Far from the liberated playground the Internet once promised, online connectivity now threatens to give us mainly pre-programmed culture. As we continue reflections on AI from CTM Festival in Berlin, here’s an essay from this year’s program.

It’s full of gun sounds. But because of a combination of a unique sample architecture and engine and a whole lot of unique assets, the Weaponiser plug-in becomes a weapon of a different kind. It helps you make drum sounds.

Midifan, a top music portal and online magazine in China, has received notice from Behringer, threatening legal action over stories by Musicfan that called Behringer a “copycat.”

Streemur is an iOS streaming sound palette for experimental musicians, sound designers and artists that comes with 40 internet radio presets and allows for 5 user presets too

SynthMaster One is here, and it’s pretty close to the desktop original with just a few minor differences like the overall polyphony and the number of presets it ships with

The future of soundware is clearly on-demand, crafted sounds from the cloud. Output adds a twist: don’t just give you new sounds, but give you a way to play them and make them your own.

apeSoft bring a whole new way to route audio and MIDI in iOS with apeMatrix, a unique and innovative solution to allow creators to route signals in exactly the way they want

If noise is your thing then Noise Maschine Premium may be just what you’re looking for. It’s an update to the original Noise Maschine app buy with no ads this time around

Machine learning and new technologies could unlock new frontiers of human creativity – or they could take humans out of the loop, ushering in a new nightmare of corporate control. Or both.

IK brings us a free version of Syntronik CS which has 22 powerful virtual synths recreating the legendary sonic signature of 44 of the most sought-after classic analog synthesizers and string machines ever created, recognizable by their elegantly designed, easy-to-navigate interfaces