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The best free tools for working with modular synthesis and music
Patching for the people – there’s no reason cost or access has to keep you from the powers and fun of modular synthesis and music making. VCV Rack’s launch this month got lots of attention, but there are other options, too. Here the latest, best picks.
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Prototypes are free, open-source plug-ins – use them for sound, or to learn Csound
Get a free algorithmic bass drum generator, a lo-fi modulator, a massive granular workstation, for free – and that’s just the beginning.
Grainstation-C is a free granular tool with ambisonics, and an album to match
It started as an artist tool, but it could become yours, as well. Grainstation-C is a free and open source sound creation workstation that’s playable live and supports ambisonic spatial sound. And the music its creators makes is ethereal and wonderful. Micah Frank, noted sound designer and toolmaker as well as composer/musician, produced Grainstation-C for […]
Peter Kirn - July 29, 2019
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Patchstorage is a friendly site packed with free visual and music patches
Peter Kirn - June 7, 2018
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Kickblast makes kick drum sounds for you, free, powered by Csound
Peter Kirn - January 22, 2018
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Leave this free software running, and it’ll come up with rhythms for you
Peter Kirn - October 27, 2017
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