Radio Shack’s TRS-80 now has polyphonic MIDI and a tracker

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1982’s PPG Wave 2 arrives in reimagined Eurorack form

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

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Peter Kirn - January 21, 2025