Dancing “vibes” and 2 more mood-elevating freebies for Live, DAWs

As much as music making can pick you up, sometimes you need an extra injection of joy. So meet Max – a blue dancing figure you will “vïbe” to your music on any Ableton Live track, free. And more freebies: a bathroom reverb for Ableton Live and a chipper chippy 12-bit polysynth for any DAW.

Amiga 500 as a real-time guitar effects pedal: Magical Synth Adventure

Dedicated Amiga lover Paulee Alex Bow is back with another terrific episode of Magical Synth Adventure – and this time, they’re using Amiga software as live processing for guitar, with delicious results.

Peter Kirn - April 1, 2024

Digital-analog delay, unchained: Sinevibes Integer (and free presets)

Just when you think you can’t hear any new noises from a delay, along comes Sinevibes Integer, drawing on classic bucket brigade delays to create something retro and futuristic all at once. We’ve also got an extra CDM-exclusive preset bank to explore more.

Peter Kirn - March 28, 2024

Liquid Sky d-vices V4CO & GLITHc: deep, glitchy, bendable wavetables

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2024

Amigo Sampler, Amiga sampling in plug-in form for £10, plus skank music

Peter Kirn - March 22, 2024

Lower your blood pressure, raise your vibration: eu-IV’s tape beats

Peter Kirn - January 22, 2024

RP-8 is a “demake” of the ReBirth RB-338 for the PICO-8 fantasy console

Peter Kirn - March 14, 2023

BASTL Microgranny is back – in a limited Monolith edition with Bogdan Raczynski

Peter Kirn - October 14, 2022

Music videos come to Game Boy Advance carts, in the ultra-chillwave world of Slow Magic

Peter Kirn - August 18, 2022

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