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A new free Live tool from Robert Henke lets you grab short sounds easily
Quick! Your modular/synth/contact mic/pot-and-pan is making amazing sounds, and you want to capture them for fast 1-shots/drum racks. And you hate the tedious editing/naming admin! Robert Henke’s new Sample Capture is for you — and it’s free, for Ableton Live 12 and Max for Live.
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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
Music tech Software Tech
Get a free spoooooky spectrum analyzer plug-in from PSP
Everybody could use some treats instead of tricks right now. And sometimes you just want a hardware-style, multi-band spectrum analyzer. PSP Audioware is one of our favorite plug-in devs, and they’ve got an excellent, flexible giveaway: the 31-band PSP Spector plug-in is now available for free.
Peter Kirn - October 31, 2025
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10,000 Drum Machines is full of wild, weird, free Web music devices
Peter Kirn - September 22, 2025
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909 Day: freebies, sales, and celebrations
Peter Kirn - September 9, 2025
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LOCD is the free phase lock effect you didn’t know you needed
Peter Kirn - September 4, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
Tekno, new bendable drum machine synth: we’ve got free patterns and kits
Peter Kirn - September 2, 2025
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