Ableton Live freebies: Spectral Attractors creates eerie, beautiful sounds
At some point, you don't want another plate reverb. You want the experimental sounds of a phase vocoder combined with...
Peter Kirn
A portrait of Detroit’s Portage Garage Sounds as a community hub for music
Detroit is "not going to go along with what everyone else is doing" - and yes, for all that history,...
Arturia MicroFreak gets a vocoder – as a free update, or a new limited-edition keyboard
Arturia's MicroFreak is about as much sonic exploration as you can get in any single low-cost synth on the market...
Reason Friktion review: an exquisitely playable physical modeling string instrument
From Reason Studios comes a new physical modeling instrument, Friktion, focused on bowed and plucked strings. The twist: it lets...
Grab free modules for Reaktor Blocks from Toybox – now with a powerful Table Block
Toybox is one of the best software modular designers out there, bar none - and easily must-have for the Reaktor...
Remembering house and techno legend Aaron Carl, in an intimate portrait
Legendary producer and singular voice Aaron Carl would have had his 47th birthday last week. It's worth listening to what...
A freakier Arturia MicroFreak, with this editor
Think of it as an "I feel freaky" button for Arturia's MicroFreak. In addition to useful automation and editing features,...
Make orbits of planets and moons into music, with a VCV Rack module and an upcoming synth
In the early days of analog synthesis, you had to just turn knobs really slowly and imagine some planetary bodies...
New KORG volca sample adds USB file loading, per-part groove, pattern chaining, more
The KORG volca sample was always a compact, hands-on, grungy little wonder box. Now a major revision solves its biggest...
The best TR news is this free 808 emulator, made in SuperCollider
There's been a ton of off-the wall TR-707/808/909 news this month, so let's gather it in one place. But the...
