• Gear & Tools


  • Liine’s Livecontrol 2 controls Ableton Live like never before

    If you’re a fan of touchscreens and Ableton Live, this one’s for you. Coming a long way since the days of the way-ahead-of-its-time-but-jesus-what-did-you-say-the-price-tag-was-again hardware touchscreen controller Lemur, Liine’s Livecontrol 2 is an iPad app designed to get the most possible functionality out of controlling Ableton...
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  • 7 Guitar-shaped controllers that rock

    There are plenty of ways to hack guitar-themed toys into synths and controllers, like this guy with a hacked GH controller.   But what’s that to me? I can’t hack electronics at all without causing a fire (yet!) and my knowledge of C++ coding is limited...
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  • Bhoreal – open source monome-like RGB controller

    Today’s info bite comes via Create Digital Music, and it’s about the open source RGB grid controller Bhoreal, being developed by Spanish interaction and technology studio MID, who’ve just wrapped up a crowd funding campaign for it. The controller is open-source, its applications are crowd-sourced, it cam...
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  • Processing 2.0 is out! New Media artists rejoice!

    From 2001, the Processing programming language has been an awesome alternative to, and I quote the website, “proprietary software tools with restrictive and expensive licenses, making it accessible to schools and individual students”. Being free and open source has encouraged a large community of engaged...
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