Making music on the TI graphing calculator — and a TI-inspired plug-in synth

Time to dust off that TI-82, TI-83, or TI-84. The graphic calculators that a lot of us used in school can become ingenious chip synths and even run trackers. And that translates to a surprisingly powerful graphing calculator-inspired synth — one that instantly became one of my favorite plug-ins.

Tour chip music’s underbelly – ripped-off, anti-human, and wonderful

Just as everyone is arguing for warmth and humans and “organic” music, Diskette Deluxe is here to save us with inhuman and unoriginal goodness – and we couldn’t be happier.

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2019

Game Boy music classic Nanoloop is coming to two dedicated mobile gadgets

Nanoloop, the ingeniously simple pocket music making tool, is being reborn. Two new dedicated pocket hardware devices promise to do what once required Nintendo’s Game Boy.

Peter Kirn - November 13, 2019

Here are two new ways of combining a synth with Arduino

Peter Kirn - September 7, 2015

8-bit Remake of Hasselhoff’s True Survivor is the Best Thing We’ve Watched This Week

Peter Kirn - June 19, 2015

SidTracker 64 Puts Retro Chip Music Creation on Your iPad

Peter Kirn - June 19, 2015

This Is What Happens When Vintage Robot Voices Make an Album

Peter Kirn - January 15, 2015

The Original Speech Chip Is Coming To A New Plug-In

Peter Kirn - January 12, 2015

Lo-Fi SES Looks Like a Game Controller, Plays Like a Chip Instrument

- December 1, 2014