Gaming Music tech Software Tech
Squiggy’s WaveTracker: open-source tracker – and other free tools
WaveTracker is a fun, free tracker for Windows that features wavetable editing, more than 100 instrument macros, and visualization for a glitchy good time. And that brings up the many other free trackers you might try out these days…
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Dancing “vibes” and 2 more mood-elevating freebies for Live, DAWs
As much as music making can pick you up, sometimes you need an extra injection of joy. So meet Max – a blue dancing figure you will “vïbe” to your music on any Ableton Live track, free. And more freebies: a bathroom reverb for Ableton Live and a chipper chippy 12-bit polysynth for any DAW.
Peter Kirn - August 5, 2024
Music tech Software Tech
The Speak & Spell is reborn as a chaos monster and glitchy groovebox
You’ve heard the Speak & Spell. You’ve heard circuit-bent Speak & Spell. But are you ready to open a Hellmouth of total destructive speech chaos based on combining those into a massively powerful groovebox?
Peter Kirn - July 29, 2024
Gear Music tech Tech
chipsynth C64 is an emulation of the SID so good, it can replace hardware
Peter Kirn - December 6, 2023
Gaming Music tech Software Tech
Dazzle at the soft synths of the Commodore Amiga – including a forgotten 1985 gem
Peter Kirn - June 28, 2023
DIY + Unusual Gear Music Music tech Stories Tech
Game Boy Advance gets a new, free step sequencer, complete with p-locks
Peter Kirn - May 1, 2023
Apps DIY + Unusual Gaming Music tech Pocket gaming Tech
RP-8 is a “demake” of the ReBirth RB-338 for the PICO-8 fantasy console
Peter Kirn - March 14, 2023
DIY + Unusual Gaming Music tech Pocket gaming Tech
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