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Free 80s injection: KORG Poly-800 emulated in plug-in for Mac, Windows
The year was 1983. The competition: Roland’s Juno. And KORG would introduce an instrument that … actually … would never really be as legendary as other 80s synthesizers. But it’s excellent, and you want it anyway – especially for free.
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Make a 909 kick on the Make Noise 0-Coast, and more drum modeling fun
Forget even all the music that was made with it for a second. How the sound of a TR-909 kick was made can open new doors.
Peter Kirn - May 28, 2020
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Your snares are weak; here are the free snares (and kicks) you need in Live, from Dial F
What does it take to make snares hot again? This free Live rack, that’s what. Dial F aka David Abravanel has been cooking up new music and more sounds – and stick around for exhaustive kicks. Notes and download for Live 10 are all on Google Drive: Snare Synth download, Rack, and demo project It […]
Peter Kirn - May 25, 2020
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Free software lets you recreate the MPC2000XL drum machine
Peter Kirn - April 20, 2020
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Free sound and music code environment SuperCollider is adding Ableton Link support
Peter Kirn - March 17, 2020
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Bitwig Studio just added a free vocoder, because Xmas
Peter Kirn - December 24, 2019
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