Ardour, the free and open DAW, is better than ever – and Ardour 9 is coming

Peter Kirn - April 8, 2025

Smooth Operator Pro spectral tool adds precise control, more: deep dive

Peter Kirn - April 8, 2025

Reason’s classic ReCycle is updated, free, and more useful than you might think

Peter Kirn - April 2, 2025

The best of Universal Audio’s native plug-ins, in Spark or standalone

Peter Kirn - March 30, 2025

VCV Rack 2.6: multilingual, drag multiple cables, fit in view – all for free

Peter Kirn - March 28, 2025

Apple Music now streams in Serato, Rekordbox, djay, Rane, Denon tools

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2025

ISF’s visual magic for Metal and macOS is now open source

Peter Kirn - March 24, 2025

Cat from Flow with Blender logo, cat floating in the water and staring forward Splash artwork: Flow © Dream Well Studio, Sacrebleu Productions, Take Five Image licensed under CC-BY-SA – https://flow.movie/

Free Blender 4.4 adds animation and video features, improves stability

Peter Kirn - March 21, 2025

GIMP 3.0, free and open source image app, looks brilliant

Peter Kirn - March 20, 2025

Three free spectral synths to try after the new Serum spectral oscillator

Peter Kirn - March 19, 2025