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.

SuperSonic: SuperCollider synth is fun, playful, colorful, free, in any Web page

It’s the full SuperCollider synth, without the installation. You can add it to any site (self-hosted). It performs seamlessly via WebAssembly. But most importantly, it’s fun, colorful, and comes with examples and an OSC API so it can interface with live coding tools like Tidal (or your favorite). And you can mess around with it right now, for free.

Peter Kirn - November 15, 2025

A free Winamp clone, for macOS, with FLAC and Milkdrop visualizations

It might be a funny intersection of interests. But developer Matt Greenwood built a macOS-native clone of the legendary Winamp in Swift, MIT-licensed, with MP3 and FLAC playback and Milkdrop visualization support (including fullscreen).

Peter Kirn - November 14, 2025

Transform any binary file into sound and MIDI, right in your browser, free

Peter Kirn - November 11, 2025

Free Envion Deepscan turns your hard drive’s lost files into a soundscape

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2025

Open Steinberg: VST3 and ASIO SDKs now have open source licenses

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2025

Freesound, massive shared sounds library, turns 20 with talks and listening

Peter Kirn - October 28, 2025

Envion: a free, open, algorithmic drum composition environment in Pd

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2025

NAP, free visual and media framework, now dazzles anywhere

Peter Kirn - October 23, 2025

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