PicoADK is a complete DIY board to build your own sound inventions – coded in Vult DSP

One little board is the brains of just about any synth, modular starting point, noisemaker, or instrument you can dream up. Meet the Datanoise PicoADK – Raspberry Pico plus high-quality I/O and the Vult DSP language. Now with a complete video tour of how to get started.

Surge XT hybrid synth is now a free set of modules for VCV Rack

Free meets free: in a labor-of-love community project, soft synth Surge XT is now available as an exquisitely designed set of modules for VCV Rack. It combines two of the best open-source projects for software synthesis lovers, bringing new ways of patching to both. And that means all this power is on macOS, Windows, and Linux, all three.

Peter Kirn - January 27, 2023

Click Tracker is free and open source cue maker – now with interactive display, pedals

Going on the grid is way more interesting when you compose the grid. Click Tracker, João Pais’ free and open-source click track generation for tons of platforms (even Max and Pd), keeps getting more functionality.

Peter Kirn - January 4, 2023

Free sample mashing with samplebrain, by Aphex Twin and Dave Griffiths

Peter Kirn - September 25, 2022

Locally sourced: you can now run Stable Diffusion AI art generation on your M1 Mac

Peter Kirn - September 13, 2022

mlre is an expanded version of the classic monome mlr, focused on performance

Peter Kirn - August 3, 2022

Slimshader packs GPU shaders into your Eurorack for live visuals, thanks to RasPi

Peter Kirn - July 22, 2022

Free Piloslib for Pd makes patching easier – and sounds totally hardcore

Peter Kirn - July 11, 2022

CLAP is a new open-source plug-in format from Bitwig, u-he – do we need it, and who will use it?

Peter Kirn - June 15, 2022

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