No, Beatport’s subscription will not kill music – here’s how it really works

Pioneer and Beatport this week announced new streaming offerings for DJs. And then lots of people kind of freaked out. Let’s see what’s actually going on, if any of it is useful to DJs and music lovers, and what we should or shouldn’t worry about.

One big, open standalone grid for playing everything: dadamachines composer pro

Various devices have tried to do what the computer does – letting you play, sequence, and clock other instruments, and arrange and recall ideas. Now, a new grid is in town, and it’s bigger, more capable, truly standalone, and open in every way.

Peter Kirn - May 9, 2019

deton8 is a little drum machine with loads of soul

Twisted Electrons move on from acid and chip synths to drum machines. And the deton8, for around three hundred bucks, packs a ton of personality and sound possibility in a cute, playable package.

Peter Kirn - March 19, 2019

Magical 3D visuals, patched together with wires in browser: Cables.gl

Ted Pallas - January 31, 2019

Roland just made syncing Serato and TR drum machines automatic

Peter Kirn - January 24, 2019

How to make the free VCV Rack modular work with Ableton Link

Peter Kirn - January 4, 2018

A bunch of tricks and tools for generative visual tool TouchDesigner

Peter Kirn - March 27, 2017

Someone at Bitwig is working with Ableton Link on GitHub

Peter Kirn - February 28, 2017

Now you can sync Ableton Link to your Eurorack with this open gizmo

Peter Kirn - February 21, 2017

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