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cables.gl, free patchable visuals in the browser, gets new features and tutorials

It's free. It's patchable / node-based. It's low-code - but you can hack those shaders where you want. It's cables.gl,...

TouchDesigner Curriculum is a complete guide for learners and educators – plus one fluffy extra

Ready to get started with the deep 2D/3D media environment TouchDesigner? Or you're an educator teaching others? Or you just...

TR-8S owners can get a free sound pack from Underground Resistance’s Recon X

If you want to be inspired to discover more futuristic potential lurking inside your everyday Roland machine, where better to...

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,...

Rooms.xyz puts adorable remixable, code-able 3D rooms in your browser – you know, for kids

Okay, forget the vaporware "metaverse" business. You can open a browser tab and use this right now (in beta). Create,...

This free Max for Live device will remind you to exercise – while popping up yoga videos

Getting too sucked up in your production and forgetting you're a human who needs to move around? This free Max...

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...

Get an ultra-realistic modeled cymbal plug-in for free: CHAIR EXC!TE CYMBAL

Chair Audio quietly launched a new plug-in, and it's both free and wonderful. EXC!TE CYMBAL is, no exaggeration, realistic enough...