MINI.MU: a sewable, codeable, gesture-controlled musical instrument for kids

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You’ve seen the awesome Imogen Heap waving her hands around to control musical performance through movement and gesture right? She co-developed the MI.MU gloves to give a flexible and intuitive approach to her own music. Well, now Imogen has been working with creative technologist and children’s author Helen Leigh who wanted to bring something crafty […]

Touché SE: affordable version of the wobbly block USB expressive controller thing

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Expressive E, makers of the Touché MIDI/CV instrument controller have a new, more affordable version. The Touché SE is the same wobbly block style of controller but they’ve removed all the external CV and MIDI connections so it only works via USB with software instruments. Touché SE The Touché is a slightly strange device that […]

Cosmosƒ real-time dynamic stochastic synthesis engine reaches Saturn6

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Cosmosf sound design and sci-fi noise generation software rockets itself to a new milestone with the arrival of Saturn6. What on earth or any other planet is it all about? Cosmosf Saturn6 I’ve been following and writing about the various updates to Cosmosf since I started writing for Gearnews and honestly, I am none the wiser about this […]