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Throwback Thursday: Kerri Chandler DJing on reel-to-reel tape is a joy
Everybody’s a DJ until you put four tape machines in front of them. Yeah, to vinyl purists, Kerri Chandler continues to tour his all tape DJ rig, and it never gets old.
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C4NDY KeyVLM, a USB keyboard that connects to a vinyl turntable for mixing
Make your transition into this: it’s the intersection of a love of custom DIY USB keyboards, computers and mobile devices, turntables, and vinyl mixing. Yamamoto Shunichi shares their creation, C4NDY KeyVLM, an ortholinear-layout keyboard for combining mobile digital and vinyl sets.
Peter Kirn - December 30, 2023
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Tuning, polyphonic expression: Black Corporation’s Roman Filippov
The evolution of music is intertwined with the design and capabilities of instruments. After several decades of more constrained tuning and expression, new playability is becoming a norm with technologies like MPE and live per-note tuning. Music hardware maker Roman Flippov of Japan-headquartered Black Corporation joins us to connect early instruments from Buchla and Yamaha with these capabilities with modern creations.
Roman Filippov - December 13, 2023
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Maxell would like you to know that they still make audio cassette tapes
Peter Kirn - September 25, 2023
Music tech Tech
2020 is the insane, single-window beat machine from the future – and it’s landed on macOS
Peter Kirn - July 20, 2023
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