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Airwindows VerbThic, VerbTiny let you go even more rabid for reverb, for free
Chris Johnson, aka Airwindows, continues to share his love for DSP with free tools, open source code, and elaborate discussions of the joy of crafting reverbs. So just in case you don’t feel blessed enough with free effects after SuperMassive’s new Sirius reverb/delay, here’s the tiny and the thick in all-new Airwindows editions. And they’ll even run in VCV Rack or on a Raspberry Pi.
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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.
Free Envion Deepscan turns your hard drive’s lost files into a soundscape
Tired of Big Tech scanning your online data? Why not make your own deep scan of all the lost sound files on your own hard drive, producing an entirely local result? No sooner than Envion wowed us with its beautiful esoteric sonic landscapes, its developer Emiliano drops a killer second act.
Peter Kirn - October 29, 2025
DIY + Unusual Music tech Software Tech
Open Steinberg: VST3 and ASIO SDKs now have open source licenses
Peter Kirn - October 29, 2025
Motion Music tech Software Tech
Envion: a free, open, algorithmic drum composition environment in Pd
Peter Kirn - October 24, 2025
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NAP, free visual and media framework, now dazzles anywhere
Peter Kirn - October 23, 2025
DIY + Unusual Motion Software Tech
10,000 Drum Machines is full of wild, weird, free Web music devices
Peter Kirn - September 22, 2025
Music tech Software Web
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