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"You can hear the cheers from the old Tiger Stadium, you can hear the water running at Belle Isle ... you can hear the personality of each and every producer.” Techno original Sean Tate, aka The Butcher, has died. cdm.link/techno-original-sea…
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. @Resolume 7.28 uses vision to let you play with intelligent live effects and blends. It's a beautiful example of how that vision tech can become expressive and creative. cdm.link/resolume-7-28-compu… And about computer vision and MCPs... ;)
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Elektron is halting the sharing of mods and hacks on its forums; official comments: cdm.link/elektron-on-hacks-a… They explicitly say they have no issue with the Machinedrum X (MDX) firmware, for example, but also cite a rise in AI-assisted hacking. Details.
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Oldest recorded voices, haunted dolls, and more from @TempestAudio "Now I lay me down to sleep, I ....AAAAAAAAAAAAA" cdm.link/oldest-recorded-voi…
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Cook every day: read Suzanne Ciani's 1976 Buchla Cookbook, for free. Follow along on hardware or @vcvrack -- total access for everybody, with examples. cdm.link/suzanne-ciani-1976-…
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Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid, A Winged Victory for the Sullen) has an album out today, building on his collaboration with the late Jóhann Jóhannsson. Adam talks with us about what it meant to work on this one -- and to bring back Jóhann's presence. cdm.link/adam-wiltzie-johann…
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Thanks @AdamWiltzie so much for this one. And to @DGclassics
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x0xb0x, the synth that launched an #opensource hardware boom, is reborn. Open, all-digital recreation from the original engineer. cdm.link/x0xb0x-begets-digix… @knobcon news!
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MOTU's DP gets a big upgrade -- and it looks great for Atmos delivery (including to streaming) and post-production, plus has a boatload of new usability features. @motutech cdm.link/motu-dp12-arrives-a…
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Elgato's Stream Deck has evolved into a nice DAW companion -- take, for instance, this just-released Reaper controller. cdm.link/elgato-stream-deck-…
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ALM @busycircuits records everything to stems, and now mixes, too, in compact modules. cdm.link/alm-multichannel-re…
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Kevin Saunderson teaches a free 909 workshop, online and in Detroit: with @RolandGlobal -- can't wait to see what a new generation does with these machines. cdm.link/kevin-saunderson-ro…
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Dirtywave M8 has an official iOS app -- a great addition to mobile tracker apps. @DirtyWaveMusic this looks sweet. 1st look: cdm.link/dirtywave-m8-ios/ Plus, a new tracker from the maker of @nanoloop, too, also on iOS (Android promised). And some other tips for other platforms.
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Eminently controllable, accessible by design, Sting is now a plug-in. Let the acid (and lots of other patterns) flow... cdm.link/sting-the-plugin/
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Scales are among the updates to the free @ardourdaw — with tuning on the way. What's in 9.8, and thoughts on how scales and tuning might evolve: cdm.link/ardour-9-8-scales-a…
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Loraine James has a new LP, it’s a free download, and it’s raw brilliance. @LoJamMusic cdm.link/loraine-james-has-a… #bandcampfriday
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Amidst the flood of one-person DAWs out there, Septabee is pure lunacy -- “violently unfinished” early-access software with microtuning, SF2, unlimited oscillators, and a lot of "pomegranates" -- graphical nodes. Free on Linux and Windows. cdm.link/septabee-is-here/
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Story is back; it was temporarily offline while I (ducking into a meeting) added clarifications about what we know and don't know (though not knowing what the heck this is is part of the fun...)
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