Hack a Launchpad Pro into a 16-channel step sequencer, free

Novation’s Launchpad Pro is unique among controller hardware: not only does it operate in standalone mode, but it has an easy-to-modify, open source firmware. This mod lets you exploit that to transform it into a 32-step sequencer.

Watch this $30 kit turn into all these other synthesizers

DIY guru Mitch Altman has been busy expanding ArduTouch, the $30 kit board he designed to teach synthesis and coding. And now you can turn it into a bunch of other synths – with some new videos to who you how that works.

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2018

Vectors are getting their own festival: lasers and oscilloscopes, go!

It’s definitely an underground subculture of audiovisual media, but lovers of graphics made with vintage displays, analog oscilloscopes, and lasers are getting their own fall festival to share performances and techniques.

Peter Kirn - August 7, 2018

Creative software can now configure itself for control, with OSC

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2018

What culture, ritual will be like in the age of AI, as imagined by a Hacklab

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2018

Patchstorage is a friendly site packed with free visual and music patches

Peter Kirn - June 7, 2018

Inside the livecoding algorave movement, and what it says about music

Peter Kirn - May 29, 2018

8BitMixtapeNEO is a glitchy hackable synth the size of a cassette tape

Peter Kirn - May 14, 2018

Open music gear: Bastl Instruments schematics on GitHub

Peter Kirn - April 3, 2018

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