Music Reviews
Tour Beirut’s music underground in a free PDF, from the inside out
Crises are a given; resilience is a given – to slightly bastardize the author’s words on Beirut’s Underground Scene, Hajar Ibrahim’s portrait of a musical world. But in this book, released this summer, what you get is more personal. It’s the underground telling its own story, rather than having one framed for it.
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Pulsar’s new w495 is a perfect Neumann EQ model – and it’s free right now
Having at least one really great 3-band EQ in your arsenal is a very good idea. Pulsar’s w495 looks like a must whether you’re a fan of the classic Neumann original – or you’re still a novice (but more on why I think that shortly). Now through October, this plug-in is free for macOS and Windows.
Peter Kirn - September 21, 2023
Music tech Reviews Software Tech
Draw rectangles on spectrum, animate them: free Sektor for Max for Live
Sektor is a beautiful Ableton Live freebie, a graphical tool for capturing bands of a sound’s spectrum and then looping and sampling them. Here’s a quick play.
Peter Kirn - September 15, 2023
Music tech Software Tech
monome, teletype are free in VCV Rack – and hardware is returning this fall
Peter Kirn - July 27, 2023
Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Software Tech
Solarus is a free Ableton Live modulation tool that uses the motions of the solar system
Peter Kirn - June 28, 2023
Music tech Software Tech
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