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Fauve, an effects instrument that weaves sounds from fragments: review
K-Devices’ Fauve is an idiosyncratic, exquisite audio effect that the developers describe as “fractured memory” — a glitchy, audio-slicing, granular-adjacent sonic fragmentation tool. There’s nothing quite like this “flawed audio reconstructor.” Let’s break down how it works, especially with the effect on sale now.
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Live round-up: 12.2 is out, vids, a free Grain Slicer Rack, tuner, and more
Ableton Live 12.2 went from beta to public yesterday. And there’s more for all Live users – Iftah has an accessible tuner device called Pitch Pipe and Side Brain has an awesome free instrument rack for performing granular tricks, among other new add-ons. You don’t have time to wade through hours of videos; let’s put everything in one place and get bouncing tracks/spectral resonating/granulating.
Peter Kirn - June 12, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
Sampleslicer MKIII is an all-new version of realtime Eurorack sampler-slicer
It samples! It slices! It dices! The legendary Sampleslicer was due for reinvention with current-generation chips. Now the MKIII is up on crowdfunding site IndieGogo, with a load of new features and an all-new USB keyboard companion.
Peter Kirn - February 23, 2024
Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
Audio Damage Replicant plug-in rebuilt in v3, looks great, does way more than stutter
Peter Kirn - March 15, 2023
Music tech Software Tech
BOSS SL-2 is the slicer in a compact pedal with loads of powers, MIDI, and stereo in & out
Peter Kirn - November 1, 2022
Gear Music tech Tech
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