Errant: generative rhythm, unstable melody and microtonal drift Errant is a browser-based instrument for generating, editing and performing rhythm, melody and bass as three related but independently moving systems. It began with a fairly simple question: what happens if a pattern generator is designed not merely to produce loops, but… Read More "Errant"
Introducing Memory Decay Memory Decay is now available as a browser-based generational decay instrument from EventFieldAudio. Load an audio loop and it plays back through a process that gradually misremembers it, altering which fragments survive along with their timing, loudness, pitch, duration and harmonic relationship to the original. Each generation… Read More "MemoryDecay"
EventField Web: Turning Language into an Evolving Musical FieldEventField Web is a browser-based generative sound-design instrument that transforms written language into music.Enter your own text- or import words from a webpage- and EventField translates each letter into Morse-code rhythms. These events are mapped across a chosen scale and distributed through… Read More "EventField Web"
Multichannel phasing and object export, free, runs in your browser. One sound is played many times at once, and every copy runs at a slightly different speed. They start together. Over the next few minutes they slide apart, because a copy running 0.2% faster gains about a fifth of a… Read More "A Room Apart"
EventFieldAudio / Phasing instrument + drift field / Free, runs in your browser Two voices read the same source. One of them runs slightly faster. That is the whole idea. Everything else that happens comes out of that one decision. The voices start locked together. The faster one edges ahead,… Read More "A Tempo Apart"
Introducing BreakChopper Web BreakChopper is now available as a browser-based drum loop chopper and breakbeat generator from EventFieldAudio.Load your own drum loops, divide them into slices and generate new rhythmic variations using a range of distinctive chop models. The application supports transient-aware slicing, deterministic seeds, chance-based structures, glitch processing and… Read More "BreakChopper Web"
I have a pair of cascading SSL X-Racks configured for 48 channels of analogue summing. While I love the sound and flexibility of the system, one small annoyance has always been that the monitor controls on the XR622 Master Modules live over in the outboard racks rather than at the mix position itself. Read More "SSL X-Rack Master Module control with Soundflow/Streamdeck."
I recently had the pleasure of being invited onto the Sound On Sound podcast to talk about modular synthesis, and it’s one of those moments that feels genuinely full circle. Read More "Sound On Sound Podcast – A Full-Circle Moment"
James RichmondSunday, 22nd March 2026 Over the last year or so, what began as a collection of individual songs gradually revealed itself to be something more structured than I first realised. At the time, I thought I was simply writing pieces as they came to me, responding to moods, fragments… Read More "Fragments, Ashes, Signals – A Trilogy"
Over the last few weeks I’ve found myself returning to what initially appeared to be a simple and settled matter Read More "The Structure of The Deathbird"
This essay suggests some practical guidelines for the use of AI within the realm of creative practice. Read More "Scaffolding, Not Substance"
Over the last few years I have become increasingly aware of a quiet but significant shift in how I relate to my own work as a creative. Read More "Outsourcing Authorship: Finding a Voice"
Building bespoke music software with AI as scaffolding, not substitute. Read More "Producer to Plugin Architect: AI Assisted Coding for Music Producers"
We’ve added an Avid S6 controller to Volt Per Octave. Sometimes derided as the ‘just a big mouse’ I’ve always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with studio controllers. I’ve previously had a Mackie Control, SSL Nucleus 2, Euphonix MC Transport and an Avid Dock and they have been… Read More "Avid S6 at Volt Per Octave."
Cool Uses For Home Automation Products In The Studio Read the full article → Read More "Home Automation Products In The Studio"
FabFilter Twin 3 Synth Virtual Instrument – Expert Review Read the full article → Read More "FabFilter Twin 3"
Auto-Bounce by Tom Salta – Automated Bounces For Logic Pro Read the full article → Read More "Auto-Bounce by Tom Salta"
Many home studios feature a single audio interface and a single pair of stereo monitors and the de facto standard for connecting the two is to simply run a pair of cables between these two devices and control the monitoring level from the audio interface… Read the full article → Read More "Buying A Monitor Controller? Read This First"
Old and New – James Richmond’s Groove Tubes ViPre And Fractal FM9 Turbo Read the full article → Read More "Old and New"
In this article, we are looking at how we can use Sonarworks to manage Mac System audio output, the default output from macOS, not just the system sounds, but any applications that produce sound but don’t have their own audio device control panel. Read the full article → Read More "How To Use Sonarworks To Manage The Mac System Sounds"
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