Peter Kirn over at Create Digital Music has got an article on Harmonix opening up the Rock Band network to create songs for the ever popular console games. It's not particularly EDM related, but the creation side is very cool. He also has a Q&A with them.

Peter Kirn over at Create Digital Music has a great piece outlining the Bliptronic 5000 a $50 device from Thing Geek looking to take on the Tenori-on and monome.. to a degree. Check out the article to see this cool little device.

Peter Kim has a great in-depth article over at Create Digital Music on the new Teenage Engineering OP-1 Controller + Synth. A concept/prototype synth that will be doing a small 100 unit run to beta testers. Very nice modern design that you don't see with much hardware these days. They usually take the gimmick route. Check out the full article over at CDM.

Peter Kirn over at Create Digital Music has an article about a new Linux based laptop that comes pre-loaded with a bunch of music based apps. Indamixx Laptop is the first pre-configured music netbook, running linux for USD$499. Not too shabby for those that don't want to spend heaps on their road machine.

Peter Kirn over at Create Digital Music has an overview of a new kind of syth from sonic charge that has an entirely new approach to the creation of synth patches and the sounds themselves. Read his full article to understand what this is about.

The folks over at Create Digital Music has got a nice overview of the free and open source Livid Looper audio application from the specialized VJ Software/controller company

The guys over at Create Digital Music have a great article on the free music production software from Sonoma. The interesting thing about this software is that it provides mechanisms to collaborate while creating.

For all those crazed iPhone fans out there the first commercial music creation software has been released to the app store. You can go over to our friends at Create Digital Music and read their run down, as I don't have an iPhone to play with this.

Our friends over at Create Digital Music have a story about an open source DJ midi controller that looks pretty damn cool. It's got a very clean design, there is a video demoing the unit.

Our friends over at Create Digital Music has an article on a project that is underway to create an Ableton controller that mimics the User Interface. The work is already looking pretty cool, so jump over and check it out.

Peter Kirn over at Create Digital Music interviews the creator of the stribe multi-touch controller and gets a hands-on look at the controller itself. There are some great photos and videos and its all built using a relatively cheap Arduino controller.