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Top music gear news from Superbooth 2021 – the CDM monster guide

Peter Kirn September 21, 2021

The music nerd cultural happening - modular pilgrimage is back, and with it... way too much gear to wrap your...

Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters

Peter Kirn September 21, 2021

Afrorack continues to make richly textured polyrhythmic music and share secrets for cheaply producing powerful modular instruments with open tools....

VCV Rack 2 teaser gives us reasons to be excited about Rack again

Peter Kirn September 14, 2021

After a long silence, VCV reveals some of what's coming in VCV Rack 2, the new edition of the free...

The PICO DSP Is An Open Source, Arduino-Compatible Audio Development Platform

synthhead September 3, 2021

Ohmic Electronics has launched a crowdfunding project on Crowd Supply to fund production of PICO DSP, an open source, Arduino...

A free, open-source collection of building blocks unlocks expressive motion in Houdini

Peter Kirn August 31, 2021

It's powered by math but doesn't require you to remember your, uh, linear algebra. It's not a set of presets,...

Ossia score 3: Free cross-platform intermedia sequencer now in beta

Ronnie August 31, 2021

Ossia.io has announced the release of ossia score 3 beta, an update to the free, open-source, cross-platform sequencer that is...

Playtronica’s Orbita explores sequences on physical, kinetic turntable, launching soon

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,...

Hands-On With Monome’s Norns, Grid & Arc ‘Open Instruments’

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...

The Oskitone Scout Is Like The Open Source IKEA Synthesizer

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...

SuperCollider 3.12 updates massively powerful, free sound synthesis coding environment

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...

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Top music gear news from Superbooth 2021 – the CDM monster guide

Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters

VCV Rack 2 teaser gives us reasons to be excited about Rack again

The PICO DSP Is An Open Source, Arduino-Compatible Audio Development Platform

A free, open-source collection of building blocks unlocks expressive motion in Houdini

Ossia score 3: Free cross-platform intermedia sequencer now in beta

Playtronica’s Orbita explores sequences on physical, kinetic turntable, launching soon

Hands-On With Monome’s Norns, Grid & Arc ‘Open Instruments’

The Oskitone Scout Is Like The Open Source IKEA Synthesizer

SuperCollider 3.12 updates massively powerful, free sound synthesis coding environment

Ult-Sound DS-4M ProMuzer, a clone of the second iteration Toyo Gakki DS-4 drum Synthesizer

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Reason relaunches classic sampler ReCycle for FREE

Clank Uranograph, highly expressive, microtonal additive Synthesizer and looper

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