SynthieCat gives Ableton Live the deep matrix and effects of the 1971 EMS Synthi A

Max for Cats is here with SynthieCat. It’s like using Ableton Live in an alternate universe where it was developed at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Inflation, begone: SunVox is still donationware, and 2.1 makes it slicker and more powerful

The runs-on-any-OS modular music studio got a major 2.1 update this week, with better high-res graphics, a new keyboard, and more. It’s a synth. It’s a tracker. It runs on Raspberry Pi so you can make your own mobile music hardware. It’s stupidly good – and those keys make it easy to jam with on the go. SunVox is a bright music maker even in hard times.

Peter Kirn - February 3, 2023

Nonlinear Labs’ C15, the human-centered keyboard instrument, expands sound design features

Nonlinear Labs has unveiled a major firmware update for its expression-packed C15 “musicians, not machines” keyboard instrument. No LFOs? No problem: modulation and envelopes are now massively expanded in ways that should intrigue sound designers and keyboardists alike.

Peter Kirn - February 1, 2023

Pirouette machines: sound and computation from screw cans and fluidics, with Ioana Vreme Moser

Peter Kirn - January 30, 2023

Surge XT hybrid synth is now a free set of modules for VCV Rack

Peter Kirn - January 27, 2023

Here’s Jan Hammer in an 80s power suit rocking his Miami Vice theme on the Fairlight CMI

Peter Kirn - January 22, 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

SOMA’s PULSAR-23 gets an epic free community patch book

Peter Kirn - January 9, 2023

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