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Black Friday: pimp my Live with the best add-ons
Ableton Live 12.3 is out of beta; it’s time to liven up your Live setup (plus Ableton Move and Push and Novation Circuit Tracks). Black Friday deals have these at the lowest prices you’ll see all year, so if you’re stocking up for winter or holiday breaks, we’ve got you. These are tools to solve some problems, add some inspiration, and even just make your Live setup look better.
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Roland’s pedal concept uses AI to let you process everything with anything
The concept prototype Project LYDIA by Roland Future Design Lab uses machine learning tech from Neutone to turn any input into a “tone.” But this isn’t just about “modeling” — far from it. It lets you process anything with anything else. Beatboxing, field recordings — anything becomes an input. That emphasis on sampling and messing around in the real world might make it the opposite of genAI sound. This is tech that demands you go out and play.
Peter Kirn - November 12, 2025
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Panel: liberating music technology for Arabic music and beyond
Against the backdrop of AL.FESTIVAL, the Berlin festival centering music from the Arabic world and diasporic communities, we gathered an expert group to discuss liberating technology from some of its Western biases and exclusionary design. Now you can listen back (and read more), with artists ABADIR and Basel Naouri plus Ableton’s Dr. Laurel Pardue, as chatter ranged from critical views of futurism to ways software can mesh with Indonesian gamelan.
Audacity 4: a glimpse of a new, more modern UI for the free audio editor
Peter Kirn - October 6, 2025
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What to know about the Roland TR-1000, from voices to slicing to samples
Peter Kirn - October 1, 2025
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The making of Sequential’s all-analog, polyphonic, expressive Fourm
Peter Kirn - September 23, 2025
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Alpaca interweaves code and pattern, from music to textile to dance
Peter Kirn - September 18, 2025
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