CDM — Create Digital Music

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CDM — Create Digital MusicGearHarps with flowers that bloom and more fanciful creations of Monique Evette If you don't know her work, computer scientist Monique "Evette" Byars has built spectacular, animated instruments, merging digital modeling and fabrication techniques. Flowers bloom.

11.13

CDM — Create Digital MusicGearReading Rainbow, the Buchla synth’s “MARF,” and a prototype’s live debut Hold on for a wormhole between different nerd universes. Steve Horelick, the prolific composer behind the music for Reading Rainbow, meets the classic Buchla 200, meets a new prototype of an official…

11.12

CDM — Create Digital MusicGearAbleton Live 13 hands-on: ARA 2, Drum Synth, new effects, more Ableton Live 13 is now in limited public beta. That includes a lot of what you've asked for, like multi-band Racks, overhauled preset navigation, and ARA 2 support for tools like Melodyne.

11.10

CDM — Create Digital MusicGearLogic Pro 13 gets touch right, but stumbles on “intelligent assistant” Look past Logic Pro 13's new dark Liquid Glass theme and updated browser, and you'll find Apple focused on two core technologies, touch and "intelligence" -- and two very different upgrades.

11.09

CDM — Create Digital MusicGearThere’s a Zelda-friendly ocarina app for FM-1, and you can try it in a browser Now Ocarina of Time meets up with the other big trend of the fall, with OCA, an ocarina app and soundbook for the M-VAVE FM-1.

11.06

CDM — Create Digital MusicGearMods for everyone: inMusic is opening up MPC, more new gear to coders You may have seen Akai tease an “open-source” MPC keyboard running vibe-coded mods. But there’s more coming—a lot more.

11.05

CDM — Create Digital MusicGearProductions gone live, as Jlin joins Third Coast Percussion on “Vernacular” If today is a day to celebrate good things happening in the USA, you better also be listening to the epic collaboration between Jlin and Chicago's Third Coast Percussion.

11.04

CDM — Create Digital MusicGearMixxx could unlock free and open standalone DJing — but, like, stable Daniel Schürmann of the long-running libre/free DJ software project Mixxx has a compelling proposal for uniting efforts to develop their DJ software on embedded hardware, from emerging cheap "open"…

11.03

CDM — Create Digital MusicGearThe techno originator, Juan Atkins, has died at 64 It's a loss that's beyond words. Juan Atkins, who coined the term "techno" and is often called "the originator," has died at 64.

11.01

CDM — Create Digital MusicGearsndstation will transform cheap gaming consoles into music handhelds Cheap handheld gaming consoles now often pack surprising processing power. But many risk ending up as e-waste.

10.30

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.