CDM — Create Digital Music

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CDM — Create Digital MusicGearThe techno originator, Juan Atkins, has died at 64 It's a loss that's beyond words. Juan Atkins, who coined the term "techno" and is often called "the originator," has died at 64.

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CDM — Create Digital MusicGearsndstation will transform cheap gaming consoles into music handhelds Cheap handheld gaming consoles now often pack surprising processing power. But many risk ending up as e-waste.

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CDM — Create Digital MusicGearMangle everything: modulated mayhem in circuit-bent Sinevibes Malfunction v3 This is why you get intimate with code, line by line. Artemiy at Sinevibes obsessed over details, breaking a filter model by rewiring its internal connections -- and now, with v3, giving it precise…

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CDM — Create Digital MusicGearXEN FX LAB: sequel to Zen Delay adds tweakable spring tank, dub mode XEN FX LAB is a follow-up to a software hit (and hardware, before that), adding a modeled spring reverb, strike for "knocking" the virtual tank, and a dub button for adding dub-style throws, plus…

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CDM — Create Digital MusicGearMouthwashing, indie horror game, now on consoles featuring Imogen Heap Mouthwashing, the underground psychological horror adventure, helped a slew of new fans discover the joys of Imogen Heap. Now Imogen and the game are back on all current consoles.

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CDM — Create Digital MusicGearHAND is a Eurorack module that is also a disembodied crawling hand As a firm believer in technosolutionism, I am here to tell you, authoritatively, that you need a disembodied glowing hand that creeps around your house and plays spooky music. Not want. Need.

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CDM — Create Digital MusicGearNI’s new Massive XL is nicely overstuffed but easier to morph, mutate, and play What do you get the music synth user who's got everything? Here's what: mutation and generation options that actually lead you into more tweaking, not away from it.

10.27

CDM — Create Digital MusicGearInside NI Absynth 6.2 and its updated workflows for exploring sound This month, Absynth got two updates that refine its UI and editing navigation, freeing you up to shape your sound.

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CDM — Create Digital MusicGearOn the sublime BETHLEHEM بيت لحم, walls in time and space fall The exquisite collaboration of Lawrence Sammour, Sary Moussa, and Abed Kobeissy, Bethlehem, is released this month.

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CDM — Create Digital MusicGearFree Friday: GForce’s superb Axxess instrument is free until December GForce has updated their site, branding, and pricing (now with both lifetime licenses and subscription options).

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.