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Mix and patch ChowDSP’s tape modeling for free in VCV Rack
No collection of DSP models for work, pleasure, and creative abuse would be complete without the Chowdbury DSP collection. You might know about the plug-in, but it’s also worth noting that these are available in VCV Rack and Cardinal, where you can patch them at will.
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How Latvia’s Flow used open source Blender in Oscar animation win
Flow was the surprise of the Oscars: a true underground hit from Latvia’s writer/director Gints Zilbalodis. It’s beautiful, expressive, and intimate in a way that big-studio features are not. And it’s a triumph of making the tech operate on a human level, fully exploiting the free and open source Blender and its real-time render engine EEVEE.
Acidwerk is a totally bonkers free and open source Web acid synth
Acidwerk puts the acid in acid. Yes, this is a generative bassline and drum synth. No, it does not make the vanilla acid you might be imagining. It’s a beautifully bizarre instrument perfect for creating some chaotic noise in a browser tab right after you’ve closed … the news.
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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Linux DAW is a one-stop catalog of free and proprietary plug-ins for Linux
Peter Kirn - November 8, 2024
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Ubuntu Studio 24.10 – the free Linux audiovisual workstation – is here
Peter Kirn - October 10, 2024
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Super Synthesis shuts down; fire sale and $59 chorus and reverb modules
Peter Kirn - October 3, 2024
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