Music tech Software Tech
The developer of Tweakbench wants to remake the DAW without linear time
The Digital Audio Workstation can never quite escape the timeline and its roots in multitrack tape. Tweakbench’s new Noemi, which entered alpha last month, starts from scratch. What if music in the DAW could constantly evolve and change? What if the DAW were non-deterministic?
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SuperCollider 3.12 updates massively powerful, free sound synthesis coding environment
It’s the basis of a lot of the live coding scene, and an unmatched powerhouse, free and open source. And it gets a big update this week.
Peter Kirn - August 4, 2021
DIY + Unusual Music tech Software Tech
Making Digital One-of-a-Kind: Inside Icarus’ Generative Album in 1000 Variations
Even the artwork changes. This is my personal copy – #148. Digital: disposable, identical, infinitely reproducible. Recordings: static, unchanging. Or … are they? Icarus’ Fake Fish Distribution (FFD), a self-described “album in 1000 variations,” generates a one-of-a-kind download for each purchaser. Generative, parametric software takes the composition, by London-based musicians-slash-software engineers Ollie Bown and Sam […]