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NEL Incline gets an Easter update with improved display, output quality — and echo

Peter Kirn — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:32:07 +0000

Your mission to investigate sonic anomalies could use a holiday boost. NeverEngine Labs' Incline gets a significant update today, festively labeled as an "Easter egg." Now you get internal echo in playback, high-fidelity audio output options and tweaks, and proper zoom.

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SP-404MKII side chain compression; #404day videos

Peter Kirn — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:25:41 +0000

SP-404MKII version 5.50 brings two long-awaited features — side chain compression and exFAT SD compatibility. Here are those details, plus a #404day round-up of the fabulous videos you’re making. #404day has come to a conclusion in Japan — but that means my feed is alive with the sound of Japanese (mostly) 404 videos! Y’all always […]

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OpenShot 3.5: faster, more stable, more creative open-source video editor

Peter Kirn — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:07:02 +0000

OpenShot, the free and open-source video editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux, got a major update in March with version 3.5. It runs faster, handles edits and audio better -- 18 years into this project, OpenShot is looking like something pretty much everyone ought to at least try. And that's especially true if you're experimenting with AI or cloud-based video instances.

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Little Labs Voice Of God Bass Resonance is now a native UA plug-in

Peter Kirn — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:20:15 +0000

There are tricks for getting low-end, and then there's the Voice of God. UA's (official) version is good as ever, and now at last, you can run it as a plug-in without any UAD hardware. We're getting all the classics this week.

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Play together with Ableton Live, pt. 1: playing in tune

Peter Kirn — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:31:00 +0000

Feeling the need to make music making a little less solitary? In this multi-part series, we'll be exploring some resources for adapting Ableton Live to playing with others -- playing in tune, in sync, sharing ideas, and producing together. So let's start as instrumental ensembles do: by tuning up.

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Electro-Harmonix pedal classics are now available in plug-in form

Peter Kirn — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:06:18 +0000

Electro-Harmonix has collaborated with plug-in maker MixWaves to bring four signature pedals to plug-in form. Big Muff, Memory Man, Electric Mistress, and Small Clone are now coming to your DAW, not just your pedalboard, individually or as a bundle.

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Incline, “toposonic corpus explorer,” transforms granular synthesis

Peter Kirn — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:32:39 +0000

Imagine granular synthesis, taken in entirely different dimensions. That’s Incline -- Cristian Vogel’s cross-bred mixture of microsound and machine learning segmentation. It explodes sounds into a highly configurable topography, then applies precise envelopes, with unique rhythmic and textural results. Here’s how to explore those strange new worlds.

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Breakcore and mouneh: High Hats music supports relief kitchens in Lebanon

Peter Kirn — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:24:11 +0000

In the face of violence and erasure, give some attention to people who stay loud and give something back. High Hats Community’s new compilation is a guide to breaks, breakcore, and experimental underground music from Lebanon. But it’s also a window into broad community kitchen efforts in Lebanon, bringing together migrants from Sri Lanka to […]

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Massive power, every format: the BB-777 brings back a boombox icon

Peter Kirn — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:47:00 +0000

It was arguably the moment the boombox peaked: the GF-909/GF-777 from Sharp boasted dual cassettes, radio, and massive sound. Now, Bumpboxx has decided to reboot that boom box for 2026, with a modern machine that can do everything -- CDs, tapes, radio, USB, Bluetooth connectivity, the works. It could be a holy grail across every generation burned out on soulless streaming and ready to love music all over again.

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Elastic OSC, Plaits as an instrument app, now supports Android, MPE

Peter Kirn — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:14:56 +0000

Oliver Greschke's Elastic OSC continues to blossom as a mobile instrument. Packed with open-source algorithms from Mutable Instruments' Plaits as oscillators, Elastic OSC has added powerful modulation and now supports Android and MIDI Polyphonic Expression.

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