COLLIDZ° generates detailed ambient music, on its own or with a candy store worth of features

It’s a sequencer. It’s a generative music maker. It’s microtonal. It’s packed with synth engines and effects. But if other tools get you stuck in presets, this world-builder for Reaktor makes each preset and parameter a gateway to something creative and unexpected.

Looking for a future for techno? Jlin’s “Embryo” is pure fire

How much percussion and rhythmic thought can fit in under four minutes? A lot, when it’s in the hands of Gary, Indiana’s own Jlin. It’s soon to be in some human percussionist hands, too.

Peter Kirn - October 22, 2021

Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters

Afrorack continues to make richly textured polyrhythmic music and share secrets for cheaply producing powerful modular instruments with open tools. Here are some tantalizing updates from Uganda.

Peter Kirn - September 21, 2021

Charlie Clouser of Saw and NIN has made a sound library for Spitfire, “Hammers”

Peter Kirn - July 22, 2021

Bitwig adds a free 808 – multisampled and 808 bass and Grid patch ready

Peter Kirn - December 17, 2020

KORG volca modular and volca drum are real – and now we’ve got details

Peter Kirn - January 15, 2019

Exploring a journey from Bengali heritage to electronic invention

Peter Kirn - July 16, 2018

This plug-in is a secret weapon for sound design and drums

Peter Kirn - June 14, 2018

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