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What if your gear could MIDI map itself? This open schema and iOS app do it now
So, you’ve got a plug-in or a hardware synth – and you want to control part of the sound with a physical knob or some iPad modulation. One clever iPad app and an open source scheme could make what happens next happen faster.
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Surge is free, deep synth for every platform, with MPE support
Surge is a deep multi-engine digital soft synth – beloved, then lost, then brought back to life as an open source project. And now it’s in a beta that’s usable and powerful and ready on every OS.
Now ‘AI’ takes on writing death metal, country music hits, more
Machine learning is synthesizing death metal. It might make your death metal radio DJ nervous – but it could also mean music software works with timbre and time in new ways. That news – plus some comical abuse of neural networks for writing genre-specific lyrics in genres like country – next.
Peter Kirn - April 22, 2019
DIY + Unusual Music Stories Tech
Synth One is a free, no-strings-attached, iPad and iPhone synthesizer
Peter Kirn - January 31, 2019
Music tech Software Stories Tech
TidalCycles, free live coding environment for music, turns 1.0
Peter Kirn - December 18, 2018
DIY + Unusual Music tech Tech
Check out these amazing DIY controllers people made with OpenDeck
Peter Kirn - December 12, 2018
DIY + Unusual Music tech Stories Tech
The guts of Tracktion are now open source for devs to make new stuff
Peter Kirn - November 16, 2018
DIY + Unusual Music tech Software Tech
Powerful SURGE synth for Mac and Windows is now free
Peter Kirn - September 26, 2018
Music tech Software Tech
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