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Extreme time stretching, spectral shaping: Sloom and instant ambient
You’ve heard time stretching. You’ve heard extreme time stretching. Sloom, a new plug-in and standalone app, is extreme-extreme-extreme time stretching – like instant ambient, instant experimental sonic manipulation – complete with unique spectral shaping.
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There are some wild AI music LEGO sets – but this LEGO Neve studio is real
From Ableton Live to Stockhausen, folks have been generating some hilarious LEGO kits around music making. But leave it to the folks at Rupert Neve Designs, as the 5088 mixer and a ton of studio accessories are part of a real custom LEGO building set, and it’ll be on sale soon.
Peter Kirn - December 14, 2023
DIY + Unusual Gear Music tech Tech
IRCAM ASAP plug-in suite transforms and remixes sounds; part of it is free
Some of that brain-bending research from Paris’ famed IRCAM is coming your way in plug-in form – even (partly) for free. It’s a spectral remixing, sound morphing, audio shaping powerhouse that landed from some advanced alien civilization, but it’s usable by humans, whether we’re ready for this power or not.
Peter Kirn - December 19, 2022
Music tech Software Tech
Jean-Claude Risset, who reimagined digital synthesis, has died
Peter Kirn - November 22, 2016
Music Music tech
Drum machines in your browser, and more places to find Web Audio and MIDI
Peter Kirn - July 29, 2015
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