Write songs anywhere. Instantly playable, deeply featured. Play chords with one button.
laurie, play chords from your laptop
laurie turns your laptop keyboard into a chord instrument. Play rich chords with keys 1–7, strum with your trackpad, send live MIDI to your DAW.
“It’s unfamiliar, intimidating, and seemingly impenetrable for producers raised on DAWs like Ableton Live - but it can unlock a whole new world of creativity”: I tried a music tracker and it rewired my brain (in a good way)
Beloved by artists from Aphex Twin to Deadmau5, trackers swap the trusty piano roll for a text-based, vertically-scrolling interface that looks like something out of The Matrix. Let's find out how deep the tracker rabbit hole goes
ENDOGEN: a deep experimental exploratorium of lowercase synthesis - CDM Create Digital Music
Enter an organic sound machine that will take you to an imagined sound world somewhere between a temple garden and a half-awake dream. ENDOGEN is a dazzling tool, built in Max and SuperCollider, that explores notions of lowercase synthesis. There's a lot to cover as far as what it can do -- but you should also feel empowered to play and get lost.
Home · ATMOSYNTH
An atmosphere of synth patches. Playable in the browser. Owned by the community.
EuterPen: Unleashing Creative Expression in Music Score Writing
A dispatch from the dawn of the electronic music age | Aeon Videos
These days, synthesised sound is easy to access – but early electronic music pioneers had to get hands on to produce it
Microcosm | Granular Looper & Glitch Pedal
Microcosm reinterprets your sound in exciting ways using various granular sampling, delay, pitch-shifting and micro-looping techniques. Create ambient, glitch, and other wild sounds with your guitar, synthesizer, or other instrument. Features include Stereo In/Out, MIDI sync, tap tempo, hold sampler, and built-in looper.
The secret story of the vocoder, the military tech that changed music forever
On Version History: how to play your voice like an instrument, with a little help from Chromeo.
Artiphon – Smart instruments for everyday creativity.
Artiphon creates smart, expressive musical instruments like Orba and Chorda that let anyone make music anywhere. Discover intuitive tools for beat-making, looping, and sound exploration.
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