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DivSkip: multimode rhythmic processor from DivKid, Making Sound Machines
You’ve seen plenty of gate sequencers and Euclidean generators. DivSkip is something different: It takes four channels of triggers and transforms them via eight different musical, performative modes. It’s a do-everything rhythmic wunderkind.
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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.
Peter Kirn - September 6, 2022
Music tech Software Tech
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.
Inside the livecoding algorave movement, and what it says about music
Peter Kirn - May 29, 2018
DIY + Unusual Music Music tech Software Stories Tech
Watch an Ableton Loop talk that connects polyrhythms, synesthesia
Presented with Ableton - March 27, 2018
Music Music tech Promoted Stories
Leave this free software running, and it’ll come up with rhythms for you
Peter Kirn - October 27, 2017
DIY + Unusual Music tech Software Stories Tech
Download Radiohead’s grooves for use in Ableton, for free
Peter Kirn - March 7, 2017
Music Music tech
Patterning on iPad is a circular, sample-savvy drum machine
Peter Kirn - August 20, 2015
Music tech Stories
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