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DuckDuckGo search hack – it’s an instant bpm calculator (and finds frequencies, guitar tab)
Another reason to switch search engines – privacy-centric alternative DuckDuckGo also has a clever little bpm calculator built in.
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Rejoice, for Destroy FX has updated their free plug-ins, including legendary glitchy Buffer Override
The sacred timeline has been restored. The greatest, strangest, glitchiest, most destructive plug-ins of the early 2000s are here with 64-bit support for Mac and Windows, Apple Silicon support on Mac, and UIs that look even more horrible than before. And they’re still free.
Peter Kirn - September 24, 2021
Music tech Software Tech
FUSE for vvvv is a visual revolution – free, always-runtime patching right on the GPU
Add free, open-source visual programming on the GPU to the free-for-noncommercial-use vvvv – and get materials, lighting, effects, particles, and generative geometry. Here’s the twist: you do all of that without code or scripts, and it’s all on the GPU, live.
Top music gear news from Superbooth 2021 – the CDM monster guide
Peter Kirn - September 22, 2021
DIY + Unusual Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Stories Tech
Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters
Peter Kirn - September 21, 2021
DIY + Unusual Gear Modular-Analog Tech
VCV Rack 2 teaser gives us reasons to be excited about Rack again
Peter Kirn - September 14, 2021
Modular-Analog Music tech Software Stories Tech
Roland TR-909: the hat, the shirt, a nearly-free sound pack
Peter Kirn - September 10, 2021
Gear Music tech Tech
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