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Free Envion Deepscan turns your hard drive’s lost files into a soundscape
Tired of Big Tech scanning your online data? Why not make your own deep scan of all the lost sound files on your own hard drive, producing an entirely local result? No sooner than Envion wowed us with its beautiful esoteric sonic landscapes, its developer Emiliano drops a killer second act.
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Freesound, massive shared sounds library, turns 20 with talks and listening
Who says the internet is dead? Not Freesound, the massive, community-run, fully free and open library of sounds from birdsong to samples. This incredible repository turns 20 years old today, and they’re celebrating with talks and a listening session. That includes organizer discussions of how to cope with AI and keep users’ needs central, and […]
Envion: a free, open, algorithmic drum composition environment in Pd
It all starts with the envelope, so that even a few milliseconds of sound can generate “thousands of sonic trajectories.” Built entirely in the free, open-source Pure Data, Envion is a deep compositional playground. You can think of it like an algorithmic drum machine. Emiliano Pennisi shares his creation with us.
Peter Kirn - October 24, 2025
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Akai MPC Live III: expressive pads come to the MPC grid; $1699 with new core
Peter Kirn - October 4, 2025
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What to know about the Roland TR-1000, from voices to slicing to samples
Peter Kirn - October 1, 2025
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Elektron’s Tonverk is a 16-track polyphonic multisampler powerhouse
Peter Kirn - September 10, 2025
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How Elizabeth Parker wove the score of 1984’s The Living Planet
Peter Kirn - August 28, 2025
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Sampleslicer MKIII, the definitive real-time sampler looper slicer module
Peter Kirn - July 11, 2025
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