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Get started with Max for Live and hack Live 11 Clip launching – here’s how (videos)

Here are some master-level skills for Max for Live with minimal effort. And you get an immediate reward - take...

Deep Bitwig tips: learn modular patching on The Grid, integrate with NI controllers

Bitwig has posted some really useful deep-dive tutorials lately. That includes building up your own from-scratch tools in the modular...

The beauty of wind organs, and how to make one yourself out of recycled materials

The acoustic principles are the same as wind instruments (and pipe organs). But there’s something eerily beautiful about wind organs...

Acid, further out: check Florian with MeeBlip, 303, and Zen Delay

There's some magic and alchemy in coaxing evocative music out of stuff with knobs, and Florian Meindl's Riemann Kollektion keeps...

Watch Unreal Engine make low-latency visualizations, thanks to Arthur Barthur

At the meeting point of physics simulation, 3D visualization, and modular audio inside Unreal Engine, there's Arthurs Audio BPs. And...

Miller Puckette, creator of Max and Pd, on how he’s patching his way to remote collaboration

Miller Puckette, the original creator of Max and Pure Data, has been working on keeping connected remotely, too. In this...

Watch this entertaining how-to on hacking Mutable’s Plaits for just intonation

It's like esoteric music tech bingo: Mutable Instruments Eurorack meets just intonation meets open source meets virtualization meets microprocessor programming...

A 1970s Swedish modular you probably never heard of was meant for every music school

Meet the Dataton 3000. The creation of Sweden's Björn Sandlund, it sports a unique, friendly modular designed for educational use...

Behind the scenes of a sci-fi 3D music video, as Defasten takes us deep into Notch

Notch is the latest "it" real-time visual effects tool. So as motion maven Defasten produced a dazzling science fiction video...