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  Septabee, an insane free Linux/Windows DAW 20,000 hours in the making: https://cdm.link/septabee-is-here/ It's written in B++. It's full of pomegranates. It's... not quite like anything you've seen. h/t to @tildesounds@mastodon.social and others

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  Hey, so anybody else out there using CrowdSec? Attempting this via nginx ... at least I do see most of the bot/attack traffic that's been slamming CDM last months (which I've been manually blocking) has come from known IPs. CrowdSec config though is... not n00b-friendly. https://doc.crowdsec.net/u/bouncers/nginx/

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  One more video from my recent release, Cyclamen. This one is intended to be viewed vertically so you can chill out on your phone, which I sort of enjoy. I mean, or for folks with a rotated HDTV... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EgG_-zlP0U (ps, what peertube instance are you folks on? now tempted to start one...)

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  VDMX 6.3 adds expressions, plugin templates to beloved Mac visual tool: https://cdm.link/vdmx6-3/ Oh and nothing to see here, just driving a 4-display video wall off one Mac and a $120 adapter from Amazon...

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  It's summer (or winter, depending on hemisphere), and that means you deserve to take a break and listen to some quality Final Fantasy soundtracks in acoustic cover form. FFIX flamenco! https://cdm.link/square-enix-soundtracks-acoustic-covers/

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  Free BEAST Repeat for @Ableton Live is so good, you’ll switch genres to IDM: https://cdm.link/free-beast-repeat/

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  Two massive breakthroughs this week, all thanks to work by Dr. @ka (alongside Ibrahim El Khansa): an open archive of Arabic tuning *and* an open-source, cross-platform MIDI plug-in for intonation. First look: https://cdm.link/digital-arabic-maqam-archive-and-open-source-midi-plug-in/

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  Turn up Jaymie Silk's 2-volume Reclaim the Music and Transform Ur Mind: https://cdm.link/jaymie-silk-reclaim-the-music/

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  The delicate, tiny sound machines in the world of Kuro Kasetto: https://cdm.link/tiny-sound-world-of-kuro-kasetto/ Truly gorgeous. Like drop everything and dive in. #pd #puredata #arduino #ambient

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  Detroit legend John Jammin Collins -- @undergroundres icon, soul of Detroit, and even Submerge techno museum tour guide -- has passed: https://cdm.link/john-jammin-collins/ Condolences to the whole community.

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  Birds on guitars, in the zebra finch sound art of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, and other gems of his work: https://cdm.link/birds-on-guitars-celeste-boursier-mougenot/

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  Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves have the cutest dinosaur music video: https://cdm.link/owen-lake-and-the-tragic-loves-have-the-cutest-dinosaur-music-video/ Electro-country infused with original instruments -- Electrobass, Electrosteel, and Vocodec. Jeff Snyder (of Snyderphonics, Princeton U) and Anica Mrose Rissi remind us that digital can still go handmade and country -- and Lydia Ricci brings the whole thing to life with toy dinos.

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  DeafMan transforms Ableton Live with custom colors and a deep, interactive theme editor- the first of its kind. It can change how you think about color in your sessions and give Live a complete makeover. https://cdm.link/deafman-transforms-ableton-live-colors-themes/

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  An additive and mono percussive synth for Ableton Live that do way more than just kicks and toms. Hands-on with Rawton Forge Rupture 2 + Impactor. https://cdm.link/impactor-rupture-2-by-rawton-forge-for-ableton-live/

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  Vintage Max patches revived: free downloads, gallery and examples, and a conversation between @Leafcutterjohn and Suren Seneviratne aka My Panda Shall Fly. Wonderful to see this media archaeology project, expanding on the vast treasure trove that is Suren's Missing Music. https://cdm.link/vintage-max-patches-revived/

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  The Bob Moog Foundation Archives just added 4489 items from a huge inMusic donation: https://cdm.link/bob-moog-foundation-archives-donation/ From a Moog autodialer to handwritten schematics and letters, to a unique invention for composition/key/sax great Eddie Harris, extraordinary gems await. With a gallery.

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  A judge has approved a $1.5 billion settlement with Anthropic for pirating author's books. Damn straight. https://apnews.com/article/ai-anthropic-copyright-settlement-claude-books-bartz-74b140444023898aeba8579b6e9f0d63

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  NI, iZotope, Brainworx, Plugin Alliance... who even owns what? And what's happening with the craftspeople who make oboes and trumpets? (Seriously, there are some big shakeups) Your cheat sheet for the NI afterscape and other M&A in 2026... so far. https://cdm.link/ni-after-ni-which-brand-is-where-and-who-owns-whom/ #thepresentofsound

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  This is just a friendly note to say you can drop what you’re doing for the moment and play with a JS version of MS Paint from Win 3.1 era which is more fun than it should be. All generated images should be replaced with terrible drawings made in this. https://paint.js.org/

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  tbd 16, the open groovebox, got support from @nlnet, a terrific organization with a long history of supporting the open internet. That's not even the only NLnet-funded project at #superbooth either! I just added all of these to the top of my to-do list for this weekend: https://nlnet.nl/events/20260507/superbooth/index.html Updated that story to make this all clear: https://cdm.link/dadamachines-tbd-16-a-groovebox-thats-compact-capable-and-open-by-design/

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  How about a truly open groovebox? Out of the box, it's already a powerful sequencer with multiple engines. Then, customize Engines, even Apps, with a free and open SDK and GPLv3 firmware. It'll run Doom if you want. And a lot more. 499EUR incl. VAT. Tons to cover here, so here we go: https://cdm.link/dadamachines-tbd-16-a-groovebox-thats-compact-capable-and-open-by-design/

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  Play together with Ableton Live: how Circle of Live sets up for improvisation. Let's break down the rigs used by Clark, Rival Consoles, and Sebastian Mullaert -- and look at some other live sets and resources. https://cdm.link/play-together-with-ableton-live-circle-of-live/ And yeah, this is very much *not* limited to Live -- as we saw over the weekend with more Link clients (and with MIDI, basically, uh, everything)

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  Ooh, so CDM is now weeks into a pretty ugly DDOS -- standing up to it but each time I block an IP, it hops to a new one. Just hitting GET for every single file. If anyone in my friends list is particularly adept with this on nginx, I'm all ears!

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  Bastl’s new Déjà vu is the 4HP module for when you need to fader stuff: https://cdm.link/bastl-deja-vu/ I really appreciate the clever design here. Via a set of switches and extra jacks, this little module can do more than you think. Also, cats. Smart stuff from our friends in Brno.

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  Liquid and hypnotic, Sinevibes Duality is a different breed of vibrato. More: https://cdm.link/sinevibes-duality/ (speaking of Ukrainian tech!)

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  You can now get eight of UA's best plug-ins free, on top of the (existing) free LUNA DAW. Mac/Windows: https://cdm.link/ua-explore-free/ A breakdown of what's in there and how you might use it, beginner, teacher, or advanced.

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  The problem with the current tech scene can be summed up by the question from the interviewer at 5'16", asking Jobs, hey, why did you model the iMac after the computers in The Jetsons and not 2001: A Space Odyssey?? Uh... here, while I ponder an answer, step into this pod for me, ok? https://youtu.be/8a5KSoOUT_U?si=LsicS41xcQN9wvaF&t=314

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  Absynth 6.1 is out. As usual, Absynth is deep once you dig in. So here's a detailed explanation of how LFO phase and retriggering works in 6.1 (including a v1 feature come back to life!), what auto trigger is, and how the audio modulator works. https://cdm.link/absynth-6-1-audio-modulator-lfo-retrigger/

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  ImagePlot, “vintage” 2010s tool for image visualization, is back, free. @levmanovich and why we should bring back cultural analytics... https://cdm.link/imageplot-vintage-2010s-tool-for-image-visualization-is-back-free/

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  Zebra 3 arrives for Mac, Windows, and Linux -- u-he calls it a "wireless modular." First look -- splines and physical modeling always make me happy, of course. https://cdm.link/zebra-3-is-here-a-sprawling-semi-modular-plug-in-that-runs-deep/