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.

Ableton Live’s new options fix latency recording problems: here’s how

There’s a critical new feature in Ableton Live 12.1 if you’ve been frustrated in the past by tracks recorded with unwanted lag.

Peter Kirn - November 26, 2024

Taylor Deupree and Joseph Branciforte on transcribing an electronic classic

“Highlighting inconsistencies”: when it came time to transcribe Taylor Deupree’s seminal 2002 electronic drone album Sti.il for acoustic instruments, everything from technical software details to how we think about music and physical artifacts came into play.

David Abravanel - June 5, 2024

Polyend’s Tracker Mini adds stereo sampling features, clock improvements

Peter Kirn - March 8, 2024

Hainbach on scoring Qinyuan Lei’s film, machines through a child’s eyes

Peter Kirn - February 19, 2024

Field system, completed: Teenage Engineering TP-7 recorder test

Andreas Roman - December 27, 2023

Free Soundtoys Little Plate reverb plug-in – and the plate that inspired it

Peter Kirn - November 6, 2023

Mixing, FX, recording, USB in a module: 1010music bluebox goes Eurorack

Peter Kirn - September 9, 2023

Molli is the quick iOS looper we were waiting for – and you don’t even have to hit record

Peter Kirn - May 16, 2023

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