Ewan Hemingway, a Computational Physics student at Edinburgh University, has unleashed Androidome, an Android monome app. According to Hemingway, “the app itself doesn’t actually do a whole lot out of the box, it simply provides an interface for sending and receiving data to and from your computer.” That said, it will be quite useful for...

TubeOhm has released PURE D16/24 Grain, a virtual synthesizer VST plug-in for Windows. Grain is an experimental synth that employs Grain synthesis. You can load you own Samples into the synth, drive through the sample, modulate the grain or stop the Grain on a position in the sample. After the Grain oscillator you can use VCA, VCF, CHORUS, DELAY, REVERB and a...

Inspired by the success of the Dubspot and Ableton’s Live 8 Tour, which utilized the Akai APC40 controller, Ableton then jumped in bed with Novation to launch a similar endeavor to showcase the Launchpad. The Ableton and Novation Live Beats Tour hit the USA and then Portugal to spread the excellent Launchpad’s abilities to manipulate Live. Now...

ArcAttack, tesla coil musicians who we’ve showcased previously here at FutureMusic, have taken their performance to the masses via America’s Got Talent. The group, who construct all their own gear from scratch in one of the member’s garage, utilize two huge Tesla Coils, which act like speakers, to perform recognizable songs. For America’s...