Surge is free, deep synth for every platform, with MPE support

Surge is a deep multi-engine digital soft synth – beloved, then lost, then brought back to life as an open source project. And now it’s in a beta that’s usable and powerful and ready on every OS.

Now ‘AI’ takes on writing death metal, country music hits, more

Machine learning is synthesizing death metal. It might make your death metal radio DJ nervous – but it could also mean music software works with timbre and time in new ways. That news – plus some comical abuse of neural networks for writing genre-specific lyrics in genres like country – next.

Peter Kirn - April 22, 2019

A free, shared visual playground in the browser: Olivia Jack talks Hydra

Reimagine pixels and color, melt your screen live into glitches and textures, and do it all for free on the Web – as you play with others. We talk to Olivia Jack about her invention, live coding visual environment Hydra.

Peter Kirn - February 22, 2019

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

Peter Kirn - January 31, 2019

TidalCycles, free live coding environment for music, turns 1.0

Peter Kirn - December 18, 2018

Check out these amazing DIY controllers people made with OpenDeck

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

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