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Spring cleaning: free up space by deleting duplicate plug-ins
It turns out you don’t need VST2 and AU and AAX and CLAP versions of the same plug-in. Here’s a free, fast command-line tool that gets rid of them in a hurry, with options for particular configurations, on macOS.
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Elastic OSC, Plaits as an instrument app, now supports Android, MPE
Oliver Greschke’s Elastic OSC continues to blossom as a mobile instrument. Packed with open-source algorithms from Mutable Instruments’ Plaits as oscillators, Elastic OSC has added powerful modulation and now supports Android and MIDI Polyphonic Expression.
Michigan Synth Works has an open-source 303 processor and a new kit
Call it the Bride of x0xb0x. Michigan Synth Works today teased a new, Arduino-compatible, open-source 303 processor, plus a full DIY kit. They’re both affordable ways to build your own all-analog, modern TB-303 with current components. And it feels like the early spirit of the open x0xb0x is back. The x0xb0x is the device that […]
Peter Kirn - March 3, 2026
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Bastl’s Kastle 2 and Citadel Eurorack are now DIY kits, open source platforms
Peter Kirn - January 21, 2026
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A free Winamp clone, for macOS, with FLAC and Milkdrop visualizations
Peter Kirn - November 14, 2025
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Transform any binary file into sound and MIDI, right in your browser, free
Peter Kirn - November 11, 2025
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Open Steinberg: VST3 and ASIO SDKs now have open source licenses
Peter Kirn - October 29, 2025
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