maxess screenshots overlaid on one another, showing help pages: maxess.element, maxess.file, maxess.keyboard, and maxess.speech running in Max with help commentary.

Maxess, free externals for Max and Max for Live accessibility, available now

Peter Kirn - March 13, 2025

Close-p of vintage TB-303 hardware showing "Computer-Controlled" logo and knobs. "Old Roland TB-303" by Alexandre Dulaunoy is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

303 Day: the freaky CDM Megaroundup

Peter Kirn - March 3, 2025

In flickering feedback, an audiovisual synth hums and sings

Peter Kirn - February 27, 2025

Ableton Move is a hit for blind and low vision users; more like this, please

Peter Kirn - February 10, 2025

Palestinian game Dreams on a Pillow is on its last day of crowdfunding

Peter Kirn - January 13, 2025

Minimoog’s missing link: how an icon was born in summer of 1970

Peter Kirn - December 20, 2024

Alternative histories, realized: someone built a working 80s Apple prototype

Peter Kirn - December 9, 2024

Play around with miniature, interactive Rooms – now with Actions

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2024

Three speculative designs on white pedestals with a white background. A quipu-powered drum machine with knotted pieces of rope, a viola da gamba with a hollow body and amplification, and a skull-and-bone horn.

Imagining an alternate history of music instruments, quipu to skulls

Peter Kirn - November 20, 2024

Moog is back: Moog Muse is the 8-voice love child of modular and Voyager

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2024