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Make doodles in Ableton Live, then animate them, with Klottra
Were you the type to draw elaborate doodles in your math class margins? Well, great news: Science now says that letting your mind wander is good for you. And indie Swedish design studio Henrik & Sofia went and made a Max for Live device that brings back your freedom to doodle and animates and exports your drawings. It’s a fabulously whimsical break from staring at colored rectangles and waveforms.
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GIMP 3.0, free and open source image app, looks brilliant
The culmination of seven years of open-source development, GIMP has reached its milestone 3.0 release. GIMP was always powerful, but this feels more like the mature, usable release to take on the proprietary heavyweights.
Max 9: new coding and livecoding, new visuals, and Ableton’s sound tools
Max 9 is available today, bringing benefits for casual tinkerers and hardcore devs alike. There’s more code, more performance, more livecoding, more visual powers, and – one more thing: you get the building blocks Ableton uses for sound.
Artist uses AI to perfectly fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles
Peter Kirn - February 7, 2022
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Bespoke visual noise is the next domain for Robert Henke – so let’s revisit Perlin, anyway
Peter Kirn - January 10, 2022
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The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk
Peter Kirn - November 30, 2021
DIY + Unusual Music Tech
The entire BlueLab plug-in line is now free, full of unique visualization and processing tools
Peter Kirn - November 18, 2021
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