bop: free, fast, friendly, fun music stuff for Pd, old CPUs and RasPi

It’s free, it’s fast, it’s fun, it’s bop for the free Pure Data Vanilla. It runs on old computers. It runs on Raspberry Pi. “You probably don’t have any use for bop,” its developer says humbly – but wait, with everything from text sequencing to reverbs to esoteric musical notation, this looks great!

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.

Peter Kirn - August 14, 2024

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

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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