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Trump tariffs bring chaos, as shipments halted from Europe, Asia
The Trump administration’s trade policies do more than increase costs for US consumers. Their historic scale and disorganized rollout are causing global disruptions. That hurts independent music gear makers and label owners. It’s also ironically likely to cripple manufacturers trying to work in the USA. The only (sort of) good news: shippers and exporters are trying to find solutions, and at least some of the disruptions should be temporary. But those solutions won’t come free.
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Nitecaller has made a gorgeous analog reimagining of ARP 2600, Odyssey
Naarm/Melbourne’s own Nitecaller is making dreamy sounds- and now has the home-built dreamy synth to match. Meet the T-16 semi-modular synth, recreating and expanding on the analog circuits of classic ARPs, built by Nitecaller and his brother.
Peter Kirn - March 11, 2025
DIY + Unusual Gear Modular-Analog Music Tech
bop: free, fast, friendly, fun music stuff for Pd, old CPUs and RasPi
It’s free, it’s fast, it’s fun, it’s bop for the free Pure Data Vanilla. It runs on old computers. It runs on Raspberry Pi. “You probably don’t have any use for bop,” its developer says humbly – but wait, with everything from text sequencing to reverbs to esoteric musical notation, this looks great!
Peter Kirn - February 5, 2025
DIY + Unusual Music tech Software Tech
The Speak & Spell is reborn as a chaos monster and glitchy groovebox
Peter Kirn - July 29, 2024
Gear Music tech Tech
Nina, 12-voice analog polysynth with motorized controls, now in preorders
Peter Kirn - August 11, 2022
Gear Music tech Tech
Modul8, new synth magazine from Australia, packed with interviews and features – on paper
Peter Kirn - July 28, 2022
Gear Modular-Analog Music Music tech Tech
The beauty of wind organs, and how to make one yourself out of recycled materials
Peter Kirn - April 20, 2021
DIY + Unusual Tech
Here’s the biggest guitar in the southern hemisphere, in a free sample library
Peter Kirn - August 8, 2019
DIY + Unusual Music Music tech Stories Tech
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