Organismi OR—1, free for iPad: breathing, stochastic pattern generator

OR—1 is an artful, generative MIDI sequencer maker. It’s free for iPad as an AUv3, with a desktop macOS version available for €19.99. And it’s an exquisite experience feeding these into synths.

Boxing Day: get those xmas freebies and be serenaded by an Atari ST

Food comas. Empty wrapping paper. Or whatever you’re celebrating, hopefully you’ve got some time off to grab a slew of free synth-y gifts available to download right now. Need a soundtrack? 1987 and Atari ST have you covered.

Peter Kirn - December 26, 2025

Strange-R modules: navigate generative melodic contours

Stochastic Instruments has a preview of some tasty generative sequencer modules. Random walks meet music theory, and what you get is Melodic Contour Sequencing, navigated with knobs, voltage, and (on the larger module) a joystick.

Peter Kirn - December 23, 2024

Sinevibes’ Odds is like cramming a modular rig into KORG’s ‘logue and pocket-sized NTS-1

Peter Kirn - December 10, 2021

In Fracture Space software instrument, a 3D playground of sonic fragments for $12

Peter Kirn - April 1, 2021

USB is the new CV: monome meadowphysics as Modular, in New Video

- October 2, 2014

Sector is a Stuttering Stochastic Sample Slicer, Using Probability and Curving Lines [iPad]

- February 18, 2014

Insane, Starship Control Panel Controls Sound Morphing-Synth in 3D: COSMOSƒ

- March 18, 2013

A Delicate Web in White Lasers: Robert Henke's 'Fragile Territories'

Peter Kirn - February 26, 2013