Discovering tuning outside standard piano tuning can feel like finding food with seasoning and spices for the first time. Here are some new resources – strong enough for tuning experts, easy enough for beginners (well, some of them).
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Here’s how to master rhythms and polyrhythms with free modules in VCV Rack
Discover the wonders of the QUAD ALGORITHMIC RHYTHM module from Frozen Wasteland. We’ll learn how to compose rhythms, trigger them live, and more – all with free modules and VCV Rack.
Read more →Techno sound at night: FBK on finding his voice, being stronger together
This is not a museum. This is not a time to wax poetic about FBK’s stellar 25-year career. Because FBK has things to say with a steady parade of new releases, now. So if you don’t know Kevin yet – now is a great time to discover him.
Read more →Time travel through polyrhythms: King Britt’s Back 2 Black, on repeat
Production legend, accomplished live electronic musician, and inspiration and friend King Britt has been deep in his lab again. So hop in the polyrhythmic time machine, as you may want to set its controls to “loop.”
Read more →Fundamental puts a rich, vintage tube oscillator studio in a plug-in, from sonicLAB and Hainbach
Make eerie, modulating drones like it’s a disco in the Exclusion Zone. Or delve into the sound tools of Stockhausen. But for anyone who loves finding shifting, nuanced colors in oscillators – Hainbach and Sinan Bökesoy have created something for you.
Read more →Free modular recipes for sound and sequence in VCV Rack, with the creator of JW-Modules
Part of the beauty of software modular is the ability to share ideas. Here are just those kinds of tips and tricks, and you can try them right now – free.
Read more →No Love Parades this time: in the midst of crisis, an image of tonedeaf ravers in Berlin
A large swath of Berlin’s club scene kicked off the summer with an illustration of how not to respond to a crisis. The message: if the crisis doesn’t apply to me, I won’t acknowledge its existence.
Read more →Yaeltex V2: any music and visual controller hardware you imagine, made real
Finally, an open browser tab can bring you something good for your music and performance – like helping you build your dream controller, visually. A first look at Yaeltex V2.
Read more →In Slovakia, the rave goes on: social distancing with a taped-off grid for dancers
How do you party without putting people at risk – but without killing the reason for partying in the first place? Here’s Slovakia with a novel concept. It’s not that we haven’t had ideas for nightlife in the era of social distancing. It’s that a lot of those take something crucial away. Here in Berlin, […]
Read more →Your snares are weak; here are the free snares (and kicks) you need in Live, from Dial F
What does it take to make snares hot again? This free Live rack, that’s what. Dial F aka David Abravanel has been cooking up new music and more sounds – and stick around for exhaustive kicks. Notes and download for Live 10 are all on Google Drive: Snare Synth download, Rack, and demo project It […]
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