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- One Man Band Watch: Gestures, TouchOSC, Pure Data, Breath Control, Oh, My
- Music Game Revolution, Now Indie Friendly, as Rock Band Network Goes Live
- This Week at the Game Developer Conference, San Francisco, Push the Button
- OSC, Kyma, iPad, and Beyond: Your Networked Musical Future
- Mu, Lemur + Ableton Live Integration, Revealed – and Other Lemur Sequencers
- Renoise 2.5 is Here, Making Your Mac, Windows, or Linux Box an Instrument
- Musical Sewing Machines, Electronic Honky-Tonk, and Handmade Music NYC Monday
- Émilie Simon, Making Homemade Sessions in Her Apartment
- A LEGO Sequencer, Imaginary Electronic Antiques, and Other Yoshi Akai Creations
- Exclusive Free Soundtrack: Osmos, Featuring Gas, Julien Neto, Loscil, High Skies
- Through Friday, Making One-Button Objects, Chip-Infused Hackday Saturday
- A Conversation with Robert Henke: Silence, Technology, and Process
- Fast Fingers: Video, Mappings Shows You Pad Drumming on MPC, Ableton, Beyond
- OTO Machines BISCUIT: 8-bit + Analog Filter Effect; Designing New Hardware
- Livid Builder: Modular DIY Music Controller Hardware System
- Scenes from Amsterdam’s Music Inventors: When Circuits, Code, and Concept Meet
- Jazari: Utterly Brilliant Robotic Percussion
- Record and Reason: Tips, Tutorials, Goodies, and Reviews
- Stereocilia Armor: Protect Your Hearing With Etymotic ER-20 Earplugs
- The Man-Robot with an iMac Head, and Handmade Music Amsterdam
- Read Traktor-Timecoded Vinyl in Max, Max for Live, (Soon) Pd
- Back to the Future: Save an Old Laptop, Make it a Music Workstation
- Touch: Argos Builds Interfaces for Windows, Mac, and Soon iPhone, iPad, Beyond
- New Soft Synth for the … Apple II, and a Plea for Longevity and Economy
- Touch: Meet the Multitouch Guitar – Plus An Open Source, iPhone Solution, Too
- Touch: Bridge iPhone and Max/MSP Control
- Touch: What’s Next for Lemur? Video Shows Tighter Ableton Live Integration
- DIY Music Tech Community Round-up; Reflecting on the State of Music DIY?
- Augustus Loop Tape Delay: Now with 64-bit, OpenSoundControl Support
- Chime, Beautiful New Music Game on Xbox 360: Play to Philip Glass, for Charity
- Flying Lotus Cosmogramma Album is Coming 5/4; Clear Your Calendar
- Participate: One Button Game Objects, Handmade Music in NYC, Amsterdam, SF
- DIY Community: Your Web-Connected Musical Future, at Music Hackday Stockholm
- DIY Community: Austin a Hotbed of Inventive Hardware You Can Build and Use
- DIY Community: Handmade Music Toronto, 2/19, and Why Now is a Great Time for Making
- Lights and Music: The Harmonic Center of the Universe
- Indie Artists, Indie Labels Clean Up Again at Grammys – Including Taylor Swift
- Interview: Sound Legend Paul Frindle, and a Story Behind the Digital Audio Revolution
- Free RFID Reader Connects Real World Objects to Music, Teaches OSC in Pd
- Drum Machines Have Soul: araabMUZIK on MPC, with Visuals
- Most Insane Ableton DJ Setup: Four Decks, Four Copies of Live
- Building a Hybrid Man / Machine Orchestra, Pt. 1: Ajay Kapur and Michael Darling
- Beat Thang Drum Machine: Hands-on Tour with Creators, Rockwilder
- Ms. Pinky + Max for Live = Scratch Anything in Ableton
- HAITI 2010 Monome Community Compilation + Other Efforts to Help in Haiti
- Your Band in Rock Band: Rock Band Network Beta Opens, Q&A with Harmonix
- NAMM Picks: Dave Smith Mopho Keyboard, $800; Video
- NAMM Picks: Roland’s Octapad Updates a Classic Percussion Controller
- When Ableton Met Serato: The Bridge Videos, Questions Answered
- Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 Instrument: Hands-on, Videos, Why it’s Different
- A New Theme in Music Technology: Slow Development
- Rane Sixty-Eight: A Mixer/Controller for Two Computers
- Ableton + Serato: The Bridge Fuses DJ Sets, Live Sets; Full Details
- KORG KAOSSILATOR Pro: Now with Sampler, Effects, Vocoder
- Akai APC20 Ableton Controller: Get Half an APC40, or an APC and a Half
- NAMM 2010 Preview, and Beyond: Get Your Latest Music Tech News Here
- 64-bit Mac Audio Tools Coming; Logic Pro and Mainstage Add Support
- Try a Fully-Loaded, Pre-Tuned Linux Workstation on Your Laptop, Netbook: Sale
- Beyond NAMM: LA Friday Night Party, Music Tech Panel – It’s Gonna Be The Future Soon
- Ion Makes a Music Keyboard Dock for the iPhone; Would You Want One?
- Preview: Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion, Robotic Ensemble from Upcoming Album
- Tablets, Slates, Multi-touch Everywhere, But Details Scant; Round Up of New Offerings
- Put a Hex on You: New Game, Crazy Music Sequencer with Hexagons
- A Free, Futuristic Music Compilation for SyFy’s Caprica; Stories Behind the Tracks
- Trifonic’s Music, Beat Slicing Technique, Free Bass Patch
- CDM’s Biggest Music Tech Stories of 2009
- CDM and “Non-Commercial” Images, Regex Help Wanted
- Here Come the Fixes: Live 8.1.1 Begins Squashing Bugs
- Steve_3po and Other Robotic Drummers
- Got a Product at NAMM? Get in Our Guide, Request Meetings; Correspondents Wanted
- Ableton Suspends Development to Focus on Bug Fixes for Live 8
- SONAR 8.5.2 Hands On: Tradition, Meet Tempting Treats
- Real for Reel: The Amazing Sherlock Holmes Experibass, and More Winter Cinema Sounds
- Truly Last-Minute Gift: Osmos, the CDM Game of the Year, for Mac and Windows
- Pro Tools Adds Snow Leopard, Windows 7 Compatibility; Other Fixes in 8.0.3
- An Orchestra of Linux Laptops, and How to Make Your Own Laptop Instrument
- Free Instrument + Sounds from NI in the Holiday Selection 2009
- Weekend Question: Where Do You Get Your Electronic Music Radio Fix Online?
- Music from the Road: Tristan Perich, Lesley Flanigan on Speakers, 1-bit, Harspichord
- Step Sequencing: Launchpad + Renoise 2.5 Outshines Launchpad + Live + Max for Live
- Last-Minute Holiday Shopping: Geeky Gift Ideas, even for the Non-Musician
- Last-Minute Holiday Shopping: Mom Asks, Live or Logic for a Beginner Teen?
- Create Digital Motion Domain Screwup; Fix Coming – Stay Tuned Here
- Cakewalk’s SONAR 8.5.2 Update Packs a Lot in a Point
- Renoise 2.5: A Matrix for Everything, Modulate Everything; Full Scripting, OSC Coming
- Pro Tools with Mackie Hardware: Avid Makes Deal to Okay Link
- Meet the Digital Vinyl Systems That Predated N2IT’s Patent
- Blip Festival Handmade Music Opener, and the Sega Mega Drive Meets MIDI + Launchpad
- In/Out Festival Preview, Goodies and Patches from the Artists
- DIY monome Case from LEGOs, Live Performance in a Bathroom
- Hear Free Generative Music, in Archaic Twitter Haiku, made with SuperCollider
- Mixtikl 2 Brings Generative Music to Desktops, Mobiles – and Generates Music in Tweet
- Life on the Grid: Behind the Scenes with stretta’s Max for Live, monome Music Suite
- What Are Your Top Electronic Albums of 2009? (And How Do You Stay Organized?)
- Artists we Love: Deru, in the Studio, Videos
- Apps of 2009: With 1.1, Maschine Realizes its Potential as the Soft Drum Machine
- Digi Didgeridoo: Augmented Wireless Digital Instrument with Aboriginal Roots
- As the Turntable Turns: Digital Vinyl Survives, Real Technics 1200 Dies
- The Amazing Musical Grid and Electronic Performance Made Modular
- Cyber Monday, Ongoing: Delicious Synths, Effects for $5-20 from audioMIDI
- Black Friday: $99 Each for Reaktor, Absynth, Massive, FM8
- Black Friday: Free Synths+Effects from Cakewalk, Plus Steep Discounts
- Bliptronic 5000’s Creator: Hacking Tips, Prototyping, and the Switchnome
- Bliptronic 5000: Tenori-On, monome, Meet Your $50, Hackable Clone
- Max for Live Guide: 10 Things You Should Know, Release Details, Pricing, Videos
- Max for Live Comes with Some Strings Attached for Creators
- Artists We Love: edison is monome Instrumentalist; Look Ma, No Loops!
- monome News: Max for Live with 7up, New Grayscale, Mass Kit Builds, NYC Fest
- Pd MLR Tutorial: Learn monome, Sample Slicing, OSC in a Free and Open Source Tool
- Tracker Tracks: Winners of the Efficient Music Competition Span Genres, Moods
- Help EFF Save Web Content: Prove Podcasting and Media Patent is Wrong
- OpenSoundControl: Now Compatible with Magical Unicorns
- DIY MIDI In, MIDI Out For Your Gear: New Kits from HighlyLiquid
- TouchDJ Arrives for iPhone
- iPhone Developer Limbo, Sonorasaurus, and Music as an Application
- Still on 7? Ableton Live Update Improves Controller Support, Fixes
- Music Devs Want Change at Apple App Store, as DJ Apps Remain Unapproved
- Tenori-On Orange $699 for “Home Use” – Minus Battery, Lights on Back
- This Weekend is Crazy in Austin: Handmade Music, Live 8 Sessions Tour
- Two Garbage Cans and a Microphone
- Novation Launchpad OSC Wrapper Makes MIDI More Readable
- Live Music Makers Ask: How Can We Get in Sync?
- A Gramophone that Plays the Earth Instead of Vinyl, and a Sonic iPhone Epidemic
- A Blog Focused on Sound Design, Special with Game Sound Veteran Rob Bridgett
- LA, Live, Lasers: Ableton Sessions, and a CDM Party Sunday Night in Hollywood
- Max for Live Beta is Here; Final Version November 23
- Rant – Congratulations, Apple: “Syncing” Music Now Means “Using iTunes”
- Digital Sales Up, But is Apple Monopoly the Price? NPD, Mint Data, Editorial Analysis
- NI’s Traktor Kontrol X1: High-Res Traktor Controller, MIDI Mode
- Arduino Piano Gets an Open Source “Squealer” Synth Engine
- Happy Halloween: 8-bit, Creative Commons, Free Holiday Music Mix
- Greetings from Princeton monome Monomeet; Live Video Stream
- Exquisite Music Video Paints Sound, Rhodes, Moog in Light Paint
- Music for an Olympic Bid: Making of Antipop’s Madrid 2016 Songs
- Novation Launchpad: Impressions Video, Questions and Answers
- First Hands-on: Novation’s New $199 Launchpad Grid Controller for Ableton Live
- In-the-Box Mixing, Analog Console Style, on an Open Source DAW
- NI Teases New DJ Controller in Richie Hawtin Maschine + Traktor Video; Twitter App
- Free, Native Linux Plug-ins, and How to Use Them in energyXT for Linux
- Upcoming Final Fantasy Album: Treating the Orchestra Like an Analog Synth
- Obsessive Windows 7 Under-the-Hood Guide for Music; Can You Finally Dump XP?
- Au Revoir Simone’s New Music Video, and Missing a Dark Side for “Shadows”
- Studiologic Numa Nero: Finally, a Serious, High-End 88-Key Software Controller?
- Beautiful Music Performed by Mexican Jumping Beans (Really)
- Korg’s microSAMPLER: Sample from a Keyboard, and What Those iPod Slots Are For
- Music Video Favorites: Birdy Nam Nam’s Wonderful Animated World
- This Weekend: Music Hack Day Comes to Berlin, with Ableton, NI
- DAW Day: Propellerhead Record is Here, with Lots of Free Training
- DAW Day: Digital Performer 7 Adds Effects, Easier Access, PT8 Support
- DAW Day – SONAR 8.5 Production Tastiness, and the Smooth 64-bit Transition
- DAW Day – Pro Tools 8.0.1: No Windows 7 or 10.6 Support, End of the Road for Legacy
- Michael Jackson Documentary on its Way, Featuring Final Rehearsal Footage
- Pro Tools Minus the Hardware? Mackie Says New Mixers Support M-Powered; Q&A
- Gustavo’s Live Tutorial, Now en Español, Condensed to 60 Seconds
- Brainpipe Interview: Creators of Trippy Indie Game Talk Interactive Sound
- Advanced Ableton Live Tutorial: Modular-Style Unlinked Envelopes, Effects
- An Adorable Singing Note as Musical Instrument: Maywa Denki’s Otamatone
- FL Studio 9 Arrives: Better Performance, More Toys, More Editing
- Pro Tools Essentials and the Big Picture
- Paper, Drawing as Musical Controller: A Round-Up
- Imaginary Instruments: Marker and Paper as Controller
- Richie Hawtin Talks Performance, Brings Back Plastikman – By Survey
- “I Am T-Pain” Brings Auto-Tune to iPhone, “I’m on a Boat” To You
- Inside Beaterator, Rockstar Games’ New PSP Beat Maker, with Gory Technical Bits
- GPS Beatmap: Ford LTD + Salt Flats = Locative Driving Control Surface
- Amanda Ervin’s Sound Circuits, Handmade Music Brooklyn 9/17 + Open Call
- Native Instruments Updates: New Absynth, Kontakt, Guitar Rig, Cheaper Komplete
- Apple Logic Studio 9 Review for Macworld; What Stands Out
- Disembodied Heads Meet Serato: Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs
- Logic Express Packs Most of Logic for Less; Apple Adds PDF Manual to Logic 9
- Cakewalk V-Studio 100 Hands-on: Mixer + Interface + Control Surface, Mac+PC
- MetaSynth 5 is Here: Graphical Sound-as-Painting Tool, Overhauled
- ParamDrum: Reaktor-Powered Drum Sequencer an Rx for Drum Variety
- Human Synthesizer with Calvin Harris, Lots of Girls, Electric Ink: Behind the Scenes
- Tilt, Smack, Mash, Tweak: Ableton Live Jam with monome + nanoKONTROL
- The Zen of monome Performance: Edison’s Live Push-Button Music
- Music for Vending Machines: Alva Noto, Anne-James Chaton
- Dave Smith Tetra4 Synth: Compact Size, Quadruple the Mopho Pleasure
- Hexagonal iPhone Sequencer-Rhythm Machine from Jordan Rudess
- Linux Music Workflow: Switching from Mac OS X to Ubuntu with Kim Cascone
- Squeeze Tech: Concertinome Combines Monome, Concertina
- Ableton Live Hacking: Novation Nocturn Scripts, Music; More APC40 Setup
- Updated Lemur Touchscreen Display Coming
- Tip: Sync Traktor Music Collections, Max Patches, More with SugarSync
- Tron, Redux Redux: Trailer with Daft Punk Music, New Reaktor-Reason-Live Score
- Download Free Korg nanoPAD, nanoKONTROL Scripts for Ableton Live
- Ableton Live MIDI Remote Scripting How To: Custom Korg nanoSERIES Control
- A Real-Life DIY Reason or Record Rack in Peru?
- Merce Cunningham Dies at 90; How Electronic Music Shaped His Sense of Time
- Beautiful, Orgasmic Animation of Robots, Modular Synthesis
- iDrum Video Game Edition: 8-bit iPhone Drum Machine Fun Times
- What’s New in Apple’s Logic Studio 9: Flex Time, MainStage Gets More Road-Worthy
- Millioniser 2000: 80s-tastic MIDI Harmonica Whose Time Has Come?
- Interview: Smule’s Ge Wang on iPhone Apps, Ocarinas, and Democratizing Music Tech
- Take it to the Stage: Reflections on Live Laptop Music from Artists
- David Bowie Space Oddity Moon Celebration: Remix Stems, Remix on iPhone
- Music Sequencing as Bicycle Wheels, Rubik’s Cubes at Fest in Argentina
- Moog’s Lovely MuRF Resonant Filter, Now with MIDI, Double Bands
- Zoom Q3 Mobile Video + Stereo Sound, Love Child of an H4 Recorder and a Flip
- No BeatKangz Beat Thang Drum Machine, But a Virtual Version
- Kontakt, Battery: Enhanced, More Compatible, 64-bit Memory
- Akai Does Mini MIDI Keyboard, Pads, a la Korg nano – But with Real Action?
- Sony Walkman-Sequenced Gakken Synth, by Gijs Gieskes
- Roger Continues LinnDrum II Work, But Release Slips
- Make. Give. Collect. Offer. Sell. Inform. Share. Engage: Trent Reznor on What To Do a
- Cellist Zoe Keating on Quitting Your Day Job, Going on Tour
- Handmade Music NYC 7/16, Plus Meet the Suitcase That Sequences Anything
- Griffin PowerMate Knob as Intelligent MIDI Controller: Free Pd Patch
- Dispatches: Interviewing Lusine on Detroit’s People Mover
- Happy 30th, Sony Walkman: Your Memories and the Best of Cassettes on CDM
- d-touch, Free Tangible Interfaces, and a Walnut Drum Machine
- Native Instruments Komplete $399 Fire Sale; NI Noisepages Networking
- Analog JUNO-60 and What JUNO’s Labels Should Really Say
- Roland JUNO Contest Ends at Midnight; A Viral Ad for the … Alpha 2!
- Fitting Tributes: Billie Jean, NYC Saturday, with Claude VonStroke
- OTTO: Beautiful, Original Hardware for Beat Slicing in Circles
- Logging MPC Projects (Or Other Drum Machines) on Paper
- Designing Sound: Essential Blog Reading for Sound Designers, Plus Pixar’s Up
- Mod the $50 SX-150 for MIDI: Instructions + Code
- Favorite Artists on Productivity, Process: Jonathan Coulton, New Imogen Heap Album
- Android MIDI Controller, Musical App Updates with MIDI Over Wifi
- TouchOSC Controller with Template Editing Coming Soon to iPhone, iPod touch
- Play Super Mario Bros. with a Theremin
- Chip Strikes Back: Finnish Label Sues Timbaland, Nelly Furtado
- Tangible Interface Hackday: Music with Soda Bottles, Floor Toms, More
- Music Goes Peer-to-Peer, Multiplayer: Smule Leaf Trombone for iPhone 3.0
- Game Music Making: Kongregate Collabs to Connect Music Makers with Indie Games
- Game Music Inspiration: Amon Tobin and Sony on Infamous
- Apple MacBooks: Reappearing FireWire, Disappearing ExpressCard
- Learned in 60 Seconds: Intro to Free Synthesis Tool SuperCollider
- Out of Control APC40 Photoshop Thread on Ableton Forums
- Audiomulch 2.0, Available Mac+PC; Live Patching Video with Hypnotic Guitar
- mda Plug-in Collection for Mac, Windows Now Open Source
- More Tangible Sequencers: The Game of Go, and a Graphite Record Player
- Livid’s Ohm64 Controller: Full of Buttons and Knobs, As Open As You Like
- Record it Live to the Internet: Indaba Reveals JavaFX-Powered Online Recording Studio
- Live 8 Videos: New Warping Explained, APC + ReMOTE SL Integration
- Free Cubase Control from iPhone; iTouchMIDI MCU for Everything Else
- REAPER v3: From MIDI to Automation to Guitar Hero Control, the Alt DAW Improves
- Tangible Interfaces: Beat Sequencing with Beer Bottle Caps
- Mash-Up Video Inside Ableton with a MIDI-Controlled Plug-in
- Pirating a Fundraising Album for an Italian Quake - Really?
- Gooooooal! A Soccer Ball Music Controller, and Tangible Interface Tips for Music
- Renoise 2.1, Now with Mac-PC ReWire, Plus JACK on Linux, Live Performance Tools
- Novation Automap, Ableton Live Clip Control, Coming to the iPhone
- $200 Makes Your Laptop Touch-Enabled; Usine Music Demo
- Dorkpop Music with Keytar Frontman Baffles a Humorless Simon Cowell
- Propellerhead Record: New Getting Started Video Tutorial, Blog
- Sibelius 6: Notation Software Gets Magnetic Layout, ReWire, More - Details
- New Au Revoir Simone, and Get All Their Music Cheap