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KORG’s nutekt NTS-1 is a fun, little kit – and open to ‘logue developers
KORG has already shown that opening up oscillators and effects to developers can expand their minilogue and prologue keyboards. But now they’re doing the same for the nutekt NTS-1 – a cute little volca-ish kit for synths and effects. Build it, make wild sounds, and … run future stuff on it, too.
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Now ‘AI’ takes on writing death metal, country music hits, more
Machine learning is synthesizing death metal. It might make your death metal radio DJ nervous – but it could also mean music software works with timbre and time in new ways. That news – plus some comical abuse of neural networks for writing genre-specific lyrics in genres like country – next.
Peter Kirn - April 22, 2019
DIY + Unusual Music Stories Tech
A free, shared visual playground in the browser: Olivia Jack talks Hydra
Reimagine pixels and color, melt your screen live into glitches and textures, and do it all for free on the Web – as you play with others. We talk to Olivia Jack about her invention, live coding visual environment Hydra.
Magenta Studio lets you use AI tools for inspiration in Ableton Live
Peter Kirn - February 12, 2019
Music tech Software Stories Tech
Arturia’s new experimental synth – and Mutable Instruments’ role
Peter Kirn - January 25, 2019
Gear Music tech Stories Tech
TidalCycles, free live coding environment for music, turns 1.0
Peter Kirn - December 18, 2018
DIY + Unusual Music tech Tech
The guts of Tracktion are now open source for devs to make new stuff
Peter Kirn - November 16, 2018
DIY + Unusual Music tech Software Tech
Deep Synth combines a Game Boy and the THX sound
Peter Kirn - October 22, 2018
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