5 Interesting things week of September 29th 2025
Touch OSC ; build custom interfaces to control your music.
Kelli Anderson's Alphabet In Motion Book; if you like paper art, then this book is for you, and she's doing a book tour for the book!
Milanote ; I was looking for a mood board application (no, not pinterest) and the helpful little LLM suggested Milanote, which initially seems to be exactly what I was looking for; They have a browser plugin to capture pages/images, I can add captions to the images and pretty much just work out ideas on the canvas.
Skip The Use - Ghost or Album on Apple Music , and If I'm linking to French rockers, Shaka Ponk
Midi2TheMax) ; enter notes much quicker than using the piano roll, instead of using the mouse and clicking the notes in, you just type the notes you want, and it'll enter them for you.
By introducing an intuitive text-based syntax to describe melodies and chords, M2TM Notes bridges the gap between your DAW and AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, and more. For instance, you can ask ChatGPT to craft a melody or bass line with specific characteristics — such as key, scale, interval size, and preferred note durations — and paste the AI's response directly into M2TM Notes. The connection is bidirectional: create a melody in Ableton's piano roll, convert it into text with M2TM Notes, and ask ChatGPT to generate chord progressions or counter-melodies.
But M2TM Notes goes far beyond simple note entry. It includes a lightweight yet versatile music-oriented programming language that supports advanced features like arpeggios, chord strumming, automatic voice leading, time humanization, swing, scale quantization, drum pattern generation, and more. You can randomize all note attributes, including pitch, velocity, and duration, and even generate random harmonies. This tool empowers you to create personalized melodies, bass lines, and chord progressions tailored to your specific needs — offering a level of flexibility and creativity that surpasses traditional "stock" riff generators.