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Free Blender 4.4 adds animation and video features, improves stability
It’s a great week for free and open-source media tools. Hot on the heals of GIMP 3.0 final, we get Blender 4.4. It’s labeled as focusing on stability, but the Blender contributors have packed a bunch of major animation, video, and UI features in there, too. Now, we can say this is the tool used in Oscar-winning films (Flow).
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This artist is connecting Unreal, Ableton Live for production-grade visualizers
For all the ubiquity of Unreal Engine, a small handful of people are pushing the envelope of what Unreal can do as an audiovisual tool. With years of effects and animation production work under his belt, Zack Berwick is uniquely creative and inventive with the combo – and he’s sharing his approach, using Ableton Live, Max for Live, MIDI, OSC, and UE.
Peter Kirn - March 7, 2025
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Novation Bass Station gets a GForce software model and it’s perfect
Nothing punches like the Novation Bass Station, the UK company’s 1993 analog original. GForce Software makes a pretty good argument for making this a plug-in: emulate all the powerful sound of the synth and its filter, but add awesome modulation, effects, and sequencer/arp, unison mode, up to 16-voice polyphony, and make it mega-affordable (or free with a keyboard controller).
Peter Kirn - January 21, 2025
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Working with Alan Parsons, PSP recreates Frequency Translator
Peter Kirn - January 20, 2025
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Roland just modeled the JC-120 Jazz Chorus in software
Peter Kirn - January 16, 2025
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Review: Arturia AstroLab, the stage keyboard with Arturia instruments
Benjamin Weiss - June 17, 2024
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Creature from the ID lets you live your 50s sci-fi soundtrack fantasies
Peter Kirn - June 9, 2024
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Analog Waveguide module uses 1971 theory to make a killer resonator
Peter Kirn - May 15, 2024
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