Expressive playing with MPE, demystified

MPE, MIDI Polyphonic Expression, can make playing digital instruments expressive in ways we’ve desired for decades. It’s just down to understanding everything you can do – and composer Josh Madoff has a fantastic tutorial and Osmose demos that make this technology more accessible to anyone.

Polyphonic patching, chords in cords: Tiptop Audio’s ART arrives

Imagine polyphonic modular patches – but now imagine that with polyphonic patch cables. Announced in May, Tiptop Audio’s ART system and patching approach arrives now as modules, a system, and a whole mess of videos exploring patching with this paradigm for polyphony and integrated expressive data, all via analog connections.

Peter Kirn - February 28, 2024

Bitwig Studio 5.1 adds filters, waveshapers, voice stacking tools

Everybody gets more waveshapers! Bitwig just announced Studio 5.1 with new waveshapers, new filters, polyphonic voice stacking, and a Bite dual oscillator, plus other enhancements.

Peter Kirn - October 18, 2023

CLAP is a new open-source plug-in format from Bitwig, u-he – do we need it, and who will use it?

Peter Kirn - June 15, 2022

Get a free Memorymoog: Syntronik Memory-V freebie from IK Multimedia

Peter Kirn - February 15, 2021

Elektrofon’s Klang is the gorgeous chord module that looks like the future

Peter Kirn - May 24, 2018

Bastl do waveshaping, MIDI, and magically tune your modules

Peter Kirn - May 3, 2018

KORG has a polyphonic Prologue synth – and it’s programmable

Peter Kirn - January 18, 2018

That dreamy Dave Smith OB-6 is now in desktop form

Peter Kirn - June 23, 2016

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