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Ableton Live and Push can now run on Linux, unofficially
Finally, proof that there’s life for Live after Apple and Microsoft. It’s unofficial and totally unsupported, but a set of patches for the free Wine compatibility environment lets you run Ableton Live 12, Max for Live, and Push 2 and Push 3 on Linux. And the result is just about indistinguishable from native support.
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Pac-Man, Befaco RANDOM8, and more free modules of VCV Rack
Your sequencing gets upgraded — including cameos by Pac-Man and the LOGO turtle. You get even more secret weapons for drum synthesis. You get the hot new RANDOM8 collab from Befaco and Mylar Melodies, cloning their new hardware. There’s just so much goodness in VCV Rack that covering the free stuff has me dizzy. Here’s your June update, with some sound examples.
Peter Kirn - June 18, 2026
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With Latent Terrain, crack open AI and explore neural synthesis in Max
“I’m not particularly interested in typing prompts to make stuff, I’m interested in breaking them and dissecting them,” writes Jasper Shuoyang Zheng as he introduces Latent Terrain. Now using an intuitive, elegantly designed open-source Max external and UI, you can play the weird world of neural audio codecs like an instrument, transforming your own sounds into new textures.
Peter Kirn - June 17, 2026
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Free: 4ms VCV Rack ROMplers put gobs of drums under voltage control
Peter Kirn - May 19, 2026
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Wish granted: VCV Rack’s Plateau is now a Eurorack module from 4ms
Peter Kirn - May 7, 2026
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dadamachines tbd 16: a groovebox that’s compact, capable, and open by design
Peter Kirn - May 5, 2026
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