Alternative histories, realized: someone built a working 80s Apple prototype

Peter Kirn - December 9, 2024

Cover - Land 01 by Tunefork Studios, showing an anthropomorphized valley and river and purple and orange sky dotted with clouds. artwork by Limb.00.

Two essential compilations, rooted in Lebanon, Palestine, organizing aid

Peter Kirn - December 6, 2024

Rekordbox UI showing a bunch of the author's playlists, and playing tracks by Nour Jaber feat. Zanias and Kessell & Kerqus on Detroit Underground.

Rekordbox 7.0.6 arrives with one very important feature

Peter Kirn - December 5, 2024

Close-up, angled view of Envy Machine, showing jacks, push-button selectors, LED indicators for modes, and tall, sleek encoders.

Envy Machine, 4 channels of envelopes, LFOs, randomness, knob recording

Peter Kirn - December 5, 2024

MiilkyTracker screenshot featuring new UI, CYCLE synth running.

MilkyTracker, legendary free music tool, just got a huge update

Peter Kirn - December 4, 2024

MadMapper 6 brings timelines, markers, clips, more

Peter Kirn - December 4, 2024

MCO mk2 module showing different modes on color display, with graphics - DigiWave, SuperSaw, ToneSum (Additive), LFO Rate, FOrmant, Spread, Shape (Noise), and Voice BC8000 (Vari-mode), panel with CV1, CV, CV3 inputs and push-button knob/navigation.

ALM’s new MCO mk2 packs a studio of classic digital synths into 6HP, VCV

Peter Kirn - December 3, 2024

Last chance: new AIR Multiband Filter for free through today

Peter Kirn - December 2, 2024

Mood Machine: The rise of spotify and the cost of the perfect playlist - book cover by Liz Pelly showing Spotify-style thumbnails on a black background.

Mood Machine, Liz Pelly’s book on Spotify, will be a must-read

Peter Kirn - December 2, 2024

Squash plugin UI with X/Y grid, puck, depth on y axis, tone on x axis, and dry/wet control. Menu open, showing framerate / window size/ OpenGL options and oversampling off / 2x / 4x.

Minimal Audio’s Squash is a free OTT that doesn’t sound like OTT

Peter Kirn - November 29, 2024