Dials, punch cards, and reels: watch how electronic music was produced in 1960s Germany
Watch just how painstaking and time-consuming electronic music production was ca. mid-to-late 1960s, in this rare documentary of the German...
Music tech
Polystepper, a gorgeous electroacoustic synth made with stepper motors, and more wonders
Analog, digital... we're onto the physical, kinetic, and electroacoustic. For one example, marvel at the Polystepper by artist/woodworker Love Hultén...
Finally – Reason 12.6 is fully Apple Silicon native and has offline mode (even for subscribers)
Two long-awaited updates to Reason arrive today. Reason now is fully Apple Silicon native for Mac users, and there's an...
iKeleton OSC captures skeleton data on iOS, sends via OSC – free through May 5
Developer/musician/media artist Gwangyu Lee has made an app for iPad and iPhone that captures skeleton data and sends it via...
Game Boy Advance gets a new, free step sequencer, complete with p-locks
Dust off that GBA: it's a groove box now. Stepper is a free and open source 16-step sequencer with full...
Teenage Engineering’s new CM-15 field mic looks like a marvel of design
Some of Teenage Engineering's high-end design offerings sometimes seem made for design showcases as much as actual music making. But...
A new documentary tells the story of Wisisi, electronic music in Papau
In the mountains of western Papau, a new electronic sound is emerging. It's fusing traditional sounds with jaunty synthesized beats...
Baby Audio’s new Yamaha CS01 plus FX extras is killer — shoegaze or acid
Effects maker Baby Audio debuted their first synth plug-in this week. It's modeled on Yamaha's CS01, the analog monosynth that...
Roland updates Jupiter, Juno plug-ins – and finally fixes their preset UI; here’s a tour
Roland updated their Roland Cloud software recreations of the JUPITER-8, JUPITER-4, and JUNO-106. That includes new UIs, and finally a...
Arturia FX the latest to get the Elisabeth Homeland Ableton Live wrapper treatment, and whoa
Elisabeth Homeland's wrappers let you use popular effects plug-ins as if they were native Ableton Live device UIs - saving...
