For many of us, listening to music — and managing our collections of music — can be as important as making music. Jaymis has me sold on MediaMonkey, available in cheap / free versions, for Windows. Note that this doesn’t run on the Mac — feel free to discuss Mac alternatives in comments. Listening software […]

Reed Ghazala, the father of circuit bending and a truly unique artist, sends along the wacky world of his paintbox, now upgraded for the Web 2.0 age as a flickr set. He writes: “I just put up a flickr gallery your patrons might like, fulla all kinds of Make-ish (and Mac-ish) stuff. “Maybe your online […]

Make your PSP into a beatbox and turn it into a Speak & Spell — cool! PSP Rhythm, the homebrew drum machine for the PSP, just keeps on rolling. The song contest I covered in July is now complete. Ah, but what kind of music can you create with a lowly PSP homebrew app? Something […]

As the release of Live 6 nears, more beta serials are available, so if you’re the bleeding edge type, go grab it here: Ableton Beta Serials As each beta fills up, that list closes again, so if you’re not successful give it another go. Of course, this may be moot, as we may have a […]

Cycling ’74 just updated darn near everything they make: New Universal Binaries: Mode, Hipno, and UpMix are all Intel-native. But the big news is that Pluggo, the long-beloved C74 plug-in library, is available — meaning you should also be able to turn your Max compositions into Intel-native plug-ins. Max/MSP 4.6.2 / Jitter 1.6.2: Max 4.6/Jitter […]

When Apple released the free visual synthesizer tool Quartz Composer as part of Mac OS X 10.4, they hoped developers would take it up and create gorgeous eye candy. Keith Lang, part of the plasq team that created hit Mac software like Comic Life, has done just that with a new set of screensavers and […]

When Apple released the free visual synthesizer tool Quartz Composer as part of Mac OS X 10.4, they hoped developers would take it up and create gorgeous eye candy. Keith Lang, part of the plasq team that created hit Mac software like Comic Life, has done just that with a new set of screensavers and […]

Thanks for your patience here at Create Digital Motion. I had been away for a week at a workshop on designing interactive installations with Flash at the Anderson Ranch, and my co-editor Jaymis had an emergency to deal with. We’re now back in action, and Flash fans, I’ll have plenty to share if you’re up […]

Thanks for your patience here at Create Digital Motion. I had been away for a week at a workshop on designing interactive installations with Flash at the Anderson Ranch, and my co-editor Jaymis had an emergency to deal with. We’re now back in action, and Flash fans, I’ll have plenty to share if you’re up […]

Ableton snuck a feature into a late beta of Live 6 that will make many users very happy indeed: crossfader curves. The Live user community, as usual, is even more on top of the new feature than the Abletons. Live forum contributor kabuki from Texas tested, graphed, and labeled the new curves: Curves in all […]