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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.
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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
DIY + Unusual Music tech Stories Tech
The guts of Tracktion are now open source for devs to make new stuff
Game developers have Unreal Engine and Unity Engine. Well, now it’s audio’s turn. Tracktion Engine is an open source engine based on the guts of a major DAW, but created as a building block developers can use for all sorts of new music and audio tools.
Peter Kirn - November 16, 2018
DIY + Unusual Music tech Software Tech
Powerful SURGE synth for Mac and Windows is now free
Peter Kirn - September 26, 2018
Music tech Software Tech
This software is like getting a modular inside your computer, for free
Peter Kirn - April 3, 2017
Music Music tech
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