Synth One is a free, no-strings-attached, iPad and iPhone synthesizer

Call it the people’s iOS synth: Synth One is free – without ads or registration or anything like that – and loved. And now it’s reached 1.0, with iPad and iPhone support and some expert-designed sounds.

TidalCycles, free live coding environment for music, turns 1.0

Live coding environments are free, run on the cheapest hardware as well as the latest laptops, and offer new ways of thinking about music and sound that are leading a global movement. And one of the leading tools of that movement just hit a big milestone.

Peter Kirn - December 18, 2018

Check out these amazing DIY controllers people made with OpenDeck

You’ve got plenty of off-the-shelf controllers – but what if you want something that’s unique to you? OpenDeck is an affordable, young, Arduino hardware-compatible controller platform for DIYers, and it’s starting to produce some jaw-dropping results.

Peter Kirn - December 12, 2018

The guts of Tracktion are now open source for devs to make new stuff

Peter Kirn - November 16, 2018

Powerful SURGE synth for Mac and Windows is now free

Peter Kirn - September 26, 2018

Watch this $30 kit turn into all these other synthesizers

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2018

Watch an Ableton Live sequence made physical on the monome grid

Peter Kirn - August 6, 2018

Open music gear: Bastl Instruments schematics on GitHub

Peter Kirn - April 3, 2018

Miss Nord Modular? This hack runs your patches as free software

Peter Kirn - February 12, 2018

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