Android Apps Music tech Software Tech
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.
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Akai MPC Live III: expressive pads come to the MPC grid; $1699 with new core
Akai’s MPC Live III hits the same week as Roland’s new analog-digital flagship. This new standalone box has an updated 8-core processor and specs, enabling new features — but the biggest story here is expressive pads with 3D sensing.
Peter Kirn - October 4, 2025
Gear Music tech Tech
Lyra Pramuk on Hymnal, invention, and the spontaneity of slime mold
Lyra Pramuk’s Hymnal is an ecstatic, prophetic vision, a hybrid of synthesis and organicism in an improvised compositional structure with processed voice and strings, conveyed with striking intimacy. Lyra talks to us about inventing culture and reconnecting with musical roots while unlearning, all at once.
El Jaguar: re-amped Colombian Picó sound systems as instrument
Peter Kirn - May 22, 2025
Music tech Software Stories Tech
Peak 90s Opcode in a Vision training tape, NIN music video
Peter Kirn - November 4, 2024
Motion Music Music tech Tech
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