More surprise in your sequences, with ESQ for Ableton Live

With interfaces that look lifted from a Romulan warbird and esoteric instruments, effects, and sequencers, K-Devices have been spawning surprising outcomes in Ableton Live for some time now. ESQ is the culmination of that: a cure for preset sounds and ideas in a single device.

A favorite sequencer gets more dimension: new Make Noise René

Forget about gear fetish: the delightful surprise behind the modular movement is that a whole bunch of people are interested in exploring weird new musical ideas. And one of the sequencer modules at the heart of it is getting a big refresh.

Peter Kirn - September 17, 2018

Minecraft music making: watch someone play music with the game

Minecraft, your latest somewhat bizarre drum machine? Believe it. Gamer meisterjaan sends us this mod of Minecraft into a music tool, and the results are kind of hilarious / terrifying.

Peter Kirn - September 11, 2018

Watch an Ableton Live sequence made physical on the monome grid

Peter Kirn - August 6, 2018

AutoTrig and TATAT generate rhythms for Ableton, modular gear

Peter Kirn - June 25, 2018

This free tool could change how you think about sequencers

Peter Kirn - June 25, 2018

Jazzari lets you sketch musical ideas in your browser, with JavaScript

Peter Kirn - October 16, 2017

Seaquence lets you make music as animated ocean creatures

Peter Kirn - March 14, 2017

Dot Melody is a nicely weird iOS note sequencer, and now it syncs

Peter Kirn - November 17, 2016

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