Listening, the secret of sound design: Francis Preve at Loop

To master sound design, no technology can top your own hearing. That’s the message from Francis Preve, who gave a gripping talk at Ableton Loop. Now we’ve got video – and more discussion. Nothing is sacred – not even the vaunted TB-303 filter.

Here are some of our favorite MeeBlip triode synth jams

We say “play” music for a reason – synths are meant to be fun. So here are our favorite live jams from the MeeBlip community, with our triode synth.

Peter Kirn - August 19, 2017

Modstep iPad sequencer is now packed with drum kits, MIDI templates

There are apps, and then there are apps with a studio soul. Modstep feels like it uniquely qualifies as the latter. If you’ve just got your iPad, it’s built with lots of interoperability with other apps in mind. And then combine it with hardware, and out of the box, it makes all that outboard gear […]

Peter Kirn - February 28, 2017

We added MeeBlip to TB-03 and TR-09 for really too much bass

Peter Kirn - December 9, 2016

Comparing all the 303 recreations to each other and the original

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2016

Here’s how Roland improves upon the original 303 sequencer

Peter Kirn - September 27, 2016

Why Roland’s new 303 and 909 might even be better than the originals

Peter Kirn - September 10, 2016

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