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A little-known Nintendo DS piano peripheral meets homebrew sound
Switch 2, sure, but — have you plugged a tiny piano into a Nintendo DS and used some powerful homebrew software and custom scripts to make a handheld experimental music instrument?
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FL Studio 2025: Mixer add and delete, AI help, more plugins, Python scripts
FL Studio, the everlasting DAW that the uninitiated think is way less powerful than it is, just got more powerful again. And if you were perplexed by it in the past, it has a new AI-powered chat to help you out, called Gopher. The good news is, you’ll need help less, thanks to in-Playlist audio editing and Mixer tracks finally working the way you’d expect. FL continues to be underrated, overpowered, and seriously fun, so let’s take a look.
Peter Kirn - July 10, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
GIMP 3.0, free and open source image app, looks brilliant
The culmination of seven years of open-source development, GIMP has reached its milestone 3.0 release. GIMP was always powerful, but this feels more like the mature, usable release to take on the proprietary heavyweights.
Nintendo DS as ultra-portable generative source, with homebrew and Lua
Peter Kirn - September 16, 2024
Apps DIY + Unusual Gaming Music tech Pocket gaming Tech
Audulus modular on iOS, macOS now lets you add your own DSP easily with Lua scripts
Peter Kirn - April 17, 2023
Apps DIY + Unusual iOS Music tech Software Tech
mlre is an expanded version of the classic monome mlr, focused on performance
Peter Kirn - August 3, 2022
DIY + Unusual Gear Music tech Tech
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