Squiggy’s WaveTracker: open-source tracker – and other free tools

WaveTracker is a fun, free tracker for Windows that features wavetable editing, more than 100 instrument macros, and visualization for a glitchy good time. And that brings up the many other free trackers you might try out these days…

Hakai Labs lets you connect your classic NES controller to Eurorack

There’s no substitute for modular synthesis, patch cords and all. And there’s nothing quite like a classic Nintendo Entertainment System. So? Combine them.

Peter Kirn - August 12, 2024

Watch the 2006 documentary 8 BIT to see chip music and art at its peak – now online

It’s hard to believe not only that 15 years have passed since this movie, but how far chip aesthetics have exploded in global culture. So transport yourself back in time and treat yourself to an essential documentary on the scene, now watchable online. It’s the next best thing to a time machine to the mid-2000s […]

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2021

deton8 is a little drum machine with loads of soul

Peter Kirn - March 19, 2019

Two twisted desktop grooveboxes: hapiNES L, Acid8 MKIII

Peter Kirn - February 12, 2019

Cute little €99 NES, acid music toys: coming soon, totally connected

Peter Kirn - August 28, 2018

This is how to DJ with a 7″ tablet and an NES controller

Peter Kirn - October 5, 2016

Lo-Fi SES Looks Like a Game Controller, Plays Like a Chip Instrument

- December 1, 2014

Cool Yule: Toy Company’s Free 8-bit/Lo-Fi Christmas Album, from Montreal

- December 25, 2012

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