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Digital Arabic Maqām Archive and open-source MIDI plug-in now available

Peter Kirn — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:36:02 +0000

Khyam Allami presented his long-term research project in Beirut yesterday, and it's an exciting one. Hundreds of tuning systems, ajnās, and maqāmāt are now in a free, open archive, and there's a free MIDI plug-in that lets you apply tunings (and tweak them by ear) across all major software tuning formats.

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Free BEAST Repeat for Ableton Live is so good, you’ll switch genres to IDM

Peter Kirn — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:18:33 +0000

Dillon Bastan, prolific Max for Live patch stylist to the stars, is at it again. BEAST Repeat takes the fun glitchiness of Ableton's stock Beat Repeat and adds extensive new ways to re-pitch, fade, stretch, twist, gate, pan, filter, and generally mangle per-pattern and per-beat. And it's free?!

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Let’s enjoy some Square Enix game soundtracks in acoustic covers

Peter Kirn — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:03:32 +0000

The Square Enix Music Channel remains a gift to the Internet. So in this dire summer for the gaming industry (layoffs, the end of physical media, console price hikes), let's keep the faith and listen to NieR played on hammered dulcimer. This, too, shall pass.

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VDMX 6.3 adds expressions, plugin templates to beloved Mac visual tool

Peter Kirn — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:44:38 +0000

Here's another live visual icon with some welcome updates. Vidvox promised lots of quality-of-life refinements with VDMX6 as a platform, and VDMX6.3 adds just that. So it's a good excuse to mention VDMX again, in case you'd tuned out for a bit.

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Temp-Illusion’s video for “Sketchy” captures senseless cacophony

Peter Kirn — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:05:33 +0000

The news can be numbing in all its violence and mindlessness, compounded by a chorus of shills across media and social media. Temp-Illusion, the duo formed in Tehran by Shahin Entezami and Behrang Najafi, cuts through those feelings like a knife. Then stick around for the deeply meditative Bayal بیل (Shanin + Adel Poursamadi).

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Sinevibes update puts every effect on every ‘logue KORG

Peter Kirn — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:33:48 +0000

Sinevibes has been cheering on KORG gear as much as KORG themselves. Now they're bringing the entire range of 20+ effects to prologue, minilogue xd, NTS-1, NTS-1 mkII, NTS-3, and microKORG2 -- plus you get major sonic updates for the Eternal flanger and Shift frequency shifter.

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This free Ableton Extension slices up chunks of audio for Move, Live

Peter Kirn — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:08:43 +0000

MID continues to make cool stuff for Ableton Live, with a special emphasis on Ableton Move. Ever wished you could quickly chop up a track or other longer material into bar-aligned loops -- especially for easy triggering on Move? Move Loop Slicer does just that, and it's free now.

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NI after NI: which brand is where, and who owns whom

Peter Kirn — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:26:29 +0000

Native Instruments, iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx being part of inMusic? That was early May; now only NI remains at inMusic. 2026' mergers and acquisitions have come so fast, you practically need a reference to keep up. So... let's do just that. It's part of a larger pattern of ownership changes and layoffs across every part of the music instrument business.

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Celebrate Terminator 2’s 35th with the T-1000 VFX BTS and DJ T-1000

Peter Kirn — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:59:40 +0000

35 years later, the T-1000 is more relevant than ever. Terminator 2 debuted in the first weekend of July 1991. The groundbreaking mix of computer animation and practical effects has come full circle. And I can’t mention the T-1000 without mentioning Alan Oldham (DJ T-1000.) T-1000 Killer AI turns out to be chatbots causing psychosis, […]

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Ableton Live and Push can now run on Linux, unofficially

Peter Kirn — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:56:05 +0000

Finally, proof that there's life for Live after Apple and Microsoft. It's unofficial and totally unsupported, but a set of patches for the free Wine compatibility environment lets you run Ableton Live 12, Max for Live, and Push 2 and Push 3 on Linux. And the result is just about indistinguishable from native support.

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