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Bastl’s Kastle 2 and Citadel Eurorack are now DIY kits, open source platforms
It started with Kastle 2, Bastl Instruments’ cute and clever handheld. It could be a multi-effect, a sample player, a synth. Then Citadel modules came along and did those things in Eurorack. Now, Bastl’s got a surprise: you can buy these as DIY kits, and a big chunk of the Raspberry Pi-powered platforms are being released as open source. Here are all the details.
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A free Winamp clone, for macOS, with FLAC and Milkdrop visualizations
It might be a funny intersection of interests. But developer Matt Greenwood built a macOS-native clone of the legendary Winamp in Swift, MIT-licensed, with MP3 and FLAC playback and Milkdrop visualization support (including fullscreen).
Peter Kirn - November 14, 2025
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Transform any binary file into sound and MIDI, right in your browser, free
01000011 01101111 01101111 01101100 00100001! Binary Synth runs in your browser, and translates any binary file from its zeros and ones into audio synthesis and MIDI messages. The code is available under an MIT license, too, if you want to play with it.
Open Steinberg: VST3 and ASIO SDKs now have open source licenses
Peter Kirn - October 29, 2025
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cables, free visual creation patcher on Web and app, gets big updates
Peter Kirn - June 23, 2025
DIY + Unusual Motion Music tech Tech
Ableton has a new free guide to making better Max for Live devices
Peter Kirn - March 12, 2024
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CLAP is a new open-source plug-in format from Bitwig, u-he – do we need it, and who will use it?
Peter Kirn - June 15, 2022
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Mutable Instruments Plaits is now free for Reason, in a beautiful reimagining called Macro
Peter Kirn - February 15, 2022
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