Resolume 7.8’s REST API turns your visual tools into tweakable web servers

In a huge boon to coders and hackers, Resolume’s Arena, Avenue, and even modular Wires now all can be accessed as web servers. Want your smartphone to be able to dial into that visual creation? Now it’s easy.

8-bit painting – watch a DIY light pen for the IBM PCjr

Jozef Bogin, Slovak engineer and hacker, has just posted this short video of a light pen – PCjr interface, and whenever we have events planning again, I really want to see it as a VJ act.

Peter Kirn - December 2, 2021

Futility is a shortcut-packed answer to working faster in Ableton Live, and it’s just four bucks

Futility v4, developed in Max for Live, has just arrived. And it’s an incredible timesaver – get channel strip, mixing, arming, and device settings right under your fingertips, anywhere in Live, even in the Arrangement. Cost: 4EUR+.

Peter Kirn - November 26, 2021

open·control is a Kickstarter-backed controller for Ableton Live triggering, looping, everything

Peter Kirn - November 2, 2021

In Instruments series, encounters between inventors and musicians, watchable online

Peter Kirn - October 8, 2021

If you’re willing to void your warranty, you can make Erica’s Pico DSP run some epic effects

Peter Kirn - September 9, 2021

Cassette turntablism is a thing, and you need to watch more tape DJ videos from Japan

Peter Kirn - August 24, 2021

Error Instruments’ Loopman is an experimental cassette Walkman instrument

Peter Kirn - August 24, 2021

Build smart, custom mechanical keyboards for MIDI – or really tiny Ableton Live control

Peter Kirn - July 9, 2021

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