NAP 0.5.0, free realtime visual tool, adds GPU computation, Web, RasPi support, new look

NAP, the free and open-source live visualization toolkit, has an all-new look, powerful GPU computation capabilities, a Web portal … and it even runs on a Raspberry Pi. Your next installation is calling. Let’s check it out.

Live coders from all over the world are playing music and visuals live online, right now

It’s just business as usual for the live coding scene and algorave movement. From every corner of the globe, freely-coded performance is happening for four days straight – now. They come from Brasilia. They come from Detroit. They come from Indonesia and Antwerp, Ukraine and Mumbai, Rome and Miami and Japan. They’re running free software […]

Peter Kirn - March 19, 2020

Free sound and music code environment SuperCollider is adding Ableton Link support

The free, powerful tool SuperCollider is adding support for Ableton Link for getting jam sessions, gear, and software on the same groove, alongside other fixes.

Peter Kirn - March 17, 2020

All about Mutable’s Marbles random sampler – and a clever, just-released update

Peter Kirn - March 7, 2020

Hear Jan Wagner’s intimate piano electronics, before they enter a planetarium dome

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2020

Blackhole routes audio between Mac apps, even on Catalina, as ideal Soundflower alternative

Peter Kirn - October 28, 2019

What are all the synths hiding in Mutable’s modules (and their free VCV ports?)

Peter Kirn - October 2, 2019

LiveCore is a free low-level, live patching for Reaktor

Peter Kirn - September 20, 2019

Yellowstone geyser image.

Grainstation-C is a free granular tool with ambisonics, and an album to match

Peter Kirn - July 29, 2019

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