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Who says modular has to be all about monosynths? Certainly not Knobula, who followed up their Poly Cinematic with this 8-voice polysynth in just 12HP, packed with multiple oscillator and filter modes, built-in reverb, and full MPE support. The post Knobula Monumatic, the...

Benn Jordan's latest video proposes a way to fight back when generative AI music services rip off music for their data sets. It's not ready for prime time yet, but it does offer a window into the wild, wonderful world of adversarial noise poisoning attacks. The post Benn...

Vela, a new reverb from Sonic Academy's Sonic Sounds line, is now in open beta. And yes, I'm here to tempt your RAS - Reverb Acquisition Syndrome again. The range of reverberation emulations here, combined with node-based editing, might mean you do need another reverb....

It's about time for a new granular dream module, and the Intellijel Multigrain could be a real contender. Available now, it packs stereo morphing granular powers into 20HP and US$479. (And yes, USA, you can import this from Canada!) I've had an advance look at the manual and ...

Live Mac visual app VDMX6 is now shipping some of the new hotness the developers promised with the transition to Metal for rendering. Apple's frameworks unlock a ton of visual tricks, from tracking video to color scopes to background removal. The post VDMX6 gets vision:...

The Georgian pro-democracy, anti-corruption movement is still in the streets, month after month. Music remains a way to connect those demonstrations with supporters at home and abroad. Tbilisi/Berlin artist Mess)Montage joins as we put together sounds from Georgia (and I...

Ardour, the criminally underrated free and open source DAW for Mac, Windows, and Linux, has been a little quiet lately. Over the weekend, we learned what's coming in Ardour 9.0/9+, and why the devs have been busy. Not sure where to start? Check out how-to videos, including...

Baby Audio's Smooth Operator Pro is a new, expanded version of the resonance suppression/spectral dynamics processing tool. Four years in the making, this version has a new UI and workflow, upgraded engine with per-node controls, stereo and mid/side processing, sidechaining, ...

What could community and imagination in music making look like? Laurie Spiegel's reflections on the 70s and earlier decades, recorded in 2014, offer some clues, even for a very different time today. The post Laurie Spiegel interview offers a way of thinking about community,...

Musician, teacher, and founder of Gaza Birds Singing, Ahmed Abuamsha is collectively our colleague in the international music world as much as he is a voice for his family and community: Ahmed Muin needs support now just to manage drinking water. 'What can I do?' Here are...

I expect everyone could use a breather and some grooves. Japan is there for us, flooding my algorithm with a bunch of groovy beats - and Roland has an adorable t-shirt drop again for the superfans. The post Celebrate #404day with great grooves from Japan and one cute...

Eric Singer is back. The interactive artist and inventor helped the idea of robotics and alternative interfaces break out to wider audiences over the past decades - and now he's gearing up to put LIDAR in your modular rig or other devices with analog CV inputs. The post...