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What’s new in the DIY world of Music Thing’s Workshop System
It’s a Very Workshop System Jamuary. Music Thing’s patchable music lab-in-a-lunchbox has proved that small-batch personal hardware can attract a select, dedicated community sharing great stuff with one another. Let’s catch up with what’s been happening in that magical village of synth wonder in the past year. Don’t forget, the ideas and code here are all open — meaning this could inspire more.
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How to run Bitwig Studio on the Steam Deck gaming console
You’d be hard-pressed to build a better handheld-sized computer. Artist nbor has turned his Steam Deck gaming handheld from Valve into a compact step-sequencing powerhouse, and he shares the script and tips you need if you want to do the same.
Peter Kirn - December 11, 2025
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Airwindows VerbThic, VerbTiny let you go even more rabid for reverb, for free
Chris Johnson, aka Airwindows, continues to share his love for DSP with free tools, open source code, and elaborate discussions of the joy of crafting reverbs. So just in case you don’t feel blessed enough with free effects after SuperMassive’s new Sirius reverb/delay, here’s the tiny and the thick in all-new Airwindows editions. And they’ll even run in VCV Rack or on a Raspberry Pi.
Peter Kirn - December 3, 2025
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NAP, free visual and media framework, now dazzles anywhere
Peter Kirn - October 23, 2025
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bop: free, fast, friendly, fun music stuff for Pd, old CPUs and RasPi
Peter Kirn - February 5, 2025
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Maker Monday: Autodafe put VCV Rack in a Eurorack module, via RasPi
Peter Kirn - January 6, 2025
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monome and RNBO now play together – with a free drum sampler patch
Peter Kirn - October 11, 2024
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Machinedrum, repatched: Cycling ’74 doing fun stuff with RNBO
Peter Kirn - June 7, 2024
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