bop: free, fast, friendly, fun music stuff for Pd, old CPUs and RasPi

It’s free, it’s fast, it’s fun, it’s bop for the free Pure Data Vanilla. It runs on old computers. It runs on Raspberry Pi. “You probably don’t have any use for bop,” its developer says humbly – but wait, with everything from text sequencing to reverbs to esoteric musical notation, this looks great!

Maker Monday: Autodafe put VCV Rack in a Eurorack module, via RasPi

It’s “yo dawg”/Inception time to the max. Not to be outdone by 4ms MetaModule, Autodafe has put all of VCV Rack (specifically its Cardinal fork) into a Eurorack module. Along the way, you’ll learn how to set up Cardinal on Raspberry Pi for any hardware project you might imagine.

Peter Kirn - January 6, 2025

monome and RNBO now play together – with a free drum sampler patch

The iconic monome grid just got native support from Cycling ’74’s RNBO, the patching tool for exporting Max sounds on other hardware and software environments. There’s a fun, free example patch to get you started, too.

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2024

Machinedrum, repatched: Cycling ’74 doing fun stuff with RNBO

Peter Kirn - June 7, 2024

RNBO 1.3.0, now a powerful RasPi raw MIDI tool – plus, chats with Max artists

Peter Kirn - May 18, 2024

MINIDEXED puts 8 DX7 emulators on a USB stick

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2023

What the future of the NUC platform means for Ableton Push standalone

Peter Kirn - September 19, 2023

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

Peter Kirn - May 23, 2023

Wiggler is a bendy expressive DIY synth – and its creator is sharing their process

Peter Kirn - March 9, 2023

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