Dazzle at the soft synths of the Commodore Amiga – including a forgotten 1985 gem

The obscure software synth wonders of the Commodore Amiga hold up today as unique sound creation instruments. And as early as 1985 they offered real-time polyphonic synthesis, thanks to the onboard Paula chip. Paulee Bow shares their deep dive into a wide assortment of these in a new documentary – and makes the platform tantalizing enough that even generations born long after the Amiga may find themselves booting an emulator or hunting flea markets.

8-bit oscillators with analog overdrive and a glitch lab to bend them: Liquid Sky launches d-vices

Liquid Sky d-vices have unveiled their warped limited-edition modular hardware: a dual oscillator with 8-bit wavetables and analog envelopes and overdrive, and a sprawling patch bay expander for circuit-bending those oscillators.

Peter Kirn - May 12, 2023

Game Boy Advance gets a new, free step sequencer, complete with p-locks

Dust off that GBA: it’s a groove box now. Stepper is a free and open source 16-step sequencer with full access to the onboard sound engine and per-trigger parameter locks, Elektron-style. (And this pairs well with Elektron gear, as the developer shows.)

Peter Kirn - May 1, 2023

RP-8 is a “demake” of the ReBirth RB-338 for the PICO-8 fantasy console

Peter Kirn - March 14, 2023

Pirouette machines: sound and computation from screw cans and fluidics, with Ioana Vreme Moser

Peter Kirn - January 30, 2023

The Commodordion: 8-bit instrument made of taped-together C64s and floppies

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2022

That time the band Journey made an Atari 2600 game

Peter Kirn - September 28, 2022

Remute’s Unity album looks glorious on Game Boy Advance, in art and music

Peter Kirn - July 29, 2022

Atari, at 50, leaves a legacy of electronic imagination in visuals and sound

Peter Kirn - June 29, 2022

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