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Guide: Creating instruments with Max for Live and Ableton DSP (pt. 3)
For the final episode in this trilogy on learning Max for Live and Ableton DSP Objects, we’re going to keep the focus on working fast. We’ll learn how to use Ableton DSP to prototype instruments quickly, play expressively, and hack them with some tricks and mods beyond what the stock Live Instruments provide.
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Your iPad and iPhone just became a portal to endless DX7 sounds
You may think you know the Yamaha DX7 from those couple of presets that dominated the 80s. But Oliver Greschke’s Elastic OSC for iPhone and iPad is a reminder of just how much potential Yamaha’s breakthrough FM synth can offer. And now Elastic OSC app can easily import those sounds, with a bunch of unique presets to get you started — plus a link to a cool generative tool that works with anything.
Digital synthesis, reenvisioned: Madrona Labs’ Sumu hands-on
Sumu is a true virtual instrument from Madrona Labs, with some unique approaches to demystifying and visualizing additive resynthesis and FM. David Abravanel takes us on a tour.
David Abravanel - May 25, 2024
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Noise Engineering has a new oscillator, Alia – and it’s bringing back old faves
Peter Kirn - October 24, 2023
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Lucifer is a dark FM oscillator for drones and drums and evil – Error Instruments does Superbooth
Peter Kirn - August 24, 2021
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