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Ardour, the free and open DAW, is better than ever – and Ardour 9 is coming
Ardour, the criminally underrated free and open source DAW for Mac, Windows, and Linux, has been a little quiet lately. Over the weekend, we learned what’s coming in Ardour 9.0/9+, and why the devs have been busy. Not sure where to start? Check out how-to videos, including voice-activated recording(!)
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Free Blender 4.4 adds animation and video features, improves stability
It’s a great week for free and open-source media tools. Hot on the heals of GIMP 3.0 final, we get Blender 4.4. It’s labeled as focusing on stability, but the Blender contributors have packed a bunch of major animation, video, and UI features in there, too. Now, we can say this is the tool used in Oscar-winning films (Flow).
GIMP 3.0, free and open source image app, looks brilliant
The culmination of seven years of open-source development, GIMP has reached its milestone 3.0 release. GIMP was always powerful, but this feels more like the mature, usable release to take on the proprietary heavyweights.
Mix and patch ChowDSP’s tape modeling for free in VCV Rack
Peter Kirn - March 10, 2025
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Acidwerk is a totally bonkers free and open source Web acid synth
Peter Kirn - February 17, 2025
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bop: free, fast, friendly, fun music stuff for Pd, old CPUs and RasPi
Peter Kirn - February 5, 2025
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Bandcamp and Discogs Tempo Adjust has a new UI, Master Tempo
Peter Kirn - November 20, 2024
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