Free SoundHack tools: now plug-ins and Max and Pd, Apple Silicon native

You’ve got choices for how to delay, distort, mangle, spectrally transform, and meddle with audio. But Tom Erbe’s legendary SoundHack stands out – and it’s free. And now it’s Apple Silicon ready.

Click Tracker is free and open source cue maker – now with interactive display, pedals

Going on the grid is way more interesting when you compose the grid. Click Tracker, João Pais’ free and open-source click track generation for tons of platforms (even Max and Pd), keeps getting more functionality.

Peter Kirn - January 4, 2023

Modul8, new synth magazine from Australia, packed with interviews and features – on paper

Miss the days of flipping through paper pages and dreaming of electronic music and synths? Stuck in Victoria’s COVID lockdown, Modul8’s co-founders decided to bring that era back.

Peter Kirn - July 28, 2022

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

Peter Kirn - July 11, 2022

The best free tools for working with modular synthesis and music

Peter Kirn - December 7, 2021

LIRA-8 reimagines the LYRA-8 organismic drone synth in Pd, VST, AU free – donationware

Peter Kirn - December 30, 2020

Pure Data is running in the browser, for free Web-based sound patching

Peter Kirn - October 30, 2020

You can now patch in Pd inside VCV Rack – modular modular free free

Peter Kirn - July 23, 2020

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