How to use Ableton Live 11 and MPE on Sensel Morph, for a delicious, expressive combo
Chicken? Egg? You've got both. Ableton Live adds expression that's actually built for human hands and not just organ keyboards....
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Ableton Live 11 is coming; feature by feature, here’s what’s new in detail
Live 11 is coming. It may not seem radical at first, but it does three things enthusiasts may appreciate –...
Take a moment and watch this idyllic music video for Ólafur Arnalds, by Thomas Vanz
Just a wild guess, but I’m guessing everyone could use a moment of transcendent peace right about now. “The feeling...
norns, nerdy instrument as art, has a great new tracker app and a DIY option
norms from monome opens up an ecosystem of musical ideas. But if opening that door was out of your budget...
WIRES from Hainbach, AudioThing turns a Soviet wire recorder into a plugin
It's terrible recording technology, made into wonderful music tool. This 1970s Soviet machine saw Cold War spy and military action...
A haunting sonic portrait of a body post-trauma, from Palestine’s Dakn
Seared and sighing, the textures of Dakn's debut release express pain and mourning. But these aching sounds find some feeling...
Freeing music from hard disks, soulful asymmetries, Bloomfeld and Overthinker Mob
It's a world of overabundant music and disappearing press, lockdowns and empty venues, endless production up against algorithmic listeners. But...
Intimate portraits of music-making for times of isolation and futurism
For all the video portraits of music-making out there, this series for The Disappearance of Music is something special -...
Lockdown mapping: MadMapper + streaming tutorial, featuring NVIDIA Broadcast
It's cold outside for much of the world now, and crowds are a no-no. But show off your projection mapping...
Cherry’s CA2600 is a perfect ARP 2600 for $25 – here’s a tour
This could be the easiest and most inexpensive way to put the epic 1971 semi-modular synth in your rig. Cherry...
