Here’s a free pack to get MIDI Polyphonic Expression under your fingertips

MIDI Polyphonic Expression, once considered exotic, is now in favorite tools like Ableton Live 11, Xfer Serum, and Arturia Pigments. So where to get started? Our friends at Sensel just made a handy free preset pack.

Aaltoverb is a reverb you can play like an instrument (VST, AU)

Normally, when you touch reverb controls, you get weird clicks and ranges that make no sense… Aaltoverb is different. It’s a performance-friendly reverb effect, now as a Windows and Mac plug-in.

Peter Kirn - August 23, 2019

Generative music from Shanghai’s AYRTBH: interview, download

The mysterious, murky, glitchy-future sounds you hear from, AYRTBH, Shanghai’s Wang Changcun, emerges from an algorithm. That software can make this album over and over again without sounding the same. The artist explains – and shares a specially generated exclusive for CDM readers.

David Abravanel - December 17, 2018

Beautiful New Music from tehn, the Maker of the monome [Interview]

- August 27, 2014

One Awesome Jam, Four Sequences, 32-Steps: New MTRX Hardware Sequencer Video

- March 10, 2014

Plug-in Watch: New Urs Updates and Videos, Images, and an Aalto Update

- July 26, 2011

In a Free Album, Community-Shared monome Samples Shine (Video and WINE Tips)

- July 6, 2011

For Lovers of Aalto, Semi-Modular Soft Synth, a Place to Share Patches

- July 5, 2011

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