TouchDesigner POPs course gets your brain around geometry for visuals

In a world that’s definitely trying to make us dumber and more depressed, let’s grow our brains instead. Our friends over at Derivative have a free course that finally makes it easy to start working with POPs — the Point OPerators that enable all that wild 3D geometry you see in live shows and installations.

Link Audio, now in Max, Pd, VCV Rack, TouchDesigner, oF, and plug-ins, free

Ableton Live 12.4 is inbound, with Link Audio support coming to Live, Move, Note, and Push. But Live Audio can also be about routing audio over a network to other hosts, too. Julien Bayle (VOID) has an early, open-source implementation. If you’re ready to start experimenting even while this API is still in alpha, you’ve got a wide variety of sound and visual tools to try, all for free.

Peter Kirn - May 3, 2026

Visuals in Ableton Live: Unreal-powered SenSei update, EboSuite sale on now

EboSuite and its 3D, Unreal Engine-powered companion, SenSei, put video and visuals into your Ableton Live set, plus integrate easily with other live visual tools and workflows. And now both are on a special Spring Sale — plus SenSei gets another update with more tools. (No, not the one I just mentioned — even another […]

Peter Kirn - March 23, 2026

Pi Day: Hear and see approximations for Pi — and learn about shaders, too

Peter Kirn - March 14, 2026

Here’s half an hour of string-reed Werner Durand and John Krausbauer drones

Peter Kirn - February 20, 2026

Resolume 7.24 adds 10-bit color, more — plus a bunch of new tutorials

Peter Kirn - February 3, 2026

Apple now has one creative sub for iPad, Mac — but keeps Mac app purchases

Peter Kirn - January 13, 2026

Jazz Szu-Ying Chen and Surgeon remind us why craft and art matter

Peter Kirn - December 10, 2025

3D visuals arrive in Ableton Live, easy as synths, with Unreal-powered SenSei

Peter Kirn - November 26, 2025