Watch a free program on modular audio synthesis and programming today

From Lyon’s Grame center, today there’s a free online workshop on patching and coding your own synths, including working with tools like the Faust DSP environment (even on the Web), VCV Rack, Daisy Eurorack, Arduino, Teensy, and more.

mutateful is a must-have, free live coding tool for Ableton Live

mutateful brings live coding – real-time musical pattern manipulation, expressed as code – to Ableton Live. And it looks like a must-have for arrangement and composition, too. So yes, there are knobs and faders and pads and keys and wind inputs and whatnot for playing music live. And then there are the often clunky graphical […]

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2019

Max TV: go inside Max 8’s wonders with these videos

Max 8 – and by extension the latest Max for Live – offers some serious powers to build your own sonic and visual stuff. So let’s tune in some videos to learn more.

Peter Kirn - April 11, 2019

A free, shared visual playground in the browser: Olivia Jack talks Hydra

Peter Kirn - February 22, 2019

Magenta Studio lets you use AI tools for inspiration in Ableton Live

Peter Kirn - February 12, 2019

Max 8: Multichannel, mappable, faster patching is here

Peter Kirn - September 25, 2018

Creative software can now configure itself for control, with OSC

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2018

Sounds.com is a new cloud tool for loops and samples from NI

Peter Kirn - January 17, 2018

Have yourself some very procedural holidays in your browser

Peter Kirn - December 24, 2017

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