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.)

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

ReBirth, the software recreations of the TB-303 and TR-808, helped launch Propellerhead (now Reason Studios) and demonstrated acid could be made on a PC. Now, imagine that software in 2023 but – much lower fidelity. Like, much worse. 128×128 pixel UI worse.

Peter Kirn - March 14, 2023

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

Eat your heart out, Roland V-Accordion. Meet the Commodordion, an 8-bit chip instrument with bellows made of floppies and gaffer tape – and a surprisingly deep feature set.

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2022

Two twisted desktop grooveboxes: hapiNES L, Acid8 MKIII

Peter Kirn - February 12, 2019

Cute little €99 NES, acid music toys: coming soon, totally connected

Peter Kirn - August 28, 2018

Forget vinyl: here’s a DJ rig with two Amiga 1200 PCs

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2018

Cram Commodore 64 speech synthesis into your rack with this firmware

Peter Kirn - May 24, 2018

The 90s are alive, with a free, modern clone of FastTracker II

Peter Kirn - April 24, 2018

Oi, Kant! is a raunchy, glitchy, out-of-control patchable groove machine

Peter Kirn - March 20, 2018

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