It was the once and future Buchla. But back in 1987, the Buchla 700 was so painfully ahead of its time that ... well, its ideal moment is probably really now, right now, on your iPad. And so you're in luck.

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Techno palace Berghain has never been so adorable as in the work of illustrator Virginie Kypriotis. And now you can load it on your iOS device - perfect for anyone deep in third-wave pandemic techno withdrawal.

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Here's another great underground DAW. The elegant, tape-inspired MultitrackStudio runs on desktop and iPad - and now not only does it to polyphonic expression, but it breaks ground in supporting MIDI 2.0, as well.

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One tool gives you 8-bit retro digital sound effects ("bitcrush"/decimator) with loads of extras, for kind of every platform you can imagine - and it's free.

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You've got an iPhone or an iPad, and you want to control .... a Max patch, a live visual or VJ app, Unreal Engine, a live-coding synth in Tidal/SuperCollider. Finally, there's a worthy, fresh option for making it happen - one that makes making layouts uncommonly easy.

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The new iPhones and iOS are three-dimensional instruments, depth-sensing 3D cameras - pure magic. And one of Japan's top studios has given away a tool that lets you unlock all of that, including with powerful visual app TouchDesigner.

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It's on iOS. It's on Mac. It's on Nintendo Switch. And now KORG's all-in-one studio of synth, drum machine, and production toys is coming to VR.

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One Moog modular runs everywhere (nearly) on the current Apple ecosystem, so your patches go gracefully from Big Sur Mac (M1 or Intel) to iPad to iPhone.

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The OP-Z's ultra-minimalist, candybar form factor hides some serious synthesis, sampling, and audiovisual powers - and now new live visual/VJ functions, too.

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We’ve seen plenty of efforts to make it easy to build song ideas from samples and loops on mobile. With a Mac launch, Endlesss now does what it set out to do – make those sound materials connect everywhere. It’s been a trip to watch Endlesss evolve, partly because the tech has to keep up […]

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SunVox 1.9.6 is here, with a pitch detection module, envelope generator, new harmonics features, an AUv3 on iOS, and lots more. It's a full modular synth and creation environment as donationware or a few dollars on mobile. And it runs on almost everything. So yeah - you can afford it.

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iPhone + Hyperstream can turn the world of streaming and live video from painful low-quality 2020 anxiety source - into something absolutely eye popping and beautiful and surprisingly easy.

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What's new in the new Logic (and GarageBand)? Well, they'll natively use the performance potential of the new macOS and Apple silicon Macs - but there's tighter integration with iPad and Novation Launchpad for all Mac users, too. Here are the details.

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Hot on the heels of bringing Soviet wire recording to plug-ins, artist and video personality Hainbach has another collaboration - this time, turning your iPhone and iPad into a tape-style field recorder.

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2020 is the year enthusiasts revived their love of downloaded music - thanks, Bandcamp. So now we just need a player to match, whether you miss Winamp - or even if you miss vintage Soviet hi-fi machines.

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