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$200 Makes Your Laptop Touch-Enabled; Usine Music Demo

$5-10 Modular Studio on the iPhone, Mac, PC, Mobiles: SunVox Video Tutorials

$50 Gakken Synth Kit Meets MIDI, Ableton Live

10 Free Non-Musical Windows Software Every Musician Should Use

10.4.10 Breaks Some FireWire Interfaces; 10.5 Changes Already Rolling Out

5 Free VST Plug-in Picks for Windows, and a Site with Hundreds More

5 Years of CDM NYC Party: Beats + Baile + Open Bar + Laptops + Twitter Twister

64-bit Mac Audio Tools Coming; Logic Pro and Mainstage Add Support

8.5 GB of Free, CC-Licensed Samples from the OLPC Project, and OLPC Music Tools

909 and Amiga Sounds in Flash; Teaser for New Flash Music Environment

A Blog Focused on Sound Design, Special with Game Sound Veteran Rob Bridgett

A Conversation with Robert Henke: Silence, Technology, and Process

A Dreamy Prototype for Ableton Live Control Finally Mimics UI

A Free, Futuristic Music Compilation for SyFy’s Caprica; Stories Behind the Tracks

A Gramophone that Plays the Earth Instead of Vinyl, and a Sonic iPhone Epidemic

A LEGO Sequencer, Imaginary Electronic Antiques, and Other Yoshi Akai Creations

A New Instrumental Album, and Mocky, Mock-Marketing by Hyperbole

A New Theme in Music Technology: Slow Development

A Real-Life DIY Reason or Record Rack in Peru?

A Vacuum Tube Drum Machine: Eric Barbour, Metasonix at RobotSpeak

Able10 Discounts, Artist Packs, Ableton Live Intro Now US$99

Ableton + Serato: The Bridge Fuses DJ Sets, Live Sets; Full Details

Ableton Does Orchestras; Which Section Would a Good Lutheran Get?

Ableton for the DVJ: Users Hack in Scratching, Live Video, and Visual Remixing

Ableton Live 7 Arrives; What It Means in Just a Few Words

Ableton Live 7 Here Any Day Now

Ableton Live 7 Preview on Beatportal, and How Much Slice to MIDI Rocks

Ableton Live 7 Preview … in Russian!

Ableton Live 7, Ableton Live Suite: Quick Look at What’s New

Ableton Live 8 Creative Tutorial Videos: Misusing Frequency Shifter

Ableton Live 8 Creative Tutorial Videos: Using and Misusing Groove Extraction

Ableton Live 8 Misuse: Ping Pong Psuedo Scratching Effect Video Tutorial

Ableton Live 8 Released (For Real)

Ableton Live 8: Group Clips with Track Groups

Ableton Live Beer; Music Tech Beverage Nominees

Ableton Live Does Frame-By-Frame Animation

Ableton Live for $150: New LE Version, DJ Friendly But Plug-in Crippled

Ableton Live Hacking: Novation Nocturn Scripts, Music; More APC40 Setup

Ableton Live Lounge Saturday Night in NYC; Live Controller History in Progress

Ableton Live MIDI Remote Scripting How To: Custom Korg nanoSERIES Control

Ableton Live Sound Design with Field Recordings: 3 Video Tutorials, 3 Downloads

Ableton Live Touch with Free Usine; Why Touch, Multitouch Works for Music

Ableton Live Tutorial: Learning Operator with Faux M.A.N.D.Y. - Booka Shade Sounds

Ableton Live Tutorials: DIY 808, IDM 101 - Gustavo Strikes Again

Ableton Suspends Development to Focus on Bug Fixes for Live 8

Abletonator: Ableton Live as Arcade Cabinet

Ableton’s Robert Henke, And Why Sometimes Less (’Fidelity’) is More

Accordion Hero Game, Double-Bellows, and the Interactive Power of Sharpie

Adieu, XP; How Vista SP1 is Doing, and Why This OS Generation Has Been So Tough

AdrenaLinn III: Amp Modeling, Beat-Synced Effects in a Box, For Guitars or Anything Else

Advanced Ableton Live Tutorial: Modular-Style Unlinked Envelopes, Effects

AES Tomorrow; AES Coverage All Weekend

AES: A Season of Mobile Recorders, a Sweet New Sony, Says Mobilista Brad

AES: Moog, Classic Synths Go Virtual with Competing Products for Vintage Lovers

AirPiano: Touch-Free, Sensing Gestural Music Controller

aka.objects Maker and Breadboard Bandmaster Interviewed

Akai APC20 Ableton Controller: Get Half an APC40, or an APC and a Half

Akai APC40 Ableton Performance Controller Hands-On Videos, in the Wild

Akai Does Mini MIDI Keyboard, Pads, a la Korg nano – But with Real Action?

Albeton Live’s Non-Existent "Secret" Vocoder; No One Needs a Vocoder

All About Montreal: XLR8R Talks to Ghislain Poirier

All-Arcade Ableton Live Controller, DIY Hardware by The Prevolt

All-Handmade Mister Resistor Music Ensemble, Live in NYC Sunday

All-Kaossilator Album Makes Korg King, Plus Not-Quite-All Monome Albums

Also New From Korg: A Pretty Stage Piano, A Better WaveDrum

Alternative Music Distribution: Moldover’s CD Case as Circuit Board Noisemaker

Amanda Ervin’s Sound Circuits, Handmade Music Brooklyn 9/17 + Open Call

An Adorable Singing Note as Musical Instrument: Maywa Denki’s Otamatone

An Orchestra of Linux Laptops, and How to Make Your Own Laptop Instrument

Analog JUNO-60 and What JUNO’s Labels Should Really Say

Android MIDI Controller, Musical App Updates with MIDI Over Wifi

Another Free NIN Release: Give Away the Download, Sell the Vinyl?

APC Questions and Answers from Ableton

APC40 Hacking Superguide: Monome Emulator, MIDI Tricks, Handshake Puzzler

Apogee Dumps Windows, Tells Users Macs are Better

Apogee GiO: Foot Control, Audio for GarageBand, Logic, MainStage

Apogee ONE: USB Interface with Internal Mic, Guitar, Mic In, $249

Apple Boot Camp Soon Less Valuable: Upgrade to Leopard, Or Else (Updated)

Apple GarageBand Artist Lessons Still Limited, But Alternatives Abound

Apple Logic Studio 9 Review for Macworld; What Stands Out

Apple MacBooks: Reappearing FireWire, Disappearing ExpressCard

Apple Reality Check: iPhone 3G is Just the Tip of the Mobile and Rich Media Iceberg

Apple Rejects Free iPhone Tool For Artists Because of “Minimal User Functionality”

Apple Unveils GarageBand 08: New Features at a Glance

Apple Unveils Snow Leopard, But What Does it Mean?

Appliance DJ: Physical Beat Blender Meets Sunbeam Mixmaster

Apps of 2009: With 1.1, Maschine Realizes its Potential as the Soft Drum Machine

April Fool On Us: Moog Guitar is Real

April Foolery Round-Up

April Fool’s? Bah, Humbug!

April is For Music: Bent, Tank, and a Moog Announcement at Ethermusicfest

Arduino Piano Gets an Open Source “Squealer” Synth Engine

Art of Sound: Fascinating DIY Music Creations; Enter and Win Custom Speakers

Artist Profiles: Monolake in New Zealand

Artists we Love: Deru, in the Studio, Videos

Artists We Love: edison is monome Instrumentalist; Look Ma, No Loops!

Arturia Origin, Guest Review: From Soft Synth to Hard Synth, at a Price

As the Turntable Turns: Digital Vinyl Survives, Real Technics 1200 Dies (Or Not)

Ask CDM: Making the Jump from Tape to Digital, is Digidesign 003 Overkill?

Asus Eee As Cheap, Tiny Music PC: Guitar Rig 3, Linux Tips

Asus Eee PC Gets SDK; Anyone Using Eee for Music?

Au Revoir Simone’s New Music Video, and Missing a Dark Side for “Shadows”

Audiofile Engineering: Site and Application Updates from Mac Audio Developer

AudioFinder 4.7 for Mac in Beta: Integrated Sample Editor

AudioMulch 2.0 Revealed: Mac + Windows, The Next Patching Generation

Audiomulch 2.0, Available Mac+PC; Live Patching Video with Hypnotic Guitar

Audiovisual Remix as Politics, and Psychedelic America with David Last and Brian Kane

Aud’s Ode to Music Technology: Rant Haiku

Augmented Reality DJ: Scratch it with a Camera, Plus AR Resources

Augustus Loop Tape Delay: Now with 64-bit, OpenSoundControl Support

Aurora: Gorgeous, Open Source DJ-Style USB Controller; Details from the Creators

Auto-Tune The News, And Channeling Steve Reich, Anyone?

Avant-Garde Sound Poet Henri Chopin Has Died, But Give Him a Listen

Back to the Future: Save an Old Laptop, Make it a Music Workstation

BanPiracy Responds; Waves Going it Alone in Software Crack Crackdown?

basic64: Free Commodore 64-Inspired Plug-in for Windows

Bassoon of the FUTURE: Eigenharp Launches, in Massive and Pico-for-Mortals Sizes

Be a Music Geek Ninja with Electronic Music Programming in Pd: New Book

Beamz Laser Harp Makes Faux Music, Demeans Girl in Penguin Sweater

Beamz Laser Harp, as You’ve Never Heard it Before

Beamz Laser System Strikes Back, But What’s Wrong With Instruments, Anyway?

Beat Blender: Actual Osterizer DJs with Real Fruit, Max, Ableton Live

Beat Thang Drum Machine: Hands-on Tour with Creators, Rockwilder

Beatburner, Loop Mangling Instrument for Windows, Now Free, and Mac Freebies

BeatKangz Beat Thang Drum Machine October, Virtual Version Now

BeatMaker for iPhone: Upcoming Features Q&A, Video Review

Beautiful Music Performed by Mexican Jumping Beans (Really)

Beautiful Sonic Sculptures from Portugal, and Announcing Handmade Music Porto

Beautiful, Orgasmic Animation of Robots, Modular Synthesis

Behringer’s Latest Rip-Off Job: Apple.com

Benn Jordan re-scores “The Living Planet” in front of a live audience

Bent Music Appears, Awkwardly, On Local TV - Film at 11

Best $100 Spent at NAMM: Novation’s Nocturn Controller is Liz’s Pick

Best (Unofficial) Product Slogan Ever: Minimoog Old School

Beyond Mobile Music Making: Organizational Musical Uses for iPhone, Other Smart Devices

Beyond NAMM: LA Friday Night Party, Music Tech Panel – It’s Gonna Be The Future Soon

Beyond The Apple - Wal-Mart Music Landscape

Beyond the Guitar: Hacked Instruments, 8-bit FX, Amp Simulators on Synths, More

Big Updates for Handheld Homebrew Music: NitroTracker 0.4, PSPSeq 3, PSP Rhythm 8

Bizarre Retro Ads: CV Sequencer for Laundry

Black Friday: $99 Each for Reaktor, Absynth, Massive, FM8

Black Friday: Free Synths+Effects from Cakewalk, Plus Steep Discounts

Blame Apple, Not Your Driver Maker, But Leopard Fix May Be Close

Bleeping Good Fun: Videos from Handmade Music; Your Part of the World

Blip Festival Handmade Music Opener, and the Sega Mega Drive Meets MIDI + Launchpad

Bliptronic 5000: Tenori-On, monome, Meet Your $50, Hackable Clone

Bliptronic 5000’s Creator: Hacking Tips, Prototyping, and the Switchnome

Block Rocking Blocks: Latest in Visualism from Create Digital Motion

Blog Guide to Synthesis on Beatportal

Bome Midi Translator Pro, for MIDI-to-Keystroke Goodness, in Beta on Mac

Brainpipe Interview: Creators of Trippy Indie Game Talk Interactive Sound

Brute Force Technology: Zen Piano for iPhone “Senses” Tap Pressure, But Not By Magic

Bug Squash: AlexP on MacBook Vista Audio Problems, Other Wifi Adapters and DPCs?

Building a Hybrid Man / Machine Orchestra, Pt. 1: Ajay Kapur and Michael Darling

Burial and Four Tet Team Up … On Vinyl Only: “The Black Album,” In Real Life

Buzz, Modular Studio, Back From The Dead

Cakewalk Brings Back the E-MU Proteus, in Plug-in Form (Mac/Windows)

Cakewalk SONAR 7 Features at a Glance, MIDI at Center Stage

Cakewalk V-Studio 100 Hands-on: Mixer + Interface + Control Surface, Mac+PC

Cakewalk V-Studio 100: Mixer + Recorder + Computer Audio Interface + Controller

Cakewalk’s $35 Music Creation Software for Windows Gets Major Polishing

Cakewalk’s SONAR 8.5.2 Update Packs a Lot in a Point

Call for Help: Logic Environment Round-Up

Call for Projects: Handmade Music, NYC 8.23

Call for Submissions: The Kinder, Gentler Bent Festival 2008

Can Rhythmic Analysis Demonstrate the Use of Robotic Beats?

CDM @ NAMM: All The News That Fits or Not, We Print

CDM and Creative Commons “Non-Commercial” Images

CDM Asks: Digital Music + Beautiful Weather? (Go Play On a Lake!)

CDM Asks: MIDI Output for Newer Palms? Mobile Linux? Windows Mobile? Anything?

CDM Call for Projects: Summer Events in NYC

CDM RSS Problem – Fixed

CDM Unofficial Afterparty in LA with Richard Devine: Hot or Not?

CDM Welcomes Bill Gates to Digital Music Creation!

CDM@NAMM: CDM Party Los Angeles, 1/18

CDMo: Edirol V-8 Video Mixer at Messe

CDMotion and CDNoise Back Up; Better Servers Soon!

CDM’s Biggest Music Tech Stories of 2009

Cellist Zoe Keating on Quitting Your Day Job, Going on Tour

Censored Video: Max/MSP and Physical Computing Power X-Rated Musical Inventions

CES: Free Transmission Audio Distro, Running on UMPC, Trinity, or Your PC

CES: Intel Embraces Mobile Linux Audio Production

CES: Pacemaker DJ Mobile Gear to Cost $700?!

Change Audio Notes Like MIDI: New Melodyne 2 Direct Note Access

Chibitracker on DS; Favorite Trackers on the Road?

Chicago This Week: Andy Vaz Plus CDM’s Liz and Peter, Audiovisual Evening, Free

Chime, Beautiful New Music Game on Xbox 360: Play to Philip Glass, for Charity

Chip Strikes Back: Finnish Label Sues Timbaland, Nelly Furtado

Chipsounds Reviews, Videos, and More Places to Get Your Vintage Chip Fix

Chiptune Music Theft Continues; Crystal Castles Abuses Creative Commons License

Chirp Lets Your QWERTY Do MIDI Input Right - Even in Coach Class

Circle Synth is Here: New Instrument Built Around Flow

Circuit Bending Challenge: Keep Late Entries Coming, Round-up Soon

Circuit Bending Challenge: The Envelope, Please

Circuit-Bending Challenge winners to be announced shortly

Clap On, Clap Off! Kore Player + Pd = Free Hand Clap Randomized Sounds

CME Releases $99, Ultra-Thin MIDI Keyboard

Comment of the Week: “I don’t want play in the club”

Compact Foot Controller Mod: KORG nanoKEY for Your Feet

Composers We Love: Nitin Sawhney Scores ‘Heavenly Sword’ PS3 Game

Control Music and Visuals with iPhone/iPod, Free Via Pd

Control Pro Tools with an iPhone or iPod Touch

Controllers + Live, Reaktor, In Action: From Colombia to New York

Corrected Tangible Interface Hackday RSVP Links

Craig Anderton’s Tribute to Moog: Rapture Presets, and a Call to Save History

Crank + Linux iPod + Pd = Deconstructed Norwegian Folk Music

Crazy Celebrity Quotes File: Ricardo Villalobos Trashes Ableton, Recalls “Purer” Digital

Crazy Delicious Drum Machine: Mod’ed Vintage LinnDrum LM-2 Video

Crazy Handmade Musical Creations from the Mister Resistor Ensemble

Create Digital Motion Domain Screwup; Fix Coming – Stay Tuned Here

Crowdsourced Vocal Synthesis: 2000 People Singing “Daisy Bell”

CSI: Chiptune - nitro2k01 Gets Scientific with Alleged Violations; Crystal Castles Responds

Cyber Monday, Ongoing: Delicious Synths, Effects for $5-20 from audioMIDI

Cycling ‘74 Ditches Plug-in Development Support; Free + Commercial Alternatives

Cycling ‘74 Releases Max 5 Details: Bringing Max Out of the 80s, Into the Future

d-touch Tangible Sequencer: Updates to Free Camera+Blocks Drum Machine

d-touch, Free Tangible Interfaces, and a Walnut Drum Machine

Dan Deacon in the Studio, Player Piano, MIDI, and Playing the Impossible

Danger Mouse / Sparklehorse Album to Get Blank CD-R Release; How to Grab the File

Daniel Hansson, Elektron Co-Founder and CEO, Has Passed Away

Dare you accept the Circuit-Bending Challenge?!?

Dave Smith Prophet 08 is Here: All Analog, All Modern Synth Shipping

Dave Smith Tetra4 Synth: Compact Size, Quadruple the Mopho Pleasure

Dave Smith the Synth Prophet Reflects on Music Tech, in English and Spanish

Dave Smith Working on New Goodness: Analog Prophet Redux, Drum Machine

Dave Smith/Linn LinnDrum II Pre-order List Now; Specs

David Bowie Space Oddity Moon Celebration: Remix Stems, Remix on iPhone

DAW Day – Pro Tools 8.0.1: No Windows 7 or 10.6 Support, End of the Road for Legacy

DAW Day – SONAR 8.5 Production Tastiness, and the Smooth 64-bit Transition

DAW Day: Digital Performer 7 Adds Effects, Easier Access, PT8 Support

DAW Day: Propellerhead Record is Here, with Lots of Free Training

Deckadance Dedicated to Argu; Update Continues After Loss of Creator

Deckadance DJ Software Now in Beta for Mac

Delia Derbyshire, in Radio Interviews and on T-Shirts

Democratizing Creative Tech: Julià Carboneras, OFFF (English + Espanol)

Depeche Mode: Inside the Studio, Identify the Gear at Keyboard Mag

Designing Sound: Essential Blog Reading for Sound Designers, Plus Pixar’s Up

Details of SONAR 8.5, and the Dystopian Future in Which You Use It

Developer to Users: Boycott iLok and PACE

DeVotchKa Rocks the Theremin, Does Not Play Star Trek Theme

Did MIDI Just Turn 25 at NAMM?

Digi Didgeridoo: Augmented Wireless Digital Instrument with Aboriginal Roots

Digidesign and M-Audio Drivers Fail to Keep Pace with Vista, Leopard, and XP SP3

Digidesign Pro Tools Vista Support: Say Wha?

Digidesign Talks Latest Windows, Mac Releases, Compatibility, Drivers

Digidesign’s New Groovemaking Instrument in Free Preview

Digital DJ Controllers: A Hybrid Numark Turntable, Stanton Sans Vinyl

Digital Music, Universal, and Why Water is Thicker Than Coke

Digital Sales Up, But is Apple Monopoly the Price? NPD, Mint Data, Editorial Analysis

Digital Vinyl, Free and Open Source, in Max/MSP, Pd, Linux

Disembodied Heads Meet Serato: Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs

Dispatches: Interviewing Lusine on Detroit’s People Mover

DIY Circuits of the Bent Festival Kick Off in LA, Then NYC, Minneapolis

DIY Community: Austin a Hotbed of Inventive Hardware You Can Build and Use

DIY Community: Digitópia Seeks World’s Best Patchers, and More Open Source Competition

DIY Community: Handmade Music Toronto, 2/19, and Why Now is a Great Time for Making

DIY Compact Music Workstations: Magnets, Eee, x0xb0x, Recycling

DIY DJ Controllers: A Vestax VCI-100 With Real Vinyl

DIY Guitars, Floppy Albums, More on Music Thing

DIY MIDI In, MIDI Out For Your Gear: New Kits from HighlyLiquid

DIY monome Case from LEGOs, Live Performance in a Bathroom

DIY Music Tech Community Round-up; Reflecting on the State of Music DIY?

DIY Music Update: Step Sequencer, Magic MIDI Box, Hackable Mobile Sound

DIY Sequencer Videos: the Foundation of Techno, Reimagined in New Hardware

DIY, Free Drum Editors for Pd, RjDj – Patch-Phobic Tutorial Included!

DJs Advocate Controllerism

DJTT Video Review: Fisher Price DJ Controller

Does Music Creation Needs Its Own iPhone App Category?

Dorkbot Chicago 11/28: Meet Liz and Michael, Learn Cool Things!

Dorkpop Music with Keytar Frontman Baffles a Humorless Simon Cowell

Download (CC) Tracks, Vote Now for Efficient Music Competition

Download Free Korg nanoPAD, nanoKONTROL Scripts for Ableton Live

Download Free Reaktor-Powered Step Sequencer; Reaktor, Kore Performance Tips

DRM Lessons: MSN Music Restores Authorizations Through 2011

Drop.io: Dead-Simple, Quick Music File Sharing Workflows, Now Real-time

Drum Machines Have Soul: araabMUZIK on MPC, with Visuals

DS-10, Korg Soft Synth for Nintendo DS, Gets Launch Party in London Saturday

DScratch: Warp, Scratch, and Mess with Audio on Nintendo DS

dubSpot Kicks of Live 8+APC Workshop Tour in San Francisco – CDM Discount

Ecler Releases EVO4 DJ MIDI + Mixer Image

Eerie Quiet, Days Before Monday’s “End of Internet Radio” Deadline

Eigenharp Details: MIDI, High-Res Protocol, and Open Source Plans for the Space Bassoon

Electronic Film Scoring: Waiting for Godard

Elsewhere: Korg ZERO8 Mixer Video Review

Elsewhere: Throw Away Your Drums, Plus a Hands-On with eSession

Elton John to World: Tear This Internet Down!

energyXT 2.5 is Here, is Awesome; European Offices Have Lots of Sunlight!

Essential Keyboard Technique: Sun Ra

Euphonix EuControl Software Patched, Fixes 10.5.7 Support and More

Everyone Needs a Vocoder: Live 8 Video Tutorial, Plus Live Live and Dummy Clips

Exclusive Free Soundtrack: Osmos, Featuring Gas, Julien Neto, Loscil, High Skies

Exclusive: Free (Cardstock) Minimoog Model Offer Extended

Exclusive: Visual Tour of Native Instruments KORE 2 “Super Instrument”

Exquisite Music Video Paints Sound, Rhodes, Moog in Light Paint

Fast Fingers: Video, Mappings Shows You Pad Drumming on MPC, Ableton, Beyond

Favorite Artists on Productivity, Process: Jonathan Coulton, New Imogen Heap Album

Felt Sound Circuits in Los Angeles: Openings Available

Fine Print: What Do Royalty Rates Actually Pay?

First Hands-on: Novation’s New $199 Launchpad Grid Controller for Ableton Live

First Max 5 Preview: Music Patching, the Next Generation?

Fitting Tributes: Billie Jean, NYC Saturday, with Claude VonStroke

Five Sibelius 5 Notation Tips, for Education and Experimentation with Scores

Fix for Mac Audio Dropouts: Roll Back Tiger AirPort Support

Fix for Zoom H4 Mobile Recording: Use a Mobile Battery Pack

FL Studio 8 Arrives: Fruity Loops More Brilliant Than Ever

FL Studio 9 Arrives: Better Performance, More Toys, More Editing

FL Studio Rants and Raves: All in One, One for Not Quite All

Flame-Throwing Keytar; Players, Not Instruments, Are Cool

Flickr Screen Grabs: Infinite Video Theremin, Odd, Free Musical Interfaces

Flying Lotus Cosmogramma Album is Coming 5/4; Clear Your Calendar

For Love of Chips: Chipsounds Instrument and EP and the Gear That Inspired Them

Free and Discounted Ableton Live Learning in NYC, KJ Sawka’s Chops, Richie’s Controller

Free and Open Source Studio: How to Use LinuxDSP Effects with Ardour

Free Cubase Control from iPhone; iTouchMIDI MCU for Everything Else

Free DIY Pac-Man Sampler-Step Sequencer Game (PC)

Free Exclusive Ableton Operator Download: “Less Cowbell” 808 Sounds, New EP

Free Faux Bent Instruments

Free Gravity-Simulating Music Generator, Built in Java

Free Hispasonic Nebula Reverb for Windows, with 450 MB of Presets

Free Instrument + Sounds from NI in the Holiday Selection 2009

Free Mario Paint Composer for Windows and Mac; Mario Does John Cage

Free Music Mixes from Amon Tobin, Deru in Celebration of Space

Free Nodal Generative Sequencer: Now on Windows, Too; Live Improvisation Video

Free OLPC Samples Should be Available Soon

Free OpenSoundControl VST on Windows; Map Sound to Visuals with OSC

Free RFID Reader Connects Real World Objects to Music, Teaches OSC in Pd

Free Samples: Lo-Fi Drum Machines, Fisher Price Music Box Record Player

Free Software Events: Pure Data in Brazil, SuperCollider in NYC and at Wesleyan

Free Soundtrack for an Imagined Tron Movie: Rise of the Virals

Free Soundware Round-up: Vintage Drum Machine, Nerdy IDM Samples

Free Tape-Recorded Samples of Roland TR-606, 808

Free TuneCore Album on iTunes, Music Video Sales in Beta

Free Turntablism: Open Source Reaktor Ensemble Could Change Scratching

Free Wavosaur: Wonderful Windows Audio Editor with VST

Free, All Tenori-On Album: A Chat with Norman Fairbanks

Free, Creative Commons-Licensed Album of IDM: Subvaritrax Compilation

Free, Native Linux Plug-ins, and How to Use Them in energyXT for Linux

Freerange Dancetracks Pezzner Remix, And How and How Not to Do Remix Contests

Fretless Fader DJ Video: Slide the Crossfader, Slide the Pitch

From Daedelus: Free MP3, Fanciful Story of Nikola Tesla’s Inventor Assistant

From STEIM’s Artistic Director: Why STEIM Matters, and Thanks

From the Game Developer Conference

Futuristic Music Design Challenge in CA: Show Us Your Best, Win a Tenori-On

Futuristic Music Design: Competitors, Judges, Teaser Videos and Photos

Game Boy Drum Machine Software Bangs Real-Word Stuff

Game Day in Review: Loads of Ways to Play Music With Games

Game Day: Guitar Hero Smells Like Wii Spirit

Game Day: Make Your Game Boy Color a MIDI Synthesizer with Pushpin

Game Day: Play Drums, MIDI, Guitar with a Wii Controller, Free

Game Day: Use Rock Band Drums as MIDI Controller - Windows, Yes, Mac, Soon?

Game Day: Why Rock Band Demonstrates Musicians Need Friends

Game Music Inspiration: Amon Tobin and Sony on Infamous

Game Music Making: Kongregate Collabs to Connect Music Makers with Indie Games

GarageBand 08 New Features in Pictures; Do Pros Use GarageBand?

Garritan Rescues Giga Sampling Technology, Talks Open Standards

GDC: Boiling Waterphones and Other Sonic Inspirations from Composer Troels Folmann

GDC: Music, Games, Interactivity Pt. II, Plus Embarrassing Dance Footage

GDC: Music, Video Games, and Interactivity – Chat with Boing Boing Video

GDC: Nintendo’s Iwata on Iterative Prototypes, Teaching Programmers Rhythm

Generative iPod? Deep Modular, Generative Music System Bound for iPhone, Phones, Windows, Mac

Gestural Music Sequencer: Video, Processing, and Ableton Live

Get AmpliTube, Ampeg Amp Software Free if You’re A Pro Tools User

Get loopy with the DIY $10 Ableton Footcontroller (no soldering required)

Get Ur G33k 0n! Dorkbot Chicago this Wednesday; CDM in Perth, Brisbane

Getting Started with Renoise: 5 Tips, Videos, and a Handy, Free Tool

Ghetto-Fabulous Digital Vinyl: Make a Mouse Into a Turntable

Ghostly Handmade Music in NYC, Beyond; Music Costumes?

Gibson Guitar Loses Mind, Sues Entire Planet (But Wii Rock Band Should Be Fun)

Gibson Guitar to Guitar Hero Maker: We Own All Digital Musical Reality

Gibson to Launch Self-Tuning “Robot” Guitar

Gigs of Free Samples from OLPC, Now Available as Torrent

Gijs’ Servo Sequencer, Opto-Mechanical Music, Events in Breda + Eindhoven

Glam Machine, A Box That Makes Bent Retro Noises, and Other Nervous Squirrel Stuff

Glitch Mobber, Laptopist edIT Walks Through His Live Setup, Talks Ableton, Lemur

glitch-sequencer: Free, Processing-Based App from GlitchDS Creator Hearts Netbooks

glitchDS: Free Cellular Automaton Music Sequencer

Glitching Guitars to Warped Toys: The Circuit Bending Challenge Roundup

Glitching Stuttering Darkness, Now Synced

Going Mobile: Nintendo DS-10 Comes to North America

Going Mobile: Velocity-Sensitive Touch Pads – on an iPhone? iGOG Says Yes

Goodies from Devine: Modeled Electric Piano, One Shot Recorder, Reincarnated Krishna

Google’s Android Starting to Show Musical Potential, at Last

Gooooooal! A Soccer Ball Music Controller, and Tangible Interface Tips for Music

Gorgeous and Out-there New Art and Music, Inspired by Radiohead

Gorgeous DIY MIDIBox64, MIDI Controller for Live, Traktor, Max

Gorgeous Full-Sized Hammond B3 Controller for Native Instruments B4

Got a Product at NAMM? Get in Our Guide, Request Meetings; Correspondents Wanted

GPS Beatmap: Ford LTD + Salt Flats = Locative Driving Control Surface

Great Musical Mysteries: Van Halen Mishap Remains Unsolved

Greatest Synths, and Most Underrated Synths, of All Time; Your Choices?

Greetings from Princeton monome Monomeet; Live Video Stream

Griffin PowerMate Knob as Intelligent MIDI Controller: Free Pd Patch

GrooveStep: New Step Sequencer, Pattern Maker for Nintendo DS

Ground Control Broadcasting Now: Space-tacular Music + Motion on yuricdm.com

Guitar Hero on C64: The Music Game for 8-Bit Lovers

Guitar Pedals Go DIY, Open Source

Guitar Rig Software, Hardware Bundle Available Soon On The Cheap

GURU 1.5 Update is Free; Ultimate Soft Beatbox Arrives?

Gustavo Bravetti Show Us How To Glitch out Ableton Live

Gustavo Bravetti, Driving Crowds Wild with a Wave of His Wii-Enabled Hands

Gustavo’s Live Tutorial, Now en Español, Condensed to 60 Seconds

HAITI 2010 Monome Community Compilation + Other Efforts to Help in Haiti

Handmade (and Handheld) Music in Brooklyn, Plus Online Stream, Thursday

Handmade Gems from the CDM Flickr Group: Sound Destruction and C64

Handmade Music + Bent Fest + Chippy DIY Electrosonics: This Week in NYC, in Videos

Handmade Music 02: DIY Musical Expression in Brooklyn

Handmade Music is Tomorrow Night in NYC; Gestural DJing in Videos

Handmade Music March Noise and Mayhem Recap; Call for Stuff Next Thursday

Handmade Music NYC 7/16, Plus Meet the Suitcase That Sequences Anything

Handmade Music NYC, Tomorrow Night in Brooklyn

Handmade Music Open Lab: Make Stuff, Get Inspired, Featuring Morgan Packard

Handmade Music Returns: DIY Music Tech in Brooklyn 7/8, Video

Handmade Music Spreads to Austin, Teaches You Awesomeness, Andromeda-Style

Handmade Music Strikes NY Yet Again, Thursday, 11/15; Your Projects Wanted

Handmade Music: Creative Hardware + Software, Plus Make Your Own Noise Toy

Handmade Music: Cybernetics, Wireless Beats, and Ingenious Sonic Circuits

Handmade Music: NYC Thursday – Wearable Sound, DIY Dance Music + MP3s

Hands On Tenori-On: Close Encounters of the Interactive Music Kind

Hands On With Ohm, Wood and Blue Backlit MIDI Controller

Hands-on, Interview: Stribe Multi-Touch Controller

Hands-on: AudioCubes as Alternative Controller for Music and Visuals

Happy 30th, Sony Walkman: Your Memories and the Best of Cassettes on CDM

Happy Halloween: 8-bit, Creative Commons, Free Holiday Music Mix

Happy Halloween: Exclusive Free Liz Revision Mix, Party in Chicago with Bitshifter

Happy Image of the Day: More Cowbell

Harmonix Phase Game for iPod: First Step Toward Interactive Music Players?

Hear a Robot Read A Christmas Carol on iPod, and More Holiday Cheer

Hear Free Generative Music, in Archaic Twitter Haiku, made with SuperCollider

Help EFF Save Web Content: Prove Podcasting and Media Patent is Wrong

Help Make Elton Johning a Verb

Help Save STEIM, Dutch Music Research Center; Monday Deadline

Here Come the Fixes: Live 8.1.1 Begins Squashing Bugs

Hexagonal iPhone Sequencer-Rhythm Machine from Jordan Rudess

High-Density Screens Due; OP-1’s Gorgeous Display

Host Windows VSTs on Mac? (Yes, But Not as Easily as on Linux)

How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac

How Do You Perform? Show Us Your Ableton Live Live Set

How Healthy Are Your Vintage Synthesizers?

How Much Will Your Fans Do - And How Many Do You Need?

How Propellerhead’s New “Ignition Key” Authorization for Record Works

How to Build a Mic Flag and Look Like a Real Broadcaster

How To Create a Successful Demo Disc: Tips and Resources, Chicago Event

How to Record Laptop Performances - And Make Them Sound Live (Keyboard Mag)

How to Use Rock Band Controllers (And More) with GarageBand, Mac

Huge Artist Lineup Pays Tribute to Late Elektron Founder Daniel Hansson

Huggable Plush Synths and Soft Circuits, and Handmade Music NYC Thurs!

Human Synthesizer with Calvin Harris, Lots of Girls, Electric Ink: Behind the Scenes

I Wish You Ran the Record Industry Lobbying Efforts; Beware the Pencil

IDM Operating System: proem’s PC, Fruity Loops, Tablet Controller Setup

iDrum Video Game Edition: 8-bit iPhone Drum Machine Fun Times

If You’re in LA, Clear Your Weekend Schedule

IK Multimedia Vista-Ready: AmpliTube, SampleTank, Sonik Synth, T-RackS, More

Image-Line, discoDSP Developer “Arguru” Has Passed Away

Imaginary Instruments: Marker and Paper as Controller

Immersive Music: Revo:oveR Installation, Lightbent Synth, Max + Unity

In Bb 2.0: YouTube-Generated, Collaborative Music Remix

In-the-Box Mixing, Analog Console Style, on an Open Source DAW

In/Out Festival Preview, Goodies and Patches from the Artists

Indamixx + Renoise + CDM Music Production Contest: Tracker Ninjas, Now’s Your Chance

Indie Developers Show Fanciful Music Games, Interfaces at GDC

Informal Live Broadcast Tonight from Brooklyn: Handmade Music

Inside Beaterator, Rockstar Games’ New PSP Beat Maker, with Gory Technical Bits

Inside the Performance Rights Act, And Deciding Who Gets Paid on the Radio

Inside the Rock Band Network, as Harmonix Gives Interactive Music its Game-Changer

Inspiration: Vintage Computers Parts Cover Radiohead

Instructable: How to Build a Music Studio in an Apartment

Interactive Musical Whimsy, with Lightning Bugs: Mujik Free on iPhone

Internet Radio Wins Temporary Delay, Possible Minimum Rate Break

Interview: Beatrix Jar and the Fuzzy Sound Collage

Interview: Building a Musical Ensemble Out of Ford Focus Car Parts

Interview: Cakewalk Founder Greg Hendershott, 20 Years On

Interview: Classical Music Goes Digital, DRM-Free with Deutsche Grammophon

Interview: Geeking Out with Fennesz on Sound and Performance

Interview: Gustavo Bravetti, Playing Music with Light and Interactive Gloves

Interview: How Splice.com Has Taken Music Real Audio Processing to the Web

Interview: New Virtual Instrument Maker FAW Talks Usability and Design

Interview: Rechenzentrum, A/V Duo at Mutek

Interview: Smule’s Ge Wang on iPhone Apps, Ocarinas, and Democratizing Music Tech

Interview: Sound Legend Paul Frindle, and a Story Behind the Digital Audio Revolution

Into the Woods: Wolfgang Voigt’s GAS, an Audiovisual Black Forest at MUTEK

Intua BeatMaker Arrives for iPhone/Touch: Sequencer, Sampled Drum Pads

Intua BeatMaker: Music Suite for iPhone and iPod Touch

Ion Makes a Music Keyboard Dock for the iPhone; Would You Want One?

iPhone 3.0 SDK “Library Access” Won’t Allow Effects, DJ Apps, Games?

iPhone as Serious Instrument: New Synthable iSyn, Strummable Star Guitar

iPhone Day: Free Frameworks Make Thumping Apps, Mobile or Otherwise

iPhone Day: LaDiDa’s Reverse Karaoke Composes Accompaniment to Singing

iPhone Day: Star6 Demonstrates Elegance of Mobile UI, Live Mobile Music with Style

iPhone Developer Limbo, Sonorasaurus, and Music as an Application

iPhone Gets New Groove Boxes: Is it Live Synthesis, or is it Canned?

iPhone Roundup: Field Recording, DJ Tools, Odd iInstruments, Cinco de Mayo

iPhone, iPod Touch as Music Controllers: Transmit MIDI or OSC

iPhone, iPod Touch SDK Coming February: Multi-Touch Mobile Music Love

iPod and iPhone Audio Recording App, Loads of Official Apps Coming

iPod Touch/iPhone for Music Round-up

Irish Jigs on Nintendo DS: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Is Beyonce Tone Deaf? Is Leaked Board Mix Real? Is Auto-Tune That Powerful? (No)

iTunes App Store is Here, But Early Music Entries May Disappoint

I’m Elton Johning Today

Jamie Lidell “Remixes” the Nintendo DSi; How About DSiTracker in an App Store?

Jasuto Modular Synth for iPhone, Mac + Windows VST: Build Your Own Instruments

Jazari: Utterly Brilliant Robotic Percussion

Jeane Poole Reviews Live 7, Suite, with Handy Resource Round-up

Jet Daisuke Hearts Korg: nanoKEY on Shinkansen, microKORG XL Adoration

Journal: The Mind Meld Audiovisual Retreat in New England

Jumpgate Resolved: Van Halen Guitar Sorta Absolved, Keyboard Detuned

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pioneering Composer, Dies

Kermit the Frog Casio EP-30 Keyboard

Keyboard + Monome = One Crazy DIY Instrument Hybrid by STS9’s David Phipps, Plus New Album/Tour

Keyboard Geeking Day: Roland Answers JUNO Questions, plus 2.0 Sampling on JUNO-G

Keyboard Geeking Day: What’s New in the Novation SL Mk II Controller Keyboards

Keytar Komeback: You Don’t Love It Until It’s Gone, An Open Letter to Roland

Kids Making Electronic Music, 60s-80s, on CD

Kids Making Music: Interactive Music Box Draws Experience from Games

Knobs, Tubes, and Soundmakers from Collin

Kontakt Creative Abuse and Scripting, Modular Reaktor Goodness, More On Kore@CDM

Kontakt, Battery: Enhanced, More Compatible, 64-bit Memory

KORE Soundpacks, Plus Free KORE Player with 300M Sounds

kore@noisepages: Free DIY Grain Delay Reaktor Tutorial, plus Making Sense of Kore

Korg DS-10 Plus Coming, with Beefed-Up Features for Nintendo DSi

Korg KAOSS Pad KP3 as Step Sequencer

KORG KAOSSILATOR Pro: Now with Sampler, Effects, Vocoder

Korg nanoKEY, nanoKONTROL, nanoPAD: Super Tiny MIDI Keyboard, Controller, Pads

Korg Stylus-Controlled Tablet Synth for Nintendo DS: DS-10

Korg’s DS-10 Nintendo DS Instrument is Getting International Release

Korg’s microSAMPLER: Sample from a Keyboard, and What Those iPod Slots Are For

LA, Live, Lasers: Ableton Sessions, and a CDM Party Sunday Night in Hollywood

Lala, Free Music Streaming, And Why Two-Tier Pricing is the Future

Laser Cello Played by Musician and Animator Helene Berg

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?

Last.fm Frees Full-Length Music and Albums, and Artists Get Paid MORE

Last.fm Will Pay Unsigned Artists Directly for Online Plays; What it Means

Learn Musical Electronics, No Soldering: Free PAiA Ribbon Controller Kit for CDM Readers

Learned in 60 Seconds: Intro to Free Synthesis Tool SuperCollider

Learning Kontakt: How to Make a Sampler an Instrument, Performance Tool

Leopard Audio Woes and Digidesign; 10.5.2 is a Lemon for Music?

Leopard Early Installers, How’s it Going?

Leopard Reports: Native Instruments, MOTU, Why Tiger Still Rocks, Java

Leopard Watch: Adobe Updates Premiere Pro, Soundbooth

Leopard Watch: Edirol Driver Updates for Everything

Leopard: Incompatibilities with JACK, Soundflower; Finder Audio Previews

Let the Circuit-Bending Challenge begin!

Let Your Fingers Do the Drumming: New, Compact Zendrum ZAP

Life on the Grid: Behind the Scenes with stretta’s Max for Live, monome Music Suite

Lights and Music: Lo-Fi DIY Game System as Music Toy, on the Grid

Lights and Music: The Harmonic Center of the Universe

Like iTunes for DJs: Free Beatport Sync, Powered by Traktor

Lily: Browser Beatboxes and the Rebirth of Max-Like Patching

LinnDrum II: Former BoomChik Gets More Delayed But More Mature

Linux Music Workflow: Switching from Mac OS X to Ubuntu with Kim Cascone

Listen: Monome-Made Music, from tehn to Daedelus

LittleGPTracker Hits 1.0; Free, GP2x, Linux, Mac, Windows, Does Lots of Stuff

Live 8 Videos: New Warping Explained, APC + ReMOTE SL Integration

Live Artists as Free Ableton Live Artist Packs, Via Puremagnetik

Live Inspiration: Latest from Mutek, Movement Music + Visual Festivals

Live Music Makers Ask: How Can We Get in Sync?

LiveAPI.org: New Open-Source, Unofficial SDK in Python Lets You Hack Ableton Live

Livid Block: Open Grid Button Controller Adds Knobs, Faders – and Choice

Livid Builder: Modular DIY Music Controller Hardware System

Livid Ohm Controller: Buttons, Crossfader, Faders for Visualists, Musicians, and DJs

Livid’s Ohm64 Controller: Full of Buttons and Knobs, As Open As You Like

Livid’s Ohm64: Love Child of a Monome and a DJ-VJ Mixer Controller?

Logging MPC Projects (Or Other Drum Machines) on Paper

Logic Environments: Connect Logic to Nintendo NES via MIDINES

Logic Express 8, Now US$199, Adds Pro Instruments

Logic Express Packs Most of Logic for Less; Apple Adds PDF Manual to Logic 9

Logic Pro 8: New UI, MainStage, Soundtrack Pro, and No Dongle, $499

Logic Upgrade, Free For Buyers Back to August 1?

Logic’s Environment Lives in Logic 8!

Look Out, MPC: Homestar Runner’s MixMastah 800, Free in Flash

Loop Phasing: Steve Reich vs. Star Trek’s Worf vs. Orbital

Loops for Real Drummers: Musicianship, Technology Don’t Have to Compete

Lounge with Ableton Geeks, NYC Sat, Online Soon

Luthiers de la Musica Digital: Handmade Music Makes a Racket, Draws a Crowd

M-Audio Responds: Update on Driver Situation, New Drivers

Mac Audio Glitches: Serato Reports; Avoid 10.5.2, AirPort For Now

Mac OS X 10.5.2: Music and Audio Problems on Apple Laptops? (Or Blame AirPort?)

Mac OS X 10.5.3 Released; Addresses USB Audio Issues

Mac OS X 10.5.4 Fixes AirPort Issues with Logic (And Other Audio Apps)

Mac Snow Leopard Watch Site Kickoff

Mac USB Audio: M-Audio Says Avoid the Left-hand USB Port, All Ports Not Equal

Mac Users: Beware QuickTime 7.2? (Hey, Apple, Easy on the Updates!)

Mac Users: Might Want to Hold Off on 10.5.7; Breaks Euphonix EuCon Control Surface

MacBook Pro Revision: Big Santa Rosa Performance Boost, 4GB RAM Option, More

MachineCollective: Open, DIY Modular Controller Platform Coming Soon

Macworld on MacBook Pro Update; Why Santa Rosa Matters

Mailbag: A Christmas Question - Too Much Techno?

MainStage in Logic 8 Gets Maintenance Update

Mainstream Multi-Touch is Coming, And It’ll Rock for Music

Major Music, Software Torrent Server Busted: Oink No More

Make Chats with Bender Maestro Gijs Gieskes

Make Noise with Circuits: Handmade Music Austin Video, Freebie Kit, More

Make the iPhone a Music and Multimedia Controller Instrument, via Max/MSP/Jitter

Make Your iPhone into a Drum Pad

Make:TV Meets Stanford Musical Inventors, Feedback Piano

Maker-Faire Music: Moldover’s Syncomasher, Live Electronica Controllerism for Everyone

Maker-Faire Music: The K-Bow for Sensor-Augmented Violin

Maker-Faire Music: VAMP and Glove-Controlled Vocals

Making it as a New Artist: Trent Reznor and Techdirt Founder on What to Do Now

Making Music with Fractals

Man Behind the Mouse Mask: Deadmau5 on Monome, Not Being a DJ, with DTD

Mandala 2.0 Shipping: Drum Controller Goes USB for $349

Mapping Brick and Mortar Music Stores Worldwide

Maschine 1.1 Beta: Software Drum Machine Gets Proper MIDI, Slicing

Mash-Up Video Inside Ableton with a MIDI-Controlled Plug-in

Max 5 Available For Download Now

Max 5 Bug Squash, Expo74 Max/MSP/Jitter Event in April

Max 5: Max/MSP/Jitter Pricing Updated

Max for Live Beta is Here; Final Version November 23

Max for Live Comes with Some Strings Attached for Creators

Max for Live Guide: 10 Things You Should Know, Release Details, Pricing, Videos

Max/MSP 5 Release Date: Tuesday

mda Plug-in Collection for Mac, Windows Now Open Source

Meaningless Fun: Facebook “Give an Analog Synth” App

Meatspace Networking for Musicians: Chicago Demo Swap Party Wrap-up

Meet the Anti-Piracy Vigilantes

Meet the Digital Vinyl Systems That Predated N2IT’s Patent

Meet the Stribe: DIY Multi-Touch Controller and Potential Monome Mate

megaSynth: Tasty iPhone, iPod touch App Continues Mobile Synth Deluge

Melodyne Automagic Pitch-Changing Direct Note Access is Here, in Beta

Memory, Love, and Music, at the Edge of Being

Merce Cunningham Dies at 90; How Electronic Music Shaped His Sense of Time

Messe Roundup: New Doepfer Standalone, Little Akai, PreSonus DAW, More

Metallica Attempts to Be Beloved Trent Reznor, Fails

MetaSynth 5 is Here: Graphical Sound-as-Painting Tool, Overhauled

Michael Jackson Documentary on its Way, Featuring Final Rehearsal Footage

Microscopic Plays with Scale on Gas0095, Gives You Tiny Moog Model

Microsoft Details Vista’s New Mic Array Features

Microsoft Goes Non-DRM with Zune; Music DRM Now Completely Dead

Microsoft Readies DirectSound Replacement: XAudio2 for Vista

Microsoft Rolls Out USB Fixes for Vista Now; Not Everything Waiting for SP1

Microsounds: Compressed Sound Art to Amuse, Shock, and Confuse

MIDI + Mixing: Ecler EVO4 DJ Mixer Specs, EVO5 Update

MIDI Gets a Boost in Free Ardour DAW, Via Google Summer of Code

MIDI Jacks, Radio Shack, Economic Theory, and Invisible Hands

MIDI Meets Mobile Linux Gaming: GP2X Portable Does MIDI Out

MIDI Software Plug-ins, Many Free, For Your MIDI Processing Needs

MIDIFY, Shipping Now, Adds MIDI to Nintendo Handhelds, Microwaved Corn Dogs

MidiTron Wireless: Make Your Own Wireless Sensor-to-MIDI Project

MilkyTracker Pan-Platform Tracker Now Open Source, with New Features

Millioniser 2000: 80s-tastic MIDI Harmonica Whose Time Has Come?

Minimalist Interview: Cornelius, Spectacular Sensuous Synchronized Showman

Mix Online To Offer Monthly Game Audio Digital Magazine

Mixtikl 2 Brings Generative Music to Desktops, Mobiles – and Generates Music in Tweets

Mobile Recording: Alesis Hooks XLR Mics to iPod; Edirol R-09 Adds Storage; Tascam DR-1 Review

Mod the $50 SX-150 for MIDI: Instructions + Code

Mod271: Zoomable, Graphical, Modular Sound Playground

Monitor Your Audio Drives for Trouble via SMART, Free (Windows/Mac/Linux)

Monolake Interactive Music for Jet Lag: Installed Max/MSP Audio, Free MP3 Download

Monome 256 in Action, Availability Soon

Monome 64 Sold Out in 2 Minutes; Simple is In, and Your Favorite Tools

monome News: Max for Live with 7up, New Grayscale, Mass Kit Builds, NYC Fest

Monomes Aplenty: New Models Coming, and Enough Buttons for All

Monomes: New Model Pricing, DIYers Share Their Creations

Monomists, Unite: Monome Mavens Meetup in Princeton; Will You, Too?

MonoTouchLive, the Lemur, Imitation, and Hopes for an Older, Wiser CDM

Moog Guitar Brings Infinite Sustain, Ladder Filter, But It’s US$6495

Moog Voyager Old School: All Analog, All Wood, No Presets, No MIDI

Moog’s Lovely MuRF Resonant Filter, Now with MIDI, Double Bands

More Cute, Yellow Keepon Robot Videos

More from Mutek: Tech and Gear Spottings, Ecology and the Planet

More Fuzzy Vintage Synths on Etsy; Now We Just Need Sound

More Hackday Goodies, with a Beer Bottle Percussion Machine

More iPhone: A TR-909 Clone, and Dreaming of Ableton

More Max+Unity Game Engine Goodness, with Powerful Toolkit for Max, Jitter, Pd

More Tangible Sequencers: The Game of Go, and a Graphite Record Player

More TENORI-ON: Defunktion Toshio Iwai Interview, Podcast Performance

More with Less:”Efficient” Renoise Music Tracks and Tips, Deadline Extended to 10/25

Most Insane Ableton DJ Setup: Four Decks, Four Copies of Live

MOTU Digital Performer 6 Released, With Tasty Sound Tools

MOTU Volta, Mac Software Plug-in for Your Analog Gear, Now Shipping

Moving Music: 10 Ways for a Music Geek to Move House

MP3 Music: No Longer Connected to Your Brain?

MPC5000 Gets 2.0 OS; Does it Stack Up to JJOS Alternative Firmware?

Ms. Pinky + Max for Live = Scratch Anything in Ableton

Mu, Lemur + Ableton Live Integration, Revealed – and Other Lemur Sequencers

Multi-Player Drumming: Handheld Open-Source Music for Nintendo DS

Music + Crafts Meet: Spins and Needles!

Music Devs Want Change at Apple App Store, as DJ Apps Remain Unapproved

Music for an Olympic Bid: Making of Antipop’s Madrid 2016 Songs

Music for Vending Machines: Alva Noto, Anne-James Chaton

Music from the Road: Tristan Perich, Lesley Flanigan on Speakers, 1-bit, Harspichord

Music Gear in Video Games: Mackie Guitar Hero III Product Placement

Music Goes Peer-to-Peer, Multiplayer: Smule Leaf Trombone for iPhone 3.0

Music Hackday Goodies: Robot-Driven Radio, Free Chordal Synth, Lyrics by Decade, More

Music Made from Microfiche, And Other Maker Faire Projects

Music Sequencing as Bicycle Wheels, Rubik’s Cubes at Fest in Argentina

Music Source Obits: Resist Music, 3Beat Digital?

Music Tech and Music Education: Blogs and CDM on the ME Podcast

Music Tech History Day: "What The Future Sounded Like", Tristram Cary, and a Forgotten Chapter of History

Music Tech History Day: Fairlight CMI in Videos, and the Computer You Can Play

Music Tech History Day: Inside BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and Delia’s Lampshade

Music Tech History Day: Inventor Don Buchla, Interviewed

Music Tech History Day: Tone Generation Podcasts Dust Off Breakthrough Electronic Tracks

Music Tech Pronunciation Guide

Music Video Favorites: Birdy Nam Nam’s Wonderful Animated World

Music Video Inspiration: Music Meets 1970s Human Biology

Music Video of the Week: Justice Sends Up Vintage Graphics

Music, Physics, Space in Perfect Fusion: Interview, Creators of Game Osmos

Musical Brain API: An API for Music on the Web - And it Makes Pretty Pictures

Musical Crutches in Action, Handmade Music Makers Converge Again on NYC

Musical Machines, Piano-Playing Typewriters, Plastic Cups, and Invisible’s Physical Music

Musical Sewing Machines, Electronic Honky-Tonk, and Handmade Music NYC Monday

Musical, Audio Graffiti; Mobile Music and Crackleboxes

Musicians, Like Writers, Left Out of Online Revenues - Or Not

Musicifying Data? Spam Rendered in MIDI

Musics and Other Stuff on One Page at Alltop; How Do You Read?

musika: iPod Visualizer - Game from PaRappa the Rapper Creator, Tested

MUTEK Line-Up, Showcases: Incredible Audiovisualism Coming, CDM Montreal-Bound

My Logic Studio Review for Macworld: Big Overhaul Pays Off

MySong: Your Own Virtual, Tone-Deaf Accompanist

NAMM 2010 Preview, and Beyond: Get Your Latest Music Tech News Here

NAMM Oddities, Now a Museum Piece

NAMM Picks: Dave Smith Mopho Keyboard, $800; Video

NAMM Picks: Moog’s Multi Pedal Controls the Universe From Your Feet

NAMM Picks: Roland’s Octapad Updates a Classic Percussion Controller

NAMM Show Floor Anomalies: The Win/Fail List, Pt. I

NAMM Show Floor Anomalies: The Win/Fail List, Pt. II (Wins)

NAMM Years’ Eve: Favorite 2007 Musical Moments

NAMM: Cakewalk Supports Leopard, Loads Up Booth With Macs

NAMM: FL Studio 8 Slicing Beats, Bundling SynthMaker, in a Beta Near You

NAMM: Roland Acquires Majority of Cakewalk, Promises Joint Products in 2008

NAMM: Unofficial CDM Afterparty, Live in LA, Friday Night

nanoKONTROL Myr for Ableton Live: Free, Powerful Control for Live

Native Instruments Komplete $399 Fire Sale; NI Noisepages Networking

Native Instruments Posts Installer Patch for Mac OS X Leopard

Native Instruments Updates: New Absynth, Kontakt, Guitar Rig, Cheaper Komplete

New Au Revoir Simone, and Get All Their Music Cheap

New CDM Minisite: Sound Design and Performance with Kore, Reaktor, Komplete

New Donationware Radiohead Album Now Available for Download

New Early Computer Music Discovered; What Was the First Digital Synth?

New Goodies from Moog: Expression Pedal, Little Phatty Extras

New Low-Priced Euphonix Control Surfaces, Leaked Early?

New MacBook Pros Don’t Power (Some) FireWire Devices?

New Monome Kit Coming 11/30, 128 Due 12/14

New MOTU MachFive Sampler: Loopier, More Compatible, Tons of Sounds

New Multi-Touch Prototype, Multi-Touch Tablet PC Coming

New on CDMotion: Scratching Vinyl, Coveting Toys, Plugging and Playing a Visual Jams

New Soft Synth for the … Apple II, and a Plea for Longevity and Economy

New Teasers: Urs Heckmann Modular Soft Synth, and the Fairlight CMI Returns

New Turntablism Concepts: Touchscreen Decks, Crossfader Samplers, Needles

New VST Release: Broken Drum Machine (really) for Windows

NI Ends Legal Dispute Over Traktor Scratch; Digital Vinyl’s Twisty, Turny History

NI Gets KOMPLETE Upgrade, But Spektral Delay, Vokator No More

NI Teases New DJ Controller in Richie Hawtin Maschine + Traktor Video; Twitter App

Nine Oddball Sound Design and Recording Techniques from VideoHelper

Nintendo DS as Hardware Step Sequencer

Nintendo DS Goodies: glitchDS Update, repeaterDS, Wireless MIDI, DS-10

Nintendo DS Scratching: New Protein DScratch Video Demo

Nintendo Wii Fit: More Bizarre Music Controllers to Come?

NI’s Traktor Kontrol X1: High-Res Traktor Controller, MIDI Mode

Noatikl Generative Music Engine Pricing Lowered: $99

noatikl: New Generative Music Engine, So You Can Rock Out Like Eno

Notes and Neurons: Bobby McFerrin Shows Everybody Gets Pentatonic

Novation Automap, Ableton Live Clip Control, Coming to the iPhone

Novation Launchpad OSC Wrapper Makes MIDI More Readable

Novation Launchpad: Impressions Video, Questions and Answers

Novation Releases All MIDI Details for Launchpad

Novation’s ReMOTE SL Controller Keyboards Get Compact

Numark Midi Controller Mini Review: Jog Wheel Problems on NuVJ and Total Control

NY, Boston Area: Last Call for Projects for CDM Events

NYC Area: Got DIY Live Controllers? Show them in Our Lounge Party 6/27!

NYC Call for Works: Handmade Music Next Week; Java/Processing, Anyone?

NYC in December: RjDj, Pd, in/out Fest Workshops + Performances, Blip Festival

Obituary: Bebe Barron, Pioneering Electronic Composer

Obituary: STEIM Founder, Cracklebox Inventor, Musician Michel Waisvisz

Obsessive Windows 7 Under-the-Hood Guide for Music; Can You Finally Dump XP?

Off-Topic: Flight of the Conchords Video Asks, Do You Like Ladies?

OLPC’s Sugar and Music Learning: Education, Not OS, is the Point

On Behringer’s Track Record, “Value,” and “Copies”

On CDMotion: Shill for Pioneer DJ, Slo-Mo Video, Wearable Wrist Controller, Trampoline Animation

On DJing, Twinkies

One-Fader Control Surfaces: A Cubase-Only Entry, vs. Everything Else

Online Grain Silo Music Performance, on the Silophone

Onstage Tech Disasters: Van Halen Goes Microtonal!

Open-Circuit: Powerful Sound-Design Sampler Now Free (Windows)

OpenSoundControl: Now Compatible with Magical Unicorns

Operator-1 Details: The Casio VL-Tone of the 21st Century, Plus the Synth Alarm Clock!

Opinion: Life Beyond the Magazine How-To

OS X Leopard Due October 26; Call to Music Developers

OSC, Kyma, iPad, and Beyond: Your Networked Musical Future

OSCulator for Mac: Alternative Control, Now with 3D Mice, AppleScript, Combos

Osmos Game Available, with Brilliant Electronic Score

OTO Machines BISCUIT: 8-bit + Analog Filter Effect; Designing New Hardware

OTTO: Beautiful, Original Hardware for Beat Slicing in Circles

Our Favorite Things: Music Technology Holiday Gift Picks from CDM

Out of Control APC40 Photoshop Thread on Ableton Forums

PACE, Waves Respond to Blogger’s Blue Screen, and a Promise from CDM

Pacemaker Mobile DJ Thing, Live in Miami

Pacemaker.net: Mobile DJ Gear + Mix Editor + Web Community

Paper, Drawing as Musical Controller: A Round-Up

ParamDrum: Reaktor-Powered Drum Sequencer an Rx for Drum Variety

Participate: One Button Game Objects, Handmade Music in NYC, Amsterdam, SF

Pay What You Will for Nine Inch Nails, from Free to $300

Pd MLR Tutorial: Learn monome, Sample Slicing, OSC in a Free and Open Source Tool

Pd, Max’s Free Cousin, Gets Polish and Ease in Extended Build

Performance Videography: Get Up Close for More Exciting and Editable Footage

Performing Audiovisualists: Visionsonic Festival Streaming Live, 29th-31st October

Petition: Akai MPC1000 Owners Want Pad Solution

Phil Dodds, The Synthesist You’d Want to Make First Contact, Dies

Phonautographs and Recording with a Dead Guy’s Ear

Physical Objects for Performance, and Join Our Global Tangible Interface Hackday June 6!

Pirating a Fundraising Album for an Italian Quake - Really?

Pixelh8 Game Boy Software Now Free for Your Vintage Nintendo Handheld

Pixelh8 Music Tech Pro Performer Brings Live Performance to Game Boy

Planning to Enter the Futuristic Music Design Challenge?

Plant-Reactive Robots Play Bamboo, Chinese Instruments at Royal Botanic Garden, Scotland

Play Super Mario Bros. with a Theremin

Play the NY Times Website Like an Instrument, and Other New Lily Tricks

PlayBox and PlayLive: Multitouch Control of Ableton Live and Beyond

Playing Bananas, Potted Plants, and a Workshop on Microorganism-made Music

Playing Music with Light Pens, Flourescent Bulbs, Brought to You By … Sony?

Plogue Bidule Modular Music App: Get Started, Meet the Creators

Plogue Releases Bidule Version 0.9685: OSC, Wave Monitor in “The Other Patcher”

Plugins From the Edge: Free SynthEdit Source from Jack Dark

Pocket Jam: GorF DIY Sequencer + Renoise + Game Boys + Max + Live + Arduinome

Powerful Free Reverb, and This Week in Free Plug-in Stuff

Pre-Release of Pro Tools 7.4 for Leopard; Why Patience Could Pay Off

Preset Pack: It’s a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod, Modular Moog World

PreSonus Does Vista Drivers, 32-bit and 64-bit

PreSonus Goes to Open Beta for Drivers

PreSonus Hardware: First Show-Stopper Mac OS 10.6 Problem

Preview: Blue Snowflake, US$79 Portable USB Mic You Can Clip to Your Laptop

Preview: Circle Synth Does OSC, Live Performance, and Flow

Preview: Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion, Robotic Ensemble from Upcoming Album

Preview: Splice Music 2.0 Could be First Web 2.0 Music App

Pro Tools 7.4.2 Officially Leopard Compatible, But Check Your Plug-ins; Leopard FireWire Fix

Pro Tools Adds Snow Leopard, Windows 7 Compatibility; Other Fixes in 8.0.3

Pro Tools Bundles: $99-129, Hardware for Vocals, Recording, Keys

Pro Tools Essentials and the Big Picture

Pro Tools Goes Micro: Mbox2 Micro Puts Interface in USB Key

Pro Tools Minus the Hardware? Mackie Says New Mixers Support M-Powered; QA

Pro Tools with Mackie Hardware: Avid Makes Deal to Okay Link

Processing Class in NYC; Processing for Music?

Processing Credit Cards on Tour with New iPhone App; PayPal, Other Alternatives?

Project C-90: Insanely Huge Cassette Tape Collection Site Expands

Propellerhead Hosts Producers Conferences in US, UK, Germany, Sweden Saturday

Propellerhead Record In-Depth Preview: Recording, Reason-Style; Beta Test Now

Propellerhead Record: New Getting Started Video Tutorial, Blog

Propellerhead Record: Oft-Requested Reason Feature Will Be an Entirely New Tool

PSPSeq 3.0, Killer PSP Music Composing Tool, Now Available

Pure Data + GEM Workshop in Amsterdam

Put a Hex on You: New Game, Crazy Music Sequencer with Hexagons

QWERTY Keyboard as Analog Synthesizer

Radio DRM: Irrelevant, Untimely, Wrong, Says Digital Freedom Campaign

Radiohead Remixing: Contest, Full Stems via iTunes and GarageBand

Radiohead Use Creative Commons for Music Video Data; Visual "Stems" the Next Big Thing?

Radiohead, Max/MSP, a Lost Authorization, and Self-Pricing

Radiohead’s Scotch Mist: An Hour of In Rainbows Goodness

Random Rant: Daft Punk, Daft Plagiarists?

Rane Sixty-Eight: A Mixer/Controller for Two Computers

Rant – Congratulations, Apple: “Syncing” Music Now Means “Using iTunes”

Raw: Wii Waggling Meets the Studio – in Gustavo Bravetti + David Amo + Julio Navas

Rax Rescued: Mac Virtual Instrument Rack Finds a New Home

Read Traktor-Timecoded Vinyl in Max, Max for Live, (Soon) Pd

Read, Write Music Notation Digitally, on Windows: $100 or Less

Real for Reel: The Amazing Sherlock Holmes Experibass, and More Winter Cinema Sounds

REAPER v3: From MIDI to Automation to Guitar Hero Control, the Alt DAW Improves

Reconceived Acoustic Music on an Interactive Table: Etiquette in Edinburgh

Record and Reason: Tips, Tutorials, Goodies, and Reviews

Record Beta: We’ve Got Invites, Thoughts from a Superfan

Record Industry Now Completely Bonkers, Wants DRM on All Radio

Record it Live to the Internet: Indaba Reveals JavaFX-Powered Online Recording Studio

Record Sales Up — No, Really, Actual Records

Record Your Session to the Web: Indaba’s Online Recording Studio Launches

Remembering Charlie Cooper: Free Download from Fhloston Paradigm

Reminder: Design Challenge in Bay Area to Win Tenori-On - Enter Now

Reminder: DIY Music, Thursday Night in Brooklyn

Reminder: Event Tonight in Brooklyn

Reminder: Noise Toy Making, Alternative Music Software Playing Tonight in Brooklyn!

Remixing Karate Kid Live: The Real Power of 3-Way MIDI Sync

Renoise 1.9 Music App Begins Beta; Why You Shouldn’t Overlook This Tracker

Renoise 2.1, Now with Mac-PC ReWire, Plus JACK on Linux, Live Performance Tools

Renoise 2.5 is Here, Making Your Mac, Windows, or Linux Box an Instrument

Renoise 2.5: A Matrix for Everything, Modulate Everything; Full Scripting, OSC Coming

Renoise Tracker Made Into Animation

Renoise, Unique Music Tracker, Now in Demo on Linux

Retro 80s Casio Keyboard Ad from Allmusic

Review: SampleMoog Packs Vintage Moog Gear History Into One Instrument

REX/ReCycle Loops Meet MPC Via Mac Utilities, MPC Add-ons Live On

Reznor, Saul Williams One-Up Radiohead with Free Album

Rhobbler: Connect Rhapsody to Last.FM

Ribbons Elsewhere: Martenot Round-up

Richie Hawtin Now Uses Traktor; Does That Make it Ubercoolische?

Richie Hawtin Talks Performance, Brings Back Plastikman – By Survey

Ridiculous NAMM News: Football Helmet Guitar

Ridiculous Product of the Day: USB Mix Tape

Robot Drum Machine Roams, Samples, Bangs On Stuff

Robot Drummers, Compared: Like Musicians, Robots are Better When They Listen

Robotic Guitars, Lyrics as Art Installation

Robotic Knives Patched in Pd, Circuit-Bent Graphics Cards

Robotic Theremin, Thumpbot in Videos; Live Oddities in NYC Saturday

Robots Can Be Friendly, Groovin’: Max-Powered Keepon and Beatbots

Roger Continues LinnDrum II Work, But Release Slips

Roger Linn on New Instrument Design; Experimental Instrument Round-Up

Roland JUNO Contest Ends at Midnight; A Viral Ad for the … Alpha 2!

Roland Wants Videos of Junos New and Old; A Look Back at the Juno Line

Roll Your Own Multitouch Screens, Tables: Max Multitouch Framework, PyMT

Round-Up: Robotic Drummers, Robotic Percussion

Round-up: Your Web-Connected Musical Future, at Music Hackday Stockholm

Rumor Busted: Celemony’s Magical Melodyne Direct Note Access Still Real, Coming Soon

Rumor: Mac Java’s Demise is Real, and Why That Could Be Good News for Multimedia

Saturday, June 6 Tangible Interface Hackday is Here, in NYC and Around the World

Save that Old PDA: Run Reware, Play Pd Musical Creations, Android (OFFF, NYC)

Scenes from Amsterdam’s Music Inventors: When Circuits, Code, and Concept Meet

Scores, the New MP3s? Sheet Music Sales Online for Artists

Second-Ever NES Cartridge Music Album

Segue and Segway: AU Dance Music Creators Present Future of Transport

Sensomusic Usine + Ableton Live = Modular Touchscreen Interface

Sequencing Beats with Bubble Gum

Sequencing in 3D, with Rubik’s Cube

Sequencing with Smart Interactive Blocks: Siftables at TED

Sexy DIY Footswitch for Music, Using the Brain of a USB QWERTY Keyboard

Share LA to Host Circuit Bending Challenge, Flickr Tag Ready

Sharper Image Selling Pre-Made Laser Harp, But Why Not Make Your Own?

Shure SM58 Mic Torture-Tested: Takes a Licking…

Sibelius 6: Notation Software Gets Magnetic Layout, ReWire, More - Details

Signs of Change, Ingenuity in Music Distribution

Simple Snow Leopard Advice: Wait, and Claim Disk Space with Monolingual

Small and Light PCs About Ready for Mobile Music Making

Smule Leaf Virtual Trombone for iPhone: Multiplayer Judging Fuses Instrument, Game

Snapper, Time-Saving Audio Tool for Mac Finder, Now Shipping

Snow Leopard Watch: Ableton, Propellerhead Respond

Snow Leopard Watch: Changes, Compatibility, Caution, Native Instruments, Plogue

Snow Leopard: MOTU Confirms 10.6 Drivers; Working on 64-bit Support?

Soft Flickr Finds: Obscenely Complex Bass Effects on a Single Channel

Someone Stole Matthew Dear’s Hard Drive While He Was Playing?

SONAR 8.5.2 Hands On: Tradition, Meet Tempting Treats

Sonic Core Unveils Insanely Powerful New Scope DSP Platform

Sonic Sampler: What’s Been Cooking in the CDM Forums?

Sony Walkman-Sequenced Gakken Synth, by Gijs Gieskes

Sorry, Majors: “Indie” Artists, Labels Clean Up Again at Grammys

Sound in Motion: Sound Design in Chicago, Jan 15-21

Sound to Pixels and Back Again: Isolating Instruments with Photosounder

Sound Tribe Sector 9 vs. Monome: Video, 8by16

Sounds Sculpture with Pods and Milk, from Mike Una

Sourcing Synths: Resources for x0xb0x

South Asian Electronica Lovers: Indian Electronic Festival Returns

Squeeze Tech: Concertinome Combines Monome, Concertina

Star Wars, Performed by Electric Moog Orchestra on LP

Stardock: Stop Blaming Pirates, Start Targeting Paying Customers

Step Sequencers in Live: How-to, Free Rack Download

Step Sequencing: Launchpad + Renoise 2.5 Outshines Launchpad + Live + Max for Live

Stereocilia Armor: Protect Your Hearing With Etymotic ER-20 Earplugs

Still on 7? Ableton Live Update Improves Controller Support, Fixes

Strange, New Musical Interfaces, Built in Processing

Strap on Gloves, Play Two-Handed Spatial Theremin

Studio Busted by Waves Anti-Piracy Police Shares Experience

Studiologic Numa Nero: Finally, a Serious, High-End 88-Key Software Controller?

Subcycle: Multitouch Sound Crunching with Gestures, 3D Waveforms

Sufjan Stevens’ Visualist: A Conversation About Live Visuals for Music

Super Cute: Indie Rock Coloring Book

SxSW: Music Goes Interactive - Laptop Battle and CDM Music and Motion in Austin

Tablets, Slates, Multi-touch Everywhere, But Details Scant; Round Up of New Offerings

TaggedFrog: Free/Donationware Windows File Utility Adds Audio Support

Take it to the Stage: Reflections on Live Laptop Music from Artists

Tamagatchi Mannaro: DIY Soundbox Based on Forrest Mims Atari Punk Console

Tangible Interface Hackday: Music with Soda Bottles, Floor Toms, More

Tangible Interfaces: Beat Sequencing with Beer Bottle Caps

Tangible Music: Build Your Own Interactive Table, Cheap, with TrackMate, LusidOSC

Teaching Adaptive Music with Games: Unity + Max/MSP, Meet Space Invaders!

Teaser: ammoBox Project Digitally Scratches … What?

Tech Blogger Michael Arrington Thinks You Musicians Owe the Web Money

Teenage Engineering OP-1: Insanely Slick, Pocketable Controller + Synth

Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 Instrument: Hands-on, Videos, Why it’s Different

Temper (Win), The $50 Sequencer for MIDI Aficionados?

Tenori-On in America: US$1200, May 1, Limited Run

Tenori-On is Shipping in US; Tenori-On Meets Kyma Synth

Tenori-On Launch Notes from Montreal; Launch Tonight in New York

Tenori-On Orange $699 for “Home Use” – Minus Battery, Lights on Back

Tenori-On Pricing to Stay; Apple, Tenori-On Launch Events Today + Tomorrow

Tenori-On Pricing, Behind-the-Scenes Images

Tenori-On Review, Tenori-On Limitations, Tenori-On Fatigue?

Tenori-On Ships Sept. 4: Innovative Musical Instrument Launches in London

Tenori-On US Presale On

Tenori-On Worldwide Launch Dates Announced for April

Tenori-On: Hands-on, Chat with Yamaha’s Yu Nishibori, on CNET

The Amazing Musical Grid and Electronic Performance Made Modular

The Art of Music with Chips: Behind the Scenes with 8-bit Band Anamanaguchi

The Art of Noise: Sonic Insanity with Hans and the Blippoo Box

The Da Vinci Coda

The Day the Music Died, Otherwise Known As The Dawning Era of Negotiations

The Finger: Reaktor+Kore Sampling Madness from Tim Exile, But More Than That

The First Audio Recording: 1860, Optical

The Flashbulb Pirates His Own Album; Fires Torpedo at the CD

The Generative iPhone-iPod Touch: RjDj Updates, Albums, Free Downloads

The Guitar Hero-Playing Robot

The Internet, as an Avant-Garde Orchestral Suite – YouTube Mash-Ups

The Joy of Modular: Exploring the Buchla 200e at BuchlaWorks Site

The Man-Robot with an iMac Head, and Handmade Music Amsterdam

The Mobile Audio Workstation: Trinity Linux Hardware, Now with Free Ardour DAW

The Mobile Music Netbook: Linux-Powered Indamixx OS + Laptop Looking Slicker

The New Avid: M-Audio, Sibelius, Digidesign Subsumed into Avid Branding?

The Onion on Gibson’s Guitar Hero - Rock Band Lawsuits

The Problem with Music Taxes: Where Does the Money Go, and How Much?

The Real AI Jazz Factor: Think Different

The Sonic Manipulator: Bizarre Wearable Musical Inventions, Stolen from Space Aliens?

The Speaking Piano, and Transforming Audio to MIDI

The Star Trek Studio: DIY Dragon MIDI Touchscreens Control Cubase

The Zen of monome Performance: Edison’s Live Push-Button Music

Theremin as AV Controller: Technical Details from Spacedog

Theremin Music for Aliens, Theremin of the Damned

Theremin Music, Streamed Live from Ethermusic; Moog Guitar Official

Thing-a-Day: Matchbox Synthesizer

ThingamaKIT: Thingamagoop Sound/Noisemaker Goes DIY

This Weekend is Crazy in Austin: Handmade Music, Live 8 Sessions Tour

This Weekend: Music Hack Day Comes to Berlin, with Ableton, NI

Thomas Dolby Extras: Live Performance Technical Details, Logic + Max/MSP

Thomas Dolby, on Music Making Past and Future: The CDM Interview

Through Friday, Making One-Button Objects, Chip-Infused Hackday Saturday

Through Wednesday, Get TC Electronic M30 Reverb Plug for Free

Tilt, Smack, Mash, Tweak: Ableton Live Jam with monome + nanoKONTROL

Time to Buy Up Generation 1 iPhones for Hacking?

Tiny Music: Xenakis Synthesis, Curtis Roads Granulation on iPhone

Tiny Musical Patcher: Pd Runs on an iPod, Other Linux Gadgets

Tiny PCs for Music: UMPC Runs SONAR, Fruity Loops Like a Real PC

Tip: Sync Traktor Music Collections, Max Patches, More with SugarSync

Tips: Fix Windows Explorer, Be Happy

ToneSynthDS: Promising New Nintendo DS Synth + Sequencer Homebrew

Tonight: Electric Junkyard Gamelan Sounds at Handmade Music

Tonium Pacemaker Mobile DJ Device Now on Amazon, US$499

Torrent a Live Pack for the Weekend; Could Donationware Work?

Torrent: Listen to 700 Songs from South by Southwest

Touch: Argos Builds Interfaces for Windows, Mac, and Soon iPhone, iPad, Beyond

Touch: Bridge iPhone and Max/MSP Control

Touch: Meet the Multitouch Guitar – Plus An Open Source, iPhone Solution, Too

Touch: What’s Next for Lemur? Video Shows Tighter Ableton Live Integration

TouchDJ Arrives for iPhone

TouchOSC Controller with Template Editing Coming Soon to iPhone, iPod touch

Track Where Your Fans Come From, Free

Tracker Tracks: Winners of the Efficient Music Competition Span Genres, Moods

Trance Falls on Hard Times, DJ Mars Sells his Technics 1200s (Not Really)

Trifonic’s Music, Beat Slicing Technique, Free Bass Patch

Tristram Cary, Tape Music Pioneer, VCS3 Designer, Composer, Dies

Tron, Redux Redux: Trailer with Daft Punk Music, New Reaktor-Reason-Live Score

Truly Last-Minute Gift: Osmos, the CDM Game of the Year, for Mac and Windows

Try a Fully-Loaded, Pre-Tuned Linux Workstation on Your Laptop, Netbook: Sale

Tuesday Nerdster Music Vids: Viva Electro, CMJ, and True Computer Camp Love

TUIO Multitouch for iPhone: Browser App Hack Replaces Rejected App

Tune Your Guitar Via the Web, with Free Tuner and Instructions

Turntable Art: Turntables as Interactive Servers, Fashion

Turntablism in the Digital Age: DJ Jungleboy with Stanton SCS.3d; Open Scratch Scripting

Turntablism Reaches the VJ: Serato’s VIDEO-SL Reviewed on CDMotion

Tutorial: More iPhone/iPod Touch Control With Open-Source Pure Data

Tweak and Tweet: Make and Share Synth Sounds with Twitter

Twitter Everywhere: More Tweet a Sound, SuperCollider Code, Richie Hawtin + Traktor

Two Garbage Cans and a Microphone

Unusual Rozzbox One V2 Synth: Now Accepting Pre-Orders

Upcoming Final Fantasy Album: Treating the Orchestra Like an Analog Synth

Update: Warner Exec Just Brainstorming, Oddly Ignorant of Reality

Updated KAOSSilator Album Link; CDM Asks, Where Do You Host Your Music Files?

Updated Lemur Touchscreen Display Coming

Updated Novation ReMOTE SL Line, and the Controller Keyboard Battle Heats Up

US$50 Bliptronic 5000 Gets Monome Conversion, with Code

V-Synth GT, the Sound Designer’s Synth, Keeps Getting Better with Age

Various Free Synth Samples from Reverb Rick

VBS Video: Curtis Roads on the Birth of Granular, Composing in Microsound

VCI-100 DJ Controller Mod with Arcade Buttons, DJing with Toys

Version Control and Sharing for Patching: Keep Those Max, Pd Patches in Order with Git

Video as Instrument: The Fairlight CMI’s Visualist Sibling, the Fairlight CVI

Video Gallery: Live Acts – Live Electronic Performance, Done Right

Video Mashed Kutiman Funk: What if All of YouTube Played a Song?

Video Tips on Live 8’s Vocoder, Collision Devices, Plus Live 8 Review

Video Tutorial: How to Control Ableton Live with Axiom Pro, Questions Welcome

Video, Interview: ATOM by Robert Henke, Christopher Bauder – Musical Balloon Sculpture

Video: Beloved Drum Machines Hit the Road

Video: Creating Monome, Fuzzy Calculators, and Delicious Pizza

Video: DIY Musical Oddities at Handmade Music in Brooklyn

Video: Found Music at the Bottom of the World

Video: Handmade Musical Creations, Zany and Practical; See You Thursday

Video: Kraftwerk Computer World Gets Scandinavified, Modernised

Video: Moog FreqBox Effects, Tested with TB-303 and Guitar

Video: NI Maschine Drum Maschine Unboxing, Hands-on at AudioMIDI

Video: Novation Automap for iPhone, with Ableton Live

Video: Robotic Theremins, Ready To Replace a Human Near You

Video: The Trons, All-Robot, Self-Playing Band

Video: Volt Per Octaves Synth Duo Mooging Out Live

Vintage Buchla Easel Action, and Inspiration for Modern Tangible Interfaces

Vinyl + Ableton: Ms. Pinky and Max for Live Working Now

Virtual Frontman Plug-in Replaces Need for Human Vocalists

Virtual Radios Made from Paper, RFID

Vista Bug Squash: Fix Driver Installation Problems with Class-Compliant Devices

Vista for Audio, 1 Year Later: Talking OS Plumbing with Cakewalk’s CTO

Vitamin L: Ableton Live Keyboard, Mouse Shortcuts on XP

Volume Wars: Dynamic Range Strikes Back with Campaign, Plug-in

vvvv Adds Music Features; Get Your Synesthesia Patching On, Free on Windows

Want to Encourage CD Sales? Add Crack, Guns

Want to get started Circuit Bending?

Wanted: Alternative Music Controllers or Software to Overcome Disabilities

Wanted: Experiences Self-Sourcing the x0xb0x

Wanted: NYC-Area DIY Music Hardware + Software, ASAP

Warm-up exercises for the Circuit-Bending Challenge

We Are Hacks: Music and Visual Performance at HOPE, NYC – Preview

We Love Montreal: Hardware Hackers in “Repurpose” Documentary Video

We Love Montreal: Pre-MUTEK Warper Party and Open Lab, Tuesday 5/26

We Need Your Help: Support CDM’s Future

Weather Report: Multi-Touch + Surface Temperature = Music on Earth

Web Songwriting with ChordStudio.com: Like Online GarageBand, But With Chords

Web2 Watch: Mixaloo Launches “Digital Mix Tapes”

Web: Want to Break Into Games? Nextcat Adds Listings

Weekend Inspiration: Ableton Live Follow Actions, Dummy Clips, Making Snares

Weekend Inspiration: Coke Bottle as Tribal Percussion, and the Future of Adaptive Music

Weekend Inspiration: Control Ableton Live with Your iPhone

Weekend Inspiration: NIN + Monome + Lemur, Trackers

Weekend Inspiration: Party with Experimental Sound Like It’s Montreal 1967

Weekend Question: Where Do You Get Your Electronic Music Radio Fix Online?

We’re Nerdsters; 201 Kit Video; More Projects Wanted 9/27 NYC

What Are Your Top Electronic Albums of 2009? (And How Do You Stay Organized?)

What OS Do You Use to Make Music?

What’s New in Apple’s Logic Studio 9: Flex Time, MainStage Gets More Road-Worthy

Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy Powered by Ableton Live

When Ableton Met Serato: The Bridge Videos, Questions Answered

Wherein the Wii Waggle is Wanted: Two Other Game Music Control Mappings

Where’s the Party At: Bendable, Open-Source 8-bit Sampler Now Shipping

whitelabel: Free VST Plug-ins for PC, with Cool Granular, Delay, Sidechain FX

Why iPhone 3.0 SDK is Almost, But Not Quite, Great News for Creative Musicians

Wii Balance Board Surfs Through AudioSurf Music Game; Music Apps Next

Wii Controller as Complete Audiovisual Musical Instrument, and How Less is More

Wii Music: Improvise Freely

Wii Remote Java Library is Here

Wii Rock Band Controllers + Mac: Use junXion, Game-to-MIDI Controller Tool

Wild Musical Inventions from Berlin Hackday

Windows Does Jack: Multi-App Audio on Mac, Linux, and Now PC

Windows Sound Glitches Explained, Plus Glitches and the Fight-or-Flight Response

Wired Talks to DJ Spooky; Reggae Trumps Digital Mashups, Again

Wired.com: Competing for New Musical Instruments at Georgia Tech

Wireless MIDI Hack: XBee + MIDI Hardware = No Wires

Wireless MIDI on iPhone: Open Source Motion Control Talks to Nintendo DS, Computer

With Music Torrent Site OINK.CD Busted, Are Users Next?

Wormhole2: Tool Routes Audio Over Networks, Now Open Source

Wrist Synths: Whisper-Quiet Wearable Wristband FM; Solar-Powered Beats

x0xb0x Kit TB-303 Clone is … Undead. Best Bet: Source Your Own

XO Wave 1.0 Released: Free for Linux, Free or Cheap for Mac, Multichannel Audio

Yamaha Releases Tenori-on Videos, Site, Launch Event Details — Coverage Wanted!

Yamaha TENORI-ON Launch: Photos, Videos, Interviews, Demos, Details, and a Music Box

Yellow Drum Machine Robot Creator: You, Too, Can Make Your Own Robots

Yes, Virginia, There Really is a Ford Car Part Musical Ensemble

Yottamusic Dead; Subscription Music in Intensive Care

You, Too Can Learn Renoise: Video Tutorial from Dac Makes you a Tracker

Your Band in Rock Band: Rock Band Network Beta Opens, QA with Harmonix

Your Top 10 Music Tech CDM Stories of 2007

Yuri’s Night 2008 @ NASA Ames: Call for Submissions

Yuri’s Night Space Celebration: Music Lineup Announced, Will Wright, CDM Coverage

Zoom H2 Mobile Recorder Collaborative Review, Resources on O’Reilly

Zoom H2 Portable Flash Recorder Coming Soon; Mic Design Delay

Zoom H4 Mobile Recorder, In Action on NPR

Zoom H4 Mobile Recording: Useful for Movie Production?

Zoom Q3 Mobile Video + Stereo Sound, Love Child of an H4 Recorder and a Flip

“I Am T-Pain” Brings Auto-Tune to iPhone, “I’m on a Boat” To You

“Music Simulation” Patent Unsuccessful, Gibson Mucks Up Own Case

Émilie Simon, Making Homemade Sessions in Her Apartment

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