So to me that's really about how the AI is applied, what technique is used. But it's great that this is creative and adaptive, rather than shoehorning you into known materials from the training set.

It's not just some philosophical bias against AI, either -- the non-AI DSP process here allows non-normative responses from the software, meaning you can throw weird stuff at it and get weird in a way you control.

Wow. Via a hack Peter Samson created in the early 60s, the lightbulbs of this machine sing along to Boards of Canada, with more music coming soon:

Really enjoyed going a bit further out on this one b2b with the wonderful Dakn داكن -- really like no direction he can't go. https://t.co/yXr9BSKs0f

When you play your drum machine in a wormhole. This one is a must -- a nice nod to what FL did, but those Pd bits underneath have some mojo all their own. Let's just do all spectral stuff all day every day everywhere...

While everyone else is watching boring genAI prompting, here's a new analog delay for the first time in decades -- which is likely to have a bigger impact on gear.

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was

"and what do you do for a living?" "I'm involved in ... music tech... nology ... it's hard to explain"

It sounds like the secret sauce the microKORG sequel needed:

Your challenge: get in on this, and get some other folks to do the same. calling @Bandcamp ...

At last, a modern, faster, easier-to-use Audacity -- @Tantacrul has a great walkthrough of not just how they thought about this, but creative software interaction design in general.

The bad news for Akai is that they had to share the spotlight for their new flagship with Roland. The good news is, the $1699 tagline looks cheap and the screen looks huge next to the TR-1000. ;)

It's pretty crazy that we got new flagships from Akai and Roland in one week. I do think those pads are going to show up elsewhere, so they're worth a mention on their own. But this may finally be a standalone MPC worthy of the legacy.

What you need is *more* bearded guys with reel-to-reel beatmatching, bizarre sleep experiments, some mimes trying to interpret "melancholy," a bunch of random music theory, and also Wilford Brimley singing. Thanks, BBC!

I will keep asking more people to act here across our cultural scene until it happens.

Roland's new monster: what's different with the new ACB and analog voices versus existing Roland gear? How does slicing work? How many sample slots do you have per performance? Let's skip straight to your questions.

No one likes subscriptions where your money disappears. Rent-to-own, where you just don't have to pay all at once but you own the thing, that's another story. Also, Ableton's rent-to-own costs the same as paying outright. Anyway, I also give you a Prince song here.

I just love what we're finally able to do making expression tactile. It's a revalation just like trying a keyboard for the first time.

This is such day-improving technology.

Other people: music production is too democratized. Me: I want to hear a TON of like glitched-out / animated music on Bandcamp that comes out of Artemiy's plug-in, or I haven't done my job.