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Laurie Spiegel interview offers a way of thinking about community, imagination
What could community and imagination in music making look like? Laurie Spiegel’s reflections on the 70s and earlier decades, recorded in 2014, offer some clues, even for a very different time today.
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VCV Rack 2.6: multilingual, drag multiple cables, fit in view – all for free
Both VCV Rack Free and VCV Rack Pro 2.6 are out, including the ability to Zoom to fit / Zoom to fit modules and drag multiple cables stacked on a port. It’s a nice upgrade for this free and open source modular tool (and its partly-proprietary Pro package, too) – while we wait on upcoming v3.
Peter Kirn - March 28, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
Mix and patch ChowDSP’s tape modeling for free in VCV Rack
No collection of DSP models for work, pleasure, and creative abuse would be complete without the Chowdbury DSP collection. You might know about the plug-in, but it’s also worth noting that these are available in VCV Rack and Cardinal, where you can patch them at will.
Peter Kirn - March 10, 2025
Music tech Software Tech
Befaco’s new, updated modules in hardware and free for VCV Rack
Peter Kirn - March 10, 2025
Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Software Tech
Expressive playing with MPE, demystified
Peter Kirn - February 20, 2025
Gear Music tech Tech
Maker Monday: Autodafe put VCV Rack in a Eurorack module, via RasPi
Peter Kirn - January 6, 2025
DIY + Unusual Modular-Analog Music tech Software Tech
Behold, Instruō brings you new VCV Rack modules, Apple Silicon support
Peter Kirn - December 29, 2024
Music tech Software Tech
Befaco Oneiroi, all-in-one soundscape module, now in VCV Rack
Peter Kirn - December 18, 2024
Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Reviews Software Tech
ALM’s new MCO mk2 packs a studio of classic digital synths into 6HP, VCV
Peter Kirn - December 3, 2024
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