Max 8.6: Samplers, gamepads, colors, Max for Live, and more

Cycling ’74’s Max 8.6 is out now, bringing a ton of fun, musical stuff to the open-ended music and media toolbox. That includes major updates for anyone working with Ableton Live, but plenty for everyone else, too. And if you’ve got a gamepad, you can plug that in and start playing right away.

Free ShowMIDI tool now has new UI, themes, MPE, iOS version

The perfect MIDI visualizer keeps growing by leaps and bounds. New open-source tool ShowMIDI shows MIDI data in a structured, readable way. And now it’s got a slick new UI and runs on iOS as well as macOS, Windows, and Linux, among other features.

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2023

ShowMIDI is the free MIDI visualization utility you’ve been waiting for

Finally, here’s a MIDI utility that shows you just the information you need about MIDI activity, instead of dumping a massive list of messages on the screen. ShowMIDI is free and open source, with builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux, thanks to developer Geert Bevin.

Peter Kirn - November 6, 2023

Sinevibes Whirl phaser now has tempo sync, bidirectional stereo width

Peter Kirn - May 31, 2023

Dedalus Delay “delay mangler” plug-in packs in modulation, granulation

Peter Kirn - March 10, 2023

CLAP is a new open-source plug-in format from Bitwig, u-he – do we need it, and who will use it?

Peter Kirn - June 15, 2022

V Collection 8.2 – Apple M1, faster GUIs, tuning support, and it’s 50% off for Black Friday

Peter Kirn - November 25, 2021

OB-Xd 2.0: Open Oberheim-inspired synth for Mac, Windows, Linux adds loads of improvements

Peter Kirn - August 4, 2020

The guts of Tracktion are now open source for devs to make new stuff

Peter Kirn - November 16, 2018

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