Tour Berna3, a complete 1950s electronic music studio in software – tape loops to test oscillators

While everyone else modulates the 70s, 80s, and even 90s, step back to the 1950s – with a complete array of test oscillators, vintage sound equipment, mixers, patching, and tape. It’s Berna3, and it’s possibly the most retro electronic music software … ever.

Attacco turns any mic – and any surface – into expressive percussive music input

Attacco’s Virtual Controller, now in beta, makes anything into a percussive MIDI controller – not just for triggers, but expression, too. And you don’t need special hardware, either.

Peter Kirn - September 27, 2021

The dorky recorder you had in school just got a futuristic remake

The recorder’s simplicity has made it ubiquitous in music education. Digital builders want to refresh it and make it cool – and no, this isn’t an April Fools’ joke.

Peter Kirn - October 18, 2019

IK UNO Drum: portable, $249.99 analog-PCM drum machine

Peter Kirn - May 8, 2019

Behringer update: TC-Helicon hardware mimics IK Multimedia products

Peter Kirn - April 19, 2019

Yves Tumor’s new free LP is an ethereal reverie for late summer

Peter Kirn - September 14, 2017

Francesco Novara – Astron [EP] brings evocative, comet-inspired music

Peter Kirn - August 19, 2017

Listen to a beautiful sound bath by Lucy

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2016

Meet Holotone, the out-there new label from Daniele Antezza

Zuzana Friday Prikrylova - January 29, 2016

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