Rhizomatic Synestia, an otherworldly effect from Absynth, Plasmonic creator

Modeled resonators, formants, waveshapers, filters, delays, all with extensive modulation: Synestia takes the unparalleled sonic shapers from creator Brian Clevinger’s Plasmonic and brings it to any input signal.

Geert Bevin, MPE innovator, tours Osmose keyboard and expression

Geert Bevin contributed to MIDI Polyphonic Expression’s development and helped champion its use. So who better than to try Expressive E’s unique Osmose keyboard and synth?

Peter Kirn - June 18, 2024

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

Sequential’s Trigon-6 gets the desktop treatment – and update adds MPE

Peter Kirn - August 15, 2023

BLEASS Voices is the all-in-one vocal transformer for Mac, PC, and iOS we were waiting for

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2023

Kyoka on the new Ableton Push; approaching Push as an instrument

Peter Kirn - May 25, 2023

Here’s what’s in Apple’s Logic Pro for iPad – and it’s more than you probably think (first impressions)

Peter Kirn - May 23, 2023

The new Ableton Push 3, at a glance: standalone, new pads, new platform

Peter Kirn - May 23, 2023

Arturia Augmented BRASS makes it uncommonly easy to build up hybrid brass sounds

Peter Kirn - May 5, 2023

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