Music Thing Modular Workshop System: patch, hack, code, mic, jack in

Tom Whitwell and Thonk have revealed their latest: a complete modular system ready to be tote in its own hard case. The Workshop System has all the modular, patchable goodness you’d expect—contact mics and guitar/stereo line inputs—but it’s also got a computer inside, with unique programmable cards.

Nintendo DS as ultra-portable generative source, with homebrew and Lua

It’s generative music that can fit into a spare pocket of a backpack. Nintendo DS + CellsDS homebrew + a little Lua code hacking + Korg’s Pandora PX4D guitar multi-effects = pure bliss.

Peter Kirn - September 16, 2024

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…

Peter Kirn - September 5, 2024

Chill out to some granular goodness in Modular Play on Playdate portable

Peter Kirn - December 28, 2023

Valdivia, Chile to Tampere, Finland, a livecoding Solstice is on right now

Peter Kirn - December 22, 2023

Finally, a silly synth so small you could swallow it (but please don’t)

Peter Kirn - December 19, 2023

This script makes endless looping samples out of YouTube

Peter Kirn - November 20, 2023

Eurorack kits, cases, and more ways to mod your Korg NTS-1 hardware

Peter Kirn - July 3, 2023

RNBO news: JavaScript + Web interactive audiovisuals, RNBO included in Live 11.3

Peter Kirn - May 31, 2023

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