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Watch as a telephone is transformed into a DIY analog drum machine
Push-button telephone. Analog drum machine. Arduino Nano. DIY amplifier. Shashwath Sundar, aka simple_but_nerdy, makes the telephone-drum machine fusion seem like it was meant to be.
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Forget channel closures: watch every decade of MTV music videos online
No, MTV is not shutting down, though Paramount Skydance did shutter some all-music video channels in various markets. But never mind: the internet can best even vintage MTV. Tune into MTV REWIND and hit shuffle by decade.
OB-Xf, free and open-source Oberheim-inspired synth, is now in beta
Here’s a good way to start 2026: the folks at Surge Synth Team now have their free and open-source OB-Xf synth in beta status in nightlies, with 1.0 just around the corner. And that means this long-running project is just about ready for primetime, bringing a fully open instrument inspired by the 1979 Oberheim OB-X. […]
Peter Kirn - January 2, 2026
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Boxing Day: get those xmas freebies and be serenaded by an Atari ST
Peter Kirn - December 26, 2025
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Waldorf’s Protein: soul of Microwave in an 8-voice wavetable synth, €329
Peter Kirn - November 27, 2025
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A free Winamp clone, for macOS, with FLAC and Milkdrop visualizations
Peter Kirn - November 14, 2025
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Boards of Canada played in lightbulbs: restored 1959 PDP-1 performance
Peter Kirn - October 13, 2025
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Lush, warm Juno-style 6-voice for Ableton Live: Monomono Maya
Peter Kirn - July 25, 2025
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