Data Knot for Max is machine learning as musicians want it: human-focused

Data Knot is the best of AI and machine learning: low-latency, optimized, performance-friendly, responsive — a set of building blocks for gestures and sounds that you customize. Built on the Fluid Corpus Manipulation project (FluCoMa) by composer/artist and self-described “crazy person” Rodrigo Constanzo, it’s something else musicians and artists love, too: it’s free.

Akai MPC Live III: expressive pads come to the MPC grid; $1699 with new core

Akai’s MPC Live III hits the same week as Roland’s new analog-digital flagship. This new standalone box has an updated 8-core processor and specs, enabling new features — but the biggest story here is expressive pads with 3D sensing.

Peter Kirn - October 4, 2025

Sampleslicer MKIII, the definitive real-time sampler looper slicer module

Live performance requires practice. And creating a truly performance-oriented module also requires a long process of iteration and refinement. Sampleslicer MKIII, the live sampling-looping-slicing labor, by Jan Willem (ginkosynthese), is the culmination of that process. And it just keeps getting better: today’s beta update, just announced, adds features like momentary reverse, non-repeating one-shot, and gate-triggered resets.

Peter Kirn - July 11, 2025

Grayscale Nexus expands on Mutable’s keyframing – free now in VCV Rack

Peter Kirn - June 9, 2025

Bitwig hardware: deep Roto-Control integration; Connect 4/12 is here

Peter Kirn - May 3, 2025

ONE MKII viewed from the back, angle, showing new CV Input jacks.

OXI Instruments’ grid sequencer is about to get a big MKII upgrade

Peter Kirn - April 22, 2025

Intellijel Multigrain, a stereo morphing granular sampler module

Peter Kirn - April 11, 2025

VDMX6 gets vision: video tracking, color transfer, background removal

Peter Kirn - April 11, 2025

Therminator, with a curvy abstract glyph of a box with cables and a dot in the center engraved into the 3D-printed case, USB-C and jack connections

Ther’minator by Eric Singer transforms LIDAR to modular, CV

Peter Kirn - April 4, 2025

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