Modalics Beat Scholar: a new hyper-divisible drum machine plug-in made of pizzas

Beat Scholar promises to let you slice and re-slice with a built-in sampler and endless free subdivisions – without losing flow. Move over x0x and steps. Now it’s all about pizzas. Infinite pizzas.

KMRU on spaces, Nairobi, and turning off Ableton Live’s grid

It’s a film about tuning into the spaces around you, but KMRU makes an argument for being more than where you’re from. And to open up possibilities, he also does the thing I expect a lot of you know you want to do but might be afraid to do – turn off the grid now and then. Even in the software known for it.

Peter Kirn - November 18, 2021

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

Inside the livecoding algorave movement, and what it says about music

Peter Kirn - May 29, 2018

Leave this free software running, and it’ll come up with rhythms for you

Peter Kirn - October 27, 2017

Download Radiohead’s grooves for use in Ableton, for free

Peter Kirn - March 7, 2017

Patterning on iPad is a circular, sample-savvy drum machine

Peter Kirn - August 20, 2015

Free Clapping Music App Teaches You Steve Reich – And Rhythm

Peter Kirn - July 10, 2015

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