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opmlArduinome: An Arduino-Based Monome Clone, Behind the Scenes
The Monome project, a USB MIDI and OpenSoundControl control surface for music and art, was built on open source principles, on its users making the product better as they used it. Its community has already built custom housings and elaborate soft...
Easier DIY Controllers: MachineCollective in Beta, Shipping Next Month
There’s a growing appetite for using custom controllers or creating DIY controllers from scratch. Why not, after all, get exactly the number of knobs and sliders you want, in just the layout you want? Where a lot of these projects stumble, t...
DS-10 US Preorder Available; US Ship Date 9/30
The music hacker is a different breed in a number of ways. It’s fairly safe, for instance, to say that the average Nintendo gamer does not consider the ability to patch modular synth parameters with their stylus a “killer app.” Y...
Demystifying Sound Design: 15 Online Learning Resources for Film, Games, and More
Waveforms, pictured by altemark Composer, musician, and sound designer W. Brent Latta knows something about sound design, currently working professionally on sound for games with Amaze Entertainment. As an enthusiast of what it takes to craft soun...
Elsewhere: Mixxx Open Source DJ Software Review
Chris Everest of Vinyl Project has some first hands-on impressions of Mixx, the open-source DJ software that recently added vinyl control (among other features). So far, he says he’s not sure it’s ready for prime-time: “There are...
Mobile Music Platform Survey Results, Plus Beatmaker MIDI Export
Being expressive and productive creatively is all about finding a workflow that fits you. Form factor is part of that, because location matters. (I discovered this when trying unsuccessfully to operate my MacBook on a bus to Boston this week that ...
Reformat the Planet, 8-bit Music Documentary, Free for a Week
The appeal of newer music apps for phones, current-generation mobile game systems, and PDAs is portability first. But for the Game Boy music scene, it’s as much about a distinctive sound, and acquiring Game Boys as a kind of unique synthesiz...
Learning Reaktor: 10-Step Path to Building New Sequencers, Beatboxes, and Effects
“What if you had to take just one software instrument with you to a desert island?” It’s not an entirely silly question, with so many choices in software potentially distracting you from real music making. I say, cheat: take a tool that lets you b...
A Brief History of the MPC in Video, by Current TV
Sometimes in technology, the design of a product can have an impact beyond just the tool itself, and that’s easily the case with the Akai MPC. Even if you aren’t part of the device’s cult-like following, you’ve likely worke...
iTouchMIDI, Free Wireless MIDI for iPhone and touch, Now in Store
The creator of iTouchMIDI — now iTM MidiLab — writes to let us know that Apple has approved his app. I know various iPhone and iPod touch owners were waiting to turn their device into a mobile, wireless MIDI controller, so this is good...
Free Bob Moog-Inspired Reason 4 ReFill; Thor for the Foundation
Thor wants you to help support the legacy of synthesis history! Image: Dunechaser. The Bob Moog Foundation is still urgently seeking support so it can work to preserve not only Bob Moog’s legacy, but his massive archives pertaining to the hi...
Nodal: Generative Music Software for Mac (Free for Non-Commercial Use)
If you’re interested in generative and algorithmic music – music that evolves organically rather than being pre-composed in start-to-finish linear fashion – you won’t want to miss this site. Nodal is a free (for non-commercial use) app for develop...
Poll: Which Mobile Music Platforms Do You Care About?
With all this talk of mobile music creation, it’s time to get a little scientific. Which mobile digital platforms do you actually own? Which do you want to read about on CDM? We have, of course, lots of interesting stuff happening with actual mobi...
Korg Kaossilator 4-Bar Loop Hack
Intrigued by the Kaossilator, but annoyed by hearing two bars over and over and over and over…? Our friend David Battino has the solution, and while it’s a simple trick, it wound up being the deal-maker for buying Korg’s cute little “dynamic phras...
Correction: iDrum Mobile / Desktop Editions Work Together
Readers have complained that we’re doing so much mobile music coverage that it’s hard to wade through it, specifically in regards to the iPhone. I’ll be consolidating that news into a more manageable weekly post. The goal is to make this informati...
Ableton Live Rack Tutorials: Slicing and Drum Racks, Vocal Slicing with Simpler Racks
The last few days have brought still more Live tutorials to help hone your Live ninja skills. This time, both focus on racks. Vocal manipulation with Ableton Simplers. from wiretotheear on Vimeo. Oliver Chesler of the currently on-fire wire to...
