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2020 is the insane, single-window beat machine from the future – and it’s landed on macOS
Japanese electronic musician Yotaro Shuto has created a single-window, patchable, semi-modular beat machine packs an insane amount of functionality. And after a successful crowdfunding campaign, it’s now available on the Mac App Store. Yotaro Shuto is half of the duo DUB-Russell, and 2020 looks and feels like a toybox built by someone who makes electronic […]
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Polish chemist Jan Czochralski, joysticks and patch points spawned this drum machine
Start with a chemical process that grows crystals and silicon for semiconductors, build a multi-layered 6-7 voice drum machine around it, cover it with patch points and clusters of knobs and joysticks, and you get the Czochralski cells. It’s a complex drum machine rather unlike anything before it.
Peter Kirn - May 25, 2023
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8-bit oscillators with analog overdrive and a glitch lab to bend them: Liquid Sky launches d-vices
Liquid Sky d-vices have unveiled their warped limited-edition modular hardware: a dual oscillator with 8-bit wavetables and analog envelopes and overdrive, and a sprawling patch bay expander for circuit-bending those oscillators.
Peter Kirn - May 12, 2023
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Audio Damage Replicant plug-in rebuilt in v3, looks great, does way more than stutter
Peter Kirn - March 15, 2023
Music tech Software Tech
Psychedelic Soldier: a burnt-out Russian tank headlight made into a synthesizer
Peter Kirn - April 28, 2022
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Freakshow Industries’ Black Friday plug-in anti-sale will charge you more, but you can also steal
Peter Kirn - November 27, 2021
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Rejoice, for Destroy FX has updated their free plug-ins, including legendary glitchy Buffer Override
Peter Kirn - September 24, 2021
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