Apple now has one creative sub for iPad, Mac — but keeps Mac app purchases

Let’s skip to the part you care about: Apple Creator Studio now adds Pixelmator Pro and puts every major Mac and iPad creative app under one subscription, and it’s not too expensive. But just as importantly, though, you can still buy the Mac versions of Logic, Final Cut, Pixelmator, and others as a one-time purchase — no subscription needed.

Get Universal Audio’s 610 tube channel strips for free — DSP or native

For a limited time, you can grab UA’s 610-A and 610-B models for free, emulating tube amps, transformers, and EQ circuitry in software form. That includes both the UAD Native version you can run anywhere, plus the DSP version that integrates with their Apollo hardware. Here are some details.

Peter Kirn - January 13, 2026

PatchSeq puts a FM-filled, sequenced patcher inside your VCV Rack

It’s a patcher inside a patcher. And that patcher has more patches that you can copy, randomize, and sequence. And in that patcher is a ton of glitchy goodness. PatchSeq, hot off the grill from Jeremy Wentworth and Voxglitch, is something special.

Peter Kirn - January 11, 2026

JW-Modules free Grains, Buffer are must-downloads for VCV Rack

Peter Kirn - January 6, 2026

LANDR acquires Reason Studios; takeaways from that announcement

Peter Kirn - January 6, 2026

OB-Xf, free and open-source Oberheim-inspired synth, is now in beta

Peter Kirn - January 2, 2026

Autodafe has an explainer on getting JE-8086 up and running

Peter Kirn - December 31, 2025

A free emulator of Roland JP-8000 and the love of supersaws and trance

Peter Kirn - December 30, 2025

Boxing Day: get those xmas freebies and be serenaded by an Atari ST

Peter Kirn - December 26, 2025

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