Add a notation view to Ableton Live Clips, for free: FPB Clip To Score

Ableton Live has never had a built-in notation view, but one intrepid developer has created one in Max – and it’s free/donation- and community-supported. And it works beautifully.

The Commodordion: 8-bit instrument made of taped-together C64s and floppies

Eat your heart out, Roland V-Accordion. Meet the Commodordion, an 8-bit chip instrument with bellows made of floppies and gaffer tape – and a surprisingly deep feature set.

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2022

Since it’s 22.02.2022, here are a bunch of musical palindromes

Wow, yay, LOL. 22.02.2022! Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is? 22.02.2022! LOL, yay, wow!

Peter Kirn - February 22, 2022

Watch an Ableton Live sequence made physical on the monome grid

Peter Kirn - August 6, 2018

Try a new physical model of a pipe organ for free

Peter Kirn - December 13, 2017

Fugue machine is how Bach would have made a sequencer

Peter Kirn - October 9, 2015

Bach Played on Tubes Will Remind You That Acoustic is Fun

Peter Kirn - April 14, 2015

Bach Cello Suite No. 1, Visualized in Sweeping Arcs, and the Math Beneath

Peter Kirn - October 28, 2011

As a Wooden Tangible Sequencer Plays Bach, Meditations on Encoding Music

- June 20, 2011