Fake a $30k pro video controller with an APC40 or Beatstep and Davinci Resolve

We’re living in an age of video and motion graphics. But now not only can you get a free license of Davinci Resolve to use pro-level tools, but this hack will let you make a standard music controller do a convincing impression of a $30,000 controller. Finally, visuals get as easily hands-on as music.

Real time visuals, no money spent: two great commercial tools

Real-time design and live visuals can provide transformative powers. But what if you’re not ready to commit both time and money right away? Here are two industrial-strength tools that get you started for free. Meet Smode and TouchDesigner.

Ted Pallas - September 26, 2018

DU-NTSC is a modular visualizer, AV toy, and video generator

From hyper-nerdy label Detroit Underground comes a new tool that both visualizes signals and acts as a modular visual instrument – a new way of looking at what you’re doing in modular sound, and an object for visual creation.

Peter Kirn - August 14, 2018

What culture, ritual will be like in the age of AI, as imagined by a Hacklab

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2018

A look at AI’s strange and dystopian future for art, music, and society

Peter Kirn - June 11, 2018

Speaking in signal, across the divide between video and sound: SIGINT

Peter Kirn - May 16, 2018

Adobe drops QuickTime support, as visual artists look for a solution

Peter Kirn - April 5, 2018

Premiere: Spell Drops music video is flowing, organic electronic poetry

Peter Kirn - February 28, 2018

Reactable’s Snap Drum Machine adds some very cool new motion features and more

Ashley Elsdon - February 26, 2018

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