Daedelus and Takuma Matsui talk Tinge, a painterly color wheel arpeggiator

There’s no grid, no harsh colors. Tinge swells and sways like a windchime, coming to life in spinning color wheels. It’s probably nothing like any arpeggiator you’ve seen before — or maybe it’s a “note agitator.” Co-creators Daedelus (Alfred Darlington) and Takuma Matsui (Rainbow Circuit) take us inside the process of how they created and thought about this new generative, responsive, playable melodic delight.

Way more than acid: pay-if-you-can Sting 2 is instant inspiration

Sting 2, Iftah’s follow-up to the acid-generating Max for Live device, is packed with new features like accessibility and Push support. But that’s not the best way to describe it. It works on acid. It works on melodies. It works on percussion. You may wind up smiling as much as its UI is. Imagine a one-click source of pure joy.

Peter Kirn - July 7, 2025

Strange-R modules: navigate generative melodic contours

Stochastic Instruments has a preview of some tasty generative sequencer modules. Random walks meet music theory, and what you get is Melodic Contour Sequencing, navigated with knobs, voltage, and (on the larger module) a joystick.

Peter Kirn - December 23, 2024

ReBoard transforms melodic playing in Ableton Live with Samchillian layout

Peter Kirn - January 9, 2023

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