DIY + Unusual Gear Modular-Analog Music Tech
Nitecaller has made a gorgeous analog reimagining of ARP 2600, Odyssey
Naarm/Melbourne’s own Nitecaller is making dreamy sounds- and now has the home-built dreamy synth to match. Meet the T-16 semi-modular synth, recreating and expanding on the analog circuits of classic ARPs, built by Nitecaller and his brother.
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bop: free, fast, friendly, fun music stuff for Pd, old CPUs and RasPi
It’s free, it’s fast, it’s fun, it’s bop for the free Pure Data Vanilla. It runs on old computers. It runs on Raspberry Pi. “You probably don’t have any use for bop,” its developer says humbly – but wait, with everything from text sequencing to reverbs to esoteric musical notation, this looks great!
Peter Kirn - February 5, 2025
DIY + Unusual Music tech Software Tech
Nina, 12-voice analog polysynth with motorized controls, now in preorders
What’s new in analog synths? Melbourne Instruments has one answer – a luscious vintage-inspired poly that adds path recall and automation. That’s motorized automation. And now they’re accepting pre-orders.
Peter Kirn - August 11, 2022
Gear Music tech Tech
Motion Improv: How Visuals for Audego Album Were Made with Quartz Composer
Peter Kirn - November 25, 2013
Archive Motion Music tech
From Light, Lasers, and Smoke, Solid-Looking Sculptures in the Air [OpenFrameworks]
Peter Kirn - May 16, 2013
Archive Motion Music tech
Frag’mnts – An Enig’matik Records CDM Sampler, Ethno-step Diversity to Hear [Free Listening]
Matt Earp - September 17, 2012
Music Music tech
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