Sonification Tools v2 from Manifest Audio and Noah Pred can now sonify text, images, video, and OSC – plus it’s got an all-new 8-voice polysynth that lets you play that data like an instrument. Noah also reflects on what sonifying data can mean.

Let’s get irrationally excited about a Perlin noise-generating node in Wire, the visual patching environment inside live VJ software Resolume. All that, Resolume 7.22, and just a lot of noise:

Minimal Audio’s tasty Wave Shifter was one of the best upgrades in their Current 2.0 synth. The various stereo shifter/FM/AM/ring modulation tools make a lot of sense as a standalone effect plug-in, too – and now that’s just what we get. Here’s a look.

It’s been a long time since the PPG name graced hardware. That brand and its founder, Wolfgang Palm, laid the foundation for decades of wavetable synthesis. Now the PPG name is back via an officially authorized collaboration with Liquid Sky d-vices and Cornel Hecht (Hell Modular) – and authentic Wave 2 sounds are arriving in Eurorack.

After overwhelming feedback, the new developer of Lemur has announced the app will be a one-time $99 purchase, not a subscription. You can still try the app for free (with some functionality limitations). Here’s the statement.

Ableton Move’s screen reader support is still getting rave reviews from blind and low-vision users, even though it’s not officially documented. Here’s more about how it works and more about what’s left to do – and an appeal to the entire industry to add more accessibility features.

NYC-based Purplish Records releases music on cassette in batches, and this double release is a serious gem. Ipek Eginli creates a magical cloud world of prepared piano interconnected with modular synths, as Jad Atoui transforms discarded hard drives into mechanical compositional machines.

The underground treasure trove of “avant-garde artifacts” is back on the Internet, a source of light even in days of darkness.

It’s free, it’s fast, it’s fun, it’s bop for the free Pure Data Vanilla. It runs on old computers. It runs on Raspberry Pi. “You probably don’t have any use for bop,” its developer says humbly – but wait, with everything from text sequencing to reverbs to esoteric musical notation, this looks great!

Chappell Roan didn’t just win a Grammy: she used that stage as a platform to call out industry abuse and demand a living wage for artists. And she did it in an enormous hat. There is a call to action for just this kind of change inside the USA – one that’s relevant advocacy worldwide.