'Tis the season & whatnot - how about a free synth? Meet Tactum: our new free dual-oscillator monosynth for Live 12 and up. (We've also just added a new free OSC control utility to Mod Squad Free if that's more your thing.) Bonus: any donations go to World Central Kitchen. manifest.audio/tactum 💚

sorry for nyt-posting but sam kriss don't miss www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

🆕 🥳 Rhythm Engine gets a powerful new Grid mode to program or generate complex sequences at any tupletted division expressed at any possible rate combination. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUSJ...

🆕 🥳 MIDI and audio LFOx Pro get a new Density control in Lines mode, and new global Drift and Deform parameters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyi9...

escape from jankspace, nobody asked to be born into this jankspace, etc. dis.art/welcome-to-j...

I tried to summarize the AI/music/IP law panel from this year’s AMS/SMT conference for a more general audience. Thanks to Lauren Wilson for chairing such a great series of speakers.

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Starting soon…tune in!! Should be a fun one.

Meet X-Tonal: a scale-aware audio-reactive synthesis layer, and the latest addition to our X-FX series - included free with X-FX v2 and our latest Max MIDI and Ultra Bundle 2026. 💫 Learn more: manifest.audio/x-tonal 🔌

👀 Meet Conversation Engine: our all-new dual-voice call & response sequencer. Each voice features pitch, velocity, length, density, transposition, and deviation, blending Euclidean, count-based & probabilistic patterns routed anywhere via X-Relay. Learn more: manifest.audio/conversation... 💫

Join in this fun community sonification experiment I've been working on... starting in 10 minutes or so!

if you're in berlin come say hi at ikii tonight... lush ambient with good friends (hifi + sake = yum)

what if photo dumps were preset banks 🤔 @manifestaudio.bsky.social #synthsky

Old and busted: audio-reactive visuals New hotness: video-reactive... audibles? More fun with the Data MIDI #Sonification Tool from @manifestaudio.bsky.social: manifest.audio/data-midi (With apologies for the incessant bobbing & weaving 😅) #synthsky

🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this. Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...

Brainwave sonification experiment: Muse 2 headband transmitting to Mind Monitor iOS app, which converts brainwaves to OSC, sent via wifi to the @manifestaudio.bsky.social Sonification Tools I developed, running in Ableton Live 12. #synthsky #braindance

Excited to share this method I've been teaching for years - download link for the free guide + audio effect rack at the bottom of this thread...

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

I wish every image of Gaza bombed and razed into smithereens included a “before” shot, when Gaza — even after decades of brutal occupation, of crushing blockade, of periodic bombings — was so lush, so green, covered in palm trees and beautiful buildings.

NEW: Since giving NYT hacked info from a Nazi and sending a swastika push alert, Substack's extremism is in the spotlight again. An investigation finds Substack is a haven for newsletters dedicated to white supremacy—with the co-founders' blessing. A collab between @katz.theracket.news and me:

This an especially amusing case of -- I needed to figure out how to do something and the best documentation was by me. (well not so much me as @isotonikstudios.bsky.social and @noahpred.bsky.social but on CDM)!

cool how the Nobody Wants To Work Anymore guys are also the We Don't Want Human Employees Anymore guys. we're working as hard as we can to replace you with an iPad but until then let's see some hustle out there

we are so literally cooked

The world is letting them

Reminder that all proceeds from our Desolation Echo go to the PCRF - but today's a great day to give directly... pcrf.net ✊💙

This story is updated. I stand by my reporting on this and throughout the past years. Our ability to make music depends on safe spaces. cdm.link/no-more-musi...

stop fighting / start uniting: did a mix of unreleased material from the vault + some of my favorite classics from that era for the technaustia crew: soundcloud.com/area3000/tec... / if 1 ≠ free then free = 0

Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation

feels more like plato's GRAVE in here today, what's got you guys so bummed out? oh did you figure out the thing with the shadows

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Push the limits of musical creativity with MIDI Toolset 003: our latest suite of advanced MIDI Tools with four powerful Generators and eight versatile Transformations - on sale now with introductory pricing for a limited time only: manifest.audio/midi-toolset... 🎛️💡🔊

Psyched to show what these can do… join in!

The President is slashing government services, sending troops into US cities to abduct people, illegally bombing Iran, and the Democratic Party is mobilizing its full might to … stop New York City from electing a mildly left-leaning mayor.

this has to end. these people have to go. let the people who have to try to live in the future you ghouls created try to navigate it. youve done enormous, unfathomable damage already. retire

Do the right thing: rank me #1, Zohran #2, and DON'T RANK ANDREW CUOMO.

I've been back and forth with friends in the last days. The message has been clear: don't be silent, and don't let the media ignore death and destruction in Iran. Round-up with resources, what artists are saying, and eyewitness reports:

With the arrival of Live 12.2, X-FX v2 is finally here: new algorithms, new devices, new features, new designs. On sale now with a deep introductory discount for less than two weeks! Learn more, try the demo, save now: manifest.audio/x-fx 🔌💡

🆕 🥳 X-Pressor now gets an automatic Make-Up gain toggle and interface improvements. 🆕 🥳 In Relay or MIDI input modes, X-Delay now features an optional delay time quantization option to quantize transposed delay times to the nearest selected timing interval (ie., 16n, 8nd, 32nt, etc.).

Going live with @noahpred.bsky.social to explore our powerful new X-FX in 20 minutes - join in! www.youtube.com/live/cVXWCNc... 👀

Is pure evil good or bad? The debate continues

Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

Time for another stream. 📡💫 We are going live in t-minus 40 minutes with @noahpred.bsky.social to unfold a future-forward bass track from a single solitary MIDI note - using mostly free tools! Lock in: www.youtube.com/live/jvrAj4g... 📺

Our powerful polyrhythmic pulse generator is on sale now!! Enter PLAYGROUNDING at checkout for 20% off Pulse Engine until May 31: manifest.audio/pulse-engine 🔵 🟡 🟢

Should be a fun one… join in!

please listen to the new KAMM record

Weekend viewing bonus - check this recent deep dive on our Sonification Tools with @noahpred.bsky.social for Design Research Week 2025 at Northeastern University: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Md...

Join in - always a fun ride with Mr. Selway..!

never forget

Projected onto University of California Berkeley's sproul Hall by artist Michelle Pred