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Free Blender 4.4 adds animation and video features, improves stability
It’s a great week for free and open-source media tools. Hot on the heals of GIMP 3.0 final, we get Blender 4.4. It’s labeled as focusing on stability, but the Blender contributors have packed a bunch of major animation, video, and UI features in there, too. Now, we can say this is the tool used in Oscar-winning films (Flow).
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303 Day: the freaky CDM Megaroundup
It’s 303 Day. Roland is giving away licenses for its TB-303 plug-in if you act fast. The Internet, for its part, will make you feel like you’re actually on acid. Let’s go.
Peter Kirn - March 3, 2025
DIY + Unusual Gaming Gear Music Music tech Tech
Acidwerk is a totally bonkers free and open source Web acid synth
Acidwerk puts the acid in acid. Yes, this is a generative bassline and drum synth. No, it does not make the vanilla acid you might be imagining. It’s a beautifully bizarre instrument perfect for creating some chaotic noise in a browser tab right after you’ve closed … the news.
Peter Kirn - February 17, 2025
Music tech Software Tech Web
Here it is, a cover of Kendrick Lamar and more awesomeness for the Otamatone
Peter Kirn - February 14, 2025
Gear Music tech Tech
Worlds of sound from hacked hard drives, piano-triggered modular
Peter Kirn - February 7, 2025
DIY + Unusual Music Stories Tech
Bandcamp and Discogs Tempo Adjust has a new UI, Master Tempo
Peter Kirn - November 20, 2024
Music Music tech Tech Web
Ubuntu Studio 24.10 – the free Linux audiovisual workstation – is here
Peter Kirn - October 10, 2024
Music tech Software Tech
Nintendo DS as ultra-portable generative source, with homebrew and Lua
Peter Kirn - September 16, 2024
Apps DIY + Unusual Gaming Music tech Pocket gaming Tech
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