AI-powered plugin generators promise to democratise development – but is vibe coding really the future of plugin design, or ...

In a curious historical twist, the “Twelve days of Christmas” are actually the days of revelry that followed the 25th. The preceding period, Advent, was traditionally a fast, not unlike Lent. When and ...

What if your next musical breakthrough could fit in the palm of your hand? Compact MIDI sequencers and groove boxes are transforming the way musicians create, offering a perfect blend of portability ...

Thanks to software frameworks and libraries that have become quite powerful over time, even with a compact and inexpensive system, it is possible to achieve complex functions. In this project, we use ...

Imagine a piano that plays itself- not just some basic tunes, but musical performances from any MIDI file. That’s exactly what a creative maker has built: a fully automated piano-playing robot that ...

This paper investigates the potential of the intrinsically motivated reinforcement learning (IMRL) approach for robotic drumming. For this purpose, we implemented an IMRL-based algorithm for a ...

After the success of PicoADK v1, Datanoise has recently announced the launch of its PicoADK v2 music synthesizer built around the Raspberry Pi RP2350 MCU. The board supports projects like custom ...

Yes, you can program Arduino with Python using the PyFirmata library. While Arduino traditionally uses C++ code, Python can control Arduino boards through the Firmata protocol, allowing you to ...

Magazine articles with detailed hardware, software, and getting-started descriptions are available for download here (free, for German, French or Dutch versions, search the corresponding Elektor ...

Preserving interactive multimedia artworks is a challenging research field due to their complex nature and technological obsolescence. Established preservation strategies are inadequate since they do ...