Okay, Android users: Polaris music making app gets a key update

We know Android devices could use more music-making love. Polaris already proved itself an elegant Android-only solution. Developer Baptiste writes to let us know he’s added multiple patterns per track for chaining and variations, and other tweaks. The design work is beautifully simple — worth a look for design lovers and Android aficionados alike.

Alpaca interweaves code and pattern, from music to textile to dance

The history of computation is connected to textiles. And in everything from choreographic gestures to weaving, one event makes patterns sing in music and materials and bodies. Across Sheffield, Berlin, Barcelona, Linz, and online, the latest Alpaca Conference is entering its second weekend, following an in-person festival the first weekend.

Peter Kirn - September 18, 2025

909 Day: freebies, sales, and celebrations

It’s 909 Day again, and a moment to reflect on the beauty of Tadao Kikumoto’s rhythm composer masterpiece. HAND CLAP. Let’s RIDE.

Peter Kirn - September 9, 2025

Inertia completes an elegant trio of dynamic-shaping tools from Sinevibes

Peter Kirn - August 22, 2025

How to make Transformers and Generators for Ableton Live 12 (ES)

Peter Kirn - November 29, 2023

ALM ASQ-1 is a cute modular step sequencer with SH-101-style, drum trigger modes

Peter Kirn - August 9, 2022

More surprise in your sequences, with ESQ for Ableton Live

Peter Kirn - December 30, 2018

Novation Circuit 1.7 adds song mode and more, in yet another update

Peter Kirn - July 19, 2018

Why the updated BeatStep Pro is the sequencer to beat

Peter Kirn - December 2, 2015

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