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...
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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...
Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters
Afrorack continues to make richly textured polyrhythmic music and share secrets for cheaply producing powerful modular instruments with open tools....
VCV Rack 2 teaser gives us reasons to be excited about Rack again
After a long silence, VCV reveals some of what's coming in VCV Rack 2, the new edition of the free...
Roland TR-909: the hat, the shirt, a nearly-free sound pack
A pricey jacket may have overshadowed the rest of the news, but yes, Roland does have some 909 swag and...
