Remix the washing machine drummer and win Ableton Live
August 6, 2010 – 12:05 pm | 102 Comments

OK, I was just so infatuated with the washing machine drums video, that it would be criminal not to remix those drums into a song.
So we’re going to have a remix contest! Ableton has …

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Remix the washing machine drummer and win Ableton Live
August 6, 2010 – 12:05 pm | 102 Comments
Remix the washing machine drummer and win Ableton Live

OK, I was just so infatuated with the washing machine drums video, that it would be criminal not to remix those drums into a song.
So we’re going to have a remix contest! Ableton has …

Korg Monotron softsynth that you can put on your website
July 12, 2010 – 1:49 pm | 8 Comments
Korg Monotron softsynth that you can put on your website

OK, by now everyone must think I have a Korg Monotron fetish, but I guess you’d be right judging by all my posts about it.
In case you simply can’t afford to shell out the …

Prosoniq introduces free vuvuzela filtering plug-in
June 30, 2010 – 2:19 pm | 2 Comments
Prosoniq introduces free vuvuzela filtering plug-in

If you’ve seen any of the World Cup soccer matches, or watched the news on TV, or even if you’ve been awake at all in the last few weeks, you know all about the plastic …

Free software makes any music swing, including Metallica
May 24, 2010 – 8:18 pm | 7 Comments
Free software makes any music swing, including Metallica

From the “this is just so cool everyone needs to see this” files, Tristan Jehan attended the San Francisco Music Hack Day on May 15 & 16th, and showed the world his Python app that …

The evolution of PC audio
May 21, 2010 – 11:20 am | One Comment
The evolution of PC audio

Many of us take fantastic sound from our computers for granted these days, but PC audio has come a very long way since I bought my TRS-80 Color Computer a very long time ago (which …

The rebirth of ReBirth
May 11, 2010 – 1:58 pm | 3 Comments
The rebirth of ReBirth

The ReBirth software studio by Propellerhead was huge when it came out in 1997. It was a super cheap PC program that faithfully recreated a Roland TR-808, a Roland TR-909 and two Roland TB-303 …

Cell phone keytar
May 10, 2010 – 2:44 pm | No Comment
Cell phone keytar

From the crazy-weird file, Steffest from Belgium has created a DIY cell-phone-keytar monstrosity. The Phone Guitar was born out of a presentation about mobile cross development that Steffest was working on.

He says:
Music apps …

Music from earthquakes
March 5, 2010 – 12:13 am | 2 Comments
Music from earthquakes

Micah Frank is a New York City based composer, sound designer and live performer. He studied Jazz and Contemporary Music, and in the years following college, Micah got into electronic composition and sound design.
Micah’s latest …

Audio to MIDI madness
October 30, 2009 – 2:15 pm | 3 Comments
Audio to MIDI madness

Akihiko Matsumoto from Japan has put together this Max/MSP tool that converts audio to midi. This in itself is pretty cool but then things get, well… demented.
Akihiko uses samples of voices, puts them through …

Free walnut and paper drum machine
July 8, 2009 – 12:19 am | One Comment
Free walnut and paper drum machine

I’m sure the title has got you wondering … well, the d-touch drum machine is a free piece of software that lets you make DIY beats and drum patterns using a piece of paper, a …