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Music Thing Modular Workshop System gets its own advent calendar
Out: tiny milk chocolates. In: delicious Program Card code creations for the Music Thing Computer in the Workshop System. It’s a beautiful story of what happens when a small, focused community goes all in on an idea.
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monome and RNBO now play together – with a free drum sampler patch
The iconic monome grid just got native support from Cycling ’74’s RNBO, the patching tool for exporting Max sounds on other hardware and software environments. There’s a fun, free example patch to get you started, too.
Peter Kirn - October 11, 2024
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Music Thing Modular Workshop System: patch, hack, code, mic, jack in
Tom Whitwell and Thonk have revealed their latest: a complete modular system ready to be tote in its own hard case. The Workshop System has all the modular, patchable goodness you’d expect—contact mics and guitar/stereo line inputs—but it’s also got a computer inside, with unique programmable cards.
Peter Kirn - October 8, 2024
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Machinedrum, repatched: Cycling ’74 doing fun stuff with RNBO
Peter Kirn - June 7, 2024
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RNBO 1.3.0, now a powerful RasPi raw MIDI tool – plus, chats with Max artists
Peter Kirn - May 18, 2024
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PicoADK is a complete DIY board to build your own sound inventions – coded in Vult DSP
Peter Kirn - February 21, 2023
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RNBO (“rainbow”): Start in Max’s UI, deliver to plug-ins, Web browsers, hardware, any OS
Peter Kirn - November 1, 2022
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