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Scales among updates to the free Ardour DAW — with tuning on the way
Ardour 9.8 continues the rapid, detailed development of this free and open-source DAW, with improved session recovery and clip recording, expanded support for controllers and hardware, and an arpeggiator MIDI tool. The 9.8 update also adds scales and keys, but with a twist: unlike competing software, scales/modes will soon be tuning-aware.
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Etsuko’s Eterna for monome norns, an elegant 6-voice slice instrument
In its bones, Eterna for monome norns returns to some of the original success of monome: doing imaginative, intuitive, musical things with slices. A single audio file transforms via 6-voice sampler/sequencer and 12-page interface into everything from delicate ambient textures to detailed grooves.
Peter Kirn - December 26, 2025
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10,000 Drum Machines is full of wild, weird, free Web music devices
Forget what you know about drum machines. You’re about to open up a browser tab and listen to a drum machine made with a bouncing DVD logo, or a game of Minesweeper, or seismic data, De Bruijn sequences, or pics of cats and boots. Okay, it’s fairly short of 10k — they’re at 48 so far — but if this is your first time, you’d better plan on not getting any more work done today anyway.
Peter Kirn - September 22, 2025
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Dancing “vibes” and 2 more mood-elevating freebies for Live, DAWs
Peter Kirn - August 5, 2024
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Learn to make animated Max and Max for Live UIs: jsui, Figma
Peter Kirn - July 9, 2024
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Tour Collage, a colorful playground for endless custom effects
Peter Kirn - February 16, 2024
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Leap Motion is back, so you can add 3D gestures for $139 – with or without a VR headset
Peter Kirn - June 6, 2023
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