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Pitch is political: learning Arabic maqams and decolonizing music
Sami Abu Shumays has uploaded his complete lecture on politics and maqams. He talks about how decolonizing music also meant decolonizing himself—reconnecting to his roots as a Palestinian American. This is essential context for Sami’s work, which includes the Arabic tuning section of Ableton Live 12’s tuning implementation and free companion site.
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Baby Audio Humanoid review: hard tuning, vocal transformer, wavetables
More then just a vocoder, Baby Audio’s latest effect packs all the hardcore vocal special effects into one. It’s hard tuning meets phase vocoding meets wavetables.
Peter Kirn - July 1, 2024
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Twelve things to try in Ableton Live 12 right now
Live 12 is here – so now what? Here are twelve other ideas to try out, from timesavers to inspiration sources.
Live 12 is here, including Performance Pack and new tuning site
Peter Kirn - March 5, 2024
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Baby Audio’s Atoms mass-spring physical modeling synth, tested
Peter Kirn - February 12, 2024
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The long lost, 478-key Moog-Rothenberg keyboard makes its return
Peter Kirn - December 14, 2023
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Tuning, polyphonic expression: Black Corporation’s Roman Filippov
Roman Filippov - December 13, 2023
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Ableton Live 12: a guide to everything that’s new
Peter Kirn - November 14, 2023
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