen them try before – they promise a “series of special announcements” expected to be new products on Tuesday October 11.

Play with Snapchat Lenses live for VJing, music videos – here’s how

Wouldn’t it be great if you could use those wild face filters live in an AV show / VJ set / music video? Well, you can, thanks to the magic of Syphon – and this VDMX tutorial by Projectile Objects makes it easy.