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bop: free, fast, friendly, fun music stuff for Pd, old CPUs and RasPi
It’s free, it’s fast, it’s fun, it’s bop for the free Pure Data Vanilla. It runs on old computers. It runs on Raspberry Pi. “You probably don’t have any use for bop,” its developer says humbly – but wait, with everything from text sequencing to reverbs to esoteric musical notation, this looks great!
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What the future of the NUC platform means for Ableton Push standalone
One of the big features of Ableton Push is its standalone mode and upgradeability, enabled by the Intel-developed NUC platform. Over the summer, Intel discontinued that platform, raising some questions about where NUC was headed. Now, with Asus officially taking over NUC, here’s a look at the platform and what it could mean for Push 3’s future, with Ableton’s head of hardware weighing in.
Live 11.3.10 quietly takes the drudge work out of Auto-Warp; other news
Ableton Live Auto-Warp now finally works the way you wanted it to work. Not Warp and Pray, not Warp and Spend Some Minutes or Hours Fixing the Warp Markers – like, automatic Auto-Warp, in 11.3.10 building on 11.3.x’s changes. There are other enhancements in here, too, for both Live and the new Push. Let’s break it down.
Peter Kirn - August 23, 2023
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Learn Push Hacker to transform Ableton Push, plus Max for Live plug-in shortcuts, too
Peter Kirn - June 18, 2021
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Quick Ableton Live tips: blackest ever UI, Saturator tutorial, see plug-ins on tracks – let’s go!
Peter Kirn - January 27, 2021
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Strum is a mesmerizing new take on arpeggiators and performance – Max for Live
Peter Kirn - January 11, 2021
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APC as standalone hardware? Leaked Akai APC Live
Peter Kirn - January 2, 2019
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