Everything new in Arturia MicroFreak 3 update, as a wild little synth gets deeper

It’s cute and small, it’s affordable, and now it’s getting more packed into it, in collaboration with boutique maker Noise Engineering. Here’s a look at what’s new in Arturia’s free 3.0.x firmware update to their MicroFreak synth.

Free book traces the revolutionary link of graphic to sound, in Xenakis, UPIC, and legacy

Electronic sound is in theory a limitless blank canvas. Iannis Xenakis and his work imagine what image of sound could fill that page – and leaves a legacy that’s still radical today.

Peter Kirn - April 17, 2020

Bionic synthesis: artists make music with a prosthetic arm, eye motion

Accessibility in music can mean expanding expression beyond what is normally physically possible. For one artist, that means jacking a prosthesis as CV – for another, overcoming paralysis to make music with eyes alone. Bertolt Meyer was already producing and DJing, even with a birth condition that left him without the lower portion of one […]

Peter Kirn - February 17, 2020

Touché now puts expressive control at hand for $229

Peter Kirn - September 18, 2018

The Touché, adding expression to synths – just in time for Moogfest

Peter Kirn - May 17, 2018

Premiere: Spell Drops music video is flowing, organic electronic poetry

Peter Kirn - February 28, 2018

Erica are set to bring the 909 into the modular age with their latest gear

Peter Kirn - January 31, 2018

This 16-yo and his team built a $100 Oculus VR clone and free SDK

Peter Kirn - January 23, 2018

The story of early tape music, microsound, and a Eurorack resurrection

Oleg Shpudeiko - December 5, 2017

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