VDMX 6.3 adds expressions, plugin templates to beloved Mac visual tool

Here’s another live visual icon with some welcome updates. Vidvox promised lots of quality-of-life refinements with VDMX6 as a platform, and VDMX6.3 adds just that. So it’s a good excuse to mention VDMX again, in case you’d tuned out for a bit.

Logic has new granular, Beat Breaker features; here’s how to use them

Apple’s Logic Pro for macOS and iOS just got some powerful new granular features for Alchemy and Sample Alchemy, plus new modes for the sequenced slicer/effect Beat Breaker. Once you do know where to find the new features, it opens up major sound design possibilities.

Peter Kirn - July 13, 2026

EPROM built an instrument for Current: complete guide

EPROM, the West Coast experimental bass and production legend, meets Minimal Audio’s Current with Memory Rites. Here’s a guide to exploring those sounds, whether the full flagship synth or the new Current Expansion Player.

Peter Kirn - July 8, 2026

TouchDesigner POPs course gets your brain around geometry for visuals

Peter Kirn - May 20, 2026

Akai update makes the MPC Sample a satellite to the rest of the MPC line

Peter Kirn - April 30, 2026

Play together with Ableton Live, pt. 2: playing in time

Peter Kirn - April 28, 2026

Every kind of sonic mayhem: Soundtoys Decapitator, Radiator, Devil-Loc

Peter Kirn - April 27, 2026

Play together with Ableton Live, pt. 1: playing in tune

Peter Kirn - March 31, 2026

Sonify data in Ableton Live with a free MIDI Tool; weather data walkthrough

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2026