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Radiohead’s arty KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION for PC and Mac is free now

Like a spooky haunted Guggenheim Museum, the immersive art-y game world looking back on Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac is...

The entire BlueLab plug-in line is now free, full of unique visualization and processing tools

Here's a gorgeous line of unique plug-in gems to keep around, even if on an older machine. The one-person BlueLab...

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

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

This beta Web tool lets you drag and drop samples into Roland TR-8S/6S kits, free

The two user-requested features missing from Roland's official editor/librarian are available via third-party tools. That means you can get a...

Watch wild demos made in cables.gl, free visual programming tool – plus fresh tutorials

The folks at cables.gl have evidently been busy, as they've got eye-searing new demos to share. And if you wish...

DuckDuckGo search hack – it’s an instant bpm calculator (and finds frequencies, guitar tab)

Another reason to switch search engines - privacy-centric alternative DuckDuckGo also has a clever little bpm calculator built in. The...

Rejoice, for Destroy FX has updated their free plug-ins, including legendary glitchy Buffer Override

The sacred timeline has been restored. The greatest, strangest, glitchiest, most destructive plug-ins of the early 2000s are here with...

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

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

Top music gear news from Superbooth 2021 – the CDM monster guide

The music nerd cultural happening - modular pilgrimage is back, and with it... way too much gear to wrap your...