RP-8 is a “demake” of the ReBirth RB-338 for the PICO-8 fantasy console

ReBirth, the software recreations of the TB-303 and TR-808, helped launch Propellerhead (now Reason Studios) and demonstrated acid could be made on a PC. Now, imagine that software in 2023 but – much lower fidelity. Like, much worse. 128×128 pixel UI worse.

BASTL Microgranny is back – in a limited Monolith edition with Bogdan Raczynski

microGranny 2 was discontinued – but it gets one last lease on life, in a very limited Monolith edition. It’s a “final form” for the beloved 8-bit, lo-fi granular sample instrument.

Peter Kirn - October 14, 2022

Music videos come to Game Boy Advance carts, in the ultra-chillwave world of Slow Magic

Video killed the radio star, then reality TV killed MTV, then social media killed the Internet. Well, it’s back, all of it. Sort of. The Game Boy Advance will save us. And that brings us back to some retro Asheville chillwave from the more innocent age of 2012.

Peter Kirn - August 18, 2022

Free plug-ins: Arturia Tape MELLO-FI adds Mellotron tape goodness to anything

Peter Kirn - December 21, 2021

Read this story of how the original Xbox startup sound was created

Peter Kirn - October 20, 2021

Rymdigare for iOS combines FX in a fanciful UI and makes everything fuzzy and wonderful

Peter Kirn - October 4, 2021

Free Downgrade turns Ableton Live into lo-fi wobbly vaporwave tape

Peter Kirn - April 17, 2019

Legowelt turned Amiga floppy samples into a free drum kit

Peter Kirn - February 29, 2016

Daedelus and Bleep Labs Have Made a Sampler Delay Thing

Peter Kirn - June 2, 2015

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