I’ve been doing data visualization for a long time, but helping produce a radio show brings a new challenge: creating interesting sound from data. For the past few months, I worked with producer Ike ...

The Musical Instrument Digital Interface has a great acronym that is both nice to say and cleanly descriptive. The standard for talking to musical instruments relies on a serial signal at 31250 bps, ...

It was almost exactly three years ago that we were celebrating the relatively quick arrival of Ableton Live 11. Today, the company is unveiling Live 12, the next version of its popular digital audio ...

These days, composers have access to tools so advanced that it's possible to score an entire Hollywood movie with nothing more than a laptop, a DAW and a decent sample library. Once upon a time, ...

[Shantea] needed a DJ controller. While there are commercial controllers out there, none of them fit what he was looking for. He solved the problem by building the Tannin DIY MIDI controller. Tannin ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Toontrack has lifted the lid on EZkeys 2, a new version of the software that’s designed to help ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thanks to the likes of YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, having visuals to accompany your music ...