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From Detroit and Berlin, a free set of sounds and a blazing compilation

Peter Kirn January 6, 2022

Techno is just one angle - the lifeblood of music between Detroit and Berlin is a relentless underground drive that...

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Free MIDI Tape Recorder captures all your expression – sample-accurate, no quantization

Peter Kirn December 27, 2021

It's a way of going truly off the grid - MIDI Tape Recorder captures and recalls performances as sample-accurate, like...

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The best free tools for working with modular synthesis and music

Peter Kirn December 7, 2021

Patching for the people - there's no reason cost or access has to keep you from the powers and fun...

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VCV Rack 2 arrives – standalone is still free, $99 intro gets plug-ins with VST right away – details

Peter Kirn November 30, 2021

The anticipated VCV Rack 2 is here and out of beta. What will it support? What does the release mean...

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Bespoke, free modular – jamming – livecoding – production tool, looks serious at 1.1.0

Peter Kirn November 24, 2021

If you need a break from big monolithic production environments, Bespoke wants to be your alternative - for free. Plenty...

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Livecoding glitch, eye-searing colors, AI poetry, and the knowledge to make it yourself for free

Peter Kirn November 22, 2021

The latest absolutely eye-popping work made with free live-coding tool Hydra comes from artist Naoto Hieda, with sound by the...

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Hydra is spectacular free live-coding for visuals in browser – now on iOS, too

Peter Kirn October 27, 2021

How great is live coding on Hydra, for free? It's great enough that you'll do it when you've never used...

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NAP, a free, high-performance data-driven visual and audio platform, is now slicker than ever

Peter Kirn October 15, 2021

Secret sauce? Hardly. It's more like a hot sauce competition with everyone sharing recipes. Naivi'a NAP Framework, if you missed...

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FUSE for vvvv is a visual revolution – free, always-runtime patching right on the GPU

Peter Kirn September 23, 2021

Add free, open-source visual programming on the GPU to the free-for-noncommercial-use vvvv - and get materials, lighting, effects, particles, and...

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VCV Rack 2 teaser gives us reasons to be excited about Rack again

Peter Kirn September 14, 2021

After a long silence, VCV reveals some of what's coming in VCV Rack 2, the new edition of the free...

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