open·control is a Kickstarter-backed controller for Ableton Live triggering, looping, everything

Live just turned 20 years old, but there’s still no end to personalized ideas for how to control it. The latest is open·control, and it’s focused on quick, customizable triggers for the Session View, Looper, and editing – as a pocket-sized remote or via pedal inputs.

Playtronica’s Orbita explores sequences on physical, kinetic turntable, launching soon

Inspired by objects like wall clocks and reel-to-reel tape machines, Orbita is a sequencer whose interaction is physical and kinetic, via small discs placed on a turntable. The twist is, it’s not just a design demo – you’ll be able to buy one yourself.

Peter Kirn - August 30, 2021

Free modular: open source Mutable Instruments ports expanded in VCV Rack

As the TV car ads say – no money? No problem. VCV Rack can get you into some extraordinarily deep sound making for free. And thanks to a crowd funding effort, what’s available in the Audible Instruments range has expanded.

Peter Kirn - April 22, 2020

The E-mu SP-1200 sampler is getting a reboot: SP 2400

Peter Kirn - June 17, 2019

SPICE is a one-stop modular distortion box – and it needs support

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2019

Haken’s ContinuuMini is expressive, post-keyboard sound for $899

Peter Kirn - January 11, 2019

TUNNELS imagines Eurorack if you could multiply and patch anywhere

Peter Kirn - December 7, 2018

Percussa’s new Kickstarter project wants to be the brain of your modular

Peter Kirn - August 7, 2017

Export to hardware, virtual pedals – this could be the future of effects

Peter Kirn - August 3, 2017

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