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Vara Osiria Belich is taking Phase Plant to gestural, mangled frontiers
This is not granular. This is all sampler, unison. And so it sounds like things that even granular can’t do. Vara Osiria Belich is this week’s sound design inspiration, with her bonus gestural spell casting with gen-1 Leap Motion. (Remember?)
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Serum 2: wavetable champ becomes much more in huge, free update
Serum 2, 11 years in development, is here. And it looks ready to take on its rivals, with an updated interface, arpeggiator expanded oscillator architecture (phase distortion!), granular and multisampler and spectral oscillators, new effects features, and – surprise, even a clip sequencer. It’s really an all-in-one synth now, without sacrificing its trademark accessibility.
Peter Kirn - March 17, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
KORG Gadget 3, free update, now has AUv3 gadgets on iOS
KORG Gadget 3 adds new instrument gadgets, effects, a new browser, and a Play page. But what has everyone most excited is that on iOS, you can now use gadgets as separate AUv3 plug-ins in other hosts. Gadgets are also on a discount at the moment.
Teenage Engineering’s EP-133 K.O. II: sampler-sequencer, $299
Peter Kirn - November 22, 2023
Gear Music tech Tech
Minimal’s Current is a granular-wavetable synth with tons of FX and extras
Peter Kirn - October 11, 2023
Music tech Reviews Software Tech
Free now: Voculon 3000 is a wonderful retro-futuristic vocal instrument
Peter Kirn - September 26, 2023
Music tech Software Tech
Bitwig Studio 4.1: color palettes, note FX with physics and more, Sampler release chaining
Peter Kirn - November 4, 2021
Music tech Software Tech
Live 11 also turns Push 1 and 2 into more expressive polyphonic instruments, magically
Peter Kirn - November 11, 2020
Gear Music tech Software Tech
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