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Francisco Partners exits Muse Group (Audacity, Hal Leonard, MuseScore)
Francisco Partners, the private equity firm, is now exiting Muse Group amid 2026’s financial maneuvers. Muse Group is the Cyprus-based conglomerate that owns the publishing giant Hal Leonard, audio editor Audacity, notation software MuseScore and StaffPad, and the online platform Ultimate Guitar.
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ImagePlot, “vintage” 2010s tool for image visualization, is back, free
“Gramps, tell us the story again!” Well, young’n, before LLMs and generative AI, we were really excited about making big clouds of dots using statistical techniques for visualization. And actually, it’s still cool — and runs free, locally, in your browser. Lev Manovich and team have brought back ImagePlot, and in a moment, it transforms any folder of images into a visualization.
Live out your Xenakis fantasies, free in your browser, with SonicSketch
JeongHo Park, a self-described “algorithmic composer” and artist, is building a delightful instrument that turns images into scores with full drawing capability for making paths. Inspired by the likes of Xenakis’ UPIC, the tool gives you instantly mind-bending results, living in that netherworld between synthesizer and score.
Peter Kirn - February 9, 2026
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ANIMEVOX by castpixel is a free retro anime-style sound fx generator
Peter Kirn - January 18, 2026
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littlescale’s Simple Audio Editor: a free, no-install audio editor in your browser
Peter Kirn - January 18, 2026
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Bandcamp is taking a stand against generative AI; will it work?
Peter Kirn - January 14, 2026
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