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Now you get to hear the drum part dry, too. Good reminder to feed musicianship into what you're making.
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Okay, I appreciate the support, but before anyone else does this, you can send your synths to me - I can give you the address. ;) I can try to rig an acid chorus full of them. Otherwise - thanks for everyone's kind words today. Means a lot.
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I feel like this could really hurt my standing in the cork sniffer community.
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Why do people feel obligated a) to claim AI is something it isn't, b) to claim that eliminating skill and human agency from music making is a problem that needs solving, c) to claim that spitting out some MIDI notes represents that solution? Full DeepComposer rant:
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It's too late, Facebook. I am no longer capable of feeling emotions other than "like."
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Today is really a banner day for standalone battery powered versions of DAWs popular in electronic music developed by teams in northern Germany helmed by guys named Gerhard and released by brands beginning with the letter ‘A’
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Ah, I see people are trying to migrate some toxic comments onto CDM. You may have missed - I'm not YouTube. In case you haven't read CDM's terms of use, it is "f*** you, it's my site."
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Maybe someone can explain, because I'm confused. The same people I know who are panicked about climate change and CO2 also believe the future of art is all crypto. Do they know something I don't about those farms of GPUs?
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It's time to bring back RSS. It's still there, still works. Anyone know of workable open source projects for hosted RSS-based sharing, as an alternative to endless Facecorpstagramish scrolling? (please... tag folks I should be talking to about this problem)
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That $350 MicroFreak is now a multi-engine, 4-voice granular synth, too. And it creatively messes with samples - including your own. And there are a bunch of other new modulation and envelope features. Take a look:
Arturia MicroFreak V5 free update: custom user samples, sample and granular engines. Here's a rundown of what's inside:
@ArturiaOfficial
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Not only is it the first Maschine standalone, but it's the first time FM8, Reaktor, Kontakt, and other engines were available in a box, too. I was first to see the original Maschine of the press, I gather, so - here we are again.
Maschine+ standalone is here - so what can you do with it? Details from NI...
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All I want for xmas is to be
#BlockedByTrump
- perfect for us in the majority who voted against
@realDonaldTrump
#NotMyPresidentElect
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Table is absolutely killer, Reaktor users. And there's a ton you can do with Toybox's other free pack even if you don't own Reaktor. It's amazing what is available in free tools for learning synthesis - which is also huge for teaching.
Grab free modules for Reaktor Blocks from
@toyboxaudio
– now with a powerful Table Block - and why that's so especially awesome.
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I'm not even a mastering engineer, so you can trust me. This. LANDR, SoundCloud automated mastering - look, they don't work. They're anti-human, anti-music, they miss the whole point of what an engineer does.
If you’re an artist / label head who’s considering using L**DR or another one of those automated / corporate systems for mixing / mastering - PLEASE look for an independent human engineer instead. You’ll always find someone who can work within your budget and w/ better results.
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"We realize that you're facing a life-threatening pandemic that poses disruption to the core of how western governance and finance operates. We're all in this together, which is why we'd like to offer a 5% discount on our service for the next 24 hours."
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If you are looking for a way of passing the time while Facebook is down, I suggest watching all of this interview.
“The version of Facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart and causing ethnic violence around the world,” says former Facebook employee France Haugen. She points to Myanmar, where the military used Facebook to launch a genocide.
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So, yes, I did hear about this. This also of course ends the employee-owned program at Moog.
Moog Music has been bought by inMusic, alongside brands like Alesis, Akai, Numark
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I mean, I guess I could talk about what's up with Twitch and streaming licensing ... uh or could we just all quit the Internet and print up some zines and mail cassette tape dubs around please?
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Standalone mode. And how about Max for Live support and CV outs? And that incredible MPE grid. I've had this for the past week - here's a consolidated guide to what's new. More coverage all day today. ;)
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Okay, 100% of my Twitter feed is now just crypto stuff. So someone want to randomly Bandcamp Friday your music at me instead? Introducing Pencil Drop Bandcamp Friday?
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I don't know about
@loopopmusic
but I like to get my reviews from heavily moderated comment threads where any negative commenters are blocked! It just keeps everything sunnier and more real.
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This is an easy change - like stretching before a marathon. But we better do it now, together, across music tech, because the more who do, the clearer and stronger that change will be. So this guide is here for, you know, winning arguments with any resistance. ;)
Let’s dump master-slave terms: they’re vague, horrible, and we’re better off without them
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I adore
@bandcamp
and I don’t believe in constant growth and change. But where are any fixes or improvements lately? After a booming 2020 I now see a lot of independent labels struggling. We could all benefit from improvements to product pages and checkout.
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For anyone having the debate about where techno came from in the 2020s, honestly, 1988 seemed pretty clear on who was involved and what city they're from. (Juan Atkins rocking a hell of a sweater there) Now, let's connect to a bulletin board and we can discuss...
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I support this trend. ;)
Tom Oberheim just got his name back from Music Tribe - after 36 years, Oberheim can make Oberheim synths again, worldwide.
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Oh, my. So
@residentadvisor
please - if you're going to share
@AphexTwin
sharing misinformation on COVID-19, the least you could do is give it some context.
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The combination of
@ubuntustudio
+ firefox +
@Bitwig
+
#supercollider
+
@tidalcycles
+
@vcvrack
+
@Nightradio
is now *astonishingly* fast to configure and start using. Like a few minutes OS -> all apps with synced configuration.
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I think if the question is, do people appreciate, trust, and rely on the likes of
@Synthtopia
or
@synthanatomy
, the answer is - yes. Whatever a certain manufacturer may say, I rely on them for a perspective and information that isn't only my own, daily. So thanks.
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I muted Elon and his f***ing transphobia still shows up as a notification. Queer people around the world are in physical danger. Now he’s attacking kids. Enough virtue signaling around pride - time for all of us to rebel.
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Wait, I've got an idea... what if you could use that cord to transmit audio signal somehow, like in some analog way, instead of wireless connections? No... it's too crazy.
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Hey! New music - your label, your stuff - even if you told me before, feel free to point me at it again! Tomorrow in Suicide Club Berlin will be mixing in some new releases, sharing the list afterwards! Plus we'll be doing some QA, too.
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Dear Windows and Mac: I never want you to update anything, never want AAX, don't want any Windows desktop shortcuts, and also don't care about anything to do with security of any application or driver. Also I like to run with scissors. Sincerely, an audio user.
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It had me at "Benson, Arizona" preset. I can't believe this wild thing is free.
Valhalla Supermassive is the reverb at the end of the universe – and it’s free
@valhalladsp
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Actually as good a mission statement as I've ever seen. CDM: delivering you that overexcited stranger in the mid-90s chillout room 5 days a week, from the comfort of your chair. Since 2005.
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Ableton's long-awaited iOS debut is here, and I've been testing it. Highlights: off-the-grid musical sketching, triggering sets without loading, intuitive capture, and seamless sync.
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It's funny, actually - as big music software makers try to transition to subscriptions, a lot of small plug-in devs are making incredible stuff, really fast and... uh for less than the subs cost. That could well undercut that plug-in subscription model.
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I never thought I'd say this, but... I agree with Getty Images here. It's fairly absurd that musicians have to clear even a tiny audio sample but AI tech is able to harvest massive quantities of data without consent.
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So, we get pushed notifications from Elon tweeting, even when we don't follow him. This is going to go great. F*** platform capitalism.
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I'm sorry, short unplanned vacation for me AND
@cdmblogs
- please stand by, hope to give an all clear soon.
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Enough reality, let's have a whole fake OS and Internet.
@jaytholen
has done some genius work here, and... I hope people spew this kind of art over their streams, honestly.
Hypnospace Outlaw is set in a weird 90s fake Internet - and it has its own music sequencer, art makers:
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Been waiting to share this one - a tutorial on Reaktor that starts at the very beginning, with totally free Reaktor Player + Reaktor Blocks. (and keeps going, into live coding... thanks to
@toyboxaudio
!)
@NI_News
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Uh... since no one else seems to be saying this: just because COVID-19 doesn't mean the entire Internet has to livestream everything all the time. Sure, a live performance, or something requiring interaction, great. But people are also *reading* more.
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Hey, everyone asking about a music renaissance post-COVID - what if the renaissance was, a) we went to humans instead of corporate AI, b) we started paying attention to black artists and other marginalized groups - like, all of them, not just tokenism?
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What I find especially inspiring here - not only was Herb Deutsch co-inventor of the modular, but he's able to relate synth history to the rest of musical instrument history and design. And he's another person who has an enormous teaching legacy.
Happy 90th birthday to Herb Deutsch, educator, composer, and Moog modular synth co-inventor New
@moogmusicinc
video, tons of history and inspiration, and a vital raffle from
@MoogFoundation
for
@MoogSoundLab
!
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Live passes the beta test again - I ignored their pleas not to use this for critical work, because I couldn't bring myself to go back. Here's a feature-by-feature deep dive of Live 11, including some of the stuff not mentioned in the PR:
Ableton Live 11 is coming; feature by feature, here’s what’s new in detail - including a couple of details you might have missed.
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My country spied on East Germany for decades and all I got was this awesome free convolution reverb.
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I would love to replace our use of the word pioneer, especially in electronic music. Apart from the specific meaning in American colonialism and its lethal impact on indigenous Americans, its origin itself is still militaristic (from foot soldiers).
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So for anyone complaining that this discussion was a time-consuming distraction, Reaper actually shipped a change in roughly the time it took you to write the comment. Yes, next we should tackle some tougher challenges. ;)
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Just when you think maybe things are slowing down for the summer - this drops on a Sunday.
Black Corporation’s next hardware is a Jupiter-8 recreation, with MPE and microtuning
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"AI for music" isn't coming the way graphics and text are because there isn't the massive data mining / free labor that enabled the latter two. Once more: a lot of what you're seeing is just machine learning on massive data sets with enormous computational costs.
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Been working with this one and - there's so much there. Tunings, Performance Pack, uh, the ability to turn knobs after you mapped them to modulation... here's the full count.
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Beyond words on this; it feels just moments ago we were standing in the sun drinking sake and talking about the industry and life at
@Superbooth_Bln
- it’d be easy to describe this as the loss of the father of MIDI, but Dave’s presence in instruments has been much more.
It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that Dave Smith has died. If you’d like to share your thoughts and memories of Dave, please reach out to us on our website:
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Just when you think there are no new ideas, Magnus is back with the all-new-for-2023 AI-powered alien DNA-spawning future synth. Side effects may include: unintentional brood of extraterrestrial parasites. Yes, I had to drop everything to try this tonight.
Synplant 2 is as close to an alien laboratory as a synth plug-in can get - - breaking news from
@soniccharge
- we get our hands on this one.
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Native Instruments employees, current and former, are calling for real internal change - not just donations and hashtag activism. Expect this kind of accountability industry-wide. I've left my DM interface open for anyone wanting to ping me about these issues in music tech.
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Plug-in subscriptions? I'll be cancelling Disney+ and Netflix and just playing with Synplant 2. This looks... utterly... amazing. (plus, breed some samples, drop them on a drum machine... oh my...)
Synplant, mutation-based synth, to get alien-level cool Genopatch update
- uh, yeah, sign us up
@soniccharge
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You can't complain about the pricing of this. And now with that new look - I think it's straight-up irresistible. Extraordinary deep, open source, community-based soft synth for all 3 OSes.
Hard to believe this is open source and free. Surge, awesome free soft synth, gets major 1.8 update:
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Dear Finland, you know the more you're getting upset about your PM, the more the rest of us *wish* we had your problems, right?
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So, at first this looks like an upgrade about envelope shapers or something. But here's the twist: not only are there these new shapes, but you can modulate anything. Like the entire DAW. Sidechain, sends, etc. Interesting...
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Taking the 'read my own articles' challenge - so, if you have a ton of unfinished
@Ableton
Live projects, basically what I did for Riemann is assemble strategies for finishing arrangements quickly in one place. It's my cheat guide, too.
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Artists put tremendous care and skill into making music. People who make tools for creating music do the same. Online electronic consumption tools just haven't lived up to the other two - and have left artists with the cost (literal and figurative) of that failure. Yay? :D
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It's "Max for Everything."
RNBO (“rainbow”): Start in Max’s UI, deliver to plug-ins, Web browsers, hardware, any OS
@cycling74
new hotness, explained.
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Just to go against the grain... Techno seems fine. I like the people in Berlin. I am generally unconcerned by the activities I see on Instagram. Sometimes I even post food. People are making adventurous and wonderful music. As always, it's a challenge getting it heard.
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Now this I can get behind - these churches likely *were* victims of hate crimes (not an accident, like Notre Dame), and do genuinely need help. We can shame people for caring, OR we can direct care where it's needed. I'm for the latter.
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Does anyone else enjoy watching video tutorials at 2x speed just because it makes you feel like Lt. Cmdr. Data?
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Shiny, futuristic music – just what we need in a world that can feel dark and regressive.
Don’t miss Barker’s percussive wonderland, live Against the Clock
@FACTmag
meets plate reverb and solenoids!
@samvoltek
+
@OstgutTon
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Honestly, if you follow me, you probably want to play VirtuaVerse.
@masterbootrec
music +
@MrValenberg
pixels
@Elder0010
code. I would buy a VR lifestyle from these people.
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Well, techno fans, 2020 may come down to ATL and Detroit. Clearly the winner should need 909 electoral votes. Stay strong, everyone - and since electronic music folk are all about long-term endurance,
#CountEveryVote
- don't stop / no sleep.
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Dear entire music software industry: that "onboarding" stuff you think everyone wants? No one. Ever. Wants it. (Seriously, everything is exactly as hard and beginner-unfriendly as before, except now there's a survey and a login and ten updates slowly download.)
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First week of April is apparently Sound Design Christmas. Uh, other actual holidays, apologies.
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It's a tough time for a lot of folks across the industry, so thinking of you. I thought it was worth putting some of the public information in one place, and being clear about what is speculative. Now we all figure out what happens next.
Moog Music layoffs have provoked dismay in the synth community - - here's what we know, and some context.
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Well, that didn't take long. Note the specifics of why this is important - more than just about subscriptions in general.
Waves reverses course, will restore option of perpetual licenses and Waves Update Plan
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The damage is done. It changed the perception of what has value and hammered anyone working as a writer. F***book.
The viewership metrics were inflated by 150 to 900%. Whole companies shifted their strategy to video. Companies going bankrupt, people losing jobs, FB gets away with 0.18% of annual income ($40M / $22B), a slap on the wrist.
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Knew this was coming and still feel it. Condolences to everyone close to him.
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I mean, this looks totally irresistible - and an alternative to most rigid and un-expressive, or overly menu-driven/complex hardware sequencers.
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So just ... wow. If I understand the Waves switch correctly, nearly all plug-ins now *require* a subscription for upgrades; all previous upgrade and plans are effectively dead once they expire. That's right, yes? Other details so far customers have encountered?
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@frankiefatgold
I think experimental noise musicians should band together and start posting Instagram stories talking about how excited we are after five months to be playing for empty rooms again. ;)
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Unmute. This is actually far more intelligible than a lot of what's on Twitter today, anyway. Groovy <3
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Named for the eyesight you'll need, obviously. Now out on macOS. And notice a whole new wave of one-screen, standalone software as alternative to DAW+plug-in live setups. Fascinating.
Don't miss the live recordings of this duo over the years, too.
2020 is the insane, single-window beat machine from the future – and it’s landed on macOS Catch some
@dubrussell
sets, too - glitchy madness!
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F*** your stats. Excuse me. Here is music that moved me in ways I can't quantify, in releases that often went unnoticed, but that remind us of what music is for and why it can make us feel good - and this is just releases from today (and a few from recently).
Lightning round: exceptional Bandcamp releases for
#BandcampFriday
- and a reminder of why music (and what good moods feel like, too).
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Hi NYC. OK today's challenge... Catch a flight back into Canada tonight, try to fly Montreal home to Berlin tomorrow Friday night. Please quarantine me at home not somewhere else. Hope everyone is having an OK start to this now that what we thought was coming has come.
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Good grief this is good. I was skeptical actually looking at it on paper - like, is this just a gimmick? But the sound is fantastic. You can tell Toybox poured their love of modules and modeling into this and made something truly special.
Thump One is a hard-hitting wavetable-kick-supersaw synth - and it's free. Here's a breakdown of what it does:
@toyboxaudio
thanks!
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This is just fantastic; exactly the kind of resource you'd wish for. Free documentation (with lots of pictures), free software, Mac/Windows/Linux. Another resource so anyone can try out modular patching.
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Not to get nostalgic, but remember when tech news was "look at this fun new Mac utility to make cute icons" and not "so AI will soon automate all human culture and make terrifying new surveillance and weapon systems and we're genetically engineering babies now"?
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If we're bringing back MP3 downloads as a thing, maybe we should bring back that feeling of loving your MP3 player, too.
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I'm still in shock, but I have to both write why Dave was so meaningful to us *and* shout a loud call to action. Some of the greatest challenges in music technology lie ahead. We need to remember all our time is limited and support an independent next generation.
Dave Smith brought us all closer together: Remembering Dave, and a legacy beyond just MIDI and
@sequentialLLC
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Got my loopop videos queued up for the weekend. This channel works partly because it does choose what to cover. And original, honest content channels are always what endure.
.
@loopopmusic
great hands-on review of the
@tom_oberheim
OB-X8 doubles as a sound design tutorial - and more vids to queue up this weekend.
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Since last week, been deep inside the new
@ArturiaOfficial
FX - here's the full review. And Bus FORCE, wow. It's really not just some bus compressor, and more like a powerful multi-effect parallel compressor - distortion - filter/EQ with routing.
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Whatever this is, I am 100% onboard. Thanks to my sister
@house_of_darkly
for spotting this one.
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Ongoing beautiful work. This other side of neural nets - expressive, based on your own data sets. Live sets that bring you closer to the machine gesturally instead of further away. Playing, not automation. Decolonization. The opposite of a lot of what is trending.
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Ingenious, beautiful design, and - in this time where the 70s and 80s are on instant loop, here is one of the iconic classics of this generation of music equipment.
Beads is the new granular processing sequel to
@mutable_instrum
Clouds, and promises to be an instant classic – again
#eurorack
#modular
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Essential reading, even if you're new to circuits.
@theavalkyrie
showing the rest of us how documentation should be done! (plus check other projects and the terrific manual for the
@wntrblm
module, too, while you're there!)
Go read this amazing story on the design of the Roland JUNO oscillators - and more!
@RolandGlobal
@MyRoland
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Top tip - make this your homepage or new tab, and give yourself an antidote to too much news and social media. Plus this also works well for collaboration, even just for quick groove sketches to use elsewhere.
Free browser groovebox: tahti is surprisingly powerful Elektron-inspired groovemaker
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I mean, he wouldn't be the first. If that's what the kids call it nowadays.
#headlineoftheday
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If you're up for something a little heavier in techno land, my new EP on Femanyst's Dark Carousel - have some codes!
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ffmpeg is one of the greatest free tools of all time - a media powerhouse.
But add a node-based UI for making custom filter combinations? Now we're really cooking.
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