Logic Pro gets massive updates on iPad, Mac: new features, shared features
In a big synchronized release, Logic Pro for Mac 10.8 and Logic Pro for 1.1 both dropped today. That's a jam-packed iOS update, new features on both Mac and iPad, and a lot of the new iPad features...
View ArticleAny level, including guitars, in Eurorack: Nive Grad level shifter
Noise Engineering's latest module is a simple one, but it solves a very common problem. In 4HP, add 12 dB or 24 dB, or subtract 12 dB or 24dB, with high input impedance, so you can work with just about...
View ArticleField system, completed: Teenage Engineering TP-7 recorder test
Teenage Engineering's fecund design imagination has yielded inventions wonderful, ambitious, sometimes prohibitively expensive, odd... but can the company reinvent the lowly field recorder? And was the...
View ArticleLive 12 is here, including Performance Pack and new tuning site
Ableton Live 12 is now out of beta - plus both the Performance Pack and a tuning site available to everyone (with or without Live). Here's a review of everything to know. The post Live 12 is here,...
View ArticleM4, iPads, Pencil, Final Cut and Logic – everything Apple just announced
Apple had an event yesterday to launch a new M4 chip, a thinner and improved iPad Pro, an updated iPad Air range, an improved Pencil Pro, plus major updates on the Pro Apps side for Final Cut Pro and...
View ArticleAbleton Live 12.1 is in public beta, and it’s a huge release for Live
Live 12.1 just hit public beta, bringing more than you might expect: major Push additions, new ways of working more quickly with keyboards (and screen readers), a new Drum Sampler and pitch tracking...
View ArticleChop, gliss, LFO, filter, select: Sonic Bloom explains Live 12.1 MIDI tools
Ableton Live's new MIDI tools can be really useful - if you can get the hang of them. For that, we turn to long-time educator Madeleine Bloom for a breakdown. The post Chop, gliss, LFO, filter, select:...
View ArticleLive 12.2: hands-on guide to Meld, Roar, Auto Filter, workflow updates, more
Ableton Live 12.2 is in public beta today, with some major welcome features. Bouncing is easier, Auto Filter gets its biggest update since it came out, and there are new generative harmonic features,...
View ArticleAbleton Note 1.3 adds MIDI editor in free update – an ideal Move companion
Ableton Note 1.3 for iOS adds the ability to sequence beats, drums, and chords in a compact MIDI editor. And while oddly Ableton doesn't talk about it, the combination of Note and Ableton's Move...
View ArticleReason’s classic ReCycle is updated, free, and more useful than you might think
ReCycle, the sample/loop manipulator by Reason Studios, has a refreshed new look - and now it's free. The REX format works everywhere from Ableton Live to Pro Tools to KORG Gadget. Also - wait, did its...
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