Free sample mashing with samplebrain, by Aphex Twin and Dave Griffiths

Designed by Aphex Twin, Samplebrain takes a new approach to samples – chopping up audio into a “brain” of little bits, networked by similarity. You can play it in real-time, free for all platforms, including Apple M1/M2.

Locally sourced: you can now run Stable Diffusion AI art generation on your M1 Mac

It’s got a one-click installer, runs locally, requires “no dependencies or technical knowledge,” and crucially, doesn’t talk to the cloud. Diffusion Bee is a simple way of running all that AI art stuff on your M1 (or M2) Mac.

Peter Kirn - September 13, 2022

Stable Diffusion, generative AI tool, now available in public release

The “hot s***”, open, purportedly ethical generative text-to-image AI generator has now moved from invite-only contexts and Discord to full public availability.

Peter Kirn - August 23, 2022

New Noise Engineering modules, new platform: multiband dynamics, drum kit

Peter Kirn - August 11, 2022

Nina, 12-voice analog polysynth with motorized controls, now in preorders

Peter Kirn - August 11, 2022

mlre is an expanded version of the classic monome mlr, focused on performance

Peter Kirn - August 3, 2022

Slimshader packs GPU shaders into your Eurorack for live visuals, thanks to RasPi

Peter Kirn - July 22, 2022

Free Piloslib for Pd makes patching easier – and sounds totally hardcore

Peter Kirn - July 11, 2022

CLAP is a new open-source plug-in format from Bitwig, u-he – do we need it, and who will use it?

Peter Kirn - June 15, 2022

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