PicoADK is a complete DIY board to build your own sound inventions – coded in Vult DSP

One little board is the brains of just about any synth, modular starting point, noisemaker, or instrument you can dream up. Meet the Datanoise PicoADK – Raspberry Pico plus high-quality I/O and the Vult DSP language. Now with a complete video tour of how to get started.

Bandcamp Tempo Adjust adds a DJ-style tempo slider – and, soon, beat detection

Calling Bandcamp addicts who DJ: this clever browser extension adds a DJ-style tempo slider to Bandcamp’s Web interface. It’s already feature-packed, with more coming, and a great way to preview tempo changes before you buy.

Peter Kirn - January 6, 2023

New cables.gl: VR, collaboration, and more tweaks and toys for free visual programming tool

The free cable salad-for-visuals tool for the Web gets another big update for October, with everything from enhanced usability to open browser-based VR.

Peter Kirn - October 19, 2022

Acid Hit generates 30-second 303 tunes in your browser

Peter Kirn - September 26, 2022

Novation’s Launchpad 2.0 adds widgets that adapt to your DAW shortcuts, expands customization

Peter Kirn - July 4, 2022

Hot visual patch summer: cables.gl adds character camera control, new physics, remote viewing

Peter Kirn - June 10, 2022

Ableton’s free Learning Synths site now exports, records, and adds more exploration

Peter Kirn - April 26, 2022

Musical, powerful live coding in the browser is here with Strudel – child of Tidal

Peter Kirn - April 12, 2022

itch.io indie gaming distribution for musicians: free open-source Scritch player and more

Peter Kirn - March 28, 2022

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