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…

Here’s a free polysynth built entirely inside Unreal Engine 5

How much can Unreal Engine and MetaSounds accomplish? Developer/artist Matt Spendlove has built a complete open-source polysynth in it, roughly recreating the AudioKit Synth One using Unreal’s internal tools.

Peter Kirn - August 19, 2024

cables.gl, free visual programming: now open source, offline

cables.gl is a wonderful creative environment for everything the browser can do visually – interaction, motion, and 3D. And now it sports a full open source MIT license and a version you can download and use offline.

Peter Kirn - August 7, 2024

Isadora 4 updates the deep media tool for artists – now with remote powers

Peter Kirn - August 1, 2024

Inside Cristian Vogel’s ShifterMesh, a multi-effect inspired by Chilean forests

Peter Kirn - July 3, 2024

Android users get Polaris, a new pocket music maker

Peter Kirn - April 8, 2024

Leap Motion is back, so you can add 3D gestures for $139 – with or without a VR headset

Peter Kirn - June 6, 2023

Inside Ableton’s Drift, the hardware-inspired synth in Live 11, with designer Marc Resibois

Peter Kirn - May 31, 2023

Inside the new Ableton Push: all the technical details so far, from I/O to Max for Live

Peter Kirn - May 23, 2023

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