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Peter Kirn August 30, 2021

Inspired by objects like wall clocks and reel-to-reel tape machines, Orbita is a sequencer whose interaction is physical and kinetic,...

synthhead August 26, 2021

Monome makes a small line of products that are designed to be open-ended and customizable. … Read More Hands-On With...

synthhead August 18, 2021

San Francisco-based DIY synth maker Oskitone has introduced the Scout, an Arduino-compatible square wave monosynth that's like the open source...

Peter Kirn August 4, 2021

It's the basis of a lot of the live coding scene, and an unmatched powerhouse, free and open source. And...

Peter Kirn July 26, 2021

No budget for an electronic drum kit? No problem. Brian Bamanya reports from Uganda on how to DIY the whole...

guest July 6, 2021

Japanese musical instrument development team Piko Piko Factory recently announced plans to open source Profree-4, a hardware clone of the...

synthhead July 5, 2021

An independent news site that covers open source software recommends uninstalling Audacity ASAP.… Read More Is Audacity Now Spyware? And...

synthhead June 15, 2021

Like the Plaits it is based on, Brains features a wide range of digital oscillator modes, ranging from virtual analog...

Peter Kirn June 14, 2021

It’s a rig in the dirt, on a budget, with some beautiful music. DIY forest sounds are go. Now that...

Ronnie June 14, 2021

Joakim Frostegård has released a free and open source frequency modulation-based synthesizer plugin for Windows, macOS, and Linux. OctaSine is...