Speldosa is a virtual music box from Klevgrand and Marble Machine creator Wintergatan

Production tool or stress relief? Maybe it’s both. Swedish artist Wintergatan, best known for the physical Marble Machine instrument, has worked with Klevgrand to create a software music box in plug-in and app format, and it’s just $6 during the intro.

Sample machines in Elektron Digitakt 1.50: Repitch, Werp, Slice, Oneshot

Elektron has a major update for Digitakt in 1.50 — now with Machines, as Octatrack, Model:Cycles, and Syntakt. Those bring sample warping, slicing, chopping, looping, repitching, and forward/reverse playback. Plus you get fixed-step recording and the ability to insert sample rate reduction pre- or post-filter.

Peter Kirn - March 1, 2023

This drum machine turns children’s heartbeats into music, raising visibility of kids’ heart defects

Teenage Engineering and designer Love Hultén worked together on the design for the CHD-4, a drum machine based on electrocardiograms. The object went on auction on Valentine’s Day this week, in an effort to raise visibility of Congenital Heart Disease.

Peter Kirn - February 15, 2023

Teenage Engineering OP-1 field review, not a review: in the field, on an album

Andreas Roman - January 12, 2023

Teenage Engineering OP-1 field now has a vocoder, on top of velocity sensitivity update

Peter Kirn - January 12, 2023

Klevgrand Tomofon is a wild “audio model” instrument, capable of realism and extremes

Peter Kirn - December 16, 2022

The Commodordion: 8-bit instrument made of taped-together C64s and floppies

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2022

Elektron’s Song Mode is already making ambient music to chill out to; OS updates at a glance

Peter Kirn - October 4, 2022

Chantlings, an app where animated forest creatures sing along with you, is a marvel of design

Peter Kirn - August 25, 2022

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