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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,...

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...

iKeleton OSC captures skeleton data on iOS, sends via OSC – free through May 5

Developer/musician/media artist Gwangyu Lee has made an app for iPad and iPhone that captures skeleton data and sends it via...

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...

Pyr: A free 12-voice string model for Ableton Live with polyphonic pitch bend

Iftah Gabbai has a new freebie, and it's a total gem - a polyphonic modeled string instrument that pairs perfectly...