Waiting for new Macs? You might mark your calendar for Apple Event, October 18
"Unleashed" is the theme emblazoned on invites to Apple's next big event. So new Macs - presumably with high-performance Apple...
Gear
Commodore CBM 4064 with insanely powerful MSSIAH cart and Look Mum No Computer
Look Mum No Computer is denying what is literally written in his artist name and going full compy, with none...
Watch the 2006 documentary 8 BIT to see chip music and art at its peak – now online
It’s hard to believe not only that 15 years have passed since this movie, but how far chip aesthetics have...
Review: MOD Dwarf is a lush, bottomless portal to effects that keeps getting better
If you love software, if you love the imaginative and compositional choices it affords, at last hardware is embodying that...
Erica Synths LXR-02 drum machine playtest: brutal sounds, live jams, 1.2 firmware
I've been playing with the LXR-02, the new digital drum synth from Erica Synths and Sonic Potions. Verdict: it's versatile,...
Polyphonic noise generation from Indonesia, in squaresolid’s Chaosbyte synth
We live in a chaotic world; only Chaosbyte and - I think that might be a wind-up chicken etched into...
Top music gear news from Superbooth 2021 – the CDM monster guide
The music nerd cultural happening - modular pilgrimage is back, and with it... way too much gear to wrap your...
Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters
Afrorack continues to make richly textured polyrhythmic music and share secrets for cheaply producing powerful modular instruments with open tools....
Into the woods: impressions of Superbooth’s weird wonders in Berlin
Superbooth, the event that was born in a single corner of a trade show fair and grew to a cultural...
Movements to music, as Instruments of Things goes live on Kickstarter with sensor system
Next-generation wireless and motion-sensing technologies - they're in your smartphone already, but they're finally coming in usable form to your...
