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Playable 8-bit Game as Promo, and Okkervil River’s Nostalgia-Drenched Wonderlands 26 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
The standards for advance promotion of an album may be getting a little … intense. Photos? Track listing? Advance music video? Streaming preview? How about a complete, playable adventure video game ...
Ableton Push, Disassembled by Czech Music Hackers, Down to the Screw 26 Aug 2013 | 05:01 am
Push, down to its parts. Photo courtesy THORtronic. For months, many musicians have been waiting to get assembled Push hardware from Ableton. But here, you get it disassembled – down to bare washers ...
A Brilliant 199€ Hardware Sequencer with Jog Wheel: MTRX-8 Preview [Photos, Video, Interview] 23 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
Sleek and black, sporting a high-resolution jog wheel, the MTRX-8 is a futuristic sequencer the likes of which you probably haven’t seen in hardware before. Even though it’s the product of a boutique ...
Drumactica Augments Percussion with Gestures, Ice Cube Trays; Here’s How it Was Done 23 Aug 2013 | 04:12 pm
Bacon and eggs on a drum snare? Hands-through-the-air gestural control with Leap Motion? Water pianos in ice trays and a hacked Makey Makey, all talking to Ableton Live? Drumactica has a little bit of...
With Free Tape App for iPad, Focusrite Wants Everyone to Record 22 Aug 2013 | 11:09 pm
Tape wants you to record – right now. And share, right now. Also: Skeuomorph this. “The future has arrived; it’s just not very evenly distributed.” – William Gibson. Well, that’s certainly true of d...
Grid Tricks: Japan and Jeremy Ellis Show Us How Maschine, MPC Can Be An Instrument 22 Aug 2013 | 09:28 pm
They’re two alternative universes with musical wonders in them, places we wish we could live. They both begin with the letter ‘J.’ One is Japan; one is … Jeremy Ellis. Each might as well be their own ...
TouchAble 2, iPad Control of Ableton, Nears Release, Kind of Does Everything; Conductr This Week 21 Aug 2013 | 02:13 am
Ableton could someday make their own iPad app for controlling Live. But it’s getting increasingly tough to imagine how to outdo what third parties have already created. TouchAble 2, the anticipated u...
Now Shipping: Bass Station II, Novation’s $500 Synth; New Sound Demo 21 Aug 2013 | 01:33 am
When we last saw the Bass Station II, Novation’s affordable analog monosynth celebrating the company’s 21st birthday, Novation still had a prototype. Some stuff on that instrument simply didn’t work –...
Grid Tricks: How Launchpad S Differs, Emulate Push with Launchpad, 11 Launchpad Display, More 20 Aug 2013 | 08:28 pm
Life on the grid gets better and better. Yes, these blinky, lighty arrays of squares do continue to proliferate. But musicians are also hacking away to make them more useful. And they do that with pe...
Grid Tricks: Mega-Bass 2020, Delicious Live Performance Groovebox [Launchpad + Reaktor] 19 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm
Mega-Bass 2020 – Teaser Performance from Icebreaker Audio on Vimeo. Look through that VHS fuzz, and listen as a Casio VL-Tone and synth go ultra-retro – they even play a cover of Jan Hammer. But that...
