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VCV Rack has a new manual for all its free modules – and it’s a great modular tutorial

VCV Rack, the free and open-source host, has added a new illustrated manual for all its free modules. (Free docs,...

Synthstrom Deluge synth-sampler-sequencer is now open source, GPLv3; details

Synthstrom's Deluge, a do-everything sequencer-sampler-synth instrument beneath a lit-up grid, is going open source. We've got the details from Synthstrom...

Game Boy Advance gets a new, free step sequencer, complete with p-locks

Dust off that GBA: it's a groove box now. Stepper is a free and open source 16-step sequencer with full...

PicoADK is a complete DIY board to build your own sound inventions – coded in Vult DSP

One little board is the brains of just about any synth, modular starting point, noisemaker, or instrument you can dream...

Surge XT hybrid synth is now a free set of modules for VCV Rack

Free meets free: in a labor-of-love community project, soft synth Surge XT is now available as an exquisitely designed set...

Click Tracker is free and open source cue maker – now with interactive display, pedals

Going on the grid is way more interesting when you compose the grid. Click Tracker, João Pais' free and open-source...

Free sample mashing with samplebrain, by Aphex Twin and Dave Griffiths

Designed by Aphex Twin, Samplebrain takes a new approach to samples - chopping up audio into a "brain" of little...

Locally sourced: you can now run Stable Diffusion AI art generation on your M1 Mac

It's got a one-click installer, runs locally, requires "no dependencies or technical knowledge," and crucially, doesn't talk to the cloud....

mlre is an expanded version of the classic monome mlr, focused on performance

It's an even more performative monome. Creator sonocircuit has built a new take on the monome norns/grid app mlr, adding...

Slimshader packs GPU shaders into your Eurorack for live visuals, thanks to RasPi

Start with visuals made from images or 3D shader code, then wire them up and modulate them in a Eurorack...