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Attacco turns any mic – and any surface – into expressive percussive music input
Attacco’s Virtual Controller, now in beta, makes anything into a percussive MIDI controller – not just for triggers, but expression, too. And you don’t need special hardware, either.
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Rejoice, for Destroy FX has updated their free plug-ins, including legendary glitchy Buffer Override
The sacred timeline has been restored. The greatest, strangest, glitchiest, most destructive plug-ins of the early 2000s are here with 64-bit support for Mac and Windows, Apple Silicon support on Mac, and UIs that look even more horrible than before. And they’re still free.
Peter Kirn - September 24, 2021
Music tech Software Tech
FUSE for vvvv is a visual revolution – free, always-runtime patching right on the GPU
Add free, open-source visual programming on the GPU to the free-for-noncommercial-use vvvv – and get materials, lighting, effects, particles, and generative geometry. Here’s the twist: you do all of that without code or scripts, and it’s all on the GPU, live.
Unreal Engine 4.27 out now with goodies like Web UI; early-access UE5 MetaSounds makes noise
Peter Kirn - August 25, 2021
Motion Music tech Software Tech
Get free presets and tutorials each month from veteran sound designer Tom Wolfe
Peter Kirn - July 5, 2021
Music tech Software Tech
Note Raum is a perfect, free MIDI echo for Ableton Live and Max for Live
Peter Kirn - June 28, 2021
Music tech Software Tech
Free presets, free filter, TAL-Filter-2 mean a new trance-y Age of Love for us all
Peter Kirn - May 24, 2021
Music tech Software Tech
Inside MTS-ESP, the new tuning tool from Oddsound and Aphex Twin
Peter Kirn - March 29, 2021
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